Shiite Mosque Attacked Unknown

Juan Cole 12/11/2003

Shiite Mosque attacked

Unknown assailants razed a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Wednesday.

According to local eyewitnesses, the act was revenge for the bombing of a

Sunni mosque on Tuesday, which killed 4 persons. The caretaker of the

Shiite mosque maintained that the attackers had come from the funeral

procession for those killed at the Sunni mosque. (al-Hayat).

Juan Cole is the founder and chief editor of Informed Comment. He is Richard P. Mitchell Professor of History at the University of Michigan He is author of, among many other books, Muhammad: Prophet of Peace amid the Clash of Empires and The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam. Follow him on Twitter at @jricole or the Informed Comment Facebook Page