Iraqi Shia leader escapes car bomb
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BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber blew up his car outside the headquarters of Iraq&#39;s biggest Shia Muslim political party on Monday, just five weeks before the country&#39;s historic national election.
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September 2, 2004 -- BAGHDAD - Iraqi politician Ahmad Chalabi escaped an assassination squad unharmed yesterday after a hail of bullets killed two of his bodyguards.
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At least nine people are killed when a car bomb explodes outside offices of a Shia party in Baghdad.
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A bomb exploded at the gate to one of Shiite Islam's holiest shrines on Wednesday. Early reports say that several were killed and possibly dozens wounded, including a top aide of Iraq's most influential Shiite cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, officials said.
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Attacks on Shia pilgrims in Iraq continue with at least nine people killed on their way to the holy city of Karbala.
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Iraqi Shia leaders appealed to their supporters to show restraint yesterday after two deadly blasts targeted their religious centres in an apparent attempt to trigger civil war.
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: A suicide car bomber ploughed into a Shia mosque in Baghdad after dawn prayers today, killing 14 people and stoking fears that sectarian divisions over when to hold elections could unleash further bloodshed.
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BAGHDAD -- A roadside bomb exploded yesterday alongside the convoy of a prominent Shi'ite cleric whose high-level political ties have made him the target of past assassination attempts. The imam was not injured, but several bodyguards were wounded.
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A former Lebanese minister escaped an attempt on his life Friday in an explosion that hit his official car at Beirut&#39;s waterfront, security sources said.
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The governor of Baghdad escapes unhurt when a roadside bomb explodes near his convoy.
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With tension rising sharply in advance of next month&#39;s Iraqi elections, a senior Shia Muslim politician survived a suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad yesterday, while the only serious
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A car bomb kills at least six people in the centre of the Shia holy city of Karbala, Iraqi officials say.
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KERBALA, Iraq  - A car bomb exploded in the Iraqi  Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala on Sunday, causing several  casualties, local witnesses said.
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A suspect Bahraini militant escapes from court, but gives himself up an hour later, his lawyer says.
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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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Shia Muslim leaders in Iraq urge their people not to avenge two car bomb attacks that left more than 60 dead.
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Iraqi minister says Shia militia could have been behind abductions from government building.