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CNN
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An attacker wearing a suicide vest killed 42 people and injured others at a funeral for a tribal leader in a northern Iraqi Sunni village dominated by the American-backed awakening movement, police said. Police believe the strike appears to be latest assa..
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MSNBC
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As the influx of U.S. troops gained momentum earlier this year, American officials have courted both Sunni and Shiite tribal leaders around the country, hoping they will help lead local drives against al-Qaida and other militants.
A similar effort saw..
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BBC News
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At least 22 people have been killed and five abducted in an attack by suspected al-Qaeda in Iraq militants north-east of Baghdad, Iraqi police said.
The militants fired mortars and rocket-propelled grenades at houses and a Sunni mosque in the town of K..
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FOX News
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A series of mortar barrages killed eight civilians and wounded 25 others early Saturday in a Sunni enclave surrounded by Shiite areas in central Baghdad, police said, while a key bridge was damaged by a bomb in northern Iraq.
The mortars began slamming..
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BBC News
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The leader of the Shia militant group Hezbollah has urged Lebanon's government not to storm a refugee camp to root out Sunni radicals.
Sheikh Hassan Nasrallah said Lebanon should not become part of the American war against al-Qaeda.
The Sunni milita..
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CNN
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Iraq's top Sunni official has set a deadline of next week for pulling his entire bloc out of the government -- a potentially devastating blow to reconciliation efforts within Iraq. He also said he turned down an offer by President Bush to visit Washington..
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USA Today
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A wall U.S. troops are building around a Sunni enclave in Baghdad came under increasing criticism on Saturday, with residents calling it "collective punishment" and a local leader saying construction began without the neighborhood council's approval.
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Al Jazeera
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Intra-Sunni conflict
The 65-year-old Sunni sheikh was the fourth city council chairman to be killed in some 14 months as fighters target fellow Sunnis willing to co-operate with the US and its Iraqi partners.
The US military confirmed the killin..
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Al Jazeera
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The group demanded the release of "Muslim Sunni sisters who are in the prisons of the interior" ministry, in the statement posted on a website used by Iraqi armed groups.
"The Islamic State of Iraq gives the government of [Prime Minister Nuri al-Malik..
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ABC News
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Shiite militants and police enraged by massive truck bombings in the northwestern town of Tal Afar went on a revenge spree against Sunni residents there Wednesday, killing as many as 60 people, officials said.
The gunmen began roaming Sunni neighborhoo..
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SF Gate
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In January, when President Bush announced his plans to reinforce U.S. troops in Baghdad, Shiite militias were seen as the main worry. Instead, during the early weeks of the operation, deadly bombings by Sunni Arab militants have emerged as a greater dange..
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USA Today
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Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash...
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FOX News
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Among the worst members of the it's-all-a-conspiracy pack are those who insist that every Muslim is in on a vast Jihadi conspiracy to make Natalie Maines of the Dixie Chicks wear a chador (not a bad idea, aesthetically speaking). But those most anxious..
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Guardian Unlimited
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One morning a few weeks ago I sat in a car talking to Rami, a thick-necked former Republican Guard commando who now procures arms for his fellow Sunni insurgents...
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Yahoo News
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Private Saudi citizens are giving millions of dollars to Sunni insurgents in Iraq and much of the money is used to buy weapons, including shoulder fired anti-aircraft missiles, according to key Iraqi officials and others familiar with the flow of cash...
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Times Online
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Up to 150 Sunni Muslim men were abducted from the offices of the Higher Education Ministry in central Baghdad this morning in what appeared to be the largest sectarian kidnapping of the Iraq war...
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SF Gate
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A suicide bomber in turbulent Diyala province detonated an explosive vest Wednesday at a checkpoint operated by armed Sunni Arab tribesmen who have turned against al Qaeda in Iraq and pledged support to the U.S. military.
The bomber emerged from behind..
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SF Gate
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At least 10 tribal leaders who had banded with U.S. troops to fight the Sunni insurgent group al Qaeda in Iraq were kidnapped Sunday morning, the latest in a string of such attacks, fellow tribesmen said. At least one was later found shot to death.
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MSNBC
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Two nearly simultaneous car bombs targeted a local police chief and a prominent Sunni sheik working with U.S. forces against al-Qaida in Iraq in a northern city on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people, authorities said.
In the Iraqi capital, a parked ca..
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USA Today
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Two nearly simultaneous car bombs targeted a local police chief and a prominent Sunni sheik working with U.S. forces against al-Qaeda in Iraq in a northern city on Tuesday, killing at least 18 people, authorities said.
Meanwhile, three parked car bombs..
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