Sunni group says it killed Shi'ite aide
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BAGHDAD -- A Sunni Muslim insurgent group that has vowed to disrupt Iraq's Jan. 30 elections claimed responsibility yesterday for the assassination of an aide of the country's most prominent Shi'ite Muslim religious leader, and suspected insurgents abducted 15 Iraqi soldiers and torched their bus in restive western Iraq.
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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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BAGHDAD, Nov. 18 -- Gunmen killed a prominent Shiite politician Saturday in what police and others said appeared to have been a sectarian assassination.
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An Islamic militant group said in an  Internet statement on Tuesday it had beheaded an Iraqi because  he had been spying for U.S. forces, Al Jazeera television said.
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MIQDADIYA, 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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An al-Qaida-linked group claims it killed three U.S. soldiers last month and mutilated two of their bodies to avenge the rape-slaying of a young Iraqi woman by troops of the same unit, an institute which monitors extremists Web sites said Tuesday.
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DUBAI - An Italian hostage identified as Salvatore Santoro has been killed by an Islamist group in Iraq, Al Jazeera television reported yesterday, quoting a statement from the group and showing footage of the man.
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Sunni extremists with links to al-Qaida say Baghdad attack was in retaliation for rape of Sunni woman.
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An Iraqi Islamist group said on Sunday it  killed three members of the Kurdistan Democratic Party which  cooperates with the Iraqi government and posted a video tape on  its Web site of the apparent beheadings.
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BAGHDAD, October 27 (Online): The US military said it killed an aide to Iraqâs most wanted man Abu Mussab al-Zarqawi in an air strike on Fallujah on Tuesday, as the Iraqi authorities vowed to punish those behind the weekend massacre of almost 50 unarmed
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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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BAGHDAD - Iraqi authorities seized the headquarters of the country's most influential Sunni clerical group yesterday, sealing off its west Baghdad compound and accusing the organization of supporting Al Qaeda in Iraq.
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The head of a key U.S.-backed Sunni group was killed Monday in a double suicide bombing that claimed at least 11 other lives
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Al-Qaida-linked Sunni insurgents claimed responsibility Wednesday for the downing of a U.S. military helicopter northwest of Baghdad.
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The leader of local Sunni tribes in Iraq who have joined American and Iraqi forces in fighting extremist Sunni militants was killed by a bomb today, Iraqi police officials said.
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U.S. forces said they killed two Shi'ite militiamen, including one wearing a suicide vest, during a raid north of Baghdad on Saturday to capture a rogue leader of cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army.
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An early morning US air strike has killed a &quot;known associate&quot; of Islamic militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Iraq&#39;s restive Sunni Triangle region, the military said.