Shrine Bombing
On 22 February 2006, a bomb attack in Iraq badly damaged the shrine of Askari, the burial place of al-Hadi and his son Hasan al-‘Askarī; another attack was executed on 13 June 2007, which led to the destruction of the two minarets of the shrine.
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