Hakim escapes Baghdad bomb as prominent Sunni party snubs poll
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A suicide car bomber hit one of Iraq&#39;s biggest Shiite parties running in elections next month, killing nine people but missing its leader, hours before the most prominent Sunni party withdrew from the historic polls.
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BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber blew up his car outside the headquarters of Iraq&#39;s biggest Shia Muslim political party on Monday, just five weeks before the country&#39;s historic national election.
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BAGHDAD - A Sunni Muslim tribal leader who was one of the highest-profile US allies in Iraq was killed in a bomb blast yesterday, an assassination that could undermine US attempts to recruit former foes to stabilize the country.
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BAGHDAD : Two ministers in Iraq&#39;s US-backed interim government escaped bomb attacks on Tuesday, in which at least five people were killed and six wounded in Baghdad, a bodyguard and official aide said.
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BAGHDAD.âThe main Iraqi Sunni political grouping, the moderate Iraqi Islamic party (IIP), today withdrew its list of candidates for the January 30 elections, on a day once again full of violence in which 13 people died in an attack in Baghdad, DPA
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Sunni rejection of the political process was underscored by continued attacks on Tuesday that may have killed up to 13 people at a recruiting center in Baghdad.
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The governor of Baghdad escapes unhurt when a roadside bomb explodes near his convoy.
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A suicide car bomber targeted the  headquarters of Iraq's main Shi'ite Muslim political party on  Monday in what its leader called an assassination attempt less  than five weeks before historic elections.
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Iraqi politician and former US favourite Ahmed Chalabi escapes unhurt after gunmen open fire on his convoy.
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Afghan President Hamid Karzai&#39;s running mate for a historic presidential election narrowly escaped a bomb set off by Taliban guerrillas as the campaign closed on Wednesday.
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Iraq's Shiite vice president narrowly escaped assassination Monday as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it was searched by U.S. teams with bomb-sniffing dogs. At least 10 people were killed.
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A bomb attack on an Algerian military convoy killed one soldier on Saturday while the head of the main secular opposition party escaped unhurt from a separate attack nearby, a security source and the political party said.
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BAGHDAD -- President Ghazi al-Yawer of Iraq, an influential Sunni Muslim, threw his support yesterday behind holding the Jan. 30 election on time despite insurgent threats he said have paralyzed voter registration in some Sunni areas.
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Plagued by violence and fearing reprisals, many of Iraq&#39;s Sunni Muslims say they had resolved to stay at home on election day long before Osama bin Laden said anyone who voted was a infidel.
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The most prominent figure in a revolt of Sunni sheiks against Al Qaeda in Iraq was killed today in an explosion near his home in Anbar province, police said.
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A CAR bomb explosion near the office of top Iraqi Shiite leader Abdel Aziz Hakim has killed between four to six people, including Mr Hakim&#39;s security guards and a woman, according to hospital sources and the Shiite leader&#39;s political party.
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The attacker tried to blow up the Baghdad home of the head of Iraq&#39;s strongest Shiite party. BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber killed 15 people yesterday while trying to assassinate the head of Iraq&#39;s strongest