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Female bomber kills 35 at Baghdad shrine
Sun Jan 4, 2009 6:17am EST
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By Aseel Kami
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A female suicide bomber infiltrated a crowd of Shi'ite pilgrims, killing at least 35 people and wounding at least 79 at a Shi'ite shrine in Baghdad on Sunday.
The blast struck a checkpoint outside the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine in Kadhimiya, a mainly Shi'ite area of Baghdad, as Shi'ites prepared for the Ashura holiday this week to mark the death of Hussein, the grandson of the Prophet Mohammad.
Many of the casualties were pilgrims from Iran, security spokesman Major-General Qassim Moussawi said, underscoring the deep religious ties between the two majority Shi'ite countries.
"A woman wearing an explosive vest managed to reach one of the security checkpoints near the revered Kadhim shrine and exploded herself among a crowd of pilgrims," his statement said.
He gave an initial toll of 35 killed and 79 wounded. Iraqi security sources gave slightly higher casualty totals.
U.S. forces in Iraq came under an Iraqi mandate on January 1 in step with a bilateral pact that will require the withdrawal of the 140,000 U.S. troops by the end of 2011.
As the United States reduces its activities in Iraq, local forces are taking greater responsibility for security.
Sunday's bomb attack was a reminder of the challenges they face, almost six years after the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.
Violence has dropped dramatically from the peak of sectarian bloodshed in 2006-2007, but militants regularly stage bombings.
"VIOLATION"
Moussawi said Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki had ordered a committee to investigate the attack and punish those behind it.
"We are taking a series of measures to prevent a repeat of this security violation," he told Reuters, adding that security forces had been beefed up all around Kadhimiya.
Hundreds of thousands of Iraqi Shi'ites will visit the holy city of Kerbala, 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad throughout the Ashura week to mark the death of Hussein, one of the most important events in the Shi'ite calendar.
Sunni militants have frequently targeted Shi'ite holy pilgrimages, which have become massive events since the fall of Saddam Hussein, who repressed them.
In 2004, at the first Ashura pilgrimage after Saddam's fall, Sunni militants killed more than 160 Shi'ite pilgrims in coordinated attacks on the Kadhimiya and Kerbala shrines. Continued...
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