Suicide attack on Shia chief as Iraq poll tensions rise
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With tension rising sharply in advance of next month&#39;s Iraqi elections, a senior Shia Muslim politician survived a suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad yesterday, while the only serious
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Incident intensifies the threat of a violent sectarian split with the approach of elections that political leaders are struggling to salvage.
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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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Two suicide bombers attack a group of Shia pilgrims in central Iraq, killing at least eight people, police say.
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A representative of Iraq's top Shia Muslim cleric is assassinated along with four bodyguards and his son.
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A suicide car bomber killed 14 Shi'ite  worshippers as they left a Baghdad mosque on Friday, a Muslim  holy day, ratcheting up tension between's Iraq's religious  communities just nine days before landmark elections.
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sites of twin suicide car bombings a week ago, the chief of police in Najaf says. have been aimed at a US military convoy. an attempt to sow sectarian conflict between Shi&#39;ite and Sunni Muslims.
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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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A key Pakistani Shiite leader and his nephew were killed when a suicide bomber blew himself up outside the cleric&#039;s house in Karachi, sparking fears of sectarian revenge attacks.
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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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A suicide car bomber attacked a Baghdad  office used by a major Shi'ite party on Tuesday in the latest  insurgent attack aimed at stoking sectarian strife ahead of  Jan. 30 polls expected to be dominated by Shi'ites.
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An escalating political rift among Iraq&#39;s main religious groups and continued violence throughout the country are threatening parliamentary elections set for January.
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Attackers killed 40 Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in Iraq on Tuesday and Hezbollah's leader warned of the threat of civil war in Lebanon as tensions across the Middle East overshadowed the annual rite of Ashura.
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A suicide bomber detonated his car Monday at the gate to the home of the leader of Iraq&#39;s biggest political party, killing and wounding several of the guards but leaving the cleric unharmed, his spokesman said.
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BAGHDAD -- Insurgents who have vowed to disrupt Iraq's parliamentary elections unleashed attacks yesterday across Iraq, from the kidnapping of a Catholic archbishop and a car bombing at a police station in the north to mortar attacks on polling stations in Basra in the south. At least 18 people were killed.
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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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A bomb attack near Muslim Shiites commemorating Ashura, one of the group's holiest events in Iraq kills two people a day after fighting between security forces and members of a violent Shiite messianic cult killed 56 people and raised religious tensions as millions gather to mark the day.