Deadly Blasts Hit Najaf, Karbala
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NAJAF, Iraq Dec 19, 2004 - A car bomb blast during a funeral ceremony Sunday in the Shiite holy city of Najaf killed 30 people and injured 65, a hospital official said.
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Suicide car bombers struck in the Iraqi Shia holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala yesterday, killing more than 60 people and injuring about 130 in a day of carnage ahead of next month&#39;s general election.
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Suicide car bombers hit Iraq's two main Shi'ite holy cities, Kerbala and Najaf, killing at least 23 people and wounding dozens more Sunday, six weeks to the day before an historic election.
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Two bombs exploded in a market near a highly revered Shiite shrine in Najaf on Thursday, killing at least 24 people and injuring 30, doctors said.
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A mortar shell hit the main mosque in the Iraqi city of Kufa, just northeast of Najaf, causing dozens of casualties, witnesses said.
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At least 132 people are killed in a series of blasts in the Shia Sadr City area of the Iraqi capital, sources say.
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NAJAF: At least 84 people were killed and more than 370 others wounded in a mortar attack on Kufa&#39;s main mosque and a shooting at a demonstration.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq, Dec. 15 - Iraq&#39;s election campaign season opened on a violent note when a bomb exploded Wednesday near the gate of one of Iraq&#39;s holiest Shiite shrines in the pilgrim city of Karbala, killing
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At least five loud explosions have been heard near holy sites in the Iraqi city of Najaf. Sniper fire could also he heard coming from the area.
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Dozens of Iraqis die as car bombs hit Najaf and Karbala, while three election staff are shot dead in Baghdad.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Sporadic gunfire echoed through Najaf on Friday after a night of heavy U.S. bombing that saw radical cleric Muqtada al-Sadr order his fighters to hand control of a revered Najaf shrine to top Shiite religious authorities...
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NAJAF, Iraq  - Three mortar bombs hit a police  station in the holy Iraqi city of Najaf on Thursday, causing  many casualties, police said.
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Baghdad -- Car bombers struck crowds in Najaf and Karbala in Iraq on Sunday, killing at least 60 people and wounding 123 others in those two holy Shiite cities only days into Iraq&#39;s six-week election campaign.
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NAJAF, Iraq - Explosions and gunfire rattled through the city of Najaf as U.S. troops in armored vehicles and tanks rolled back into the streets here Sunday, a day after the collapse of talks - and with them a temporary cease-fire - intended to end the fighting in this holy city...
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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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_ Iraq has been rocked by car-bomb attacks in its two holiest Shiite cities. At least 60 people are dead and many dozens injured. In Karbala, police say a suicide bomber blew up a vehicle near the main bus station.
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KUFA, Iraq - A mortar barrage hit the main mosque in the Iraqi city of Kufa on Thursday, killing 27 people and wounding 63 others as they prepared to march on the violence-wracked city of Najaf, hospital officials and witnesses said.    Thousands of people were crowded around the mosque at the time and dead bodies lay around the mosque compound, which is a stronghold of followers of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, witnesses said...