Dozens Killed in Bomb Attack on Shiite Shrine

04/29/2007

By DAMIEN CAVE
NY Times
Published: April 29, 2007


BAGHDAD, April 28 — A car bomber struck Saturday in Karbala, killing at least 58 people and wounding 169 in the second attack in two weeks against the city’s holy sites, Iraqi police officials said.

The face of grief in Karbala on Saturday, after the second attack on a Shiite holy site there in two weeks.

The American military also announced that nine of its service members had been killed since Friday.

In Baghdad, the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr sent a statement to Parliament berating President Bush, saying he had undermined democracy in Iraq and in the United States by failing to heed demands for a troop withdrawal.

The Karbala attack took place about a third of a mile from the Imam Abbas shrine, the second-holiest site in Shiite Islam, on a busy commercial street packed with shoppers.

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