Three Sunni mosques burned south of Baghdad: police
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Three Sunni Muslim mosques were attacked and burned south of Baghdad on Thursday, Iraqi police said, in apparent reprisal attacks after suspected al Qaeda militants blew up the minarets of a revered Shi'ite shrine.
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Gunmen rampaged through a Sunni enclave in a mainly Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Friday, killing up to 30 people and setting mosques and homes ablaze, police said, in a sharp escalation of sectarian violence.
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A bomb struck a Sunni mosque in Baghdad after Friday prayers, killing seven people and wounding five, while mortars barraged a Shiite mosque north of the capital, leaving five wounded.
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Insurgents launched two major attacks Friday against a Shiite mosque and a police station in Baghdad, killing 30 people including at least 16 police officers, the deadliest insurgent violence in weeks.
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THE HAGUE -- A mosque in the Netherlands' southeast was destroyed by fire yesterday in what seemed to be the latest suspected attack against an Islamic site since the killing of a Dutch filmmaker critical of Islamic fundamentalism.
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A CAR bomb exploded outside an Iraqi police station in western Baghdad last night and US troops battled insurgents west of the capital as a new wave of violence across Iraq&#39;s Sunni Muslim heartland killed at least 29 people.
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A small Dutch mosque in the south of the country has largely burnt down but no one was injured in what police suspect may have been the latest in a spate of arson attacks against religious targets.
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Iraq&#39;s prime minister said today mistakes were made during a raid on a Baghdad mosque last week that sparked a surge in violence in the capital, and he had ordered an investigation.
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Sunni rejection of the political process was underscored by continued attacks on Tuesday that may have killed up to 13 people at a recruiting center in Baghdad.
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Gunmen firing rocket-propelled grenades and machineguns rampaged through a Sunni enclave in a mainly Shi'ite district in Baghdad on Friday, killing 30 people and setting mosques and homes ablaze, Iraqi police said.
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The attacks demonstrated that Sunni militants could still wreak grave damage inside or outside Baghdad.
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The attack, the deadliest in Iraq in months, occurred in a southern city where rival Shiite groups have been battling for power.
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Four Sunni mosques attacked in late November in the embattled Hurriyah neighborhood of Baghdad still bear scars from the attacks and all are now either under Shiite Muslim control or closed.
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Sunni residents in a volatile northwest Baghdad neighborhood claimed Friday that revenge-seeking Shiite militiamen had destroyed four Sunni mosques, burned homes and killed many people, while the Shiite-dominated police force stood by and did nothing.
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BAGHDAD, May 31 -- Sunni residents of a west Baghdad neighborhood used assault rifles and a roadside bomb to battle the Sunni insurgent group al-Qaeda in Iraq this week, leaving at least 28 people dead and six injured, residents said Thursday.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq - US and Iraqi troops raided a prominent Sunni mosque in Baghdad yesterday, killing at least three Iraqis in an operation that appeared to be aimed at stopping sermons that incited insurgent violence.
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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.