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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Insurgents blew up the Askariya Mosque's remaining minarets in a reprise of a similar attack that badly damaged the holy Shiite Muslim shrine in Samarra early last year, a police official told CNN.
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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 93 people
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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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KERBALA, Iraq  - Four people were killed and 18 wounded in a fresh outbreak of violence in the holy Iraqi city of Kerbala, where hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims gathered on Tuesday for a major ritual, police said.
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BAGHDAD -- In attacks targeting Iraq's major Shi'ite Muslim cities, car bombs in Najaf and Karbala killed at least 62 people yesterday and wounded 120, threatening to inflame sectarian anger as the nation prepares for elections next month.
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Its mosque attacked twice, Samarra's Sunni populace and Shi'a police may make the city erupt once again
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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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The attacks were aimed at reigniting a cycle of sectarian retribution as hundreds of thousands of Shiites made their pilgrimage to Karbala.
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sites of twin suicide car bombings a week ago, the chief of police in Najaf says. have been aimed at a US military convoy. an attempt to sow sectarian conflict between Shi&#39;ite and Sunni Muslims.
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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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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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Snipers fired on a major Shiite religious procession in Baghdad Sunday, killing at least 16 pilgrims and injuring 230, officials said. Four suspected gunmen were shot dead by police.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - Thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims set off for Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Sunday, demonstrating their political power and praying to be safe from bomb attacks ahead of one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest days.
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Militants detonated a car bomb near a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Friday, the Muslim holy day, intensifying efforts to drive a wedge between Iraq's religious communities ahead of elections nine days away.
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Militants blew up two minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday, targeting a shrine that had already been badly damaged in a 2006 attack, Shi'ite officials said.
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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.