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BAGHDAD - Sunni extremists appear to have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, and other Interior Ministry officials throughout Iraq, with at least 10 attacks in the last 48 hours.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A car bomb Tuesday ripped through a busy market near a Baghdad police headquarters where Iraqis were waiting to apply for jobs on the force, and gunmen opened fire on a van carrying police home from work in Baqouba, killing at least 59 people total and wounding at least 114.    The attacks were the latest attempts by militants to wreck the building of a strong Iraqi security force, a keystone of the U.S...
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched attacks on Baghdad's northern and southern flanks to clear out Sunni insurgents, al-Qaida fighters and Shiite militiamen who had fled the capital and Anbar during a four-month-old security operation, military officials said Monday.
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Insurgents targeted the convoys of  Iraq's environment and education ministers in separate bombings  on Tuesday that killed five of their bodyguards and wounded  more than a dozen people, officials said.
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Iraqi police suffered two mortal blows in attacks that left at least 59 people dead and more than 120 injured. The major attack - a car bomb blast near a Baghdad police station, was claimed by an al Qaida-linked terror group.
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Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered Iraq's military commanders on Tuesday to speed up preparations for a U.S.-backed crackdown in Baghdad after a string of attacks killed hundreds of people in recent days.
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The aim is to accelerate deployment of Iraqi forces against the insurgents.
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U.S. and Iraqi forces launched a series of operations on Tuesday targeting al Qaeda in Iraq after an upsurge in suicide bombings which U.S. commanders say are an attempt by the militant group to reignite sectarian violence.
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Gunmen opened fire Wednesday on a convoy carrying former Iraqi Governing Council member Ahmad Chalabi in an apparent assassination attempt that wounded two of his bodyguards, Chalabi's spokesman said.
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Election workers and U.S.-trained security troops have become Iraq's most hunted, facing slaughter by insurgents out to ruin this month's landmark vote.
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Sunni Arab extremists have begun a systematic campaign to assassinate police chiefs, police officers, other Interior Ministry officials and tribal leaders throughout Iraq.
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Attacks against U.S. troops, Iraqi security forces and private contractors number in the dozens each day and have spread to parts of the country that had been relatively peaceful.
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An Iraqi National Guardsmen patrols outside his headquarters in Mushahidah, Iraq, 40 kilometers (25 miles) north of Baghdad, Tuesday, Oct 19, 2004 after a mortar attack.
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Assailants targeted convoys of the interim government's ministers of environment and education in two separate bombings in Baghdad on Tuesday, officials said.
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BAGHDAD, Feb. 10 -- A series of bombings targeting Iraqi security forces and American-backed Sunni guards killed as many as 37 people across northern Iraq on Sunday, according to Iraqi officials.
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Five Iraqis including a guardsman have been killed in separate attacks in Baghdad and Baquba while the governor of Kirkuk escaped an assassination attempt.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqi law enforcement officials stretched a dragnet over the Green Zone and other parts of the capital yesterday, seeking to arrest the country's culture minister in connection with an attempted political assassination two years ago in which three people were killed, Iraqi officials said.