... the home of a particularly ferocious and hairy djinn...
’s al-Nuri mosque and leaning minaret, national emblems destroyed last year in the ferocious battle against ISIS.
Abu Bakr Kenaan, head of Sunni Moslem endowments in Nineveh province, told AFP remnants of the minaret would be preserved, while other parts of the mosque would be built afresh, along with a museum about its history and adjacent homes.
The famed 12th century mosque and minaret, dubbed al-Hadba or "the hunchback," hosted His Supreme Immensity, Caliph of the Faithful and Galactic Overlord, Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi
...the head of ISIS, or what remains of it, and a veteran of the Abu Graib jailhouse. Looks like a new messiah to bajillions of Moslems, like just another dead-eyed mass murder to the rest of us. So far he has been killed at least four times, though not yet by a stake through the heart...’s only public appearance as ISIS chief, when he declared a self-styled "caliphate" after murderous Moslems swept into Mosul in 2014.
The structures were ravaged three years later in the final, most brutal stages of the months-long fight to rid Iraq’s second city of ISIS.
On Sunday, dozens of government officials, religious figures, United Nations
...a formerly good idea gone bad...
representatives and European ambassadors gathered in the large square in front of the battered mosque to see the foundation laid. Abdullatif al-Humaym, the head of Sunni Moslem endowments in Iraq, set down the stone in a simple ceremony.