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• Iraq’s election: The lottery

  
  Roads to Iraq — Authority: 477
  Political polarization dominated the commemoration of Ashura ceremonies this year, but the remarkable issue is the participation of secular parties in the mourning parades. Iraqi Communist Party participated in the public mourning Ashura ceremonies, party members and supporters carried banners “the with the clean ...
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• 18 killed in Iraq violence despite tight security (AFP)

  
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  AFP - Eighteen people including six Shiite worshippers were killed in a spate of attacks across Iraq on Friday, despite ramped up security for Christmas Day and Shiite Ashura rituals.
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• 6 Shiites killed during Iraqi religious ceremony (AP)

  
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  AP - A roadside bomb killed six Shiite Muslim pilgrims Friday during a procession, the latest violence targeting the group during observances of a religious holiday, officials said.
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• Bomb blasts in Iraq leave 27 dead

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  Bombs hit Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad and a central Iraqi city, raising fears of further sectarian bloodletting in the lead-up to Ashoura, the Shiite sects most solemn annual rite
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• 26 killed in staggered blasts across Iraq

  
  Daily Telegraph | Telegraph.co.uk — Authority: 968
  Explosions killed at least 26 people across Iraq, most of them Shiite pilgrims taking part in a holy mourning ceremony, authorities said, raising fears of further sectarian attacks at the approach of Shiite Islams most solemn occasion.
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• Shia Muslims targeted in latest round of bombings in Iraq

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 453
  23+ have been killed in multiple attacks source Related posts: The latest series of attacks in Baghdad is nothing short of massive Shiites targeted in a series of deadly attacks in Iraq Pakistan throws out charges in last year’s Mumbai attacks
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• Bombings in Iraq kill 11 ahead of Shiite rite (AP)

  
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  AP - Iraqi officials say 11 people have been killed and as many as 70 injured in staggered bombings apparently targeting pilgrims preparing for Shiite Islams most solemn holiday.
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• Threats, Ashoura bring blue Christmas in Iraq (AP)

  
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  AP - Christmas is bumping into Shiite Islams most mournful ceremony this year, forcing Iraqi Christians to keep their celebrations under tighter wraps than usual.
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• Experts devise bang-up cracker formula

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  British researchers say they have devised a guaranteed method of pulling crackers, to avoid disappointment at the dinner table this Christmas. The researchers say the method for always winning the long end of the cracker, and therefore the prize inside, is in the angle that you grip it. They have released a ...
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• NYT > World: New Violence Flares in Iraq, With Christians and Shiites as Targets

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 470
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Episodes of violence erupted around the country as Muslims observe the Muharram holiday and Christians prepared for a subdued Christmas.
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• NYT > World: New Violence Erupts in Iraq, With Christians and Shiites as Targets

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 470
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Episodes of violence erupted around the country as Muslims observe the Muharram holiday and Christians prepared for a subdued Christmas.
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• NYT > World: Iraqi Christians and Shiites Are Targets of Attacks

  
  A Couple Things — Authority: 470
  This is a syndicated post. Original article from NYT > World , available at NYT > World . Episodes of violence erupted around the country as Muslims observe the Muharram holiday and Christians prepared for a subdued Christmas.
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• Iraqi Christians, Shiites Targets of Attacks

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 900
  Episodes of violence erupted around the country as Muslims observe the Muharram holiday and Christians prepared for a subdued Christmas.
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• Al Qaeda militants made a rare public appearance in South Yemen

  
  World Military Forum - Latest Military News — Authority: 137
  SANAA – Al Qaeda militants made a rare public appearance in restive south Yemen on Monday, telling an anti-government rally that the group’s war was with the United States and not the Yemeni army, residents said.The West and Saudi Arabia fear al Qaeda will take advantage of the Yemeni...
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• Pair held over $4m card skimming scam

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  Police in Sydney have arrested two men over an EFTPOS scam which has so far netted more than $4 million from bank accounts in Western Australia. Thousands of Western Australians have had their card details stolen at several McDonalds restaurants across Perth since October. Police allege the 31-year-old Canadian man ...
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• Iran Cleric’s Funeral Becomes Opposition Protest

  
  Blogger — Authority: 168
  Further evidence that opposition to the Iranian government remains strong: Tens of thousands turned out for the funeral of a leading dissident cleric — Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri — in the holy Shiite city of Qum.
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• Iranian reform icon Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri dead at 87

  
  ShortFormBlog — Authority: 453
  Independence is being free of foreign intervention, and freedom is giving people the freedom to express their opinions. Not being put in prison for every protest one utters. Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri • Regarding the rights of people in Iran. Montazeri, a Shiite cleric who didn’t tow the hard-line party ...
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• Irans dissident cleric dies

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Irans senior dissident cleric, Grand Ayatollah Hossein Ali Montazeri, has died aged 87, official media reported. Montazeri was an architect of the 1979 Islamic revolution who fell out with the present leadership and was under house arrest for some years. "Hossein Ali Montazeri passed away in his home last night," the ...
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• Crew finds Centaur shipwreck

  
  Ohaiyo Business Magazine — Authority: 137
  A search team has discovered the wreck of Australian wartime hospital ship Centaur. The WWII ship was torpedoed by a Japanese submarine in 1943 and sank off the south-east Queensland coast. Of the 332 people on board the AHS Centaur only 64 survived. This morning, seven days into an official search, the crew of the ...
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• Officers Warned of Flaw in U.S. Drones in 2004 (Predator vulnerability discussed 12/17)

  
  Stupidica — Authority: 177
  Senior U.S. military officers working for the Joint Chiefs of Staff discussed the danger of Russia and China intercepting and doctoring video from drone aircraft in 2004, but the Pentagon didnt begin securing the signals until this year, according to people familiar with the matter. The disclosure came after The Wall ...
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