Muslin holy book contained bomb
Malaysia Sun
Sunday 13th September, 2009
Police in Iraq have claimed to have defused a bomb which had been placed in a hollowed out Shi'ite Muslim holy book.
Iraqi police discovered the rigged book on September 12 in the Khadimiyah shrine, a major Shi'ite holy site in Baghdad.
The ornately printed book had been stuffed with 500 grams of highly explosive material and contained hundreds of metal ball bearings.
When worshippers heard a high-pitched sound coming from the book, it was found that a mobile phone detonator inside the a cavity was making the noise.
Bomb experts were then called in to defuse it.
The book chosen to hold the bomb was a richly decorated edition of a sacred Shi'ite text called the "Keys to Paradise."
The Khadimiyah shrine, a revered site for Shi'ite Muslims, has been targeted before by the Sunni Islamist al-Qaeda and members loyal to the former regime of Sunni Arab ruler Saddam Hussein.
In April, suicide bombers killed 60 people near to the shrine.
Malaysia Sun
Sunday 13th September, 2009
Police in Iraq have claimed to have defused a bomb which had been placed in a hollowed out Shi'ite Muslim holy book.
Iraqi police discovered the rigged book on September 12 in the Khadimiyah shrine, a major Shi'ite holy site in Baghdad.
The ornately printed book had been stuffed with 500 grams of highly explosive material and contained hundreds of metal ball bearings.
When worshippers heard a high-pitched sound coming from the book, it was found that a mobile phone detonator inside the a cavity was making the noise.
Bomb experts were then called in to defuse it.
The book chosen to hold the bomb was a richly decorated edition of a sacred Shi'ite text called the "Keys to Paradise."
The Khadimiyah shrine, a revered site for Shi'ite Muslims, has been targeted before by the Sunni Islamist al-Qaeda and members loyal to the former regime of Sunni Arab ruler Saddam Hussein.
In April, suicide bombers killed 60 people near to the shrine.
