The Golden Dome (Full Documentary) | Destruction of the Shrine of Samarra

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Located in central Iraq, Samarra is considered to be one of the most significant Shia sites. On the 22nd February 2006 and June 2007 this holy shrine was rocked by a bombing that destroyed the Golden Dome of the mosque. This documentary goes to uncover what happened to the holy shrine.

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[0:07]located in central Iraq on the side of the Tigris River about

[0:15]124 kilometers of Baghdad samara is considered to be the largest ancient

[0:20]city known in the whole world [Music] home of the Alaska shrine

[0:29]one of the most significant sites of worship for the Shia community

[0:38]Samara is one of the four Islamic holy cities in Iraq the

[0:42]city was once a thriving tourist destination for millions of Shia pilgrims

[0:50]annually [Music] 22nd February 2006 the gold tile dome was destroyed and

[1:03]the mosque was severely damaged you as it's the shrine of two

[1:27]of the Amami the Shia Imam II Imams and the place where

[1:31]the alive Imam disappeared plus the grave of two of the ladies

[1:38]of the household of the Holy Prophet as I will explain later

[1:41]and talk about those characters this is for the Shia Imam II

[1:45]for the Muslims the household of the Holy Prophet highly respected by

[1:53]Muslims and as it includes the shrine of imam ali l hardy

[1:56]the son of Imam Muhammad Ali Mahmoud Hasan Askari the son of

[2:04]Ali Mahmoud Ian Hardy and Sayed hakima the daughter of Mohammad Jawad

[2:08]the sister of imam ali radiya Satan urges the wife of an

[2:11]imam hasan askari and the mother of the alive Imam Ali Muhammad

[2:16]el-mahdi and this all belongs to the household of the Holy Prophet

[2:20]and the Sunni the shia all the Islamic sects and MediaHub highly

[2:25]respect the how sort of the holy prophet a plus they were

[2:32]knowledgeable people they did serve the Ummah and the Islamic community at

[2:36]that time and even they had companion students followers all around the

[2:42]Muslim world and they benefited the Islamic heritage that's why the place

[2:48]of Samara became highly respected by the Muslims in general and by

[2:52]the follower of Matabele bait in particular Samara was founded during the

[2:59]Abbasid Caliphate so we are talking over a thousand years ago and

[3:02]it became the capital of the entire Islamic world so if we

[3:05]were to look at some are just as a a site of

[3:07]heritage then there is over a thousand years of history we find

[3:12]that the West focuses on something that is 120 years old they

[3:14]will call it a landmark or a place of significance and they'll

[3:16]be in the UK it's called the gains listed status so it

[3:22]means nobody is able to damage it or change its form in

[3:23]any way and sometimes it becomes a place of a track we

[3:27]have something that is over a thousand years old and Samara on

[3:32]just this basis will become very significant number one number two Samara

[3:36]hosted scholars Samara hosted Halawa Samara hosted the Imams Samara hosted people

[3:41]who came to the center of the Islamic world for a period

[3:46]of almost eight years Samara was the capital of the Islamic world

[3:49]in Samara itself we have shrines dedicated Imams we have places where

[3:54]scholars are buried and important graves we have the remnants of the

[3:57]old city to the north where the ha'la'tha were based in terms

[4:02]of the architecture is important in terms of what went on in

[4:04]that life we want to understand city life as historians archaeologists we

[4:07]want to look at some more rough on this aspect it is

[4:10]also a place where we've had a mixture of people who are

[4:12]followers of the hill beads and givers were followers of the school

[4:17]of the Sahaba we have a city where you have two Imams

[4:19]and the current and 12th Imam is buried it was born there

[4:25]and his father's are buried there and the Imam was last seen

[4:28]there and the Imam will go back and visit his family there

[4:32]and it is somewhere there if we wanted to say Salaam to

[4:34]the Imam is probably the best place to go to go to

[4:38]his his home the Imams were buried in Samara it's off they

[4:40]were buried in their homes so when we go to visit their

[4:44]shrines this is the home of the Imams so in terms of

[4:47]the importance to the followers of a debate it's of you know

[4:50]extremely high importance particularly in this modern era when we're trying to

