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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Even as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld was in Iraq warning that violence could increase before the Iraqi election in January, car bombers struck
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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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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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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.
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Mortar rounds exploded in five places in central Baghdad today, killing two Iraqis and wounding 14 in disparate attacks that underscored the capital&#39;s vulnerability as the January elections approach.
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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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A series of car bomb blasts tore  through Baghdad and the northern Iraq city of Mosul on Monday,  killing at least 21 people and wounding scores.
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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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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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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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Insurgents bent on sabotaging Iraq's  Jan. 30 elections unleashed mortars and bombs and opened fire  in several cities Monday, killing at least 22 policemen and  soldiers and targeting polling stations.
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Bombs killed more than 40 people in   Iraq on Wednesday, including 24 at a market in Baghdad, where   insurgents defied a U.S.-backed security clampdown in its   fourth week.
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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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Three suicide car bomb attacks on Iraqi police and troops in a town near Kirkuk killed at least nine people Wednesday, police said, in the latest insurgent strikes on security forces ahead of Sunday's election.
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Bombings kill 18 people and wound many others in Iraq, despite a security operation across the country.
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A series of car bomb blasts tore through Baghdad and the northern Iraq city of Mosul on Monday, killing at least 21 people and wounding scores.