Suicide bombers kill 150 in 24 hours in Iraq

The bombing brought the toll from suicide attacks in the country to almost 150 deaths in just 24 hours.
Two terrorists wearing vests packed with explosives approached separate entrances to the Imam Moussa al-Kadhim shrine in the Shia district of Kadhimiya. One blew himself up at the gates, while the second entered a courtyard before detonating his explosives.

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Police said that at least 20 of those killed at the shrine - a frequent target of Sunni Muslim insurgents - were Iranian pilgrims.
A further 125 people were reported to have been injured in the attack.
It was the bloodiest terrorist operation in Iraq since 63 people died in a truck bombing in Baghdad on June 17 last year.
The shrine attack came a day after 89 people were killed in two suicide bombings, which targeted police and civilians in a square in central Baghdad and Shia pilgrims from Iran at a restaurant in Diyala province, north of the capital.
They followed the arrest on Thursday of a man who police in Baghdad claimed was the leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq.
Officials said they had seized Abu Omar al-Baghdadi in the east of the city. His arrest could deal a significant blow to Sunni insurgents, whose potency had been reduced - but not eradicated - by the US-led surge of troops supported by Sunni groups, which had agreed to help to pacify the country during the worst of its sectarian blooshed.
Officials have expressed fears that some of the Sunnis who agreed to help calm the violence may now have returned to supporting insurgents with sympathies to al-Qaeda or to the Ba'athist regime of Saddam Hussein. link...