[4:54]reconnect with our Imam the 12th Imam peace and blessings be upon

[4:56]him in terms of the followers of the other schools of thought

[4:58]it is a place of importance to the Islamic world generally in

[5:03]terms of non-muslims then it's space rich in culture and history in

[5:06]even in terms of science and archaeology then the city is especially

[5:10]important imaams l hardy and Alice Curie were actually buried in their

[5:20]own home and the holy site is the actual birthplace of the

[5:24]twelve Shia Imam the awaited Mahdi and is the last place he

[5:33]was seen before going into occultation the place of Samara is a

[5:38]bit different than other places as Samara which we are talking about

[5:43]where the shrines the holy shrine is it used to be called

[5:49]Alaska and this is a bit further down from Samara where the

[5:52]palace of the Abbasid caliphs and Madison where as the Muslim expel

[6:01]they expelled tamam I did hide you from a median menorah to

[6:05]Alaska it used to be like a military camp near Samara so

[6:11]the Imam were surrounded by his followers by his company by his

[6:15]students at the beginning it wasn't as crowded as it's meant to

[6:21]be because the two Imams were in exile at the time of

[6:24]Imam Hasan Askari things became a bit better communication became a bit

[6:28]easier the followers start going back and forth from his place in

[6:34]Alaska and at the even at the late stages of imam ali

[6:36]l hardy so we noticed that a few of their followers were

[6:42]there and not only that many of them were buried there if

[6:45]we refer to historic books one of them is known as master

[6:51]at KU barra vieja while samara by mahadeva halal morality is spirited

[6:55]in arabic and the second volume if i'm not mistaken he talks

[6:59]about the graves of those followers and companions of the imams and

[7:03]that probably reflects that there were so many sheer followers of the

[7:07]method method Bell beat we're living there the Imams when they were

[7:12]brought to samurai by the abbasids they were taken to an area

[7:17]called Alaska which means the asker the garrison of an watterson who

[7:20]is the first caliph ever bought the Imams to Samara and this

[7:25]was where the soldiers had garrison it was their encampment and in

[7:28]order to make it difficult for people to come in and out

[7:32]of the presence of the Imam to visit the Imam to see

[7:35]the Imams have access to they decided to have the Imams in

[7:37]a house inside this garrison so imagine a house surrounded by soldiers

[7:41]which is probably the most inaccessible place you could find and in

[7:46]this way the halifa was able to keep an eye on the

[7:47]Imams to investigate who was coming in and out what was happening

[7:52]how was the Imam connecting to his followers and the Imam Ali

[7:55]hardly said I'm glad it was buried there when he died he

[7:59]requested and his all that he be buried in his house and

[8:00]then his land Imam one has an ask you a question of

[8:03]the same thing and Imam and her jaw 12th Imam are living

[8:05]near mom Saddam alladia was born in that very house later on

[8:10]the Ambassador did not live in this area of course their palace

[8:12]is there the real some of the city of samurais to the

[8:17]north and after the fall of samurai let's say after the move

[8:20]back to back that the area to the north which was the

[8:25]real city of Salman fell into disrepair people were not interested in

[8:27]going there because the Khalif I did not live there anymore the

[8:29]whole reason why samurai became popular was because the ha'la'tha was there

[8:34]so when they went back to Baghdad there are buses people stopped

[8:37]visiting Samara the people that work there left the civil servants left

[8:40]the people that were close to the Holly far left the markets

[8:44]the soldiers everybody left and so we have the north part of

[8:48]northern part of Samara became a ghost town and what remained was

[8:51]the area around the house of the Imams became a the the

[8:56]summer that we have today people began to visit people came to

[8:58]study and get Baraka by being close to the Imams people gave

[9:01]another that they promised you if someone so happened if they were

[9:07]granted a son to do and go and live next to the

[9:07]amount for example something became and seeking Imam al Hajj Osama lies

[9:11]so they wanted to be close to where he was last seen

[9:13]and so on and over time during the period of the voids

[9:18]which came after the Abbasid period or the Abbasid real control period

[9:21]the time when they were really the practicing qualify the boys were

[9:25]the first to sponsor the building of the shrines and it was

[9:30]a very simple fashion a wooden box over where their graves are

[9:32]and just some wooden doors and entrances around the shrine so very

[9:35]simple very basic something that you could do you know in a

[9:39]short amount of time and overtime every time a wealthy merchant or

[9:46]an ally or some of the civil servants or the politicians who

[9:49]were sympathetic to the score of a debate came to Samara they

[9:52]added something to it so this wooden encasing then received valuable cloth

[9:58]and later on someone decided to put some mud around so that

[10:02]the land would be raised up so you wouldn't be treading near

[10:07]the grave itself and so on it carried on successive times that

[10:11]every time someone came to Samara they would build it up slowly

[10:14]slowly even some of our great menagerie contributed to this even some

[10:18]people who live far away didn't manage to reach somewhere at some

[10:22]of the Shah from Iran or elsewhere they would contribute to the

[10:25]building of Samara and it was stages we have incidences where for

[10:29]example the wooden casing burnt or there was a flood and part

[10:33]of the shrine was damaged and after this there was also reconstruction

[10:36]and the perhaps the most influential of these was at the beginning

[10:41]of the 20th century the Shah of Iran wealthy and interested in

[10:48]taking credit for rebuilding and reconstructing the shrine of the Imams started

