But will the arrests calm the fighting?

Authorities have arrested 10 people, including four security guards, over last week's bombing of a revered Shi'ite shrine, Iraq's national security adviser, Mowaffak al-Rubaie, told US televison on Sunday.

"We have arrested 10 people - four from the guards of the Golden Tomb shrine," he told CNN television's Late Edition programme.

The other six suspects, al-Rubaie said "were in the city of Samarra, (and had) just moved in and rented a place ... So we are investigating them", he said.

"These leads are very, very good in our investigations," al-Rubaie said, adding that additional details about the probe would be made public "in the very near future".

The destruction Wednesday of the shrine's famed golden dome - one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines in the town of Samarra - has become a flashpoint, sparking the worst sectarian violence in years and triggering reprisals against Iraq's Sunnis and their holy sites.

Iraqi officials said at least 120 people have been killed in the unrest.

So it looks like an inside job. Will the answers satisfy anyone at this point?

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