Shiite lawmaker survives bombing attack
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A Shiite legislator escaped an assassination attempt Sunday when a roadside bomb missed his convoy in downtown Baghdad &amp;#151; a day after a female Sunni legislator was kidnapped by gunmen from her car.
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DAMASCUS, Syria -- A Hamas member survived a bombing yesterday that destroyed his vehicle on a Damascus street shortly after he and his family stepped out, the Palestinian militant group said.
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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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U.S. leaders condemn killing of lawmaker BAGHDAD, Iraq  -- A suicide bomber rammed a police checkpoint in northern Iraq with an explosives-laden vehicle Saturday, killing 14 people, including some who died when their homes collapsed in the blast.
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Iraq's firebrand Sunni Arab parliament speaker will not be removed from his post, a legislator from the country's most powerful Shiite political bloc said Friday.
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BEIRUT - A powerful car bomb in a Christian neighborhood just east of Beirut killed a Christian lawmaker from the governing coalition and six others yesterday. It was the latest in a deadly string of bombings that have rocked Lebanon's teetering political order as the country prepares to select a new president.
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An explosion, apparently from a bomb-rigged car, rocked Beirut's seafront Wednesday, killing an anti-Syrian lawmaker and nine others, security officials said. The 65-year-old lawmaker, Walid Eido, was the seventh opponent of Damascus to be killed in two years in this conflict-ridden country.
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Iraq's Shiite vice president escaped an apparent assassination attempt Monday after a bomb exploded in municipal offices where he was making a speech
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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 intended to kill the contentious speaker of the Iraqi Parliament exploded inside one of his armored cars.
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A suicide car bomber hit one of Iraq&#39;s biggest Shi&#39;ite Muslim parties running in elections next month, killing nine people but missing its leader, hours
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Lawmakers loyal to anti-U.S. cleric Muqtada al-Sadr said Tuesday they are ending a nearly five-week boycott of parliament sessions after officials accepted their demands for rebuilding a Shiite shrine damaged by bombings.
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A man sentenced to death in Kuwait for the 1983 bombings of the U.S. and French embassies now sits in Iraq's parliament, according to U.S. military intelligence. Washington also says Jamal Jafaar Mohammed supports Shiite insurgents and acts as an Iranian agent in Iraq.
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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
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A powerful bomb killed an anti-Syria lawmaker and six others Wednesday in a Christian neighborhood of Beirut, threatening to derail an effort by an already deeply divided Parliament to elect Lebanon's next president
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A bomb exploded at the gate to one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines on Wednesday. Early reports say that several were killed and possibly dozens wounded, including a top aide of Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, officials said.
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BEIRUT -- A Lebanese lawmaker who had long been critical of the Syrian regime was killed yesterday along with his son and eight people when a bomb exploded near a popular waterfront promenade in Beirut.