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Thursday, February 23, 2006

Shrine Bombing Causes More Violence in Iraq


From the Washington Post:

A wave of sectarian strife and recrimination swept Iraq Thursday after Wednesday's bombing of a revered Shiite shrine in the city of Samarra. The interior ministry said that more than 100 people have been killed in the violence.
Officials in Baghdad, struggling to restore order, expanded an existing curfew in an effort to get people off the streets after dark and canceled all leaves for Iraqi security forces.



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Update 2-27-06: Iraq Death Toll Higher Than First Thought

--Tom Hayes

1 Comments:

Blogger Alexander Wolfe said...

Bad, bad, bad...and probably going to get worse.

10:34 AM  

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