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Shrine in Iraq Damaged in Attack

NPR | By Jamie Tarabay

Published February 22, 2006 at 12:12 PM EST

Iraqis inspect the bombed shrine in the northern Iraqi city of Samarra.

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Jamie Tarabay

After reporting from Iraq for two years as NPR's Baghdad Bureau Chief, Jamie Tarabay is now embarking on a two year project reporting on America's Muslims. The coverage will take in the country's approx 6 million Muslims, of different ethnic, socio-economic and cultural backgrounds, and the issues facing their daily lives as Americans.

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