The assaults continue even as the Shiite have ended the festival and are returning home.
There were possibly over 17 people who died in the latest assaults and another 107 wounded.
The assaults were done with car bombs and roadside bombs. A parked car contained a bomb while two others were placed close together along the road that the pilgrims journey. They went off near a restaurant on eastern Baghdad’s Palestine Street.
The Shiite pilgrims risk attacks by the Sunni rebels every year at this time as they make their way to the festival and back home again.
Even with the security that has been placed in Baghdad, the bombings still go on.
The Kadhimiya shrine is one of the most important shrines to the Shiite. It is one of the most holiest. The shrine honors the imam, who was a Shiite saint. He died over 1200 years ago. He was one of 12 of the imams honored by the Shiites.
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