Friday, September 04, 2009 HILLA: At least five people were killed and nearly 100 were wounded in a swathe of attacks across Iraq on Thursday, police said. Three worshippers died and 51 others were injured when a bomb exploded at a Shiite tomb in Musayyib, 55 kilometres (34 miles) south of Baghdad in Babil province, said a police officer based in provincial capital Hilla. At Mahauil, 80 kilometres south of the capital, a booby-trapped car near another Shiite tomb killed two people and wounded nine others, the officer said. Eight people were hurt when a bomb went off at a market in Aun, a small community near the holy city of Kerbala, 110 kilometres south of Baghdad. In Baghdad's Sunni neighbourhood of Azamiya a bomb targeting Sunni Sahwa militia men wounded four of them and four civilians. A car bomb at Dora on the southern edge of the city injured a Sahwa officer and four of his bodyguards. Five civilians were hurt in a bombing at Kasra in northern Baghdad. In Baquba ten people including two children were wounded when a booby-trapped car exploded in the town centre as a police patrol went past, police said.
BEIRUT: Thousands of people converged Saturday on central Beirut to mark the fourth anniversary of the assassination of Lebanese former premier Rafiq Hariri.Waving Lebanese flags and carrying pictures of the slain leader, men, women and children gathered under sunny skies in Martyr's Square where members of the parliamentary majority were to address the crowd. The rally comes as final preparations are underway in The Hague for the launch of the international tribunal set up to bring Hariri's killers to justice. It also comes as the country prepares for legislative elections in June that will pit Western-backed political parties against a Hezbollah-led alliance backed by Syria and Iran.Hariri died in a massive car bombing on February 14, 2005 that also killed 22 others. The assassination was widely blamed on then Lebanese power-broker Syria, which has denied any involvement. The attack on the Beirut seafront was one of the worst acts of political violence to rock Lebanon since t...
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