Picture of the Day - 2

An Iraqi boy injured in a car bomb attack in Baghdad holds a picture of Muslim Shiite Imam Hussein as he recovers from his wounds on 6 March. Iraqi insurgents killed nine more Shiite pilgrims as the toll from the previous day's suicide attack rose to 117, amid fears that a backlash could undermine the US-led Baghdad security plan.(AFP/Wissam Al-Okaili)

(AFP) Brandishing flags and chanting religious slogans, marchers forged on through Sunni districts of Baghdad in the face of sniper attacks, while police gave covering fire and pumped their fists in the air, television footage showed.

(AP) Abbas Ghatie Ali, a 32-year-old pilgrim walking from Baghdad to Karbala on Wednesday, tied a list of emergency contacts around his neck in case he was hurt along the way.

"I'm wearing this card to identify me if I'm killed during the journey to Karbala," Ali said.....

He said he would continue to walk despite attacks on fellow pilgrims, because Shiites are "the majority and will defend our ideology and doctrine."

(Reuters) "These acts will not stop us," said Jabar Ali, who walked for eight days with his family from the southern Iraqi city of Basra to Kerbala.