Baghdad Blast Targets Sunni Tribal Leaders
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BAGHDAD, June 25 -- Five bombings struck Iraq on Monday, killing at least 54 people, including 12 who died in a suicide attack at a Baghdad hotel frequented by members of Iraq's parliament and Chinese diplomats, U.S. military and Iraqi security officials said.
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An Iraqi tribal leader was assassinated in Baghdad on Tuesday, Iraqi police said, a day after a suicide bomber killed six Sunni Arab tribal leaders opposed to al Qaeda.
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Suspected Shia militants set fire to six Sunni mosques in Iraq in the 24 hours after an attack on a major Shia shrine.
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The head of a key U.S.-backed Sunni group was killed Monday in a double suicide bombing that claimed at least 11 other lives and highlighted the deadly precision of attacks on Sunni leaders choosing to oppose al-Qaida in Iraq.
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Sunni Arab tribesmen vow revenge for the killing of a leader who opposed al-Qaeda in Iraq.
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An al-Qaida front group threatened to assassinate Sunni leaders who support American troops in Iraq as a Shiite bloc loyal to radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr defected Saturday from the Iraqi government's parliament base.
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Sunni extremists with links to al-Qaida say Baghdad attack was in retaliation for rape of Sunni woman.
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A key Sunni sheik who united with U.S. forces to fight al Qaeda militants in Iraq was assassinated Thursday in a roadside bomb attack, officials said.
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The most prominent figure in a revolt of Sunni sheiks against Al Qaeda in Iraq was killed today in an explosion near his home in Anbar province, police said.
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A stealthy suicide bomber slipped into a busy Baghdad hotel Monday and blew himself up in the midst of a gathering of U.S.-allied tribal sheiks, undermining efforts to forge a front against the extremists of al-Qaida in Iraq. Four of the tribal chiefs were among the 13 victims, police said.
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Iraqi tribal leader Abdul Sattar Abu Risha, a key figure in U.S. efforts to turn local residents against Al Qaeda in the restive Anbar province, was killed today by a roadside bomb, U.S. military and Iraqi sources confirmed.
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A Sunni tribal leader instrumental in driving al Qaeda out of Iraq's Anbar province was killed by a bomb attack on Thursday, less than two weeks after he met U.S. President George W. Bush.
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Attacks on Sunni mosques and homes leave 30 dead in  Baghdad, as scores of Shia bomb victims are buried.
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A Sunni Arab tribal leader instrumental in driving al Qaeda out of Iraq's Anbar province was killed by a bomb on Thursday, less than two weeks after he met U.S. President George W. Bush in the desert region.
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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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BAGHDAD -- Sunni insurgents unleashed a wave of attacks yesterday, killing at least 23 people, including two US Marines and a dozen Iraqi Army recruits.
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BAGHDAD - The Sunni insurgent group Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility yesterday for planting the bomb that killed a prominent tribal leader Thursday, calling the assassination a "holy operation" that targeted Abdul Sattar Abu Risha for his alliance with US forces.