Iranian women wait to enter the holy Shiite shrine of Imam Mousa al-Kazim in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Jan. 4, 2009, after a female suicide bomber blew herself up among a crowd of pilgrims there killing at least 35 people and wounding at least 65, the Iraqi army said. The army said also that many of the victims were Iranian pilgrims. (AP Photo/Mahmoud Badri)From The New York Times:
BAGHDAD — A woman wearing an explosive belt blew herself up near the entrance of a revered Shiite shrine Sunday morning in Baghdad, killing at least 37 people, many of them Shiite pilgrims, according to the Ministry of the Interior. As many as 53 others were wounded in the attack, which occurred during a Shiite holy month.
The suicide bombing outside the Imam Moussa Al-kadhim shrine in the Kadhimiyah neighborhood came nine days after a Dec. 26 car bomb killed 24 people and wounded 46 others after it had exploded on a busy road near the same shrine.
The timing and location of each bombing appeared to be intended to reignite sectarian violence, from which Iraq had shown signs of emerging in recent months.
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Update: Iraqi army says female bomber kills at least 38 -- Yahoo News/AP