Attacks kill 149 Shi'ite pilgrims in Iraq
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HILLA, Iraq  - Insurgents killed 149 Shi'ite pilgrims heading for the holy Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday, including 115 when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in one of the deadliest attacks of the 4-year war.
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Snipers fired on a major Shiite religious procession in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 16 pilgrims and injuring 230, officials said. Four suspected gunmen were shot dead by police.
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Insurgents with guns and a roadside bomb ambushed Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims heading for a religious festival in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, killing five and wounding 10, a police source said.
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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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BAGHDAD -- Hundreds of Shi'ite Muslims beating their chests in mourning accompanied 17 coffins through Baghdad's main Shi'ite district yesterday, demanding that militiamen be allowed to protect them after a wave of attacks blamed on Sunni Arab insurgents.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Gunmen battled Iraqi security forces on Tuesday near two of Shi'ite Islam's holiest shrines in the city of Kerbala, where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims had gathered for a religious festival.
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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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BAGHDAD -- In attacks targeting Iraq's major Shi'ite Muslim cities, car bombs in Najaf and Karbala killed at least 62 people yesterday and wounded 120, threatening to inflame sectarian anger as the nation prepares for elections next month.
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Insurgents ambushed Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, killing five and wounding 10, a police source said.
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Two suicide bombers attack a group of Shia pilgrims in central Iraq, killing at least 47 people, police say.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Iraqi forces imposed tight security on the city of Kerbala on Saturday where 2.5 million pilgrims marked the climax of a major Shi'ite rite, a day after gunmen attacked worshippers and police in other southern cities.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - More than a million Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims poured into Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, defying insurgents who killed around 160 people in two days of attacks blamed by the government on Sunni militants.
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Two suicide bombers attack a group of Shia pilgrims in central Iraq, killing at least eight people, police say.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - A major Shi'ite ritual ended peacefully in the southern city of Kerbala on Saturday after Iraqi forces imposed tight security around 2.5 million pilgrims, but attacks in the north killed nine worshippers.
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A bomb killed 34 people in Baghdad's   Sadr City Shi'ite slum on Saturday as Iraq's minority Sunnis   began the fasting month of Ramadan, which U.S. commanders said   might see a rise in sectarian bloodshed.
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A car bomb targeting Shia pilgrims in central Baghdad kills more than a dozen people, police say.
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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.