SAMARRA: A dawn bomb attack wrecked a famous Shiite Muslim shrine in Samarra, 100 kilometres north of Baghdad, sparking street protests and forcing a government appeal to avert sectarian reprisals.

Gunmen yesterday burst into the Golden Mosque, one of the holiest Shiite sites in Iraq, and planted explosives that destroyed its 100-year-old, gold-covered dome, one of the biggest and best known in the Muslim world, officials said. An Interior Ministry spokesman said the attackers wore police uniforms, tied up the guards and set the charges.
Great damn idiots, internal struggles are always worse then external ones.