Official: Iraq Blast Kills 30 Pilgrims (Third-Straight Day of Bombings)

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Source: CBS News/AP

Female Suicide Bomber Kills Mostly Women, Children In Third-Straight Day of Bombings


(AP) Two medical officials in nearby hospitals, speaking on condition of anonymity for the same reason, confirmed the number of dead and wounded and said most were women and children.

The attacks against the pilgrims appear to be part a Sunni extremist campaign to rekindle the sectarian conflict that nearly plunged the country into full-scale civil war two years ago.

On Thursday, a suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt packed with nails among Shiite worshippers in Karbala near the revered Imam Hussein shrine, killing eight pilgrims and wounding more than 50.

A day earlier, at least 12 people were killed and more than 40 wounded in bombings in Baghdad that targeted Shiite pilgrims traveling to Karbala, 50 miles to the south.

Read more: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2009/02/13/iraq/main4799166.shtml?tag=topHome;topStories

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1. "This is all Obama's fault. Smirk." - xCommander AWOL (R)

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2. Poor civilians. Either we kill them as "collateral damage" or the bad guys

kill them as targets. Neither seems to understand that after a certain point, civilians rebel against the slaughter and you lose their support. It almost seems that both sides are trying to alienate civilians and drive them to support the other side.