Deadly beginning to Ramadan in Baghdad
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A bomb killed 26 people in a Shi'ite   stronghold in east Baghdad on Saturday, hours after Sunni   Muslims began the fasting month of Ramadan, which U.S.   commanders have warned may see a rise in sectarian bloodshed.
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A car bomb killed 26 people in a   Shi'ite militia stronghold in east Baghdad on Saturday, hours   after Sunni Muslims began the fasting month of Ramadan, which   U.S. commanders warn may see a rise in sectarian bloodshed.
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15 October 2004 -- The US military is on high alert in Iraq today at the start of the holy Islamic month of Ramadan, which started last year with an increase in insurgent-backed violence.
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BAGHDAD, Sept 22: Baghdad was engulfed in violence on Wednesday as 21 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in a car bomb attack and US-led offensives on Shia and Sunni rebel pockets in the capital.
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Insurgents foiled heightened security in Baghdad and killed more than two dozen people Saturday after an al-Qaida threat to avenge the death of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, dealing a blow to the Iraqi government&#039;s pledge to bring peace to the capital.
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Roadside bombings killed four American soldiers in Baghdad, the US command said Wednesday, as US and Iraqi troops stepped up pressure on Sunni insurgents before this week&#39;s start of the Islamic holy month of Ramadan.
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RAMADI, Iraq - Six Iraqis were killed as violence flared in the flashpoint city of Ramadi on Monday as nearby Fallujah braced for an all-out assault with US and Iraqi troops massing in the rebel heartlands.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 13--Nearly 100 people were killed or found dead in a series of bloody incidents throughout the Iraqi capital over the past 24 hours, authorities said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents hammered central Baghdad on Sunday with one of their most intense mortar and rocket barrages ever in the heart of the capital, heralding a day of violence that killed nearly 60 people nationwide as security appeared to spiral out of control.    At least 37 people were killed in Baghdad alone...
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A rocket attack and suicide car bombing killed at least four people in Baghdad Sunday as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began an unannounced visit to Iraq to gauge efforts to calm violence before January elections.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb ripped through a busy Baghdad shopping street where Iraqis were gathering to join the police force Tuesday, and gunmen attacked a police van to the north, killing at least 59 people in attacks that struck the heart of the U.S. strategy for fighting Iraq's escalating insurgency...
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Friday prayers marked the start of Ramadan in the Middle East as millions of Muslims around the world began observance of the holy month of fasting and prayer.
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U.S. jets struck targets in the insurgent bastion Fallujah on Friday, and U.S. officials said 10 people &#151; including a family of four &#151; were killed when a car bomb exploded near a Baghdad police station in a bloody start to the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.
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BAGHDAD -- Top US generals warned yesterday that violence will increase in Baghdad during the Islamic holy month of Ramadan and said Al Qaeda in Iraq already has intensified its assaults against American troops.
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BAGHDAD - Two suicide car-bombings killed at least 17 people in Baghdad yesterday as US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld began an unannounced visit to Iraq.
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Assailants struck Shiite worshippers in three Iraqi cities Tuesday, killing at least 39 people in bombings and ambushes during the climax of ceremonies marking Ashoura, the holiest day in the Shiite calendar. In apparent retaliation, mortar shells slammed into predominantly Sunni neighborhoods in Baghdad hours later, killing at least five people and wounding 20, officials said.
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Explosions hit five churches in Baghdad, and two U.S. Army helicopters crashed elsewhere in the capital, killing two American soldiers and wounding two others, as violence flared while Iraqi Muslims began marking the holy month of Ramadan.