Suicide bombers target Iraq Shi'ites, killing 60
Two suicide bombers targeted Shi'ite Muslims in Iraq on
Saturday, killing 60 people on the eve of the anniversary of one of their
imams' deaths. In the northern city of Mosul, unidentified gunmen shot two
Iraqi television journalists dead as they were filming. In Baghdad, a suicide
bomber detonated his explosives at a checkpoint, killing 48 Shi'ite pilgrims on
their way to visit a shrine in the Kadhimiya district. Relations between
Islam's two main denominations have come under acute strain from the conflict
in Syria, which has drawn fighters from Iraq and the wider Middle East into a
sectarian proxy war. Iraq's Sunni community has grown increasingly resentful of
a government it accuses of marginalizing their sect since coming to power after
the U.S.-led invasion that vanquished Saddam Hussein in 2003. More than 6,000
people have been killed in violence across the country this year.
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