Iraqi bombers target Shia cities
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Dozens of Iraqis die as car bombs hit Najaf and Karbala, while three election staff are shot dead in Baghdad.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraqi Shiite leaders braced for greater violence but vowed to push ahead with elections in January after twin car bombs claimed the lives of 66 people in the pilgrimage cities of Najaf and Karbala.
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Suicide bombers ripped through a Shi'ite market in northern Iraq on Friday and mortars crashed on rival Baghdad neighborhoods, ramping up sectarian tension a day after the bloodiest bombing of the conflict killed 202 people.
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The attacks were aimed at reigniting a cycle of sectarian retribution as hundreds of thousands of Shiites made their pilgrimage to Karbala.
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Two suicide bombers struck in a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people including the leader of the area's neighborhood patrols, an Interior Ministry source said.
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A suicide car bomber killed at least 13  Shi'ites northeast of Baghdad and gunmen shot dead nine people  in a Shi'ite bakery in the capital in the latest sectarian  attacks following the Jan. 30 election.
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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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Shia Muslim leaders in Iraq urge their people not to avenge two car bomb attacks that left more than 60 dead.
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Up to 90 Shia pilgrims are killed and dozens wounded in a double suicide bombing in central Iraq, police say.
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Suspected al Qaeda militants blew up two minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday, targeting a shrine bombed last year in an attack that sparked a wave of sectarian killing.
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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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The bombing near a Shiite mosque in Diyala on Tuesday, provoked Shiite militiamen to use mortars against a nearby Sunni village in retaliation.
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BAGHDAD -- A pair of suicide bombers detonated explosives yesterday among shoppers in a crowded outdoor market in a Shi'ite city south of Baghdad, killing at least 45 people and wounding 150, police said. Bombs and a mortar attack killed at least 17 others in both Shi'ite and Sunni areas of Baghdad.
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Iraqi Shia leaders appealed to their supporters to show restraint yesterday after two deadly blasts targeted their religious centres in an apparent attempt to trigger civil war.
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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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BAGHDAD - Iraqi Shiite militiamen were planting bombs in the street of a Baghdad slum amid echoing machine gun fire yesterday, as angry foot soldiers of radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr cursed the Iraqi government and US &quot;occupiers&quot; after deadly fighting
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[World News]: Karbala (Baghdad), Dec. 19 : Powerful car bomb blasts have killed and injured dozens of people in the Iraqi Shia cities of Najaf and Karbala.