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The article reports on the explosion at the Ashrah al-Mubashra mosque in Basra, Iraq, on June 16, 2007. Some gunmen blew up the Sunni mosque after ordering the police at the mosque to flee. This was done despite the curfew imposed by the central government and calls for restraint by leaders. The attack seems to have been carried out in retaliation to the attack on a Shiite shrine in Samarra, on June 13, 2007.