Shiite villagers killed in dawn raid
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An Iraqi police colonel was gunned down near his home in Afak on Sunday, marking the third government official killed in the Iraqi Shiite town in five weeks, an Interior Ministry official said.
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People in a village outside this Hezbollah stronghold used a front-end loader to carry away some of the dead Wednesday after a night of Israeli airstrikes and a commando raid inside Baalbek that residents said killed at least 15 civilians.
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BAGHDAD, 8 September 2004 - Fierce fighting between followers of Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr and US forces in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City yesterday killed at least 37 people, including two American soldiers, and injured over 200.
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Two American soldiers were killed Saturday in Baghdad, seven Shiite construction workers were gunned down and five Sunni civilians were blown up, deepening the capital's security crisis. Shiite politicians called on the prime minister to cancel his visit to Washington to protest Israel's attacks in Lebanon.
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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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BAGHDAD -- Gangs of roving Shi'ite Muslim gunmen stormed a west Baghdad neighborhood yesterday, burning houses and killing at least two people in broad daylight, authorities said.
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More than 20 people were killed in  attacks on Shi'ite targets Friday in violence apparently aimed  at stoking sectarian hatred days before the climax of one of  the holiest events in the Shi'ite calendar.
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Thousands of U.S. troops swept house-to-house through mostly Shiite areas virtually unopposed Wednesday in the opening phase of the long-awaited Baghdad security crackdown. But four U.S. soldiers were killed outside of the capital in an area not covered by the operation.
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U.S. and Iraqi troops backed by attack aircraft clashed with suspected Shiite militiamen before dawn Thursday in Baghdad, bombing houses and battling more than a dozen snipers on rooftops. Residents and police said at least 14 people were killed.
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Description: US and Iraqi government troops raid one of Baghdad&#39;s main Sunni Muslim mosques, killing several Iraqis. The Iraqi government has ordered the arrest of Muslim clerics accused of inciting violence and supporting the Iraqi insurgency.
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The U.S. military said its forces killed an estimated 49 militants during a dawn raid to capture an Iranian-linked militia chief in Baghdad's Sadr City enclave, one of the highest tolls for a single operation since President Bush declared an end to active combat in 2003.
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US troops raided Baghdad's largest Shi'ite slum early Thursday and arrested 16 people, US and Iraqi officials and witnesses said. The American military said one person died
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Supporters of Iraq's top Shi'ite  cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani were fired upon in the  town of Kufa on Thursday and 20 people were killed, a Reuters  photographer said from the scene.
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A group of soldiers in civilian clothes heading for home leave were ambushed and killed north of Bagdad. This thwarts the efforts of the local government to restore order.
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A string of attacks on Shiite pilgrims on the final day of Ashura killed at least 38 people today in Iraq. During Ashura, Shiites mark the seventh-century martyrdom of the Imam Hussein, the Prophet Mohammed's grandson.
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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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A Shiite Muslim was ambushed as he drove through this once serene Himalayan tourist destination Saturday, sparking a rampage of sectarian violence and arson that left at least 11 people dead, including a family of six that was burned alive in its home.