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A particularly heartbreaking photographic sequence shows a huge mound of shoes on a bridge over the Tigris in Baghdad, and people picking over them as they search for missing relatives.(The Week ...)(Brief Article)

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A particularly heartbreaking photographic sequence shows a huge mound of shoes on a bridge over the Tigris in Baghdad, and people picking over them as they search for missing relatives. Atrocity overwhelmed a peaceful pilgrimage of hundreds of thousands of Shiites on their way to the Kadhimiya mosque, a shrine that goes back centuries. Panic started when terrorists fired mortars and rockets close to the shrine. When the rumor spread that a Sunni suicide bomber was in the crowd all began to run for ...

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