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/ 27 January 2009
A pilgrimage could prevent thousands of Iraq’s Shi’ite Muslims from voting in an upcoming election.
A suicide bomber killed at least 23 people and wounded 72 on Friday at a feast for Sunni Arab electoral candidates and tribal leaders.
The US military faced Iraqi anger on Sunday over a raid near Kerbala in which a distant relative of Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki was killed.
Gunmen battled Iraqi security forces on Tuesday near two of Shi’ite Islam’s holiest shrines in the city of Kerbala, where hundreds of thousands of pilgrims had gathered for a religious festival. A senior security source in Baghdad said 25 people had been killed, mostly police officers.
A suicide car bomber killed at least 40 people and wounded 128 at a crowded bus station near a major Shi’ite shrine in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on Saturday, police and hospital sources said. In Baghdad, police said a suicide car bomber detonated his device near a checkpoint at the southern Jadriyah bridge, killing 10 people, wounding 15 and burning several cars.
A suicide car bomber killed up to 50 people and wounded more than 70 at a crowded bus station in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala on Saturday, police said. In Baghdad, police said a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle before a checkpoint at the southern Jadriyah bridge, killing eight people and burning several cars in the second major attack on a bridge in the capital in the last two days