Iraqis defy ISIL to save 840-year-old Crooked Minaret in Mosul
Tue Jul 29, 2014 09:42:27
Residents of Mosul have watched helplessly as extremists ruling the northern Iraqi city blew up some of their most beloved landmarks and shrines to impose a stark vision of their Takfiri faith. Next up for destruction, they feared: the Crooked Minaret, a more than 840-year-old tower that leans like Italy's Tower of Pisa.