Rockets Hit Hotel in Baghdad; Shiite Rebel Offers Truce Deal
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Insurgents fired two rockets into the Ishtar Sheraton Hotel in central Baghdad tonight, setting rooms ablaze and forcing the temporary evacuation of scores of journalists
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BAGHDAD, Sept. 1 -- A string of closely timed explosions killed at least 72 people and wounded 236 in a Shiite Muslim area of Baghdad on Thursday night, one of the deadliest attacks in the capital in months despite the launch of a new security plan to stanch the sectarian carnage.
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A car bomb exploded near an entrance to Baghdad's Green Zone, killing at least 10 people and wounding 76. Less than an hour later, a second car bomb blew up near the Baghdad Hotel.
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Car bombs and a rocket barrage struck a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 47 people and wounding 148. The rockets apparently were fired from a mostly Sunni district targeted by U.S. troops in a crackdown against the sectarian violence roiling the capital.
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Two rockets slammed into the Sheraton hotel in central Baghdad on Thursday night, temporarily overshadowing a pledge by a Shi'ite Muslim militia to disarm.
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At least two rockets were fired toward  the Sheraton and Palestine hotels in central Baghdad on  Thursday and a fire broke out in the area, witnesses said.
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A blast, caused by a rocket, hit a hotel Sunday in the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, killing 15 Iraqis, police and hospital officials said.
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Rockets struck a Baghdad hotel housing foreign contractors and journalists late Thursday, drawing return fire and underscoring the precarious security in the heart of the Iraqi capital.
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US soldiers talk to journalists, unidentified, after a mortar round, foreground, hit the parking lot of the al-Mansour Hotel in Baghdad, Iraq, Saturday Oct 16, 2004, where some foreign journalists and diplomats stay.
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A firefight broke out between U.S. troops and militants today in Baghdad's Sadr City as coalition forces targeted a man they said was a leader in an Iranian-funded kidnapping operation. At least 13 people were killed and 60 others were reported wounded in the densely populated Shiite slum where there is strong support for Iran and anti-American Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.
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Explosions and gunfire erupted Thursday night outside hotels housing foreigners and journalists in downtown Baghdad, but there were no immediate reports of casualties.
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Rockets slammed into homes in Baghdad   just before nightfall on Thursday, killing 50 people and   wounding 200, a senior Interior Ministry official said.
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Rockets and mortars rained down Thursday on an upscale, mostly Shiite area of Baghdad, collapsing an apartment house, shattering shops and killing at least 31 people &#151; part of the rising sectarian violence President Bush has vowed to stop.
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Two mortars were fired at a hotel used  by journalists and foreign contractors in Baghdad on Sunday.  There were no initial reports of any injuries or damage.
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A loud blast shook central Baghdad on  Thursday and black smoke rose near hotels used by foreign media  and security companies.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Rockets struck a Baghdad hotel housing foreign contractors and journalists late Thursday, drawing return fire and underscoring the precarious security in the heart of the Iraqi capital. Outside Baghdad, roadside bombings killed two more American soldiers...
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Two rockets slammed into the Sheraton hotel in central Baghdad on Thursday night, temporarily overshadowing a pledge by a Shi&#39;ite Muslim militia to disarm.