Iraq Poll Fears Deepen as 2 Sistani Aides Killed
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Two aides to Iraq's top Shi'ite leader  Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani have been killed in separate attacks  apparently aimed at inflaming sectarian conflict among Iraqis  already divided on whether Jan. 30 polls should go ahead.
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Dozens of Iraqis die as car bombs hit Najaf and Karbala, while three election staff are shot dead in Baghdad.
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Insurgents fired mortars at a meeting where Iraqi leaders met to pick an interim national assembly on Sunday, killing at least two people in a grim reminder of the country's tortuous path toward democracy.
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Insurgents fired mortars at a meeting  where Iraqi leaders met to pick an interim national assembly  Sunday, killing at least two people in a grim reminder of the  country's tortured path toward democracy.
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More than two dozen Iraqis were killed and many more wounded Thursday in two separate assaults hours before Iraq's most revered Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, arrived in this holy city to lead the march for peace they were planning to attend.
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AT least 60 people were killed and more than 120 wounded in Iraq car-bombings overnight, while gunmen carried out a brazen ambush on a car in Baghdad, killing three election officials.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - At least 43 people were killed as insurgents launched a string of attacks on the Iraqi security forces raising questions about their readiness to secure landmark elections next month.
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The attack underscored the fragility of the electoral process in Iraq and evoked the lurking threat of sectarian strife.
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A second US hostage is reported killed in Iraq, heightening fears for fellow captive, Briton Ken Bigley.
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At least two Iraqis were killed in clashes today between US troops and insurgents in the restive city of Ramadi, as a militant group claimed it had executed 11 members of the Iraqi National Guard.
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MOSUL, Iraq Gunmen bombed two churches in the tense city of Mosul on Tuesday, stoking fears of ethnic and sectarian unrest ahead of an election next month.
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Iraqi gunmen kill at least three people in Baghdad - reports say the victims may be election workers.
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Fears grow for two Western hostages in Iraq following the beheading of their fellow captive.
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Insurgents dragged three employees of Iraq&#39;s Electoral Commission from a car in Baghdad on Sunday and shot them dead, the latest in a series of attacks designed to disrupt efforts to hold the Jan. 30 election.
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A representative of Iraq's top Shia Muslim cleric is assassinated along with four bodyguards and his son.
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Insurgents fired mortars at a meeting  where Iraqi leaders met to pick an interim national assembly  Sunday, killing at least two people in a grim reminder of the  country's tortuous path toward democracy.
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A bomb near a Shi'ite shrine killed eight people and a fierce attack on Iran by a minister fueled fears of sectarian strife when campaigning began on Wednesday for Iraq's first election since Saddam Hussein's fall.