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Chronology of major attacks on Shi'ite targets http://today.reuters.com/News/CrisesArticle.aspx?storyId=B631061
Fri 7 Apr 2006
April 7 (Reuters) - Suicide bombers killed at least 50 people at a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Friday, police said.
Here is a short list of some of the major attacks on Shi'ite targets.
March 2, 2004 - Bombers killed 171 people in Baghdad and the Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala. The coordinated attacks came as majority Shi'ites marked Ashura, one of their holiest days, for the first time since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.
Dec 19, 2004 - A suicide car bomb killed 52 and wounded at least 140 near the Imam Ali shrine in Najaf.
Feb 28, 2005 - A suicide car bomb attack in the largely Shi'ite southern town of Hilla killed 125 people and wounded 130. It was postwar Iraq's worst single blast.
July 16, 2005 - A suicide bomber in a fuel truck killed at least 98 at a Shi'ite mosque in the town of Mussayib, near Kerbala.
Sept 14, 2005 - A suicide bomber killed 114 people and wounded 156 in a crowded Shi'ite district of Baghdad, while gunmen killed 17 north of the city.
Nov 18, 2005 - Seventy-seven people were killed and 80 wounded by suicide bombers inside two Shi'ite mosques in Khanaqin.
Jan 4, 2006 - A suicide bomber killed 36 and wounded 40 at a Shi'ite funeral in the town of Miqdadiya northeast of Baghdad.
Feb 22, 2006 - A blast at the Golden Mosque in Samarra, one of the holiest sites in Shi'ite Islam, triggered a explosion of sectarian violence, pushing Iraq to the brink of civil war.
April 7 - Suicide bombers killed at least 50 people at a Baghdad mosque which belonged to SCIRI, the most powerful party inside the ruling Shi'ite Alliance.
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