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Iraqis carry coffin of a victim of suicide bombings during funeral at the Al Khadum Shiite Mosque. (AP)
Iraqis Call For Sunni-Shiite Unity
Story aired: Thursday, March 04, 2004



Iraqis are burying the dead from Tuesday's bomb attacks on Shiite worshippers in two cities. The death toll is now at 171.

It was the bloodiest day since the end of major combat in Iraq, with an additional 400 people wounded.

Boston Globe and Time magazine reporter Vivienne Walt joins Here and Now from Baghdad.

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Is Al Qaeda stoking Sunni-Shiite civil war? (CS Monitor)

Sunni, Shiite clergy condemn attacks (AP)

Sunni/Shiite Relations in Postwar Iraq (PBS Religion and Ethics)

Branches of Islam

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