Campaigning in Iraq begins with an attack
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - A bomb targeting a prominent Shiite cleric killed nine people outside one of southern Iraq&#39;s holiest shrines Wednesday as campaigning began for the first post-Saddam elections.
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IRAQâS national election campaign kicked off yesterday with angry accusations that Iran was masterminding the continuing insurgency in an effort to undermine democracy and bring about clerical rule.
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INSURGENTS in Iraq are continuing to pursue their deadly campaign against US troops and Iraqi security forces. Suicide car bombers struck Iraqi police and Kurdish militiamen in
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A WAVE of attacks that included car bombings in Baghdad and Mosul have left nearly 40 people dead in Iraq, exacerbating fears that violence could derail Iraq&#39;s January elections.
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JOHN Kerry yesterday launched his strongest attack yet against George Bushâs handling of Iraq, saying the invasion had created a crisis that could lead to unending war.
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Iraqi PM Nouri Maliki announces the start of a major offensive against al-Qaeda militants in Mosul.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - Insurgents have launched attacks  on election offices in northern Iraq, killing two people and  wounding nine six weeks before Iraqis are due to go to the  polls.
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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.
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Attacks and explosions mount as Iraqis go to the polls in the first multi-party elections for half a century.
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Insurgents stepped up attacks Thursday against polling centers across Iraq, killing at least a dozen people, including a U.S. Marine, in the rebel campaign to frighten Iraqis away from participating in this weekend's election.
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BAGHDAD -- In Sadr City, cheerful young men distribute campaign fliers for the Shi'ite List of candidates at gunpoint, blaring their message from a sound truck. Banners for rival campaigns lie slashed and burnt along the main route.
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Iraq's most powerful-looking electoral bloc unveiled a slate of candidates for its election campaign on Thursday, throwing down a gauntlet to minority Sunni Arabs who complain next month's vote will be marred by violence.
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Election workers and U.S.-trained security troops have become Iraq's most hunted, facing slaughter by insurgents out to ruin this month's landmark vote.
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The aim is to accelerate deployment of Iraqi forces against the insurgents.
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Sunni Arab extremists have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, other Interior Ministry officials and tribal leaders throughout Iraq.
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Mohammed Slaibi was planning to vote in Iraq's first post-Saddam Hussein election until attackers burned down the local election office.
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An Iraqi political campaign colored by hope but tempered by worry began yesterday with a bomb blast that killed at least seven people outside one of southern Iraq&#39;s holiest shrines.