Ahlul Bayt News Agency (ABNA.ir), Police in Iraq say explosives and mortar attacks have claimed the lives of nine Shia pilgrims, inflicting injuries over 50 others across the country's capital.
The attacks took place in at least six locations around the capital as devout Shiites converged on a mosque in the Kazimiyah neighbourhood to commemorate the July 7 anniversary of the death of the seventh imam.
Hundreds of thousands of Shiites from around Iraq have turned out in Baghdad for ceremonies marking the eighth-century death of Imam Moussa al-Kadhim. Pilgrims traditionally walk to the twin-domed shrine in Kazimiyah, where the revered saint is buried.
Tension continues to take its toll on the Iraqi civilian in the eighth year of US military presence in the war-weary nation and despite the current presence of slightly more than 80,000 American troopers.
At least 2,405 people have been killed in Iraq in 2010 due to the violence, said the Iraqi rights body, the Monitor of Constitutional Freedom and Bill of Rights, the German Press Agency (DPA) reported on Saturday. The California-based investigative project, Project Censored says over one million Iraqis have died during the US-led occupation.
source : http://abna.ir
