Minarets blown up at revered Iraq Shi'ite shrine
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Suspected al Qaeda militants blew up two minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday, targeting a shrine bombed last year in an attack that sparked a wave of sectarian killing.
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Iraqi and U.N. officials toured a bomb-damaged Shiite shrine in northern Iraq on Wednesday as workers took the first steps in a long-delayed reconstruction Â nearly two years after the attack on the famed golden dome became a rallying point for Shiite rage.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. troops and Shi'ite rebels  fought fierce battles in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on  Monday, with multiple explosions and gunfire echoing around a  sacred shrine held by followers of a radical cleric.
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A bomb exploded at the gate of a revered Shiite shrine Wednesday, killing seven people in an apparent attempt to kill an aide to Iraq&#39;s
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HILLA, Iraq  - Insurgents killed 112 Shi'ite pilgrims heading for the holy Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday, including nearly 80 after two suicide bombers blew themselves up in one crowded street lined with tents.
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Suspected al Qaeda militants blew up on Wednesday the minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra, target of a 2006 bomb attack that unleashed a tidal wave of sectarian violence.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 19 (Xinhuanet) -- Explosions shook the Old City of Iraq&#39;s Najaf while suspected US AC-130 gunships pounded positions held by Sh&#39;ite militiamen in the holy city late Thursday, witnesses said.
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A bomb exploded at the gate to one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines on Wednesday. Early reports say that several were killed and possibly dozens wounded, including a top aide of Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, officials said.
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The two minarets of the al-Askari shrine in Iraq, one of the holiest sites in Shia Islam, are damaged by several explosions, officials 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 car bomb exploded yesterday near Baghdad's most important Shi'ite shrine, killing seven people and wounding dozens as authorities imposed new security restrictions to prevent attacks on Shi'ite pilgrims ahead of major religious ceremonies south of the capital.
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&quot;It&#39;s quite intense. I&#39;ve heard at least 10 explosions,&quot; a Reuters reporter said on Monday from inside the. compound of the gold-domed Imam Ali mosque, Iraq&#39;s holiest Shi&#39;ite Muslim shrine.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Mortars killed eight people as   hundreds of thousands of pilgrims converged on an Iraqi holy   city on Friday for a religious festival where Shi'ite leaders   renewed demands for sweeping new powers in their region.
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BAGHDAD -- A vegetable truck rigged with explosives blew up yesterday outside a Shi'ite mosque northeast of Baghdad, and gunmen sprayed automatic fire into a bakery in a Shi'ite district of the capital in sectarian violence that killed at least 23 people.
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A bomb near a Shi&#39;ite shrine has killed eight people and a fierce attack on Iran by a minister fuelled fears of sectarian strife as campaigning began for Iraq&#39;s first election since Saddam Hussein&#39;s fall.
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Iraq News, BAGHDAD, Iraq - At least eight people were killed and 32 injured Wednesday when a bomb exploded at the gate to one of Shiite Islam&#39;s holiest shrines, hospital officials said.
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Suspected Shia militants set fire to six Sunni mosques in Iraq in the 24 hours after an attack on a major Shia shrine.