Suicide Bombers Hit Iraq's Holy Shi'ite Cities
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NAJAF/KERBALA, Iraq  - Suicide car bombers struck  Iraq's two major Shi'ite holy cities, killing at least 44  people and wounding more than 100 on Sunday, six weeks before a  historic election.
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Suspected al Qaeda militants blew up on Wednesday the minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra, target of a 2006 bomb attack that unleashed a tidal wave of sectarian violence.
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BAGHDAD -- In attacks targeting Iraq's major Shi'ite Muslim cities, car bombs in Najaf and Karbala killed at least 62 people yesterday and wounded 120, threatening to inflame sectarian anger as the nation prepares for elections next month.
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A female suicide bomber struck black-clad worshippers preparing for Shiite Islam's holiest day, killing at least nine Wednesday in an attack that highlighted insurgents' widening array of tactics against a U.S.-led offensive in key areas on Baghdad's doorstep.
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Suicide bombers killed 27 people in  attacks in two Iraqi cities on Monday in the worst violence  since the country's historic election eight days ago.
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A suicide car bomber plowed into a  Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad after dawn prayers on Friday, killing  14 people and stoking fears that sectarian divisions over when  to hold elections could unleash further bloodshed.
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Two suicide bombers struck in a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people including the leader of a U.S.-backed neighborhood security patrol, police said.
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Militants detonated a car bomb near a  Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Friday, the Muslim holy day,  intensifying efforts to drive a wedge between Iraq's religious  communities ahead of elections nine days away.
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NAJAF/KERBALA, Iraq  - Suicide car bombers struck  Iraq's two main Shi'ite holy cities of Najaf and Kerbala  Sunday, killing at least 44 people and wounding more than 100,  six weeks before a historic election.
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Two suicide bombers struck in a Sunni Arab district of Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 14 people including the leader of a U.S.-backed neighborhood security patrol, an Interior Ministry source said.
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KARBALA - Car bombs in the Shiite holy cities of Karbala and Najaf killed dozens of civilians yesterday, hospital and security officials said.
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Police rounded up dozens of suspects  Monday after twin suicide car bombings killed 66 people in  Iraq's Shi'ite holy cities, attacks that intensified fears of  sectarian violence during elections on Jan. 30.
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sites of twin suicide car bombings a week ago, the chief of police in Najaf says. have been aimed at a US military convoy. an attempt to sow sectarian conflict between Shi&#39;ite and Sunni Muslims.
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Suspected al Qaeda militants blew up two minarets of a revered Shi'ite mosque in the Iraqi city of Samarra on Wednesday, targeting a shrine bombed last year in an attack that unleashed a wave of sectarian killing.
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A suicide car bomber killed 14 Shi'ite  worshippers as they left a Baghdad mosque on Friday, a Muslim  holy day, ratcheting up tension between's Iraq's religious  communities just nine days before landmark elections.
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A pair of suicide bombers detonated explosives Thursday among shoppers in a crowded outdoor market in a Shiite city south of Baghdad, killing at least 45 people and wounding 150, police said. Bombs and a mortar attack killed at least 17 others in both Shiite and Sunni areas of Baghdad.
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A suicide bomber killed at least 10   people inside a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Friday, police   said, a day after the national security adviser said al Qaeda's   days are numbered in Iraq.