BAGHDAD, Iraq - A suicide car bomber struck a police checkpoint near a market Wednesday in the Shiite holy city of Najaf, killing at least eight people and wounding 31, police and hospital officials said.
The explosion occurred about 10:30 a.m. as the area in central Najaf, 100 miles south of Baghdad, was filled with shoppers.
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070221/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_violence_7Suicide car bomb explodes short distance from Najaf holy shrineBAGHDAD (CNN) -- A suicide car bomb exploded at a busy Iraqi police checkpoint in the holy city of Najaf Wednesday morning, killing at least eight people and wounding 43 others, police said. Among the casualties were police and civilians.
http://edition.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/europe/02/21/wednesday/index.htmlSuicide car bomber kills 11 in Iraq's Najaf21 Feb 2007 09:04:53 GMT
NAJAF, Iraq (Reuters) - A suicide car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint near a busy market in the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf on Wednesday, killing 11 people, a doctor at a local hospital said.
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The bodies of a woman and a young child lay near the mangled wreckage of the car. The charred corpse of the bomber was nearby.
With a few major exceptions, Najaf, home to Iraq's most senior cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, has been spared much of the violence rocking Baghdad and other areas where Shi'ites, Sunni Arabs and ethnic Kurds live side by side.
The U.S. military transferred Najaf province to Iraqi forces last December, though the move was largely symbolic as it had been largely under Iraqi control for some time because of religious sensitivities.more:
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