Maar gelukkig zijn er op het internet nog normale persagentschappen uit het buitenland te bereiken (zoals die van de BBC). Laat ik het ANP en de NOS eens opfrissen met wat relevante informatie over de "doorgaans rustige" stad Kerbela, die o.a. elk jaar weer wordt getroffen door bomaanslagen op massa's onbewapende Sjiitische pelgrims, reeds beginnende op de weg er naartoe in Zuid-Baghdad.
5 januari 2006 - Two suicide bombers kill over 120 people and wound more than 200 in the cities of Kerbala and Ramadi. 49 were killed and 148 wounded in Kerbala.
25 februari 2006 - A car bomb in the Shia holy city of Karbala killed at least eight people and injured 30.
6 maart 2006 - At least 90 Shia pilgrims have been killed and more than 150 wounded in a double suicide bombing in the central Iraqi town of Hilla, police said. Two bombers wearing explosive vests blew themselves up in a large crowd.
It was the deadliest in a number of attacks against pilgrims heading to the city of Karbala for a religious event.
19 maart 2006 - There were reports of a mortar shell exploding in the southern city of Karbala as Shias gathered for one of the biggest events of their religious calendar. No casualties were reported.
7 mei 2006 - A car bomb near the central bus station in the Iraqi Shi'ite holy city of Kerbala killed 21 people and wounded 52 on Sunday, police said.
A second bomb, also in the north of the city, killed one civilian and wounded five.
19 juni 2006 - In Karbala, in southern Iraq, a police lieutenant-colonel and his three bodyguards are killed when their convoy is ambushed.
9 juli 2006 - In other violence Sunday, gunmen killed an Iraqi army intelligence officer in the Shiite holy city of Karbala as security forces nationwide faced a series of deadly shootings.
15 augustus 2006 - In Karbala, south of Baghdad, a curfew has been imposed after heavy fighting broke out between gunmen and Iraqi security forces.
A local health official told the Associated Press news agency that six people had been killed in the clashes.
2 September 2006 - Fourteen Pakistani and Indian pilgrims have been ambushed and killed on their way to Iraq's Shia holy city of Karbala, Iraqi officials say.
9 december 2006 - Violence continued in Iraq on Saturday as a car bomb in the Shia holy city of Karbala killed at least five people and injured more than 40 others.
20 januari 2007 - Five American soldiers were killed in the Shia holy city of Karbala by gunmen wearing American and Iraqi uniforms, carrying American weapons and driving vehicles used by US or Iraqi government forces.
6 maart 2007 - Two suicide bombers blew themselves up today in a crowd of Shia pilgrims streaming toward a shrine south of Baghdad, killing up to 90 people, police said.
24 maart 2007
Thousands of displaced families took to the streets in Kerbala on Saturday, demonstrating against a government decision to ask them to move out from the government buildings they have occupied.
3 april 2007 - Eighteen goat-herders from an extended Shi'ite family were kidnapped on Tuesday near the holy Shi'ite city of Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said.
Misschien verkneukelt het ANP zich op aandelen in Club Med Kerbala, of laat ze zich iets op de mouw spelden door een van haar bronnen: de Amerikaanse Republikeinse propagandamedia. Je weet het natuurlijk nooit, maar gemakshalve gok ik op de laatste.
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