Mortar wars terrorize weary Baghdad residents
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Retired Iraqi army officer Abdul-Rahman al-Nuami, 60, can clearly remember the evening in mid-June when he first heard the dull boom of a mortar round slamming into his mainly Sunni district in western Baghdad.
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A mortar barrage hammered the heavily fortified Green Zone and elsewhere in central Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least one person and underscoring the vulnerability of even Iraq's best-protected areas ahead of national elections.
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Loud explosions echoed through the Iraqi capital Tuesday morning as a number of mortar rounds landed near government offices, the Interior Ministry and witnesses said. There was no immediate word on casualties.
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SEVEN people were killed and 42 wounded in a mortar attack on a Baghdad police station last night, as heavy fighting between US-led forces and Shi&#39;ite militia shook the holy city of Najaf and a high-ranking secret policeman of the Saddam-era was arrested.
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The sound of heavy bombardments echoed across Baghdad from the poor Shi&#39;ite district of Sadr City on Tuesday morning, following a night of sustained US aerial attacks, residents said.
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A barrage of mortar bombs hit Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone on Thursday and several plumes of smoke could be seen rising near buildings housing the Iraqi parliament and government offices, Reuters reporters said.
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Iraqi and U.S. troops fanned out across the volatile Iraqi capital of Baghdad, enforcing a tough curfew until early Sunday in a tightly packed city living with daily insurgent strikes and Shiite-Sunni sectarian killings.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents hammered central Baghdad on Sunday with one of their most intense mortar and rocket barrages ever in the heart of the capital, heralding a day of violence that left at least 25 people dead in the city as security appeared to spiral out of control.    Many of the dead were killed when a U.S...
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Blood and shrapnel covered the grounds of the ancient Kufa mosque compound Thursday after at least two mortar blasts ripped through a crowd of Iraqis gathered to march
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A mortar barrage hammered the heavily fortified Green Zone and elsewhere in central Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least one person and underscoring the vulnerability of even Iraq&#39;s best-protected areas ahead of national elections.
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A barrage of mortar bombs hit Baghdad's Green Zone on Thursday and several plumes of smoke could be seen rising from the heavily fortified compound that houses the Iraqi government and the U.S. embassy, Reuters reporters said.
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A mortar barrage hammered the heavily fortified Green Zone and elsewhere in central Baghdad on Thursday, killing at least one person and underscoring the vulnerability
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A U.S.-Iraqi raid on the Abu Hanifa mosque &#151; one of the most revered sites for Sunni Muslims &#151; spawned a weekend of street battles, assassinations and a rash of bombings that changed Baghdad. The capital, for months a city of unrelenting but sporadic violence, has taken on the look of a battlefield.
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Bombings and mortar attacks killed dozens across Baghdad on Monday as Iraqi troops set up new checkpoints and an Iraqi general took command &#151; indications that the much-awaited operation to restore peace to the capital is gearing up nearly a month after it was announced.
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At least nine Iraqis have been killed and several injured in sporadic gunbattles and mortar attacks between Muqtada al-Sadr loyalists and US-led forces in Baghdad.
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The sound of heavy bombardments echoed  across Baghdad from the poor Shi'ite district of Sadr City on  Tuesday morning, following a night of sustained U.S. aerial  attacks, residents said.
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Two explosions have killed at least eight people in one of the bloodiest attacks on Baghdad&#39;s fortified Green Zone. &quot;There were body parts scattered everywhere.