[10:52]the last phase of construction that we see today before the incidence

[10:56]of 2006 and they expanded the shrine they purchased some of the

[11:02]areas around it and they included parts of the surrounding areas into

[11:07]the harem the sacred area of the mr- Korean mosque today the

[11:12]city of Samara was built around the holy Shia shrines of the

[11:19]two Imams in Samara and during that time many Shias made their

[11:25]way to live around the shrine of their Imams Mirza she has

[11:30]emigrated to Samara in 1880 something before or after I'm not I

[11:40]cannot remember exactly the date because he he died in 1893 but

[11:43]he was there for 22 the last 15-20 years of his life

[11:47]the popular Shia population was so high at that time and he

[11:55]built this the town he built the few schools and that continued

[11:59]until 1920 or 1915 when Mirza hematochezia Rossi one of his best

[12:06]students emigrated to Karbala with a few of his followers it smiles

[12:13]Sutter murder scene in ninety these were the main students who went

[12:18]back to Karbala and then Mirza Ali shirazi the son of Mirza

[12:25]Hassan shirazi who went I think for short period to Karbala then

[12:29]to Anna Geoff so we noticed that they worship their house was

[12:32]very active and at other stages also during history the sheer presence

[12:41]was there in Karbala Najaf the situation is different because southern Baghdad

[12:46]and the southern part of Baghdad was highly populated by Shia all

[12:51]of the population were Shia northern Baghdad the Shia were scattered in

[12:55]the villages around Samara and we noticed until now that up to

[12:58]ballot were the shrine of Saddam Hamid the son of Imam Hadi

[13:03]it's full of Shia this probably reflects an explained why the Shia

[13:11]is not vast majority in Samara and why it's getting a lesson

[13:16]some time in history in April 2003 us-british and other coalition forces

[13:25]led a war on Iraq to get rid of the bathia regime

[13:28]that had been in power for over 25 years after the fall

[13:34]of this regime Iraq wasn't without a government the political situation after

[13:45]the invasion of Iraq by the coalition forces and specifically by the

[13:51]American forces at the start the political situation was slightly unstable there

[13:59]was really no plan by the coalition to actually do something about

[14:04]Iraq they thought that they can come in to Iraq and they

[14:09]can take over and people will will be very much pleased with

[14:12]the with the overthrow and of course the Iraqis were very much

[14:17]pleased with the overthrow of the regime Saddam Hussein but they also

[14:20]wanted a plan a plan that you know the Americans mostly will

[14:24]will actually install a government that can bring prosperity to Iraq and

[14:30]the Iraqi people but unfortunately that didn't happen there was no plan

[14:36]at all there was a lot of chaos a lot of looting

[14:38]after the invasion and so therefore that affected quite a lot the

[14:42]political situation there was also a political struggle with India between different

[14:46]parties there was a struggle between the Shias and the Sunnis and

[14:52]the Kurds you know and the minorities but then again that also

[14:57]affected the the security and one very very important thing that not

[15:01]a lot of people do recognize regarding this this particular issue is

[15:05]that after the invasion in 2003 the doors were open for al-qaeda

[15:13]to come into Iraq al-qaeda remember they were scattered all over the

[15:18]Arabian Peninsula they weren't in one particular place but they found Iraq

[15:22]as an opportunity for them to go in stay there for a

[15:27]bit visualize see and analyze the whole situation see if it's still

[15:31]if it's quite vulnerable then they come in force and they attack

[15:34]and of course they did get support from neighboring countries unfortunately such

[15:39]as Saudi Arabia to actually cause chaos on violence in Europe at

[15:44]least 31 people have been killed in the Iraqi capital in a

[15:50]suicide attack on a funeral procession it brings the death toll from

[15:53]sectarian violence to more than 400 since a political crisis erupted last

[15:57]month the bomber exploded his vehicle neared the group of mourners passing

[16:01]by a small Market Street in the mainly Shiite Zafar alia neighborhood

[16:08]of Baghdad the funeral was for a Shiite estate agent who was

[16:11]killed by gunmen in the city a day earlier police say the

[16:14]motive for his murder is not clear I'm sure everyone knows that

[16:27]post 2003 Iraq was quite chaotic it remains to a lesser degree

[16:30]but in those periods between 2003 and the events of 2006 Iraq

[16:37]was under occupation by various armed forces of other countries number one

[16:42]- the government itself hadn't yet been appointed by the people the

[16:47]Constitution was in place but we hadn't had general elections yet before

[16:50]that incident 3 everybody knows that various armed militias had real power

[16:55]in Iraq weapons were washed everywhere we had remnants of the old

[16:59]regime we had foreign terrorists we have people whose opinions political opinions

[17:03]are at conflict with the areas that they live in so for

[17:05]example if I live in the northern part of Iraq yet I

[17:10]support a Shia party from the south I am a danger myself

[17:15]so I hold opinions in my area that could lead to my

[17:18]death and this was replicated all throughout Europe so the situation was

[17:21]that the government wasn't fully in control of all the sites nor

[17:28]all the border posts nor all the places of civil authority like

[17:31]for example the earth or the airports or the banks or and

[17:36]so on and so forth so the attack on on Samara in

[17:38]a way seemed logical because it wasn't that well protected people did

[17:42]not really have the resources nor expect Samara to be attacked quite

[17:49]brutally in this way so the situation was that no one person

[17:52]or one state or one side could be blamed because it was

[17:57]Iraq was a was it was heavily damaged from all sides from

[18:02]internal factors and from external factors and so the situation was quite

[18:05]chaotic and always when we see there's a chaotic situation lots of

[18:08]things are damaged and suffer 22nd February 2006 the gold tile dome

[18:18]was destroyed and the mosque was severely damaged there were different accounts

