Iraqi Shi'ite pilgrims defy bombers
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Over a million Shi'ite pilgrims defied bombers and gunmen to flock to the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, the day after scores were killed in a string of attacks likely to fuel sectarian bitterness.
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Attacks on Shia pilgrims in Iraq continue with at least nine people killed on their way to the holy city of Karbala.
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Thousands of pilgrims streamed into the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf yesterday as militants left, handing the keys to religious authorities after Iraq&#39;s top Shia cleric
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Fourteen South Asian pilgrims   were ambushed and killed on their way to Shi'ite Muslim sites   in Iraq, hospital, police and army sources said on Saturday.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Pilgrims gathered peacefully in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Tuesday to mark one of the holiest days of the Shi'ite calendar after clashes between pilgrims and police overnight killed at least six people.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Shi&#39;ite fighters appeared still to be in control of a holy shrine in Najaf on Friday after Iraq&#39;s interim government said it had overcome a bloody uprising by seizing the Imam Ali mosque without a shot being ...
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Insurgents ambushed Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, killing five and wounding 10, a police source said, the day after scores of pilgrims died in a string of attacks.
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Sniper attacks on a Shiite religious procession killed 10 pilgrims and injured 43 in Baghdad on Sunday. Four suspected gunmen were shot dead by police, officials said.
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BAGHDAD, March 6 -- At least 146 Shiite pilgrims were killed in a series of attacks across central Iraq on Tuesday, a wave of violence on the eve of one of Shiite Islam's most sacred holidays that appeared intended to widen Iraq's sectarian divide.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - US warplanes pounded areas near a shrine where radical Shi&#39;ite militiamen were holed up early Friday after their leader, Moqtada al-Sadr, defied a final demand from Iraq&#39;s interim prime minister to disarm.
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MARK COLVIN: To Iraq where the Shi&#39;ite leader Grand Ayatollah Ali al Sistani is on his way back to the holy city of Najaf, with around ten thousand followers joining his convoy from Basra in Iraq&#39;s south.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - At least five loud explosions on  Thursday echoed from near holy sites in the Iraqi city of Najaf  where a radical Shi'ite cleric has remained holed up despite  earlier agreeing to leave a sacred shrine.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's interim government said it  had defused a Shi'ite rebellion in Najaf Friday without a shot  being fired, but rebel militiamen denied police had seized the  city's sacred Imam Ali Mosque from their control.
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Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims thronged the streets of Karbala on Saturday for a religious festival, and Iraqi army and police deployed across the holy city to ward off any suicide bombers.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Iraq's interim government said it  had defused a Shi'ite rebellion in Najaf on Friday without a  shot being fired, but rebel militiamen denied police had seized  the city's sacred Imam Ali Mosque from their control.
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BAGHDAD -- More than 115 Shi'ite pilgrims were killed in a coordinated series of attacks across Iraq yesterday, a wave of violence on the eve of one of Shi'ite Islam's most sacred holidays that appeared intended to widen Iraq's sectarian divide.
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BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber barreled into a flatbed truck packed with Shi'ite pilgrims yesterday, touching off a giant fireball that left charred bodies strewn through a street in the heart of Baghdad. At least 32 people were killed.