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| Iraqi insurgents target Shias ahead of vote |
| 2005-01-23 |
| Insurgents in Iraq targeted Shias and security forces in the last three days as they stepped up their campaign to derail elections on January 30. At least 25 Shias were killed in two suicide car bomb attacks in and near Baghdad on Friday. The first targeted a mosque in the suburbs of the capital, killing 14, while the second ripped through a wedding party, leaving at least 11 dead. Three teachers from a technical oil college died in a roadside bombing north of Baiji on Sunday, police said. A woman and her daughter were killed on Sunday by a bomb blast that targeted an Iraqi military convoy near Baiji, police said. The Army of Ansar al-Sunna said on its website it had killed 15 Iraqi soldiers it captured last week. Another insurgent group beheaded a soldier in broad daylight in Ramadi on Friday. A group led by Al Qaeda ally Abu Musab al-Zarqawi beheaded two Iraqis who said they worked at a US base and the group posted an Internet video of the killings on Friday. |
| Posted by:Fred |