Explosion marks first day of Iraq campaigns
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Violence marred Iraq&#39;s first official day of parliamentary election campaigning Wednesday as interim Iraqi Prime Minister Ayad Allawi announced his candidacy for the Jan. 30
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Mortar rounds exploded in five places in central Baghdad today, killing two Iraqis and wounding 14 in disparate attacks that underscored the capital&#39;s vulnerability as the January elections approach.
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BAGHDAD - A deadly bomb blast in the holy Shiite city of Karbala and furious criticism of Shiite politicians by Iraq&#39;s defense minister cast a pall over the official launch Wednesday of Iraq&#39;s election campaign, threatening to inflame sectarian tension
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Explosions have rocked the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, leaving at least one person dead and several others wounded. Officials say a hospital worker was killed Saturday, when a mortar round exploded outside a Baghdad hospital.
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Two blasts killed up to 18 people,  including an American soldier, in Baghdad Sunday hours before  Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld visited Iraq to gauge efforts  to calm violence ahead of January elections.
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Two car bombs ripped through crowded Baghdad streets on Monday, killing at least 21 people and wounding 96, as insurgents step up their campaign to undermine the country&#39;s
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Three suicide car bombs, including one that exploded near the Iraqi prime minister's party headquarters in Baghdad, and a roadside explosion killed at least 16 people Monday as insurgents pressed their deadly campaign to disrupt national elections, which Iraq's defense minister said could be postponed to give the Sunni minority time to participate.
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More than 3,000 US and Iraqi soldiers started a major operation yesterday against insurgent strongholds just south of Baghdad, their second mission in five days to take control from militants whose attacks threaten national elections seen as crucial to
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KABUL, Afghanistan Oct. 6, 2004 - Campaigning for Afghanistan&#39;s first direct presidential election ended with a burst of violence Wednesday as attackers set off a bomb in a failed effort to kill interim
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Mortar fire greeted the opening session of Iraq's new parliament Wednesday, underscoring the parlous security situation a day after 12 Nepalese hostages were slaughtered by their captors.
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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A bomb targeting a prominent Shiite cleric killed seven people outside one of southern Iraqâs holiest shrines Wednesday as campaigning began for Iraqâs first post-Saddam elections -- a vote that is going ahead despite suicide attacks
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A car bomb exploded near a police station in the Iraqi capital early today, the US military said. Sergeant Christina Rockhill, of the 1st Cavalry Division, said there were casualties in the blast near Haifa
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A huge explosion rocked central Baghdad late Tuesday.
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BAGHAD -- The Iraqi political campaign officially kicked off yesterday, colored by hope but tempered by violence that highlighted security concerns leading up to the national election set for Jan. 30.
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BAGHDAD, IRAQ - A bomb targeting a prominent Shiite cleric killed nine people outside one of southern Iraq&#39;s holiest shrines Wednesday as campaigning began for the first post-Saddam elections.
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Bomb attacks at crowded markets in central Baghdad killed at least 76 people on Monday as Iraqis marked the first anniversary of a Shi'ite shrine bombing that pitched the country to the brink of civil war.
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Iraq's prime minister announced Friday that the government was launching a major offensive against al-Qaida in the northern city of Mosul after two deadly blasts that killed 34 people and a provincial police chief.