Blast at Iraq Shrine Kills al-Sistani Aide
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A bomb exploded at the gate of one of Shia Islam's holiest shrines on Wednesday, killing seven people and wounding 31 others, including a top aide of Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, officials said.
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At least 75 people died when a car bomb exploded near a Shia mosque in a commercial district of Baghdad, Iraqi police 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
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Two aides to Iraq's top Shi'ite leader Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani have been killed in separate attacks apparently aimed at inflaming sectarian conflict ahead of Jan. 30 elections.
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BAGHDAD, Aug. 25 -- A bomb placed beneath a parked car exploded outside a prominent Shiite shrine in Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least five people at the start of a major religious ceremony, U.S. military officials said.
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A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside a Shiite shrine in southern Iraq, killing 43 people and wounding 65, a Health official said.
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Two aides of Iraq's most senior Shia cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, have been shot dead in separate incidents.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A bomb targeting a prominent Shiite cleric killed seven people outside one of southern Iraq&#39;s holiest shrines Wednesday as campaigning began for Iraq&#39;s first post-Saddam elections - a vote that is going ahead despite suicide attacks and
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The leader of al-Qaida in Iraq was wounded and an aide was killed in a clash Thursday with Iraqi forces north of Baghdad, the Interior Ministry spokesman said.
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BAGHDAD - A Sunni Muslim tribal leader who was one of the highest-profile US allies in Iraq was killed in a bomb blast yesterday, an assassination that could undermine US attempts to recruit former foes to stabilize the country.
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Witnesses said at least 11 people were killed in a blast outside a Shiite mosque in restive Diyala Province.
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BAGHDAD  -- A senior aide to radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr was assassinated on the road between the holy city of Najaf and Baghdad, an official from the movement said Wednesday.
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An alleged al-Qaida militant was executed for his role in one of the first and bloodiest bombings in Iraq, a 2003 blast that killed Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim and 84 other people, a Justice Ministry official said Friday.
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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.
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A key Iraqi Sunni ally of the US, who met President George W Bush last week, is killed in a bomb attack.
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Explosions near the main mosque in the  Iraqi town of Kufa killed and wounded many people on Thursday,  a Shi'ite cleric at the scene told Reuters.
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Najaf - Thirty people were killed in a car bomb blast on Sunday near a major religious shrine in the Iraqi Shiite holy city of Najaf, a hospital official said, shortly after a similar attack in the sister city of Karbala.