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Syria's security forces were hunting Sunday for the culprits behind a car bombing that killed 17 people in an attack analysts said could have been aimed at splitting the country's alliance with Iran or deterring it from becoming too friendly with the West. Saturday's bombing near a Shiite shrine in Damascus.

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