Gunmen kill Shi'ite families in Baghdad after raid
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Gunmen killed nine members of two Shi'ite families in Baghdad on Sunday a day after militias raided a mixed neighborhood and forced dozens of Sunni families to flee in a serious escalation of sectarian violence.
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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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Gunmen and bombers killed 30 people in Baghdad on Tuesday, including 14 Shi'ite religious workers after a powerful Iraqi Shi'ite leader urged President George Bush to strike harder at Sunni rebels to avert civil war.
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The U.S. military said it had killed 49 "criminals" in clashes in the Baghdad district of Sadr City on Sunday in a raid to capture a militant suspected of involvement in the kidnapping of U.S. soldiers in Iraq.
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Gunmen kill at least three people in Baghdad - reports say the victims may be election workers.
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About 30 gunmen ambushed a car Sunday in central Baghdad carrying employees of the Iraqi organization running next month&#39;s elections, killing three of the workers while two escaped unhurt, an official from the election body said.
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Gunmen attacked the home of a police chief north of Baghdad on Friday, killing 14 people including his wife and brothers, and kidnapping his four children, police sources said.
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Gunmen killed nine members of two Shi'ite families in a mostly Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad on Sunday and police found the bodies of 60 more apparent victims of sectarian killings gripping the capital.
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Gunmen killed 15 employees of a Shi'ite religious foundation on Tuesday, a day after one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite leaders urged President George W. Bush to strike harder against Sunni rebels to avert a civil war.
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American forces raided Shiite militia strongholds in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday after the brazen daylight kidnapping of five British contractors from a finance ministry building.
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Gunmen in Baghdad snatched 10 Sunni and Shiite tribal sheiks from their cars Sunday as they were heading home to Diyala province after talks with the government on fighting al-Qaida, and at least one was later found shot to death.
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Gunmen shot six Iraqis dead and kidnapped a Turkish businessman outside a hotel in central Baghdad on Thursday, police said.
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Gunmen attacked a Sunni Arab enclave in a largely Shi'ite district of Baghdad on Friday in apparent retaliation for the bloodiest bombing in more than three years that killed 202 in a Shi'ite area on Thursday.
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Insurgents fired a shell into a crowded  street in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Tuesday, killing seven  people, including two children, and wounding 42, hospital  officials said.
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The Iraqi government protested against a raid by U.S. forces in Baghdad on Sunday in which the military said 49 gunmen were killed in fierce fighting, but police and witnesses said claimed the lives of many civilians.
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Gunmen seized 10 workers from a bakery Sunday in a predominantly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad, while police found the bodies of 11 other people shot elsewhere in Iraq.
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At least 23 people are killed in a car bomb attack and in an armed raid on a police station in Baghdad.