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Anti-Christian violence in Iraq

Gregg Carlstrom | July 13, 2009 3:19 PM | 0 | recommend (0) |   |      

I just finished updating our Iraq insurgent attack database, and there's a pattern of anti-Christian violence emerging in the last 36 hours. There were the five church bombings we reported on yesterday, plus another one in Mosul today that injured three children.

And a Christian official in Kirkuk's provincial government was assassinated this morning. It's not clear whether the attack was linked to his religion -- but it certainly is coincidental.

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