This how the Americans with the secterian Iraqis destroyed one of the most ancient Islamic sites in Iraq. Right after they carried out the airstrike on the Mosque, they blamed Daesh but forgot to fabricate the video in which you can hear the missle was approching towrd the Mosque then one of the Iraqi Army commander said "The operation is done" after the airstike hit the target.
I suggest you take a second look at that video that you posted, claiming they shot a missile at the site. The sound which you mentioned is at 27 secs, the impact at 28 secs....at 32 secs, when he turns the camera, you can see the Minaret is still standing. So obviously, they didn't hit that site but something nearby.
Here's a better video showing that it as a controlled demolition and not an airstrike. And it was done by ISIS.
And also, this isn't the first time ISIS has considered destroying the Mosque. This article is from 2014.
https://www.bostonglobe.com/news/wo...heir-vision/t9ATaeSJWfCRBXOEVg3XrJ/story.html
By Vivian Salama ASSOCIATED PRESS
JULY 29, 2014
BAGHDAD — 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 Islam.
Next up for destruction, they feared: the Crooked Minaret, a more than 840-year-old tower that leans like Italy’s Tower of Pisa.
But over the weekend, residents pushed back. When fighters from the Islamic State group loaded with heavy explosives converged on the site, residents living nearby rushed to the courtyard below the minaret, sat on the ground, and linked arms to form a human chain to protect it, two residents who witnessed the event said Monday.
They told the fighters, “If you blow up the minaret, you’ll have to kill us, too,” the witnesses said.
