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		</div><p><a href="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/pilgrims-killed-by-iraq-car-bombs.jpg"><img class="alignnone size-full" title="An Iraqi policeman stands in front a destroyed a car after a bombing in Baghdad over the weekend (AP)" src="http://londonglossy.com/wp-content/uploads/2011/01/min-pilgrims-killed-by-iraq-car-bombs.jpg" alt="An Iraqi policeman stands in front a destroyed a car after a bombing in Baghdad over the weekend (AP)"/></a></p>
<p>A second car bomb targeting Shiite pilgrims in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala has killed at least 10 people and wounded 21.</p>
<p>Iraqi officials said an earlier blast in the city, 55 miles south of Baghdad, killed six pilgrims and wounded 34.</p>
<p>The blasts come as hundreds of thousands of pilgrims are gathering in Karbala for ceremonies marking the end of Arbaeen, a 40-day mourning period to observe the seventh century death of the Imam Hussein, the Prophet Muhammad&#8217;s grandson.</p>
<p>The attack followed a triple suicide bombing last week along two highways leading to Karbala that killed 56 and wounded at least 180 &#8211; most of them Shiite pilgrims.</p>
<p>No group so far has claimed responsibility for last Thursday&#8217;s bombing, but suicide attacks are the trademark of the Islamic State of Iraq, an al Qaida front group believed made up mostly of Sunni religious extremists.</p>
<p>Such groups have frequently targeted Shiite civilians, in part because of religious differences and because Shiite parties gained power after the 2003 US-led invasion toppled Saddam Hussein&#8217;s Sunni-dominated regime.</p>
<p>Since the end of Saddam&#8217;s rule, Shiite politicians have encouraged huge turnouts at religious rituals, which were banned under the former regime, as a demonstration of Shiite power.</p>
<p>Meanwhile, police said two bombs in Baghdad killed an Iraqi army intelligence officer and his driver and wounded eight bystanders in separate strikes that hit a Shia and a Sunni neighbourhood.</p>
<p>Elsewhere, a roadside bomb exploded near Tikrit as Salahuddin provincial governor Ahmed Abdullah al-Jubouri&#8217;s motorcade was driving by, wounding five of his bodyguards, said police spokesman Hatam Akram. The governor was not injured in the blast near Saddam Hussein&#8217;s home town, 80 miles north of Baghdad.</p>
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