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Major Sunni mosque destroyed in Basra.

“Insurgents disguised themselves as cameramen so as not to raise suspicion while planting explosives at a major Sunni mosque near Basra early Friday morning. They detonated the bombs shortly after they left, destroying the mosque, and raising fears that sectarian fallout from Wednesday’s Samarra mosque bombing is stretching deep into southern Iraq.”

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