11 Die in Attack on a Shiite Mosque in Iraq

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Source: New York Times

11 Die in Attack on a Shiite Mosque in Iraq

By STEPHEN FARRELL
Published: January 18, 2008
BAGHDAD — For the second time in two days, a suicide bomber struck outside a Shiite mosque in Diyala Province north of Baghdad on Thursday, as worshipers prepared for one of the most important days in the Shiite calendar. The police and witnesses said at least 11 people were killed.

The bomber attacked a civilian checkpoint near the Shafta mosque in Baquba during the ceremony of Ashura, which commemorates the seventh-century slaying of Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad’s grandson and a revered figure to Shiites.

Witnesses said that moments before the blast a policeman named Baseem seized the bomber and began shouting, “stranger,” but was too late to stop the explosion, which killed both men and at least nine other people. Fifteen people were wounded.

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As the Shiite-led government imposed a two-day vehicle curfew in Baghdad, Diyala and southern provinces to protect the hundreds of thousands of pilgrims walking to Karbala, survivors of the attack in Baquba said they would not be deterred.



Read more: http://www.nytimes.com/2008/01/18/world/middleeast/18iraq.html?ref=middleeast

[saigon68]

1. "Freedom and Democracy are on the March", the Chimp

Looks like the "surge" is working

Just another day in paradise

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[Hulk]

2. Well, there's eleven more Muslims that are loving their new freedom.

Violence is down. They are running out of people to kill.