(Mr. Rodriguez, you may remember, ordered the destruction of interrogation videos).
Jose A. Rodriguez Jr., then the head of the agency's clandestine service, ordered the destruction.
Prime Minister Menachem Begin ordered the destruction of an Iraqi nuclear reactor near Baghdad in 1981.
As mayor of Nauvoo, Illinois (his only political office), Smith ordered the destruction of an opponent's newspaper.
In 2005, he ordered the destruction of tapes that showed the harsh techniques being used, apparently contrary to orders.
Muhammad ordered the destruction of the three hundred and sixty idols around the city's great temple, the Kabah.
In 1009 he ordered the destruction of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, which was severely damaged as a result.
Last Monday, Mullah Muhammad Omar, the Taliban's supreme leader, issued a surprise edict that ordered the destruction of all statues.
Two years later, he ordered the destruction of Hama, a northern city that was a stronghold of the Muslim Brotherhood, the insurrectionary Islamist group.
In Nuevo Laredo in 2009, officials ordered the destruction of shrines honoring Santa Muerte, whom many Mexicans consider the patron saint of death.
When Muhammad returned to Mecca in 630, he ordered the destruction of the idols that were kept in the shrine, cleansing it of polytheistic associations.
