Suicide Bombers Hit Iraq's Holy Shi'ite Cities
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Suicide car bombers hit Iraq's  two main Shi'ite holy cities, Kerbala and Najaf, killing at  least 23 people and wounding dozens more Sunday, six weeks to  the day before an historic election.
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Sunday&#39;s bombings in Shiite holy cities - the deadliest insurgent attacks since July - appeared aimed at sparking sectarian strife.
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Police rounded up dozens of suspects  Monday after twin suicide car bombings killed 66 people in  Iraq's Shi'ite holy cities, attacks that intensified fears of  sectarian violence during elections on Jan. 30.
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Militants detonated a car bomb near a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Friday, the Muslim holy day, intensifying efforts to drive a wedge between Iraq's religious communities ahead of elections nine days away.
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Car bombings Sunday hit the Iraqi Shiite Muslim holy cities of Karbala and Najaf, causing dozens of casualties. The Najaf bombing occurred just yards from the Imam Ali shrine and killed at least 10 people, CNN reported.
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67 people are dead after separate suicide car bombings in the cities of Najaf and Karbala. Analysts say the bombers could be attempting to spark a civil war between Shiite and Sunni Muslims, since a large majority of Shiites populate the two holy cities.
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Two suicide bombers killed 61 people and wounded 150 when they blew themselves up at a crowded market in Iraq's Shi'ite Muslim town of Hilla on Thursday, police said.
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RAMADI, Iraq  - Two suicide car bombers exploded in the rebellious city of Ramadi west of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 11 people and wounding four, police and witnesses said.
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 18 -- Suicide bombers killed at least 34 people in attacks in western and northern Iraq on Monday, underscoring the continuing violence throughout the country as U.S. and Iraqi forces focus on tamping down attacks in the capital.
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A suicide car bomber killed 14 Shi'ite  worshippers as they left a Baghdad mosque on Friday, a Muslim  holy day, ratcheting up tension between Iraq's religious  communities just nine days before landmark elections.
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A suicide car bomber killed 13 people  outside a Shi'ite mosque northeast of Baghdad Friday and gunmen  shot dead nine people in a bakery in the capital in the latest  sectarian attacks following the Jan. 30 election.
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A suicide bomber struck a busy commercial center in a major Shiite city south of Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 24 people and wounding dozens as the streets were packed with shoppers and commuters, police and hospital officials said.
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Iraq&#39;s wave of car bombings spread into the heart of the Shiite Muslim holy land Sunday in two attacks that killed at least 60 people.
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A suicide car bomber plowed into a  Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad after dawn prayers on Friday, killing  14 people and stoking fears that sectarian divisions over when  to hold elections could unleash further bloodshed.
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A car bomb killed five people on Saturday between the Iraqi Shi'ite holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala, sites of twin suicide car bombings a week ago, the chief of police in Najaf said.
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Suicide bombers killed at least 27 people in attacks in two Iraqi cities Monday in the worst bloodshed since the country's historic election eight days ago.
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Police rounded up dozens of suspects on  Monday after twin suicide car bombings killed 66 people in  Iraq's Shi'ite holy cities, attacks that intensified fears of  sectarian violence during elections on Jan. 30.