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This is an aweful attack and the situation is very tense but, believe it or not Bowser, not all the news is bad:
Ayatollah Sistani reacted quickly to the escalating anger by issuing a fatwa that forbids his followers from "Taking any action against Sunni sites" obviously to discourage his followers from carrying out retaliatory attacks on Sunni mosques...
...both Sunni and Shia mosques are condemning the attack through their loudspeakers...
...Muqtada cut his tour in Lebanon and is heading back to Baghdad, he called on his followers from Beirut to "have self-control and refrain from violence"...
...President Talabani promises to make rebuilding the shrine his personal responsibility and to donate the required money from his own...
...Head of the Sunni endowment sheikh Ahmed al-Samarra'I announces that he will allocate 2 billion dinars (~1.4 million $) for the rebuilding of the shrine from the treasury of the Sunni endowment...
...Huge demonstrations in many of Iraq's provinces including Samarra and Mosul (majority sunni) where thousands of people condemned the attack...
...The Association of Muslim scholars and the Islamic Party (hardline sunni) condemn the "criminal act"...
...Iraqi TV opened the phone lines to receive the reactions of the audience to the attack and hosts Sunni clerics and politicians in an attempt to relieve the tension....
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