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United Press International
| 11 months ago
At least 32 people were killed Saturday and scores injured when a pair of car bombs exploded in Baghdad during a religious holiday, Iraqi police said. Nearly 70 people were hurt in the blasts, which targeted Shiite pilgrims taking part in the...
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Zee News
| 11 months ago
According to an interior ministry source, the first attack occurred around mid-day when a booby-trapped car struck a procession of Shiite pilgrims at an intersection in Shula district in northwestern Baghdad, killing 14 pilgrims and wounding 32...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
VOA News June 16, 2012 Iraqi officials say a car bomb has hit a major Shi'ite pilgrimage in Baghdad, killing at least 9 people and wounding 15. The attack Saturday came on the last day of commemorations for a revered imam...The attacks came as...
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Al Jazeera
| 11 months ago
16 More than 70 people, many of them Shia pilgrims, were killed in a string of attacks on Wednesday [Reuters] At least eight people have been killed as a car bomb exploded in an Iraqi district where thousands of Shia pilgrims had gathered for a...
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DAWN
| 11 months ago
A car bomb exploded on a route taken by pilgrims returning from commemorations for a revered Shia imam in Baghdad on Saturday, killing at least eight people, security and medical officials said. An interior ministry official said the bomb, which...
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The Daily Star
| 11 months ago
Tens of thousands of pilgrims packed northern Baghdad on Saturday for the peak of commemorations of the death of a revered Shiite imam, amid tight security measures after a wave of attacks killed 72. The ceremonies began about 8:00 am (0500 GMT) at...
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Kuwait News Business
| 11 months ago
ISI, in a statement posted on jihadist forums, dubbed the attacks the "blessed Wednesday invasion," which had dealt a "serious blow" to Iraq's security strategy. Coordinated attacks took place across Iraq on Wednesday, leaving a total of 72 people...
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Acushnet Community News
| 11 months ago
A wave of apparently coordinated bombings and shootings rocked Iraq during a major Shiite religious commemoration today, killing at least 72 people and wounding more than 250, many of them pilgrims. The attacks, which came as pilgrims flocked to a...
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Associated Press
| 11 months ago
A look at the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the U.S. troops pullout on Dec...A wave of attacks rips through markets, cafes and government buildings in a dozen, mostly Shiite neighborhoods of Baghdad, killing 69 people. Al-Qaida's front group in...
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International Business Times
| 11 months ago
More than 80 people have been killed, and almost 300 wounded, by a wave of bombing across Iraq , including ten neighborhoods in Baghdad, that suggests sectarian violence in the country simply will not abate six months after the departure of U.S.
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National Public Radio
| 11 months ago
There's grim news from Iraq this morning, where scores of people have been killed in coordinated attacks on Shiite Muslim pilgrims. As often happens when stories such as these are developing, different news outlets are reporting different death tolls.
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Chicago Tribune
| 11 months ago
Bombings and shootings targeting Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims in Baghdad and police across Iraq killed at least 53 people on Wednesday in apparently coordinated attacks during a major religious festival. Violence in Iraq has eased since the height of the...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
A wave of car bombs struck Shiite pilgrims in several cities across Iraq on Wednesday, killing at least 65 people and wounding more than 200 in one of the deadliest attacks since U.S. troops withdrew from the country.
The bloodshed was...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
AFP journalist Marwan Ibrahim was wounded in the head in a car bombing on Wednesday as he reported on bomb attacks in the northern Iraq city of Kirkuk. Ibrahim, a 34-year-old who has worked for AFP since 2003, went to northwest Kirkuk to report on a...
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Seattle Post Intelligencer
| 11 months ago
Coordinated car bombs struck mainly Shiite pilgrims in several Iraqi cities Wednesday, killing at least 63 people and wounding dozens more in one of the deadliest attacks since U.S. troops withdrew from the country. The bloodshed was a stark reminder...
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AKI
| 11 months ago
Dozens of people were killed in Baghdad and more than 100 wounded on Wednesday by car bombs that targeted Shia Muslims who gathered to recognize a holiday to mark the death of Prophet Muhammad's grandson. The Iraqi Interior Ministry said four parked...
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Voice of America
| 11 months ago
VOA News June 13, 2012 Iraqi authorities say several bombs exploded in Baghdad and the central city of Hilla early Wednesday, killing at least 31 people and wounding many others. They said four bombs targeted Shi'ite pilgrims who were gathering in...
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NOW Lebanon
| 11 months ago
A wave of bombings and shootings hit Iraq during a major Shia religious commemoration on Wednesday, killing at least 49 people and wounded dozens more, security and medical officials said. The attacks are the deadliest to hit Iraq since 50 people...
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AP Online
| 11 months ago
A bomb hit a procession of Shiite pilgrims in Iraq's capital, killing at least two people Tuesday night, officials said. The blast came days after another attack killed seven on the annual pilgrimage honoring a revered imam.
Violence...
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CNN
| 11 months ago
42 PM EDT, Sun June 10, 2012 Baghdad (CNN) -- At least seven people were killed Sunday and 20 others wounded when mortar rounds landed on Shiite pilgrims in northwestern Baghdad's Kadhimiya Shiite neighborhood, police officials said.
