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/ 17 September 2005
A leading Sunni cleric called for religious and ethnic groups to take a stand against violence as Iraq endured a third consecutive day of sectarian killings — the worst, a suicide car bombing at a Shi’ite mosque that killed at least 12 worshippers. With more than 20 people killed on Friday, the death toll over the past three days surpassed 200.
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/ 16 September 2005
A suicide car bomber struck worshippers leaving a Shi’ite mosque in a northern Iraqi city on Friday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 21 others. Twelve other people were killed as the Sunni-dominated insurgency pressed its ”all-out war” against the government and majority Shi’ite population.
Iraq’s vital oil industry was again targeted as saboteurs launched a series of attacks that damaged pipelines at seperate sites in the north and south of the country. Also in the north, an unidentified police officer with the state-run oil company was gunned down at a checkpoint near a pipeline in Riyad.
<li><a class=’standardtextsmall’ href="http://www.mg.co.za/Content/l3.asp?ao=118734">Provincial governor assassinated</a>
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Gunmen assassinated a Iraqi provincial governor on Wednesday, hours after a suicide attacker detonated a massive car bomb that killed at least 10 and wounded 40 in the worst attack in Baghdad since the United States handed over power to the Iraqi interim government on June 28.
One wished him well, while another wished him a fate similar to what he allegedly bestowed upon hundreds of thousands of Iraqis. As former dictator Saddam Hussein appeared in court on Thursday, some of the 25-million people who spent the better part of their lives under his authority voiced mixed emotions about the proceedings.