Transcript for Mosul's landmark Great Mosque of al-Nuri and leaning minaret destroyed

In June 2014. Mosul a city of nearly two million people. Felt a crisis. And it's leader Abu Bakr a Baghdad he declared a Khaled patent from the mosque the Grand Mosque of Al Noory. And multiple city. And late yesterday. As Iraqi Security Forces closed in on that mosque about a hundred meters away. Ice is blew it up. A mosque which sat there. Since the twelfth century last night they blew up the mosque in which Baghdad he declared his callous fate I think it was a very significant moment here in the last 24 hour.

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