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15 August 2007
BAGHDAD - Rescuers used bare hands and shovels on Wednesday to claw through the wreckage of clay houses as the death toll rose to at least 500in a string of suicide bombings against an ancient religious sect, making it the deadliest such attack of the war.
The US military blamed Al Qaeda in Iraq and a commander calls it an 'act of ethnic cleansing.'
The victims of Tuesday’s coordinated attacks in northwestern Iraq were members of the Yazidis, a small Kurdish-speaking sect that has been the target of Muslim extremists who say sect-member’s are blasphemers.
Four suicide truck bombers struck nearly simultaneously in two villages near the Syrian border, causing buildings to crumble and trapping entire families underneath piles of mud bricks and rubble. Entire neighborhoods were leveled.
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