Iraqi Shi'ite Escapes Bomb, Sunnis Snub Poll
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A suicide car bomber hit one of Iraq's  biggest Shi'ite Muslim parties running in elections next month,  killing nine people but missing its leader, hours before the  most prominent Sunni party withdrew from the historic poll.
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BAGHDAD, May 24 -- A lethal suicide car bombing Thursday in the restive city of Fallujah, west of Baghdad, was meant to undermine and intimidate tribal leaders who have aligned against the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq, local officials said.
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Radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr  may have escaped the U.S.-led military siege of the Imam Ali  Mosque in Najaf, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said on Friday.
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BAGHDAD -- A car bomb killed 17 people yesterday and injured 21 others in a mostly Shi'ite Muslim town south of Baghdad, and US troops backed by tanks battled rebels in the northern city of Mosul as the insurgency showed no sign of abating after national elections.
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Leaders of the mostly Shiite Muslim ticket said Monday they have no intention of establishing an Iranian-style Islamic state in Iraq if they sweep next weekend's national elections.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Shi'ite vice president narrowly escaped assassination yesterday as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it was searched by US teams with bomb-sniffing dogs. At least 10 people were killed.
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A suicide bomber killed at least 17 people and wounded 25 outside a Baghdad college on Sunday as insurgents defied efforts by U.S. and Iraqi security forces to stabilize the capital.
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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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A BOMB near a Shiite shrine and an outspoken attack on Shiite Iran by an Iraqi minister fuelled fears of sectarian strife as campaigning began today for Iraq&#39;s first free election since the fall of Saddam Hussein.
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Osama bin Laden apparently urged Iraqis  to boycott U.S.-backed elections, endorsing Sunni Muslim  insurgents on the day a senior Shi'ite leader survived a car  bombing and the top Sunni party pulled out of next month's  vote.
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A bomb near a Shi&#39;ite shrine has killed eight people and a fierce attack on Iran by a minister fuelled fears of sectarian strife as campaigning began for Iraq&#39;s first election since Saddam Hussein&#39;s fall.
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A suicide car bomber targeted the headquarters of Iraq&#39;s main Shi&#39;ite Muslim political party on Monday in what its leader called an assassination attempt
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A suspected car bomb has exploded outside the headquarters of a top Shia political party in Baghdad. Details are sketchy, but casualties are reported from the apparent attack at the offices of the Supreme
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A group led by al Qaeda ally Abu Musab  al-Zarqawi said it did not carry out twin suicide car bombings  in Iraq's main Shi'ite holy cities on Sunday, according to an  Internet statement dated Thursday.
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The Shiite Muslim leader of Iraq&#39;s largest political party survived a suicide bombing outside his Baghdad compound Monday that killed at least 12 people and injured more than
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KERBALA, Iraq  - A bomb exploded near the office  of a senior Shi'ite cleric in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on  Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 32 in a failed  attempt on the cleric's life, officials said.
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A bomb near a Shi'ite shrine and an  outspoken attack on Iran by an Iraqi minister fueled fears of  sectarian strife as campaigning began on Wednesday for Iraq's  first free election since the fall of Saddam Hussein.