Millions of Iraq Shi'ite Muslims gather for Ashura

2009/12/27 05:09:00 @Reuters: World News

KERBALA, Iraq (Reuters) - Millions of Shi'ite Muslims gathered at shrines and mosques across Iraq on Sunday for the Ashura religious festival while Iraqi forces stood watch against the bloody attacks that have marred past pilgrimages. div class="feedflare" a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Ofp1Jsw7gCk:aiSAexO5txM:yIl2AUoC8zA" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?d=yIl2AUoC8zA" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Ofp1Jsw7gCk:aiSAexO5txM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Ofp1Jsw7gCk:aiSAexO5txM:F7zBnMyn0Lo" border="0" /img /a a href="http://feeds.reuters.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?a=Ofp1Jsw7gCk:aiSAexO5txM:V_sGLiPBpWU" img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~ff/reuters/worldNews?i=Ofp1Jsw7gCk:aiSAexO5txM:V_sGLiPBpWU" border="0" /img /a /div img src="http://feeds.feedburner.com/~r/reuters/worldNews/~4/Ofp1Jsw7gCk" height="1" width="1"/
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