Yahoo! News: Iraq

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• Twin blasts kill 40 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq (AP)
• Blast in crowd kills 41 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq (AFP)
• Clinton condemns attacks on Shiite pilgrims in Iraq (AFP)
• Car bombs kill 40 in Iraq, tensions simmer (Reuters)
• Clinton 'heartened' by Iraq move to reinstate candidates (AFP)
• In Iraq, Karbala bombings spark fears of renewed sectarian violence (The Christian Science Monitor)
• Pro-West ex-Iraqi PM slams de-Baathification (AFP)
• Bombings in Iraq holy city during rite kill 20 (Reuters)
• Mortar bomb kills 27, wounds 56 in Iraq's Karbala (AFP)
• Shiites throng Iraq shrine city for ceremony (AFP)
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Twin blasts kill 40 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq (AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 05:26 PM PST AP - A car bomb ripped through a crowd of Shiite pilgrims outside the holy city of Karbala Friday, sending many fleeing into the path of a suicide attacker who detonated a second bomb in coordinated blasts that killed at least 40 people and wounded 150.

Blast in crowd kills 41 Shiite pilgrims in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 11:30 AM PST AFP - A bomb attack on the last day of a major mourning ceremony in Iraq killed 41 Shiite pilgrims and wounded more than 140 on Friday in an atrocity blamed on Al-Qaeda and Saddam Hussein loyalists.

Clinton condemns attacks on Shiite pilgrims in Iraq (AFP) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 11:05 AM PST AFP - The United States condemns a series of attacks on Shiite pilgrims in Iraq, Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday.

Car bombs kill 40 in Iraq, tensions simmer (Reuters) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 08:03 AM PST Reuters - Twin car bombs killed at least 40 people and wounded 145 others Friday in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, health officials said.

Clinton 'heartened' by Iraq move to reinstate candidates (AFP) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 07:35 AM PST AFP - US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton said Friday she is "heartened" by an Iraqi decision to reinstate Sunni candidates and urged all parties to do nothing to undermine the legitimacy of elections.

In Iraq, Karbala bombings spark fears of renewed sectarian violence (The Christian Science Monitor) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 07:32 AM PST The Christian Science Monitor - Two car bombs killed up to 40 people and wounded at least 140 more during the culmination of the Shiite pilgrimage to the holy city of Karbala Friday, making this year’s commemoration the bloodiest since Saddam was toppled.

Pro-West ex-Iraqi PM slams de-Baathification (AFP) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 04:23 AM PST AFP - Iraq's pro-Western former prime minister Iyad Allawi has denounced a commission that barred candidates allegedly linked to Saddam Hussein from elections before their disputed reinstatement on appeal.

Bombings in Iraq holy city during rite kill 20 (Reuters) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 03:54 AM PST Reuters - At least 20 people were killed and 75 wounded on Friday when two car bombs blew up in Iraq's holy city of Kerbala as hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims observed a major religious rite, hospital sources said.

Mortar bomb kills 27, wounds 56 in Iraq's Karbala (AFP) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 03:22 AM PST AFP - A mortar bomb killed at least 27 people and wounded dozens on Friday three kilometres (two miles) east of the central Iraqi shrine city of Karbala, governor Amalheddin al-Hir told AFP.

Shiites throng Iraq shrine city for ceremony (AFP) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 02:45 AM PST AFP - More than one million pilgrims thronged a central Iraq shrine city for the climax of a major Shiite Muslim mourning ceremony on Friday, with thousands of security forces on high alert for suicide attacks.

(AP) Posted: 05 Feb 2010 02:35 AM PST AP - Iraqi police: 20 Shiite pilgrims killed in car bombing on outskirts of Karbala.

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