Iraqis Observe a Moment of Silence for Bomb Victims

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BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Iraqis fell silent at noon Wednesday, but the mothers could not.

Motorists stopped their cars. Merchants left their shops. Police and citizens, children and adults, saluted the flag and bowed their heads for three minutes to honor the victims of suicide bombings last week, the country's first such memorial.

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Iraqis Observe a Moment of Silence for Bomb Victims

In one Baghdad neighborhood, wails and sobs broke the quiet. Black-veiled women burst out with grief as they crouched around a circle of silk flowers and framed photos -- a makeshift shrine marking the site of a car bomb that killed 27 I...

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