Bombing in Town Near Najaf, Many Casualties-Cleric
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Explosions near a mosque in the Iraqi  town of Kufa killed and wounded many people on Thursday, a  Shi'ite cleric at the scene told Reuters.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. warplane bombed near Najaf's vast cemetery as fighting with Shiite militants intensified Tuesday...
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The death toll from Sunday&#39;s attack in the holy Shiite city of Najaf climbed to 48, with another ninety wounded. The car bomb exploded near the Imam Ali Mausoleum, one of the most revered spots in Najaf.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - A suicide car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint near a busy market in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf on Wednesday, killing 11 people, a doctor at a local hospital said.
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A bomb targeting a prominent Shiite cleric killed seven people in Karbala outside one of southern Iraq&#39;s holiest shrines. The cleric, Sheik Abdul Mahdi al-Karbalayee, was among 31 wounded.
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A bomb exploded near the office of a senior Shi&#39;ite cleric in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, killing eight people and wounding 32 in a failed attempt on the cleric&#39;s life, officials said.
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KARBALA, Iraq, Dec 20  - A bomb exploded Monday on the western outskirts of Karbala, causing no casualties, Iraqi police said, one day after car bombs in Karbala and in its sister shrine city of Najaf killed 66 people.
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NAJAF, Iraq  Sporadic gunfire echoed through Najaf on Friday after a night of heavy US bombing that saw radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr order his fighters to hand control of a revered Najaf ...
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A bomb exploded on Wednesday at one gate of a holy Shiite shrine in Karbala, south of Baghdad, killing seven people in what seemed to be an attempt to kill an aide to a top Shiite cleric in the country and casting the shadow of violence at the first day
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Several mortar bombs were heard landing in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on Tuesday after Shi'ite rebels came under fierce U.S. bombardment overnight.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - At least five loud explosions on Thursday echoed from near holy sites in the Iraqi city of Najaf where a radical Shi&#39;ite cleric has remained holed up despite earlier agreeing to leave a sacred shrine.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - An Iraqi delegation delivered a peace proposal to aides of militant cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Najaf on Tuesday as explosions, gunfire and a U.S. air strike on the sprawling cemetery echoed across the holy city...
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Fifty people suspected of  involvement in Iraq's insurgency have been detained in Najaf  following Sunday's suicide car bombing in which the death toll  has risen to 52 killed and over 140 wounded, the governor said.
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Fighting in the holy city of Najaf left 77 people dead and 70 others injured Thursday and the early morning hours Friday, the Health Ministry reported.
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NAJAF, Iraq  - At least five loud explosions on  Thursday echoed from near holy sites in the Iraqi city of Najaf  where a radical Shi'ite cleric has remained holed up despite  earlier agreeing to leave a sacred shrine.
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Supporters of rebel Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were fired on as they marched from the town of Kufa to the city of Najaf on Thursday and several were wounded, witnesses at the scene said.
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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.