Baghdad Governor Assassinated; Bomber Kills 11
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Gunmen killed Baghdad's governor in  Iraq's highest-profile assassination for eight months and a  suicide bomber killed 11 people on Tuesday in an escalating  campaign to wreck the Jan. 30 election.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Car bombers struck twice in rapid succession in the capital Sunday, killing at least 11 people including an American soldier, as Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld warned that violence may increase before the January election.    Rocket-propelled grenade explosions and machine gun fire rocked the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, late Sunday...
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Gunmen killed the governor of the Baghdad province, Ali al-Haidari, and six of his bodyguards on Tuesday, officials said. Earlier Tuesday, several Iraqis were killed when a suicide bomber rammed a fuel truck into a checkpoint near the fortified Green Zone.
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A suicide bomber assassinated an Afghan   provincial governor on Sunday, as NATO said it killed almost   100 more Taliban fighters in its biggest offensive against the   resurgent Islamist group.
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A suicide bomber killed a provincial governor along with his bodyguard and his nephew Sunday in eastern Afghanistan, and the U.S. military warned that a suicide bombing cell is targeting foreign troops in Kabul.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen in Iraq shot and killed the deputy governor of Baghdad on Monday, said Iraqi officials. Hatem Karem was assassinated in a drive-by shooting, while two of his body guards were wounded in the attack.
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at least 47 people in the deadliest single attack in the Iraqi capital in six months. responsibility for Tuesday&#39;s blast, which it said was carried out by a suicide attacker.
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Iraq's Shiite vice president narrowly escaped assassination Monday as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it was searched by U.S. teams with bomb-sniffing dogs. At least 10 people were killed.
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Gunmen have assassinated the deputy governor of Baghdad and wounded four of his bodyguards, police say. They said the drive-by shooting that killed Hatem Karim on Monday occurred in the southern Dora district of the Iraqi capital.
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Two car bombs in Baghdad killed at least 11 people, including a U.S. soldier. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld made a surprise visit to troops in the field. Also, Marine was reported killed in action west of the capital.
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BAGHDAD -- Iraq's Shi'ite vice president narrowly escaped assassination yesterday as a blast ripped through a government meeting hall just hours after it was searched by US teams with bomb-sniffing dogs. At least 10 people were killed.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Two car bombs shook the capital in quick succession Sunday, killing at least 11 people, including an American soldier, and wounding 16, U.S. and Iraqi officials said, as Defense Secretary Donald H...
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BAGHDAD -- Gunmen killed the governor of Baghdad province and several bodyguards yesterday in a swiftly executed mid-morning attack. Governor Ali al-Haidari had been a vocal supporter of US reconstruction efforts in Iraq.
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A car bomb exploded outside a  restaurant in a busy commercial area of Baghdad on Wednesday,  killing at least 11 people and wounding 40, police and hospital  officials said.
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The governor of an important and volatile southern province in Afghanistan escaped an apparent assassination attempt Monday after a bomb exploded by his vehicle convoy, officials said.
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Baghdad governor Ali al-Haidri was assassinated by gunmen in the capital on Tuesday, police and hospital sources said.
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A suicide bomber struck Monday in eastern Afghanistan at the funeral of a provincial governor who died in a suicide blast the previous day, police and witnesses said. At least five people were killed, but four Cabinet ministers who were attending the funeral escaped unharmed, police said.