Iraqi Shi'ite pilgrims targeted again by bombers
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KERBALA, Iraq  - More than a million Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims poured into Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, defying insurgents who killed around 160 people in two days of attacks blamed by the government on Sunni militants.
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Up to 90 Shia pilgrims are killed and dozens wounded in a double suicide bombing in central Iraq, police say.
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Hundreds of thousands of Shiite pilgrims thronged the streets of Karbala on Saturday for a religious festival, and Iraqi army and police deployed across the holy city to ward off any suicide bombers.
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BAGHDAD, Jan. 30 -- A series of separate bomb and gun attacks killed dozens of Shiite worshippers in Iraq on Tuesday, a day after Iraqi and U.S. forces disrupted what they said was a major plot to target Shiite pilgrims and leaders as they mark the high point of their religious calendar.
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HILLA, Iraq  - Insurgents killed 149 Shi'ite pilgrims heading for the holy Iraqi city of Kerbala on Tuesday, including 115 when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in one of the deadliest attacks of the 4-year war.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 15 - Iraq&#39;s election campaign season opened on a violent note when a bomb exploded Wednesday near the gate of one of Iraq&#39;s holiest Shiite shrines in the pilgrim city of Karbala, killing
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Two bomb attacks in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, leave at least 29 people dead, among them a group of Shia pilgrims.
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The attacks, which wounded another 155, came on the anniversary of the bombing of a Shiite shrine in Samarra.
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U.S. warplanes attacked targets in Iraq's Sunni Muslim city of Falluja for a second time on Friday, witnesses said.
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Two suicide bombers turned a procession of Shiite pilgrims into a blood-drenched stampede Tuesday, killing scores with a first blast and then claiming more lives among fleeing crowds. At least 106 were killed amid a wave of deadly strikes against Shiites heading for a solemn religious ritual.
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Iraq&#39;s wave of car bombings spread into the heart of the Shiite Muslim holy land Sunday in two attacks that killed at least 60 people.
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Two suicide bombers blew themselves up Tuesday in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims streaming toward a shrine south of Baghdad, killing up to 90 people
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BAGHDAD, Jun 20 (IPS) - The second bombing of the Shiite shrine of  al-Askari in Samarra, Iraq, last week brought reprisal attacks,  but it also brought solidarity against the occupiers.
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Attacks on Shiite pilgrims continued Wednesday, with at least 11 people killed by bombs and gunfire who were heading for a solemn religious ritual, police said.
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BAGHDAD -- A spate of grisly attacks believed to have been carried out by Sunni Arab militants has killed dozens of Shi'ites around Baghdad this week, just days ahead of a planned march of devout Shi'ites through Sunni heartlands to the remnants of a revered shrine.
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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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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.