[18:27]to what really happened on the 22nd on the 9th of night

[18:35]of 22nd of February 2006 one account says that there were at

[18:42]least six to eight al-qaeda members came on the night of the

[18:49]22nd dressed in military uniforms they handcuffed the the gods they stoned

[18:57]them they handcuffed the gods and they took them to a particular

[19:02]place and they took full control of the whole of the harem

[19:04]of alas carrying so what they did throughout the night took them

[19:11]many many hours throughout the night they kept on planting their bombs

[19:15]and if you go back now to Samara you do actually see

[19:21]that they tell you this is the place where they have put

[19:24]or planted this particular bomb and is usually in the corners and

[19:27]that was quite a clever move by these terrorists because you know

[19:34]to put them in in a particular corner at every single corner

[19:38]you can maximize destruction so they put them and they put a

[19:42]lot of explosives in there and took them several hours to take

[19:48]their explosives and put them in visit this particular place and that

[19:53]particular particular place and exactly 5:00 to 7:00 a.m.

[19:56]they triggered all these bombs and it all exploded the Interior Minister

[20:02]at that time actually gave a similar but sort of a different

[20:08]account as well he said that they've actually been doing this for

[20:10]the last four or five days pre to pre 22nd of February

[20:15]2006 so they kept on coming and putting their explosives leaving pointing

[20:20]the exposed for four or five days until they put so much

[20:22]except explosives in there that the aftermath was immense I mean the

[20:30]pictures we we saw on the day that 20 on the morning

[20:37]of the 22nd of February 2006 you can see that to bring

[20:41]down this very strong building down to rubbles are of course that

[20:50]meant that they put so many so many explosives and and this

[20:53]was a timed this was a planned a bomb attack that has

[20:59]been studied I believe for for many many months and definitely been

[21:06]funded by bigger organizations and countries so massive are with us ma'am

[21:16]these are Alfred Nobel for kabane have novel therapy Java Haruna believe

[21:22]in Allah in the end I'll have the word Cora here one

[21:36]little on well unsub we will power our - wish in the

[21:38]homeo Munna Bhai the hill morality talk shahrullah he'll have done when

[21:43]the logic job in piecemeal Islam will muslimeen not that hana yo

[21:47]militar de holla let me know how we learn a new philosophy

[21:49]no sharafa any abnormal are you head remove the antenna with alec

[21:55]enemy sharpen our Oh Madonna bahá'u'lláh Levine here's the kupuna Gerard who

[22:00]owns Lily intercom what's up you special never ha and be at

[22:06]the heart that something will the intelligence reports that have come out

[22:10]after this incident point to the fact that the planning was was

[22:14]meticulous it was done well in advance of the attack it wasn't

[22:17]a random attack the way that the bombs were placed around the

[22:24]dorm the way that the explosives the kind of materials used to

[22:28]have maximum effect this shows that it wasn't a random attack by

[22:32]you know a disorganized group of armed men who wanted to make

[22:37]a stay but no rather this was done well in advance they

[22:40]had detailed plans and blueprints of where the how the structure of

[22:44]the mosque was where the entrances were how they could easily place

[22:48]their bombs around the various sites to destroy the dome the dome

[22:52]doesn't escape you that it's probably the biggest storm of all the

[22:58]shrines that we have my masquerade mosque the dome there was probably

[23:00]the largest one of all the shrines that we have Carolina Jeff

[23:02]measured elsewhere so it was constructed in such a way that was

[23:05]actually quite strong because it's a large dome it was constructed with

[23:10]a double layer so the the onion-shaped dome on the outside that

[23:14]you see and inside it there is a another dome a secondary

[23:17]dome to support the first off and so you have a dome

[23:20]here and they dorm above it you only see the outside one

[23:24]of course and there is this space in between you'd only know

[23:26]that if you had access to the blueprints or somebody who had

[23:31]knowledge of the architecture and what the what the terrorists did was

[23:34]to place c-4 explosives at various points to bring down the structure

[23:38]and in this space this space that we talked about between the

[23:40]external dome and the internal dome so to cause an explosion to

[23:46]bring down the dome rather than just to damage it from the

[23:48]outside to bring it down fully and we can see when we

[23:53]look at the the the imagery of the post 2006 post 22nd

[23:55]fabrics we can see that the whole middle of the dome has

[24:00]been taken out and its position is you could say you can

[24:03]see the image in Scituate as if it someone deliberately carved this

[24:06]pit out someone went around and made a mark and said I

[24:07]won't say call this better now some of the reports point to

[24:12]the fact that C for this type of c-4 used after forensic

[24:14]analysis isn't available to individuals it is something that only states buy

