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January 5, 2009

Suicide Bomber Kills 40 in Baghdad
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In Baghdad, a female suicide bomber killed at least forty people on
Sunday in an attack outside one of Iraq’s holiest Shiite shrines. The
dead included sixteen Iranian pilgrims. On Friday, another twenty-three
people died in a suicide bombing inside the home of a tribal leader
south of Baghdad. The attacks came just after a new US-Iraq security
agreement went into effect. Meanwhile, former US-backed Iraqi Prime
Minister Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George W.
Bush. Allawi said Bush’s policies have been an “utter failure” that gave
rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country.



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