Minarets blown up at Iraq Shi'ite shrine
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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 unleashed a wave of sectarian killing.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Plumes of black smoke rose above the embattled city of Najaf Tuesday after American warplanes bombed insurgent positions overnight and supporters of a radical cleric charged that shrapnel from a U.S. attack had hit parts of the Imam Ali Shrine...
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After the second high-profile attack on one of the country's most sacred Shi'ite shrines this year, a tense Baghdad braces for the fallout
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes pounded areas near a  shrine where radical Shi'ite militiamen were holed up early on  Friday after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final  demand from Iraq's interim prime minister to disarm.
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Explosions near a mosque in the Iraqi  town of Kufa killed and wounded many people on Thursday, a  Shi'ite cleric at the scene told Reuters.
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NAJAF, Iraq -- The scars of war line every vista leading to the gold dome of the Shrine of Ali. Fire has blackened hotel facades, shells have punched through apartment buildings, and bombs have leveled rows of shops in the normally bustling warren of streets around Iraq's most revered Shi'ite mosque.
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Militants detonated a car bomb near a  Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Friday, the Muslim holy day,  intensifying efforts to drive a wedge between Iraq's religious  communities ahead of elections nine days away.
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BAGHDAD -- A spate of grisly attacks believed to have been carried out by Sunni Arab militants has killed dozens of Shi'ites around Baghdad this week, just days ahead of a planned march of devout Shi'ites through Sunni heartlands to the remnants of a revered shrine.
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By Abdul Hussein Al-Obeidi, Associated Press, 8/24/2004 04:06. NAJAF, Iraq  Plumes of black smoke rose above the embattled city of Najaf Tuesday after US warplanes bombed insurgent positions overnight, leading
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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Tuesday in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims streaming toward a shrine south of Baghdad, killing 93 people
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. troops and Shi'ite rebels  fought fierce battles in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on  Monday, with multiple explosions and gunfire echoing around a  sacred shrine held by followers of a radical cleric.
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NAJAF - A senior commander of Shia militants holed up inside a Najaf shrine said the wall of the mosque was hit by US fire last night.
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The attack signaled that the cycle of violence following the destruction a Shiite shrine has not entirely unfolded.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Mortars killed eight people as   hundreds of thousands of pilgrims converged on an Iraqi holy   city on Friday for a religious festival where Shi'ite leaders   renewed demands for sweeping new powers in their region.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - US warplanes pounded areas near a shrine where radical Shi&#39;ite militiamen were holed up early on Friday after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final demand from Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister to disarm.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - U.S. warplanes pounded areas near a  shrine early Friday where radical Shi'ite militiamen were holed  up after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final demand  from Iraq's interim prime minister to disarm.
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A bomb exploded on Wednesday at one gate of a holy Shiite shrine in Karbala, south of Baghdad, killing seven people in what seemed to be an attempt to kill an aide to a top Shiite cleric in the country and casting the shadow of violence at the first day