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Uncle Sam
03-02-2004, 02:34 PM
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Flash from an explosion is seen between two buildings in Karbala.

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U.S. soldiers pull back after being attacked by a stone-throwing mob while trying to aid civilians injured in the blasts.

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Moments after the attacks, people walk stunned among the victims and burning debris at the site of several bomb blasts which exploded in densely-occupied areas, during the holy day of Ashoura, a Shiite festival, in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq.

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An angry mob of Iraqis throw rocks at U.S. troops after following the blasts near a Shiite mosque in Khadimiya in Baghdad.

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March 2: Iraqis use a pushcart to remove a bombing victim in Karbala, Iraq.

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An Iraqi man carries a wounded boy as he runs away from the first of a series of explosions in the holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala March 2, 2004. Multiple explosions tore through crowds of Shi'ites marking a religious ceremony in Baghdad and the holy city of Kerbala, scattering body parts and wreckage and causing widespread panic.

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Iraqis, carrying the wounded, run from the second of a series of explosions iin Karbala on Tuesday.

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Injured people are sent to hospital near a Mosque in Baghdad, capital of Iraq, Tuesday, March 2, 2004. At least 58 people were killed and 128 others wounded in the simultaneous blasts at a Shiite mosque in Baghdad on Tuesday.

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As a crowd jeers, U.S. Army soldiers prepare to pull back to their base after stone-throwing mob attacked U.S. forces outside Camp Bonzai in Baghdad Tuesday, March 2, 2004. The soldiers had been treating Iraqi injured from multiple explosions at the nearby Muslim shrine when the mob attacked the troops, many of whom were medics. Scores of people were killed in the explosions and many others wounded as the Shiites marked the final day of Ashoura, the ten day mourning of important Shiite Saint Imam Hussein.

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Shiite Muslims, having slashed their heads with daggers, march towards a holy shrine shortly before multiple explosions exploded there in Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, March 2, 2004. Scores of people were killed in the explosions and many others wounded as the Shiites marked the final day of Ashoura, the ten day mourning of important Shiite saint Imam Hussein.

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Moments after the attacks occured, people begin to gather at the site of one of several bomb blasts which exploded in densely occupied areas, during the holy Shiite Muslim day of Ashoura, in the holy city of Karbala, Iraq, Tuesday, March 2, 2004. Attacks also occured in Baghdad, leaving the death toll in Iraq at over a hundred for the day.

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U.S. Army soldiers from the 1st Armored Calvary Division run to reinforce the gate of Camp Bonzai after a stone-throwing mob attacked U.S. forces in Baghdad, Iraq Tuesday, March 2, 2004. Army medics had been treating Iraqi injured from multiple explosions at Muslim shrine, when the mob attacked, driving the forces back to their base. Scores of people were killed in the explosions and many others wounded as the Shiites marked the final day of Ashoura, the ten day mourning of important Shiite saint Imam Hussein.

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March 2: Iraqis attack a man, center, they suspect of being involved in the attack of several bomb blasts.

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March 2: A US soldier prepares to extinguish a fire that engulfed a Hummer following an attack in Baghdad.

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A U.S. soldier tries to put out a fire that engulfed a Hummer military vehicle following an attack on their convoy, in Baghdad, Iraq, on Tuesday morning. One soldier was killed and another wounded.

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Blood and other debris are scattered in the Al-Khadum Shiite Mosque in Khadimiya district of Baghdad following a series of powerful explosions at the height of the Shiites' festival of Ashoura Tuesday March 2, 2004 in Iraq killing at least 58 people and wounding 200. Multiple explosions ripped through crowds of worshippers Tuesday at Shiite Muslim shrines in Baghdad and the city of Karbala, killing at least 143 people as the Shiites marked the final day of Ashoura, the holiest day of the Shiite calendar.

George W. Bush
03-02-2004, 02:47 PM
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That ain't no mortar!