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http://www.salon.com/wire/ap/archive.html?wire=D8FGG4I0B.html>From Salon:
February 01,2006 | BAGHDAD, Iraq -- A bomb exploded alongside a group of Iraqi men waiting for work in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least eight and wounding more than 50, as a key Sunni Arab leader threatened to call for a nationwide "uprising" unless the Shiite interior minister is replaced.
The blast occurred hours before the trial of Saddam Hussein and at least seven co-defendants resumed on charges of involvement in the 1982 killings of more than 140 people. It was unclear if the two events were linked.
Iraq's top Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni Arab leaders also held high-level talks Wednesday in Baghdad as part of efforts to form a national unity government and bring Iraq's rampant violence under control. The talks have been complicated by rising sectarian tensions among Sunni Arabs and Shiites.