Gunmen Kill Representative of Iraq Cleric
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Gunmen have killed the representative of Iraq's most senior Shiite Muslim cleric along with his son and four bodyguards in a town south of Baghdad, an official in the cleric's office said Thursday.
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Gunmen have killed a senior official of Iraq's main Sunni Muslim party, which last month withdrew from the Jan. 30 election race it wants postponed, the Iraqi Islamic Party said Wednesday.
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Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi who worked as a translator for Reuters in Baghdad this week, his family said on Saturday.
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Gunmen killed a Sunni Muslim cleric as he entered a mosque in Baghdad to perform noon prayers Monday, the second slaying of a cleric from the influential Association of Muslim Scholars in as many days, the group said.
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At least 10 supporters of Iraq&#39;s top Shi&#39;ite cleric were shot dead in Najaf Thursday when gunmen opened fire at police who were trying to control the crowd, prompting the police to return fire, witnesses said.
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Unidentified gunmen kill a prominent Sunni Muslim cleric and his colleague in Pakistan's city of Karachi.
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Gunmen shot dead a respected professor  of medicine in Iraq on Saturday, the latest victim of postwar  violence that has forced thousands of professionals to flee the  country.
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A leading pro-Taliban Sunni Muslim  cleric and an associate were shot dead in southern Pakistan on  Saturday, the latest attack in religious violence that has  already killed more than 70 people this month.
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A leading pro-Taliban Sunni Muslim cleric has been shot dead in the Pakistani city of Karachi. Mufti Mohammed Jamil was reported to have been on his way home when two gunmen on a motorcycle stopped his car and opened fire with automatic weapons.
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BAQUBA, Iraq  - Gunmen killed a Sunni Muslim  cleric in the city of Miqdadiya Tuesday, the second such  killing in Iraq in as many days, witnesses and hospital  officials said.
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Gunmen shoot and kill a senior official in Iraq's communication ministry on his way to work.
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A Shia cleric known for his stance against Wahhabism, a strict version of Sunni Islam, is killed in south-western Iran.
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Gunmen killed the deputy governor of Baghdad today on his way to work, Iraqi officials said. Hatim Kamil was assassinated in a drive-by shooting this morning, said Baghdad Governor Ali al-Haidari.
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A little-known group said on Friday it was behind the killing of an aide to Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric and a main driving force behind the Jan. 30 elections, according to an Internet message.
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Gunmen on Monday assassinated a member of an influential Sunni clerics' group that has called for a boycott of national elections, just a day after Iraqi officials announced the balloting would be held Jan. 30 in spite of rising violence in Iraq.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Gunmen killed the deputy governor of Baghdad on his way to work on Monday, Iraqi officials said. Hatim Kamil was assassinated in a drive-by shooting this morning, said Baghdad Governor Ali al-Haidari.
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Unidentified gunmen killed a police official in this northern Iraqi city, provincial authorities said.