Huge blasts attack Iraq unity

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from the March 03, 2004 edition

Huge blasts attack Iraq unity
By Nicholas Blanford | Correspondent of The Christian Science
Monitor
KARBALA, IRAQ – Iraq's leaders rallied to stamp out the specter of
civil war Tuesday after simultaneous attacks against two Shiite
shrines killed at least 140 worshippers and wounded hundreds more
as they marked the holy day of Ashoura unhindered for the first time
in more than two decades.

Declaring three days of mourning, Iraq's interim Governing Council
condemned the attacks, blaming "terrorists and evildoers," and
insisted that it would not shatter the country's unity.

Many Shiites, reeling from the bloodiest
day in Iraq since Saddam Hussein was
toppled from power, were swift to pin
blame on the US and "outsiders."

Indeed, the US-led coalition said the
attacks bore the hallmarks of Abu Musab
al-Zarqawi, a Jordanian Islamic militant
suspected of ties to Al Qaeda who has
been accused of orchestrating most of
the suicide bombings that have beset Iraq
in recent weeks.

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http://www.csmonitor.com/2004/0303/p01s02-woiq.html

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