Scores Die as Iraq Bomber Targets Shiite Pilgrims

[maddezmom]

Source: NYTIMES

Scores Die as Iraq Bomber Targets Shiite Pilgrims
Published: February 1, 2010
BAGHDAD — A female suicide bomber attacked a column of Shiite pilgrims on the outskirts of Baghdad on Monday, part of a convulsion of violence that has hit the capital in advance of national elections in March.

At least 41 people died and more than 100 were wounded in the attack, which took place in an industrial district on the northern edge of the city, according to initial reports from security officials, who said the toll could rise.

The bomber, perhaps because she was a woman, was able to mingle among Iraqis making an annual pilgrimage to Shiite Islam’s holiest shrine before detonating a hidden vest packed with explosives, an Interior Ministry official said.

Hundreds of thousands of Shiites from Iraq, Iran and other countries make their way to Karbala, south of here, during a pilgrimage that marks the end of mourning for Imam Hussein, a grandson of the Prophet Muhammad who died in battle in the seventh century.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2010/02/02/world/middleeast/02iraq.html

[Soylent Brice]

1. .

[unabelladonna]

2. not again

how do you fight something like this?

[Swede]

8. You need a ruthless leader with an iron fist.

Or you separate the shiites and sunnis physically,and put a border between them.

[Beacool]

3. It's never ending................

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[dipsydoodle]

4. Do you reckon she was wearing

a burqa ? :shrug:

[marshall]

9. She was wearing an abaya

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And until I hear about them finding (and piecing together) the body of the bomber, I'm going to classify it as an alleged woman. It could just as easily been a man who hurriedly blew the thing up before being searched.

[dipsydoodle]

10. Fair comment.

We tend to use burqa as a group expression . You of course were correct.

Don't sound the same though as "does my bomb look big in this burqa ? "

[Jefferson23]

5. Horrible.

[undeterred]

6. Female suicide bomber kills 41 in Iraq

Source: Telegraph

By Richard Spencer, Middle East Correspondent
Published: 2:43PM GMT 01 Feb 2010

A suicide bomber killed 41 people including children on Monday when she blew herself up among a crowd of pilgrims walking to a religious festival in Iraq. The woman triggered an explosives belt at a rest station for the pilgrims, who were on their way to the holy Shia city of Karbala. There was a similar bomb attack last year at the same pilgrimage, which has been a regular target for attacks.

The rest station included a security search area, and the bomber had been ushered into the tent set aside for women when the device was set off. "We were serving the people when the attack happened inside a search tent for women," Allawi Hassan, a staff member, told reporters.

"The moment the explosion happened I felt as if I was flying through the air. I saw men, women and children wounded before I fainted. I then found myself in hospital."

The dead are thought to include five women and six children.



Read more: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/middleeast/iraq/7128730/Female-suicide-bomber-kills-41-in-Iraq.html

[Fumesucker]

7. America, spreading democracy and freedom one suicide bomber at a time..

There were no suicide bombers in Iraq before Dick and Georgie's execrable adventure there. In fact, Iraq was the most secular state in the Middle East, now it's slid into utterly whacked out fundamentalism and nearly daily suicide bombings.

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:mad: