Senior Sadr aide assassinated in Iraq
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BAGHDAD  -- A senior aide to radical Iraqi Shiite cleric Moqtada Sadr was assassinated on the road between the holy city of Najaf and Baghdad, an official from the movement said Wednesday.
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An Iraqi militant group said it had  assassinated the chief of police in the northern Iraqi city of  Arbil and threatened to kill Kurdish leader Masoud Barzani,  according to an Internet statement posted on Sunday.
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A little-known group said on Friday it  was behind the killing of an aide to Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani,  Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric and a main driving force behind the  Jan. 30 elections, according to an Internet message.
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Gunmen on Monday assassinated a member of an influential Sunni clerics&#39; group that has called for a boycott of national elections, just a day after Iraqi officials announced the balloting would be held Jan.
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Four Iraqi Sheikhs tied to the US's anti-Al Qaeda plan were killed Monday in Baghdad.
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BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a senior Iraqi oil ministry official Wednesday in Baghdad as a Lebanese-born American was kidnapped in the capital.
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The deputy governor of Baghdad has been assassinated in a drive-by shooting in a southern neighborhood. Unknown insurgents gunned down Hatem Kamel Abdul Fatah on Monday morning while
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BAGHDAD - A Sunni Muslim tribal leader who was one of the highest-profile US allies in Iraq was killed in a bomb blast yesterday, an assassination that could undermine US attempts to recruit former foes to stabilize the country.
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Gunmen assassinated Baghdad's deputy  police chief and a suicide bomber driving a stolen patrol car  killed three people at a police station on Monday as insurgents  pressed a campaign to wreck Iraq's Jan. 30 election.
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The Baghdad correspondent of the Iranian government-run Al-Alam television station was assassinated in the western part of Baghdad, one of his colleagues said Tuesday.
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A second Sunni cleric from the prominent Committee of Muslim Scholars was assassinated on Monday in Baghdad, a spokesman for the organisation said.
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BAGHDAD A US airstrike in Fallujah on Tuesday killed an aide to the Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, the military said, while Iraqi officials investigated whether insurgents had obtained inside information that helped them kill about 50 US
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BAGHDAD -- A top aide to Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani was stabbed to death in what Sistani's supporters believe was a warning to Iraq's senior Shi'ite cleric, authorities said yesterday.
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Two aides of Iraq's most senior Shia cleric, Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, have been shot dead in separate incidents.
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Gunmen have killed the representative of Iraq's most senior Shiite Muslim cleric along with his son and four bodyguards in a town south of Baghdad, an official in the cleric's office said Thursday.
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At least 10 supporters of Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric were shot dead in Najaf Thursday when gunmen opened fire at police who were trying to control the crowd, prompting the police to return fire, witnesses said.
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An extremist Sunni group took responsibility today for killing an aide to Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.