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Events on Wednesday 22 February 2006 1
2006Al-Askari Mosque bombingAttack on Samarra's Shia shrineBombers destroyed the golden dome of the al-Askari Shrine, one of Shia Islam's holiest sites, in Samarra, Iraq. The attack unleashed a wave of sectarian reprisal killings between Sunni and Shia militias. It marked a sharp escalation of Iraq's sectarian civil conflict.