Yesterday’s destruction of the twin minarets of the revered Askaria mosque in Samarra threatens to reignite the sectarian war which began in February of 2006 after the dome of the same mosque was destroyed by al Qaeda in Iraq. Almost immediately after the minarets were bombed, Iraqi and Coalition forces dispatched units to secure mosques and religious sites nationwide and imposed a curfew in the major flash-point cities. Iraqi and U.S. forces also cordoned Sadr City to prevent the Mahdi Army from attacking Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad.