Shi'ites Bombed as Iraq Poll Campaign Begins
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A bombing in a Shi'ite city and an  outspoken attack on Iran by an Iraqi minister fueled fears of  sectarian strife as campaigning began on Wednesday for Iraq's  first free election since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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With Iraq's election only three days  away, insurgents bent on wrecking the poll killed 19 Iraqis and  a U.S. Marine on Thursday and bombed polling stations in the  country's Sunni heartland.
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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 bomb targeting a prominent Shiite cleric killed seven people outside one of southern Iraq's holiest shrines Wednesday as campaigning began for Iraq's first post-Saddam elections &#151; a vote that is going ahead despite suicide attacks and assassinations by Sunni insurgents.
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A suicide car bomber killed at least 13  Shi'ites northeast of Baghdad and gunmen shot dead nine people  in a Shi'ite bakery in the capital in the latest sectarian  attacks following the Jan. 30 election.
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Suicide bombers ripped through a Shi'ite market in northern Iraq on Friday and mortars crashed on rival Baghdad neighborhoods, ramping up sectarian tension a day after the bloodiest bombing of the conflict killed 202 people.
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At least 16 people died in suicide bombings in Baghdad and Mosul yesterday as insurgents stepped up their campaign to undermine Iraq&#39;s security forces and sow ethnic tensions before elections scheduled for January.
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A suicide car bomber rammed into a  Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad during dawn prayers Friday, killing  14 people and stoking fears that sectarian divisions over when  to hold elections could unleash further bloodshed.
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More than 20 people were killed in  attacks on Shi'ite targets Friday in violence apparently aimed  at stoking sectarian hatred days before the climax of one of  the holiest events in the Shi'ite calendar.
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An explosion rocks Iraq's holy city Karbala killing seven people as campaigning starts for January's election.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraqi Shiite leaders braced for greater violence but vowed to push ahead with elections in January after twin car bombs claimed the lives of 66 people in the pilgrimage cities of Najaf and Karbala.
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Thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims set off for Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Sunday, demonstrating their political power but aware of the threat of bomb attacks ahead of one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest days.
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Campaigning for the first post-Saddam Hussein elections got under way amid more bloodshed, as US President George W. Bush warned Iran and Syria to stop meddling in Iraq in the runup to the vote.
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Six weeks before Iraq's nationwide vote, another blast of violence hit the country Sunday, including two deadly bombings that claimed dozens of lives and an ambush that killed three employees of Iraq's electoral commission.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb targeting a prominent Shiite cleric killed seven people outside one of southern Iraq&#39;s holiest shrines Wednesday as campaigning began for Iraq&#39;s first post-Saddam elections - a vote that is going ahead despite suicide attacks and
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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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Violence marred Iraq&#39;s first official day of parliamentary election campaigning Wednesday as interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced his candidacy for the Jan. 30