The night before the bombing: Two eyewitnesses

Update: There was one small mis­take in the trans­la­tion, the time line says 6,41 should be 6,45, that’s all.

I want the read­ers to know that for Samarra inhab­i­tants, the mosques doesn’t rep­re­sents a Shiia shrines only but rep­re­sents the exis­tence of the city also and they are very proud of them, even when the sit­u­a­tion went very bad between Sunni and Shiia, Shiia pil­grim­ages to city never attacked by any group, it’s kind of unwrit­ten code of honor.

Tes­ti­monies of two eye­wit­nesses near the bombed Dome:

Wit­ness 1:

I live in a dis­trict very near to the mosque and I will tell you exactly what I saw hours before the bombing.

There is a daily cur­few in our city (Samarra) starts from 8,00 in the evening until 6,00 in the morn­ing, in the night before the bomb­ing and just when it’s get­ting dark there was unusual activ­i­ties by the ING in the area around the mosque, I heard their cars the whole night until next day in the morning.

The Mosque Guards tes­ti­mony says: Four peo­ple with ING uni­forms blind folded them and set the bombs.

The wit­ness con­tin­ues, so ask I you how could the ter­ror­ists enter the area which is usu­ally sur­rounded by the ING and enter the mosque then run­way with­out being got by the police?.

Wit­ness 2:

Wit­ness 2 gives more detailed infor­ma­tion and the Amer­i­cans con­nec­tion to the events before the bomb­ing, so I made it as time­line of the events.

My name is Muham­mad Al-Samarrai, I own an internet-cafe near the mosque, I sleep in my shop because I am worry about my com­put­ers from thieves.

8,30 (evening) joint forces of Iraqi ING and Amer­i­cans asked me to stay in the shop and don’t leave the area.

9,00 (evening) they left the area.

11,00 (evening) they came back and started to patrol the area until the morning.

6,00 (next day morn­ing) ING leave the area .

6,30 Amer­i­cans leave the area .

6,40 first explosion.

6,45 sec­ond explosion.

He con­firmed again that the cur­few starts at 8,00 (evening) until next day 6,00 (morn­ing), INGs and the Amer­i­cans will sur­round and patrol the city all that time.