A female homicide bomber walking among Shiite pilgrims in Baghdad detonated an explosives belt on Monday, killing at least 54 people and wounding more than 122, officials said.
The bombing was the first major strike this year against pilgrims making their way to the southern city of Karbala to mark a Shiite holy day. It came as security official warned of a possible increase in attacks by insurgents using new tactics to bypass bomb-detection methods.
The bombing raises fears of an escalation of attacks as hundreds of thousands of Shiites head by Friday to the southern holy city of Karbala to mark the end of 40 days of mourning following the anniversary of the death Imam Hussein, a revered Shiite figure.
The bomber hid the explosives underneath an abaya — a black cloak worn from head to toe by women — as she joined a group of pilgrims on the outskirts of Baghdad’s Shiite-dominated neighborhood of Shaab, said Maj. Gen. Qassim al-Moussawi, Baghdad’s top military spokesman.
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Those are the Terrorists who, according to Obama, not excist. But as long as they kill only eachother its fine with me.
She was probably strapped with the explosives and detonated from afar. did they show a film ???
I wonder if she knew she would explode. Did they tell her she was a sinner who deserve a death punisyhment and the only way to redeem herself and even to become a Sahida is to do this ? to kill dozens of people ? Of course, the people of Baghdad are not palestinians or gazans, so all the people with the beautiful souls dont demonstrate …
shame
Every woman is my sister but this dead woman had a worse life than the street cats in my country ….
Of course she knew she would explode. Would you put enough explosives around your waist to blow up a city block just for fun? Not unless you’re not mentally competent, and I know 99% of these people know exactly what they are doing.
Their so called religion says that is what they should do.
This is why all women should wear bikinis.