BAGHDAD (Xinhua) -- The Iraqi Ministry of Justice announced that 11 prisoners were executed on Thursday for charges of terrorism, including a Tunisian national accused of bombing Shiite Shrine of Samarra that sparked sectarian strife in 2006, Iraqi official television reported.
"Eleven prisoners were executed in the early morning, including a woman and Yusri Fakhir the Tunisian national who was convicted for bombing the Askari shrine (in Samarra)," the state-run channel of Iraqia quoted a ministry spokesman as saying.
Fakhir is an al-Qaida group member who earlier was sentenced to death penalty over his role in bombing the golden dome of al- Askari shrine in Samarra, which contains the tombs of Ali al-Hadi and Hassan al-Askari, the 10th and 11th of the Shiite's 12 most revered Imams.
The Qaida's attack against the shrine on Feb. 22, 2006, sparked reprisal killings between the Shiite and Sunni Muslim communities across Iraq, which led to the death of hundreds of thousands of Iraqis in the aftermath sectarian strife in 2006 and 2007.
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