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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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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.
| 2010 | 2015 | 2020 | Oct '23 | 2025 | |
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| islamist | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
| jihad | 0 | 0 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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thrown through a window of the abu bakr
Now
thrown through a window of the abu bakr mosque
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