I find that much more plausible. A bunch of armed men go into a Shia mosque, spend hours and hours planting explosives, covering their traces so well no one notices, and cleaning up after them, all in silence so as not to alert the guards or worshippers, and then they snuck out again.
Again I ask, is there anything so silly someone won't believe it in order to avoid admitting their own have done bad things?
realy? so u didnt look it up. and it was an investigation done by the US backed gov em selves on the ground so u claim u know more than em?
here a source that u might find accpetable(who knows?), even US dosnt claim it was done by MSC anymore after initialy claiming it was
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Askari_Mosque_bombing
On February 22, 2006, at 6:55am (0355 UTC), explosions occurred at Al Askari Mosque, effectively destroying its golden dome and severely damaging the mosque.
Several men, one wearing a military uniform, had earlier entered the mosque, tied up the guards there and set explosives, resulting in the blast. Two bombs were set off[2][3] by five[4] to seven[5] men dressed as personnel of the Iraqi Special forces[6] who entered the shrine during the morning.[7]
No injuries were reported following the bombing. However, the northern wall of the shrine was damaged by the bombs, causing the dome to collapse and destroying three-quarters of the structure along with it.[8][9]
Following the blast, US and Iraqi forces surrounded the shrine and began searching houses in the area. Five police officers responsible for protecting the mosque were taken into custody.[10]
While a Friday curfew and appeals for restraint by religious leaders across Iraq appeared to have prevented any major outbreak of violence on Friday, in contrast to the incidents that reportedly took more than 130 lives and damaged or destroyed nearly 200 Sunni mosques on Wednesday and Thursday, experts warned that it was far too early to exhale.
Responsibility and accusations
Rather unusually for terrorist bombings in Iraq, no group has taken responsibility for the attack on the mosque. Despite the lack of information regarding the perpetrators of the attack, various institutions have issued statements regarding the incident.
USA and Israel
* Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad blamed the United States and Israel for the attack. He claimed that "these heinous acts are committed by a group of Zionists and occupiers that have failed." He warned, amid a crowd of protesters, that the United States would "not be saved from the wrath and power of the justice-seeking nations" by resorting to bombings like the one that occurred at Al Askari Mosque. [11]
* According to alertnet, Hezbollah leader Sayyed Hassan Nasrallah, speaking from the Lebanese capital, Beirut, echoed the opinions of Mahmoud Ahmadinejad and accused the United States of attacking the mosque to cause tension between the Sunni Muslims and Shi'ite Muslims in the Middle East.
* Iran’s top military commander Brigadier General Mohammad-Baqer Zolqadr, the deputy commander of Iran’s Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps (IRGC), told a gathering of senior officials, that the U.S. needs those attacks to justify the continuation of its military presence in Iraq. Zolqadr, moreover, noted that dozens of new U.S. military bases are being built in Iraq “for this reason they are constantly creating insecurity”. [1]
* Raymond McGovern of VIPS:
"The main question is Qui Bono? [sic] Who benefits from this kind of thing? You don't have to be very conspiratorial or even paranoid to suggest that there are a whole bunch of likely suspects out there and not only the Sunnis. You know, the British officers were arrested, dressed up in Arab garb, riding around in a car, so this stuff goes on." [2]
Iran
* The Majlis Shura Al-Mujahideen (Mujahideen Shura Council) have issued a statement explicitly accusing Ibrahim Al-Jaafari's "government and [his] troops, in coordination with Iran". Other factions within the insurgency have issued similar statements. [12]
Al-Qaeda or Unknown
* U.S. President George W. Bush initially implied that Al-Qaeda was responsible, but later emphasized that the perpetrators are unknown.[13]
* Al Jazeera analyst accuses the occupation authorities of gross negligence which made Samarra bombing possible. In this respect, he reminds the Western accusations against Syrian occupation of Lebanon.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Al_Askari_Mosque_bombing
