Bombs kill scores in Iraq as voting nears
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Car bombers struck crowds in Najaf and Karbala in Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 61 people and wounding about 120 in the two holy Shiite cities only days into Iraq&#39;s six-week election campaign.
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Bombs killed more than 40 people in   Iraq on Wednesday morning, including 24 at a market in Baghdad,   where insurgents defied a U.S.-backed security clampdown in its   fourth week.
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Three people die in a car bomb in Baghdad, as a recount of 300 election ballot boxes begins.
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Two blasts killed up to 18 people,  including an American soldier, in Baghdad on Sunday hours  before Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq to gauge  efforts to calm violence ahead of January elections.
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Only days into Iraq&#39;s six-week election campaign, an eruption of violence today killed at least 60 people and wounded about 120 others in car bombings in Iraq&#39;s two holiest Shiite cities, Najaf and Karbala.
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The results of the Iraqi election are to be announced on Sunday, amid a fresh wave of insurgent attacks.
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Suicide bombers killed 27 people in  attacks in two Iraqi cities on Monday in the worst violence  since the country's historic election eight days ago.
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Insurgents bent on sabotaging Iraq's  Jan. 30 elections unleashed mortars and bombs and opened fire  in several cities on Monday, killing at least 22 policemen and  soldiers and targeting polling stations.
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Dozens of Iraqis die as car bombs hit Najaf and Karbala, while three election staff are shot dead in Baghdad.
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Two blasts killed up to 18 people, including an American soldier, in Baghdad Sunday hours before Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq to gauge efforts to calm violence ahead of January elections.
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NAJAF/KERBALA, Iraq  - Suicide car bombers struck  Iraq's two main Shi'ite holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala  Sunday, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 100,  six weeks before a historic election.
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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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BAGHDAD -- Iraqis voted yesterday in historic national elections in unexpectedly large numbers, despite insurgent attacks on voters and polling stations that killed at least 35 people and injured at least 171. Nine attackers also died.
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A WAVE of attacks that included car bombings in Baghdad and Mosul have left nearly 40 people dead in Iraq, exacerbating fears that violence could derail Iraq&#39;s January elections.
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Suicide car bombs struck Iraqi police and Kurdish militiamen in Baghdad and northern Iraq on Saturday, killing at least 14 people, wounding dozens, and again demonstrating the lethal reach of Iraq's insurgency just weeks ahead of crucial elections.
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Insurgents detonated a suicide truck  bomb outside Australia's embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday and  hit Iraqi security targets with at least three car bombs,  killing 26 less than two weeks before Jan. 30 elections.
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BAGHDAD - Insurgents detonated two car bombs at the gates of the main US-Iraqi headquarters here and near major hotels yesterday, killing at least 21 people and wounding 96.