Today was another bloody day in Iraq as a female suicide bomber targeted Shiite worshippers. The carnage left 33 dead and at least 50 wounded in the city of Karbala, Iraq. Elsewhere in Iraq, two American soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb.
The incident was one half-mile away from the Imam Hussein shrine of Karbala, [...]
Ali Hassan al-Majid, hearing in Baghdad, Iraq (Dec. 18, 2004). - Photo courtesy U.S. Department of Defense
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