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Eugene

(61,881 posts)
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:26 PM Apr 2013

Minaret destroyed at 12th-century Syrian mosque on World Heritage list

Source: CNN

By Michael Martinez and Hamdi Alkhshali , CNN
April 25, 2013 -- Updated 0018 GMT (0818 HKT)

(CNN) -- Both sides in Syria's civil war were in rare agreement Wednesday: The minaret at a 12th-century mosque in Aleppo has been obliterated.

Unclear, however, was who destroyed the tower at the Great Umayyad Mosque, which has witnessed the march of nine centuries. It was just last month that a United Nations official expressed concern about the two-year war possibly damaging the mosque, a World Heritage site.

An opposition group blamed the government.

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The Syrian government, however, blamed one rebel group, Jabhet al-Nusra, for blowing up the minaret. The jihadist al-Nusra Front in Syria has been linked to al Qaeda in Iraq.

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Read more: http://edition.cnn.com/2013/04/24/world/asia/syria-minaret/

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Minaret destroyed at 12th-century Syrian mosque on World Heritage list (Original Post) Eugene Apr 2013 OP
:( Phillip McCleod Apr 2013 #1
Thank you. That was exactly what I was thinking. enlightenment Apr 2013 #3
History is not stupid and does not suck. bluedigger Apr 2013 #4
i agree history does not suck.. Phillip McCleod Apr 2013 #7
That's kind of a negative mind frame. bluedigger Apr 2013 #8
Augh. (nt) Posteritatis Apr 2013 #2
Everyone responsible, on both sides, ought to be ashamed. eom tarheelsunc Apr 2013 #5
what a shame... secondwind Apr 2013 #6
 

Phillip McCleod

(1,837 posts)
7. i agree history does not suck..
Wed Apr 24, 2013, 08:56 PM
Apr 2013

..but mostly because we don't live in it. i bet it sucked at the time.

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