Iraqi bombers target Shia cities
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Dozens of Iraqis die as car bombs hit Najaf and Karbala, while three election staff are shot dead in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Suicide bombers struck Iraqi security targets yesterday north and west of Baghdad, killing 22 Iraqis, officials said.
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BAGHDAD -- Bombers struck Shi'ite worshipers in two cities yesterday and gunmen ambushed a busload of pilgrims in a series of attacks that killed at least 58 people as more than 2 million Shi'ites jammed major shrines for ceremonies marking Ashoura, the holiest day of the Shi'ite calendar.
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A suicide bomber rammed an explosives-laden car into the Baghdad headquarters of top Iraqi Shia Muslim political leader Abdel Aziz Hakim yesterday, killing 13 people and wounding dozens more.
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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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More than 20 people were killed in  attacks on Shi'ite targets Friday in violence apparently aimed  at stoking sectarian hatred days before the climax of one of  the holiest events in the Shi'ite calendar.
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Car bombs and a rocket barrage struck a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 47 people and wounding 148. The rockets apparently were fired from a mostly Sunni district targeted by U.S. troops in a crackdown against the sectarian violence roiling the capital.
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Huge car bomb blasts have killed and injured many people in the Shia Iraqi cities of Najaf and Karbala. In Najaf at least 30 people have died and another 65 were injured when a bomb exploded near a shrine say officials.
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Gunmen stormed a police station and bombed a Shia mosque in two simultaneous dawn attacks in Baghdad yesterday that left at least 30 Iraqis dead and several injured.
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Suicide car bombers hit Iraq's two main Shi'ite holy cities, Kerbala and Najaf, killing at least 23 people and wounding dozens more Sunday, six weeks to the day before an historic election.
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Iraqi insurgents yesterday overran a police station and detonated a car bomb near a Shia mosque in Baghdad, killing up to 30 people, in the capital&#39;s worst day of violence since the US-led assault on Falluja.
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Suspected al Qaeda militants blew up on Wednesday the minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra, target of a 2006 bomb attack that unleashed a tidal wave of sectarian violence.
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At least 13 people died and 40 others were wounded on Monday when a car bomb targeting a top Shia leader exploded in Iraq, report agencies.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Suicide car bombers struck Iraq's  two main Shi'ite holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala on Sunday,  killing at least 62 people and wounding nearly 130, in  coordinated attacks six weeks before a historic election.
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Two car bombs exploded within hours of each other in two Iraqi cities holy to Shiite Muslims, killing at least 62 people and wounding more than 120.
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Sunday&#39;s bombings in Shiite holy cities - the deadliest insurgent attacks since July - appeared aimed at sparking sectarian strife.
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Suicide bombers killed 27 people in  attacks in two Iraqi cities on Monday in the worst violence  since the country's historic election eight days ago.