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2008 Abu Bakr Mosque Bombing (Baku)

Wikipedia's first sentence called it “thrown through a window of the abu bakr”. Today it says “thrown through a window of the abu bakr mosque”. "islamist" appeared 1 time in the opening in 2023. Today: absent from the opening.
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2008 Abu Bakr Mosque Bombing took place on August 17, 2008, when a grenade was thrown through a window of the Abu Bakr mosque ( Əbübəkr Məscidi ) in central Baku , Azerbaijan , during the evening prayer . Three people were killed and eleven more were injured. The Azerbaijani security forces accused the Russia -based Islamist Jihadist group, Derbent Jamaat , for the attack and launched the Operation Eagle .

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Today
Wikipedia's first sentence called it “thrown through a window of the abu bakr”. Today it says “thrown through a window of the abu bakr mosque”. "islamist" appeared 1 time in the opening in 2023. Today: absent from the opening. Read the current article and compare.
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Then

thrown through a window of the abu bakr

Now

thrown through a window of the abu bakr mosque

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