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TIMELINE-Deadliest attacks in Iraq in last year

Jan 27 (Reuters) - Here are details of some of the major attacks in Iraq in the past year:

Jan. 27, 2011 - A car bomb at a wake in a Shi'ite part of Baghdad kills more than 35 people and wounds scores of others.

March 29 - At least 53 people are killed and 98 wounded when gunmen take hostages at a provincial council headquarters in Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, precipitating a battle with security forces who sweep in to end the siege.

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