The enemies of our country have committed another evil and criminal act in Samarra north of Baghdad against one of the world’s most sacred sites for Muslims. A gang of extremist bombers attacked the holiest shrines, the burial place of Imams Ali Al-Hadi and Hassan Al-Askari and destroyed its magnificent golden dome. The perpetrators of this vile act had one motive. They are targeting Iraq’s national unity and its sovereign integrity. They are seeking to ignite civil war. They want to destroy Iraq and its people. They must not be allowed to succeed in this nihilistic scheme.
The Iraqi Workers Federation (IWF) while strongly condemns this criminal act and calls on our people to stand hand in hand to stop the enemies of Iraq of achieving their aim of creating sectarian strife. We must work together in a determined manner to eliminate extremism and march to build a democratic, federal and fully sovereign Iraq.
IWF
23 February 2005