Shi'ite pilgrims walk past an Iraqi soldier standing guard at a road in the holy city of Kerbala, about 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Baghdad, August 15, 2008. (Mohammed Ameen/Reuters)Reuters - A roadside bomb struck a minibus
packed with pilgrims bound for Iraq’s holy Shi’ite city of
Kerbala on Friday even as authorities deployed over 40,000
police and soldiers to avert new violence in the annual rite.


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