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Iraq Blasts Toll Rises to 500

Deadliest terror attack since fall of Hussein

By Dustin Lushing,  Newser Staff

Posted Aug 16, 2007 12:35 AM CDT

(Newser) – The death toll from Tuesday's series of suicide truck bombings in northern Iraq may exceed 500, with scores more lying injured in hospitals, CNN reports. The attacks were reportedly launched by al-Qaeda against the Yazidi, a pre-Islamic sect, spotlighting the religious warfare that US troop...   Read full story »

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