Islamic State propaganda photos boast of Palmyra temple’s destruction

1	An undated photo released Aug. 25, 2015, on a social media site used by Islamic State militants, which has been verified and is consistent with other AP reporting, shows smoke from the detonation of the 2,000-year-old temple of Baalshamin in Syria's ancient caravan city of Palmyra.
2	Islamic State propaganda photos boast of Palmyra temple's destruction Add to...
3	The Islamic State group released propaganda images Tuesday that purport to show militants laying explosives in and then blowing up the 2,000-year-old temple of Baalshamin in Syria's ancient caravan city of Palmyra.
4	The images, posted on social media by supporters of the group, showed militants carrying barrels of explosives, and laying them inside the temple.
5	Other smaller wired cans lay around the temple walls and columns.
6	| and then an image of the temple reduced to a pile of rocks.
7	One caption read: "The complete destruction of the pagan Baalshamin temple."
8	The Associated Press could not independently verify the images.
9	However, they were released like other group propaganda and carried a logo it often used in the city of Palmyra, in Syria's central Homs province.
10	The images also corresponded to prior AP reporting.
11	A resident of Palmyra had told the AP the temple was destroyed on Sunday, a month after the group's militants booby-trapped it with explosives.
12	The UN cultural agency UNESCO on Monday called the destruction of the temple a war crime.