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FEBRUARY 22 - IN THE HISTORY Calender Search
 
2006
In Iraq suspected Sunni extremists dressed as police set off a large explosion that heavily damaged the golden dome of the Askariya shrine in Samarra, one of Iraq's most famous Shiite shrines. The attack spawned mass protests and triggered reprisal attacks against Sunni mosques. The shrine contains the tombs of the 10th and 11th imams, Ali al-Hadi, who died in 868 A.D., and his son Hassan al-Askari, who died in 874 A.D. and was the father of Al-Mahdi, the hidden imam.
2006
In Iraq 7 US soldiers were killed by a roadside bombs in Hawija north of Baghdad.
2006
Serb security officials insisted that top war crimes fugitive Gen. Ratko Mladic had been located and that authorities were trying to persuade him to give himself up.
2006
A Tokyo court convicted and sentenced Fusako Shigenobu (60), a founder of the Japanese Red Army terrorist group, to 20 years in prison for kidnapping and attempted murder in a 1974 attack on the French Embassy in the Hague.
2006
Kazakhstan's intelligence chief resigned after several of his subordinates were arrested on suspicion of involvement in the slaying of an opposition leader. Erzhan Utembaev, the top administrative official of the Senate, was arrested for ordering the murder of opposition leader Altynbek Sarsenbayev.
2006
In Nepal police raided the house of Krishna Sitaula, a senior opposition leader instrumental in organizing anti-government protests, and arrested him two days after he was freed by the Supreme Court on similar charges.
2006
In Nigeria at least 20 people, mostly Muslims, were killed in the eastern Nigerian city of Onitsha. Gangs of rioters armed with machetes and shotguns poured through the streets of the mainly Christian southern city as the death toll from days of Christian-Muslim violence across Nigeria rose to at least 93.
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