[24:20]from each other buy and sell and so the origin of the

[24:24]c-4 must have come from estates must have come from a country

[24:27]that purchased this now whether they gave this to individuals is the

[24:32]arm certain people or it was sold on the black market we

[24:34]can't be sure but the origin of it was that I stay

[24:37]at I buy it now how individuals is a secondary matter but

[24:43]we know that at one point a state must have been involved

[24:46]in the attacks on Samara the armed group might have been a

[24:51]front so they might have been acting on behalf of a a

[24:55]state or another international player an actor or an agency their intentions

[25:01]were quite clear from the results that happen afterwards they wanted to

[25:05]cause chaos they wanted a statement to go out to all the

[25:10]Shia Muslims that nothing is sacred not only will we attack men

[25:12]and women and children in the markets and the schools will behead

[25:15]people and put the videos online will attack your marches to Karbala

[25:18]now we're going to attack the most important thing in your lives

[25:23]your mouse will attack those as well and will cause terrible damage

[25:25]as well to infuriate this year you try to get a reaction

[25:28]to increase the cycle of violence so we can't really point to

[25:34]you know a hundred percent knowledge of who committed the year in

[25:37]terms of not the individual that placed the bomb but the planning

[25:40]on who ordered its execution that's the most important thing where even

[25:43]if you found the four or five armed people that place the

[25:47]bombs there they didn't act on by themselves there was someone behind

[25:50]them or something behind them we can't say with certainty but at

[25:53]one point in it there is a state or a country involved

[25:57]I think we can definitely blame the security the people the guards

[26:03]who have actually protected the the mosque but the the issue is

[26:09]that you have to go up a level it's not really the

[26:11]people's problem is actually the government's problem the the government pre 2006

[26:17]had to keep a close eye into what's happening all around that

[26:22]particular area that particular triangle as they call it the Sunni triangle

[26:27]and unfortunately as you have a very popular very famous Shia mosque

[26:35]down there shrines and you have majority of the Sunnis and this

[26:41]is what al-qaeda wanted al-qaeda came in to try to trigger the

[26:45]sensitivity these differences between the Shias and Sunnis so they might have

[26:50]had some influence on some of the P who are who are

[26:54]living in Samara but then again you have to go back to

[26:57]the security forces what were they then they protect they actually predict

[27:01]such a thing will happen where was the intelligence don't we have

[27:05]any any intelligence then we have some sort of intelligence that will

[27:09]tell us there was a planned attack on the on the scurry

[27:12]shrine so I wouldn't particularly blame the people of Samara I will

[27:19]definitely blame the the security forces at that time for the lack

[27:26]of intelligence the the lack of planning and - how to protect

[27:30]the the Ascari shrine and also may also say that there also

[27:33]some blame on the Iraqi Endowment religious endowment group of course they

[27:38]are they belong to the government and they their responsibilities are the

[27:44]mosques so we have the Sunni endowment and we have the Shia

[27:52]endowment in Iraq and the was the responsibility of both [Music] [Music]

[28:13][Music] [Music] I was actually in Edinburgh because at that time I

[29:12]was doing my PhD there before I moved somewhere else on and

[29:19]I had the news from my supervisor at that time doctor under

[29:23]inhuman he called me and then we meant to we had a

[29:32]meeting regarding my dissertation and then we end up spending the whole

[29:38]session talking about the demolition and the it was a it wasn't

[29:42]a smooth was a big issue and easily you can feel that

[29:49]this is gonna be the beginning of serious of problems what has

[29:57]happened something clearly will affect every single she I am army and

[30:03]even Muslims because if we notice the reactions by Muslims all of

[30:07]them were they well respond it and so and I do remember

[30:15]that the doctor and human at that time he was also so

[30:22]keen and and we we had a good guess that this is

[30:24]gonna be a beginning of a serious problem and series of problems

[30:30]I think the the religious authorities could have put more pressure on

[30:37]the government to either put a force around somewhere to protect the

[30:42]shrines or to permit the religious authorities themselves to use their own

[30:46]men to guard the shrines because we hear of the attack that

[30:50]only a few men were guarding the shrine at that time and

[30:52]in those days when we know the sectarian violence was quite high

[30:56]we would have expected a bit more vigilance so there he was

[30:59]in hindsight a lot of benefit to saying you know we should

[31:03]have done so and so and so that will might help in

[31:07]future attacks to prevent future attacks but we know definitely that the

[31:12]security apparatus was understaffed we know with certainty that if we had

[31:18]had a dozens more men protecting that that shrine that the attack

[31:22]wouldn't have happened if we had better intelligence that the attack would

[31:26]have happened if we had better relations with the people that lived

[31:30]around Samara that they would inform us if any attack were to

[31:34]happen also for any attacks then we could have stopped what was

[31:37]happening but like I say this hindsight knowledge is useful for trying

[31:40]to prevent future attacks the bombing of Alaska a shrine increased the

[31:51]tension between Shia and Sunnis in Iraq even though the government and

[31:55]the scholars in Najaf tried their best to enforce peace in Iraq

[32:01]but did this bombing damage any chance of peace when this happened

[32:07]and on the 22nd of February 2006 there was a slight delay

[32:15]in the government reaction unfortunately the government didn't react very quickly the

