A United Nations agency said it has discovered five bombs in a wall of Mosul’s iconic Al-Nuri mosque, planted years ago by Islamic State group jihadists, during restoration work in the northern Iraqi city.

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  • @someguy3
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    75 months ago

    Article doesn’t say why they weren’t exploded, only that a wall was rebuilt to hide them.

  • @ThePyroPython
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    55 months ago

    “We bomb the mosque, radicalise the moderates, bring it all on!”

    (Sarcastically) “Oh yeah I like it that, we take out a bunch of Muslims because they’re the real enemy! Once we’ve done that why don’t we truck-bomb a kebab shop, fly a jumbo jet into Wadge’s mum, and staple a pig to our foreheads!”