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ROBERT H. REID, Associated Press Writer
AP Online
08-19-2005
Dateline: BAGHDAD, Iraq


Residents gather around a house damaged in a rocket attack in Al-Tameen near Ramadi, some 113km (70miles) west of Baghdad, Friday, Aug. 19, 2005. The home was hit by a rocket while family was away and nobody was injured. (AP Photo/Omar Aboud)

Masked gunmen killed three Sunni Arabs in front of horrified witnesses outside a mosque in Mosul on Friday, after grabbing them as they hung posters urging fellow Sunnis to vote in a referendum on the new constitution.

As the Monday deadline to finish the constitution approaches, Sunni Arabs and some Shiites rallied in Baghdad and elsewhere to protest calls for a ...

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