Big explosion near Shi'ite party office

no_to_war_economy

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Tue Jan-18-05 08:25 AM
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Big explosion near Shi'ite party office

Edited on Tue Jan-18-05 08:39 AM by no_to_war_economy

Pace of Attacks picks up in Iraq, with Explosion Tuesday Morning in Baghdad, 24 Dead on Monday

A suicide driver detonated a car bomb Tuesday outside the offices of Iraq's largest Shiite political party, killing three other people, police and the U.S. military said.

SCIRI had close ties to Iran, and is strongly opposed by Sunni Muslim militants.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20050118/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_blast&cid=540&ncid=1473

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Stella_Artois

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Tue Jan-18-05 08:28 AM
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1. Nice situation

A low intensity civil war. At least they can agree on one thing, they want the US out of their country.

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