Shiites on pilgrimage targeted in Iraq
With bombs and drive-by shootings, anti-Shiite extremists targeted pilgrims on the road to the holy city of Karbala on Friday, as political leaders remained divided over how to shape a broad-based government to work for peace in Iraq.
In Sunni Arab areas of western Baghdad, gunmen in passing automobiles killed three Shiite Muslim pilgrims and wounded five others. To the south, bombs in a minibus and along the pilgrimage road killed two people and wounded nine. (AP)