[32:21]the there was after a few hours of this some of the

[32:28]Shias went out on the streets did some sporadic killings of the

[32:32]of the Sunnis in Sunni areas and and the same thing vice

[32:37]versa soon some soon he started killing the Shia's it which is

[32:40]exactly what al-qaeda wanted and there was supposed to be I mean

[32:45]the government should have actually imposed a quick curfew when that happened

[32:48]imposed a quick curfew and unfortunately that didn't happen it happened later

[32:53]on but that in particular incidents that particular time they should have

[32:57]they should have imposed a quick curfew to stop these violence and

[33:03]these Viners were the start of a massacre between the the shinto

[33:07]Sunnis and the Shia's in 2006 and then went on to 2007

[33:11]so it was a delayed reaction although the prime minister at that

[33:15]time came out and said that you know this is this is

[33:17]al-qaeda who've done this this is their motive they want to separate

[33:24]between the Sunnis and the Shia's and they want to cause a

[33:29]civil war they for all of us to divide them on the

[33:35]rock to divide they have different countries they fulfilling different countries agenda

[33:39]and things like that so he did warn the Iraqi people but

[33:45]I believe that a quicker reaction impose imposing a curfew of that

[33:49]particular on that particular day and a few days after that would

[33:51]have been much more appropriate [Applause] [Music] and upset and if we

[34:00]go back to documentary films we can notice that alhamdulillah the Mirage

[34:06]where at that time Ayatollah said sister Alma citizen and a lot

[34:12]of my cell Hakim and I had a lot on my shelf

[34:16]al-shara she they were all they met and they will start coming

[34:19]the Muslim and the Shia population and that has great influence in

[34:29]stopping the kind of revenge actions to be taken by the she

[34:33]I aren't even by some Muslims who were upset and sad about

[34:40]what happened after the bombings in 2006 there was some sort of

[34:45]an good intelligence in Iraq which pointed the fingers towards two main

[34:51]people the first person was called first Muhammed Ali father Muhammad Ali

[34:57]was caught while he was actually doing trying to do a an

[35:00]operation as they call it against the military on Iran a checkpoint

[35:06]and they caught him there he was injured and they caught him

[35:08]and around 18 of the other people they caught as well and

[35:13]further Muhammad Ali confessed that he was involved in the Samara bombing

[35:21]and he also gave some sort of directions to all who others

[35:26]were involved but the main head the mastermind of the this operation

[35:32]in summer on the 22nd of February 2006 was someone called Haytham

[35:37]Alba dari Haytham and badly was the mastermind one of the leaders

[35:41]of al-qaeda during the in Iraq during that time and with good

[35:49]intelligence and wood of course with the help of the Iraqi people

[35:52]they found Haytham battery and he was killed in August 2007 and

[36:00]of course father Mohammed Ali the government later on said that they

[36:08]they hanged for her Muhammad Ali for his crimes sorry I think

[36:35]Samara is very important for us and it needs a lot of

[36:40]we need to raise the awareness and I don't think enough no

[36:43]I think it's not as bad as it used to be but

[36:47]we need to raise awareness we need to raise attention of the

[36:54]followers of our way to the importance of Samara because it's been

[36:58]I would like to say ignore what's been left for a long

[37:05]time and that's why we asked for the conference and we had

[37:10]the conference in the year 2008 we try to collect as much

[37:13]information as we can about the history of the place before there's

[37:20]a Shirazi because the Shia was living in Samara and was quarter

[37:23]or one third of the population before the emigration of Ellmers arrazi

[37:28]clearly the immigration of Mercy Shirazi strengthened the presence of the Shahada

[37:35]and the house has been transferred to Samara and we noticed that

[37:39]so many scholars were there as the Saenuri Party meet mahadji teens

[37:43]aha monster dr.

[37:45]Lewis I observed irani said Marcel I mean I've been mentioning names

[37:49]and until early 60s they were teaching in Samara she rushed a

[37:55]bell and karana used to teach in Dara and others said mentor

[37:58]as Karina were all came from the town of Samara and the

[38:05]houses of Samara unfortunately more attention and more kind of care should

[38:12]have been paid and given to Samara and I hope that in

[38:15]the future this will take place in the during the conference we

[38:22]had a few guests be heard from all around the world and

[38:26]we collected all the lectures together and we published a book which

[38:31]is the shia of samara has been published by ib Tauris i

[38:35]think the information we try to collect is valuable because it shows

[38:44]the history the architecture the history of the house' and the history

[38:49]of the town of samara and we tried to keep that well-documented

[39:00]unfortunately the bombings in 2006 has affected our dramatic it it was

[39:11]the intention of terrorists of al-qaeda members to cause such a long-lasting

