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Article: Blasts Kill At Least 64 In Iraq's Holy Cities; Attacks in Najaf, Karbala Appear to Target Shiites
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- The Washington Post
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- December 20, 2004
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Explosives packed in vehicles tore through crowds gathered in
Iraq's two most sacred Shiite cities Sunday, killing at least 64
people and wounding scores more in what many Iraqis fear may be a
harbinger of the carnage promised by insurgents ahead of the
country's Jan. 30 elections.
The bombings in Najaf and Karbala appeared designed to inflict the
greatest number of civilian casualties possible, the explosives
detonating within walking distance of the tombs of Shiite Islam's
most revered saints. With macabre effect, the blasts demonstrated yet
again that insurgents, usually operating in Baghdad and Sunni regions
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