Iraqi Shi&#39;ite Escapes Bomb, Sunnis Snub Poll
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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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BAGHDAD, Nov. 27 -- Iraq's Shiite Muslim parties and the religious leadership headed by Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani on Saturday rejected a demand by other communities for a delay in nationwide elections scheduled for Jan. 30, in an escalating dispute that magnifies the country's ethnic and sectarian fault lines.
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Gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab enclave in a largely Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Friday in apparent retaliation for the bloodiest bombing in more than three years that killed 202 in a Shi'ite area on Thursday.
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A suicide bomber tried to kill the leader of Iraq&#39;s most powerful Shi&#39;ite political group Monday while the main Sunni party withdrew from the country&#39;s January 30th election.
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A suicide car bomber targeted the headquarters of Iraq&#39;s main Shi&#39;ite Muslim political party on Monday in what its leader called an assassination attempt
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BAGHDAD -- An Al Qaeda militant has been hanged for his role in one of the first major bombings in Iraq, a 2003 blast that killed a Shi'ite leader and 84 other people and foreshadowed the four-year insurgency that has followed, a Justice Ministry official said yesterday.
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A suicide car bomber killed 15 people Monday in trying to assassinate the head of Iraq's strongest Shiite party before parliamentary elections next month, while the biggest Sunni Muslim political group dealt a blow to ballot plans by withdrawing from the campaign because of the lack of security.
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A car bomb killed 17 people Saturday and injured 21 others in a mostly Shiite Muslim town south of Baghdad, and U.S. troops backed by tanks battled rebels in the country's third-largest city as the insurgency showed no sign of abating after national elections.
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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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Insurgents exposed the vulnerability of Iraq's security forces again Sunday, killing at least 22 national guardsmen and their driver in a suicide bombing and 10 other people in separate attacks with elections just weeks away. Prominent Shiite leaders called for unity with Sunni Arabs wanting to delay the vote but insisted it be held despite the violence.
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A suicide truck bomber blasted a Shiite town north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 100 people, police said, in a sign Sunni insurgents are pulling away from a U.S. offensive around the capital to attack where security is thinner.
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Iraq&#39;s election body rejected a suggestion in Washington it adjust the results of next month&#39;s vote to benefit the Sunni minority if low turnout in Sunni areas means Shi&#39;ites
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A bomb exploded at a police checkpoint in the Shiite holy city of Karbala on Monday, damaging surrounding buildings but causing no casualties.
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A suicide car bomber killed 13 people  outside the offices of a major Iraqi Shi'ite political party on  Monday but SCIRI leader Abdel Aziz al-Hakim survived and said  his thousands of armed militiamen would not fight back.
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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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A suicide car bomb exploded outside a Shi'ite mosque northeast of Baghdad as worshippers were leaving a religious ceremony Friday, killing as many as a dozen people, a Shi'ite official said.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A bomb targeting a prominent Shiite cleric killed seven people outside one of southern Iraqâs holiest shrines Wednesday as campaigning began for Iraqâs first post-Saddam elections -- a vote that is going ahead despite suicide attacks