[39:15]effect and unfortunately unfortunately and I say this with was so much

[39:22]bitterness that they have caused a long-lasting effect they caused a huge

[39:31]civil war in Iraq many many thousands of people died as a

[39:39]result and until this moment unfortunately you know the the the the

[39:43]there are some sort of sensitivities between this years and the Sunnis

[39:48]created I believe because of that that conflict happened in 2006 and

[39:56]2007 and 2008 2008 as well although now it is much much

[40:00]better there was a lot of cooperation between the Sunnis and the

[40:04]Shia's and also in the government we have have quite a few

[40:10]Sunnis as ministers and things like that and even between the Iraqi

[40:14]people themselves before even allowing any practical steps to be taken to

[40:25]contain the massive impact of such an act the shrine was bombed

[40:29]again on 13th June 2007 [Music] unfortunately after the the first bombings

[40:40]in 2006 there wasn't a plan to secure the harem there was

[40:47]of course you know the of course the blame is on on

[40:52]the security forces the government etc there wasn't a proper plan to

[40:56]actually secure the place and al-qaeda had second ideas you know they

[40:59]said they said look you know you can't stop us first time

[41:04]you know will show you we can we can get in second

[41:06]time as well and you know they work with money you know

[41:10]trying to tell people look you know we'll give you that much

[41:12]money just let us go through there and do that this and

[41:19]that and unfortunately they went in but in after the second bombing

[41:23]which put down the the two minarets the Prime Minister incumbent Prime

[41:30]Minister Nouri al-maliki he visited the place straight away after that of

[41:36]course he imposed curfew straight away after that and he went himself

[41:40]to the shrines and he managed to set up a committee while

[41:49]he was there to take care of the rebuilding and most importantly

[41:55]he dedicated a whole troop tour or group in the mill in

[42:06]the defense military in the defense ministry to protect from all angles

[42:14]so so that no one can actually come and do what they

[42:20]did before so there was people assigned specifically to come and protect

[42:28]the the the shrines and of course there were a lot of

[42:32]checkpoints set so as if if you've been to Karbala and nigev

[42:36]and if you haven't made a loss of Hinata I'll give you

[42:38]the opportunity to go and do the other there you can see

[42:42]that there's no cars allowed to reach the harem and there are

[42:45]lot of checkpoints as you go through a lot of body searches

[42:50]and things that are even car searches as you reach the last

[42:52]point where a new car can go it's the same thing now

[42:56]when samara as well so they've implemented the same thing no car

[42:59]can go near the Haram a lot of a lot of body

[43:03]checks and a lot of security so alhamdulillah that that was effective

[43:16]since the two bombings in Samara in 2006 and 2007 the reconstruction

[43:23]of the holy shrine has taken place to ensure that the gold

[43:28]dome of the Imams al-hadi and I'll ask are rebuilt and to

[43:42]try and bring some peace into that area I think we have

[43:48]to give credit to multiple sites here first of all the officer

[43:55]nee was aware that they can no longer control this dis shrine

[43:59]it was unfair for officer knee to control the Shia shrine so

[44:02]they accepted you know they protested they accepted the fact that if

[44:07]your wife has to gain authority on this side number one number

[44:10]two I think the people of samurai realized the damage had been

[44:13]done to their economy to their prospects and they since then have

[44:20]tried their best I would say to prevent any future violence in

[44:23]that area number three the walkway she has done well in terms

[44:28]of the reconstruction it might have been slow but they have attempted

[44:34]to preserve or keep as much of what was left out her

[44:36]damage as possible so I know for a fact that the bricks

[44:40]or some of the rocks and stones that were left in the

[44:45]rubble after the bombing they reused it in the construction rather than

[44:47]getting rid of this and sending it off to waste they reused

[44:50]it in the reconstruction of the shrine I know for a fact

[44:55]that they tried their best to have almost the same dimensions and

[44:58]aspect of the dome as possible I know that they expanded the

[45:01]size of the shrine to cater for large numbers of visitors I

[45:06]know that the one who she has purchased land they made land

[45:09]surrounding the shrine has purchased homes and businesses and so on to

[45:13]try to expand the site of the shrine to give a better

[45:17]experience to the visitors I know has been compensating businesses and homeowners

[45:21]around this area it is given more jobs to the people of

[45:24]south I think the government has done well as well to proceed

[45:28]in an efficient manner with the reconstruction but without making this a

[45:33]political issue you know to use it in elections and so on

[45:36]and so forth rather the work has been done professionally I know

[45:39]UNESCO was involved for a period of time with the reconstruction I

[45:42]know that the quality of the engineers and architects involved has been

[45:47]quite high can be bullied here I spoke recently to the administrative

[46:19]manager of the rebuilding and he spoke about you know the great

[46:29]progress they have actually made and in fact actually rebuilding some of

[46:35]our as well because it's it's a it's a quite I'm in

[46:40]a funny way you can say that you know although the bombings

[46:42]were quite atrocious some sort of positive things did come out of

[46:51]these bombings which is now the the whole that the whole city

[46:54]is actually being rebuilt a lot of hotels are being rebuilt restaurants

[46:58]as they want to make it as a very vibrant city and

[47:04]of course that the dome is nearly complete the golden dome the

[47:09]minarets are nearly complete they I spoke to him and he said

[47:14]he said within a few months and sha Allah everything would be

[47:17]complete and and a lot of people have actually given their time

[47:23]a lot of people have actually funded this and the main funding

[47:25]comes of course from the government from the Iraqi endowment endowment and

