-- Some of the deadliest attacks on Shiite pilgrims in Iraq since the 2003 U.S.-led invasion: _ Feb. 13, 2009: A bomber attacks a tent filled with women and children resting during a pilgrimage to Karbala, killing 40 people and wounding 60 others. _ Feb. 12, 2009: A suicide bomber detonates an explosive belt packed with nails among Shiite worshippers in Karbala near the revered Imam Hussein shrine, killing eight pilgrims and wounding more than 50. _ Feb. 11, 2009: At least 12 people are killed and more than 40 wounded in bombings in Baghdad targeting Shiite pilgrims traveling to Karbala. _ Jan. 4, 2009: A suicide bomber dressed in women's clothing and hiding among Iranian pilgrims kills more than three dozen people and wounds at least 72 outside a mosque in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Kazimiyah. It remains unclear whether the bomber was in fact a woman. _ Aug. 14, 2008: A bomber strikes Shiite pilgrims in Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of the capital, killing at least 18 people and wounding 75. _ July 28, 2008: Female suicide bombers attack a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq, killing at least 57 people and wounding nearly 300. _ March 17, 2008: A bomber attacks a group of Shiite worshippers near a mosque in Karbala, killing at least 49 people and wounding 73. _ Feb. 24, 2008: A man wearing a suicide vest kills 56 when he triggers the device in a crowd of travelers enjoying refreshments in a tent near Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of Baghdad. At least 68 people are injured. _ March 6, 2007: Two suicide bombers blow themselves up in Hillah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, killing 120 people in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims. _ July 6, 2006: A suicide car bombing kills 12 people, mostly Iranian pilgrims, at a Shiite shrine in the southern city of Kufa. _ Aug. 31, 2005: At least 1,000 Shiite pilgrims are said to have been killed in a bridge stampede caused when somebody claimed there was a suicide bomber in their midst. _ March 2, 2004: A suicide bomber kills at least 85 people at the Imam Hussein shrine in Karbala.
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