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Iraq heightens pilgrimage security as bombers strike (Reuters)

Posted: Fri Aug 15, 2008 9:50 am
by ForumGarden
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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