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Yahoo! My Yahoo! Mail Yahoo! Search Search: Sign InNew User? Sign Up News Home - Help Navigation Primary Navigation Home Singapore Asia Pacific World Business Entertainment Sports Technology Top Stories Most Popular Secondary Navigation Africa Europe Latin America Middle East North America Search Search: Police: 37 die in Iraq as bombs target Shiites By HAMID AHMED,Associated Press Writer AP - Saturday, August 8 BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb devastated a Shiite mosque in northern Iraq, one of a series of attacks Friday that killed at least 37 Shiite pilgrims and worshippers, police and medical officials said. ADVERTISEMENT The incidents are the latest in a series that have targeted Shiites, raising concerns that insurgents are stepping up attacks in hopes of re-igniting sectarian violence that nearly tore the country apart in 2006 and 2007. Though violence has dramatically declined in Iraq in the past two years, U.S. officials have repeatedly called the security gains fragile and cautioned that a waning insurgency still has the ability to pull off sporadic, high-profile attacks. The deadliest blast occurred in Rasheediyah, north of Mosul, when a suicide car bomb struck a mosque, killing at least 30 people and trapping dozens more underneath the rubble, said a police official in Ninevah province's operations command. The official said at least 88 people were injured. Bodies were still being pulled from the rubble, the official said. It was the second deadliest attack since U.S. forces withdrew from cities as part of a U.S.-Iraqi security pact that maps out the complete withdrawal of American troops by the end of 2011. The attack occurred shortly after 1 p.m. as worshippers were leaving Friday prayers. The blast also severely damaged a dozen other buildings near the mosque, the official said. In Baghdad, roadside bombs targeted pilgrims returning from the southern holy city of Karbala, where hundreds of thousands of devout Shiites gathered to celebrate the birth of Mohammed al-Mahdi, the 12th Shiite imam, who disappeared in the ninth century. Devout Shiites call him the Hidden Imam and believe he will return to restore peace and harmony. The ceremonies concluded early Friday morning. The first of three bombs exploded at about 9:10 a.m., targeting a minibus with pilgrims as it entered the Shiite slum of Sadr City, a police official said. The blast killed four pilgrims and wounded eight others, the official said. The causalities were confirmed by a medical official. A short time later, two nearly simultaneous explosions near the Shaab football stadium in eastern Baghdad killed three pilgrims as they were walking home to Sadr City, said another police official. Thirteen pilgrims also were wounded in the two blasts, which occurred less than half a mile apart, the official said. All the officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to release information to the media. The blasts came a day after a roadside bomb targeted pilgrims on their way to Karbala, killing one and wounding four others. Last Friday, a string of bombings targeted Shiite mosques in the Baghdad area during prayers, killing at least 29 people. No group has claimed responsibility for the attacks. Attacks on Shiite civilians _ particularly during pilgrimages _ have been the hallmark of Sunni extremists, including al-Qaida in Iraq. While overall attacks are down in Iraq, armed robberies targeting jewelry stores, currency exchanges and banks appear to be on the rise. Gunmen broke into a goldsmith shop in the western Baghdad district of Baiyaa on Thursday, killing the owner and making off with an unknown quantity of gold, two Iraqi police officials said Friday. One interior ministry official disputed the robbery, saying no gold was stolen and gunmen targeted the owner in a drive-by shooting. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to talk to the media. That incident follows a bank heist last month in Baghdad in which gunmen killed eight security guards and made off with millions of dollars. Iraqi authorities have said they arrested the gunmen and recovered all the money. Iraqi Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi said in a statement this week that one of those alleged gunmen served as one of his bodyguards and eight others were soldiers in the Iraqi army. Elsewhere, Iraq's electoral commission on Friday certified final results for the election of the northern semiautonomous Kurdish area's regional president and 111-seat parliament. Incumbent President Massoud Barzani was re-elected with 1.2 million votes, while opposition candidate Kamal Mirawdeli received 460,323 votes, said commission member Hamdiyah al-Husseini. The opposition front called Change, which was at the heart of a push for reform, won 25 seats in parliament, the commission said. The coalition of the two ruling parties _ Barzani's Kurdistan Democratic Party and Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's Patriotic Union of Kurdistan _ won 59 seats in parliament. The remainder of the seats were won by smaller parties. ___ Associated Press writers Chelsea J. Carter and Saad Abdul-Kadir contributed to this report. 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