[47:31]and there's been a lot of throughout this process there's been a

[47:37]lot of support from different people and Samara is actually rising up

[47:42]now and it needs to rise up because Samara historically was once

[47:50]a capital city of Islam and so if you go there Samara

[47:54]is a very very beautiful city it's got the river Tigris near

[48:01]it it's it's it's World Heritage Site I mean I remember when

[48:04]I went there I so still the remains of the abbasids castles

[48:07]there you still can see them very clearly you can see them

[48:13]and it doesn't by the way just attract Muslims it also attracts

[48:16]people are very much interested in ancient things and it's a very

[48:24]important place for Muslims specifically for the Shias and of course we're

[48:29]going to pilgrimage towards Samara so so strategically it's an important place

[48:36]and it's it's the rebuilding now of Samara I think will bring

[48:44]some sort of happiness for those people who wanted Iraq to read

[48:49]to get back to normality and will strike hard against those people

[48:55]I then although his bath fees and all these anty anty shia

[49:02]are people who really wanted to hurt the Iraqi people and specifically

[49:07]the followers of a debate and we strike hard on them to

[49:12]see that you know the rebuilding of Samara and alhamdulillah we ask

[49:16]allah subhanaw taala to keep some a lot secure and that's very

[49:18]important because as I said you know the area is not you

[49:24]know the population of the area may not hundred percent of favor

[49:28]or take care of the these particular shrines like what in the

[49:33]carbon and nigev so we need the you know we need all

[49:38]the money in to want to do constantly do r2 to help

[49:44]the people to protect these these to these these two Imams I

[49:52]think the golden dome represents a number of important things for people

[50:01]all over the world number one it results represents that the Iraqi

[50:05]people will always have hope I have suffered tens of years decades

[50:10]now and before them but recently they've suffered heavily and so seeing

[50:17]the damaged shrine of Samara had a negative effect on the perception

[50:20]of Iraqis themselves and other people of Iraq itself so seeing the

[50:24]shrine again back in its glory will tell the whole world that

[50:27]Iraq will be rebuilt that Iraq will be preserved and that Iraqis

[50:33]themselves do have hope so that's an important statement number two I

[50:35]think it's a not an important economic statement that summarize going to

[50:39]do business pilgrims are welcome anytime even nunzio's are welcome to come

[50:45]and spend their time come and see Samara come and spend your

[50:47]money you can give your allegiance to your moms come and visit

[50:50]this place it's open for business and will welcome you at any

[50:53]time it's an important economic statement and a statement to people in

[50:57]the Middle East generally three I think is an important statement for

[51:01]the general Tsin Nishi relations that the Imams represent the the final

[51:08]chapter of our history connecting it to the 12th Imam and this

[51:12]home of the Imams this pace with the Imam our current Imam

[51:17]was born this space where he can call his home he's rebuilt

[51:19]to a standard that we can say I mom would be happy

[51:23]with and because we believe he is an imam for not just

[51:28]this year he's an imam for all of mankind so the message

[51:30]out to Muslims in Iraq is that rebuilding Samara is in a

[51:35]way telling the Imam we're ready to understand you better we're ready

[51:39]to reconnect with you more we're ready to reach out to you

[51:42]more I think that's an important statement as well finally for the

[51:45]followers of a debate it pains us to see some of our

[51:50]shrines damaged and in Buckley for example we hear about the shrines

[51:53]in Damascus and elsewhere in history it pains us to see that

[52:00]mmm this place where these men who are buried purely you know

[52:05]it's attacked out of hatred it's it's a it's something that goes

[52:10]against all humanity you would protect a shrine you would protect a

[52:13]tree that is a thousand years old yes you would portray me

[52:17]you would protect a book that is a thousand years old how

[52:19]about a place where some he was the grandson of the Prophet

[52:22]somebody who is a living in mom somebody who got influenced or

[52:26]millions of people till today we read their words we pay special

[52:29]attention to their actions we would aspire to be followers of them

[52:36]and for having this dome of their sight the amount of Sufis

[52:39]it's attacked and the followers are attacked and the pilgrimage is stopped

[52:44]so for us this year we've had a history of witnessing this

[52:46]so finally if you see the dome back up in his glory

[52:51]and people freely occurring somewhere in all safety and in all convenience

[52:54]I think it is a message that and our things have improved

[52:59]things are better now and for us as if you had to

[53:00]be confident that when we reach out to other people hopefully and

[53:04]we wish in Charlotte that that will be rewarded with better relations

[53:07]rather than us reaching out and going for better relations and trusting

[53:11]in other people and continually being disappointed in our faith and our

[53:15]heritage in our culture being attacked so inshallah it's a message of

[53:18]positivity for all sides I ask this goal of the elevates especially

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