Iraq bombers topple Samarra minarets
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Suspected al-Qaida bombers toppled the towering minarets of Samarra's revered Shiite shrine on Wednesday, dealing a bold blow to Iraqi hopes for peace and reopening old wounds a year after the mosque's Golden Dome was destroyed.
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BAGHDAD, June 15 -- Extremists demolished a Sunni mosque in Basra early Friday, prompting the government to impose an indefinite curfew in the southern port city. The strike was an apparent retaliation for Wednesday's attack on a Shiite shrine in Samarra.
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - Two car bombs exploded in the  Iraqi town of Samarra north of Baghdad Saturday, killing eight  people and wounding at least 20, police said.
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At least 23 people are killed in triple car bomb attacks in Samarra, north of Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Tuesday in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims streaming toward a shrine south of Baghdad, killing 93 people
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Radical Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr withdrew his support for a security crackdown in Baghdad on Sunday, hours after a female suicide bomber wearing a vest packed with explosives killed 40 in a student college.
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BAGHDAD, June 13 -- Early morning blasts Wednesday destroyed two minarets at the same Shiite shrine in Samarra where an attack last year demolished the mosque's gilded dome and plunged the country into a wave of deadly sectarian violence.
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Insurgents detonated at least two bombs  near a U.S. military convoy in southern Baghdad on Thursday,  killing at least 16 people, while a suicide bomber killed two  Iraqi police and a U.S. soldier west of the capital.
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Samarraâs Golden Mosque was hit by explosions Wednesday, prompting fears of an escalation in sectarian violence.
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Insurgents set off at least two car bombs and attacked a police station yesterday in the central Iraqi town of Samarra, killing at least 29 people and wounding
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SAMARRA, Iraq  - Insurgents detonated four car  bombs and attacked police stations in the Iraqi city of Samarra  on Saturday, killing at least 37 people and wounding 62, police  and health officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 12 -- A trio of explosions at markets in Baghdad killed around 60 people and wounded more than 100 on Monday, violence that marked the one-year anniversary of the bombing of a historic Shiite mosque in Samarra, wire services reported.
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At least 23 people are killed in a bomb attack in Sadr City in Baghdad, Iraqi police say.
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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Tuesday in a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims streaming toward a shrine south of Baghdad, killing 93 people
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A pair of suicide bombers detonated explosives Thursday among shoppers in a crowded outdoor market in a Shiite city south of Baghdad, killing at least 45 people and wounding 150, police said. Bombs and a mortar attack killed at least 17 others in both Shiite and Sunni areas of Baghdad.
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Suicide bombers struck Tuesday across the street from the heavily guarded Green Zone, killing up to 16 people &amp;#151; the deadliest attack in a wave of bombings and shootings that threatened to shatter confidence in Iraq&#039;s new government.
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Three Sunni Muslim mosques were attacked and burned south of Baghdad on Thursday, Iraqi police said, in apparent reprisal attacks after suspected al Qaeda militants blew up the minarets of a revered Shi'ite shrine.