There is a War in Iraq- Words, Stories, Pictures- No More War

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A number of mosques were attacked in Iraq on Tuesday. Here, Iraqi soldiers guard the al-Nidaa Sunni mosque in Baghdad.

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Two Baghdad residents carry a victim of a shopping-district car bomb to safety. The bomb killed at least 10 people and was one of five explosions in the Iraqi capital on Tuesday.

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An Iraqi soldier passes by the wreckage of a car used in a Tuesday bombing. Some 41 people were killed in various explosions in Baghdad on Tuesday.

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A bombing victim is rushed to hospital after an explosion in Baghdad.

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One of the explosions took place in the heart of a Baghdad shopping district. The most deadly of the bombs, however, exploded outside a gas station to the east of the city.

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In addition to the Baghdad bombings, a mosque where Saddam Hussein's father is buried was damaged by an explosion on Tuesday. Here, the damaged mausoleum where Saddam's father in interred.

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In addition to the violence on Tuesday, the trial of former Iraq dictator Saddam Hussein resumed. Saddam and his lawyers had been boycotting the trial.

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Iraqi security forces at the scene of a suicide car bomb in the Al-Jededa district of Baghdad on Tuesday.

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An Iraqi policeman walking along a hazy street near where a bomb exploded in a Baghdad shopping district on Tuesday.

Cost of America's War in Iraq:
$243,894,699,706



An Iraqi man helps a wailing women to cross over Tuesday's explosion site in Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, March 1, 2006. Two explosions hit Shiite targets in northern Baghdad after sundown on Feb. 28, 2006, killing at least 17 people and wounding 72, police said. Sunnis and Shiites traded bombings and mortar fire against mainly religious targets in Baghdad, killing at least 68 people a day after authorities lifted a curfew that had briefly calmed a series of sectarian reprisal attacks. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)

March 1, 2006, 7:47PM
30 Killed As Violence Continues in Iraq
By SAMEER N. YACOUB Associated Press Writer

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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Bombings in Baghdad killed 26 people, and four others died when mortar rounds slammed into their homes in a nearby town Wednesday, the second day of surging violence after authorities lifted a curfew that briefly calmed sectarian attacks.

A spokesman for the powerful Association of Muslim Scholars criticized the Shiite-led government for failing to protect Iraqis, and he urged Sunnis to defend their mosques.

"All evidence has proven that the government and its security forces are incapable of taking any action," said Abdul-Salam al-Kubaisi, a spokesman for the Sunni clerical group.

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Explosions kills more than 20 in Baghdad; Sunni group blasts government for ongoing violence
SAMEER N. YACOUB, Associated Press Writer

March 1, 2006 3:07 AM
BAGHDAD, Iraq (AP) - Violence raged unabated in Iraq on Wednesday as bomb attacks killed at least 26 people in Baghdad and mortar rounds fell on homes in a nearby town.

A spokesman for the powerful Association of Muslim Scholars, meanwhile, blasted the government for failing to staunch the deadly sectarian attacks over the past week that have pushed the country toward civil war.

''It is clear that the government and its security forces are incapable of taking any action,'' said Abdul-Salam al-Kubaisi, a spokesman for the Sunni clerical group. Government forces, he said, should ''do their duty and withdraw to the Green Zone,'' the secure region in central Baghdad that houses the U.S. Embassy.

Al-Kubaisi denied Sunnis were behind the latest attacks, saying Shiite politicians and religious leaders were trying to inflame sectarian hatred ''to make use of these events and everything in this country to achieve one goal - to serve their future interests.''

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Shiites told: Leave home or be killed
Sunnis force evictions as Iraq tensions grow
 
By Ellen Knickmeyer
Updated: 4:21 a.m. ET March 1, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Salim Rashid, 34, a Shiite laborer in an overwhelmingly Sunni Arab village 20 miles north of Baghdad, received his eviction notice Friday from a man at the door with a rocket launcher.

"It's 6 p.m.," Rashid recounted the masked man saying then, as retaliatory violence between Shiites and Sunnis exploded across wide swaths of central Iraq. "We want you out of here by 8 p.m. tomorrow. If we find you here, we will kill you."

Walking, hitchhiking and hiring cars, the Rashid clan and many of the 25 other families evicted from the town of Mishada had made their way by Tuesday to a youth center in Baghdad's heavily Shiite neighborhood of Shoula. There, other people forced from their homes were already sharing space on donated mattresses.

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"In this short time, our troops have performed brilliantly, with skill and with bravery.
They make us proud."

-G.W. Bush's speech to the Coast Guart in Philadelphia, March 31, 2003

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