So Much for the Festival

Thank god we've set things right in Iraq and can turn our attention to more pressing matters around the globe like.... Whoops!

BAGHDAD -- A woman blew herself up today in a crowd of female pilgrims headed to a Shiite Muslim religious gathering and killed at least 17 other people, most of them women and children, police said.

The attack took place in Iskandariya, about 25 miles south of Baghdad. Police said the woman entered a rest house catering to women pilgrims and detonated her explosives. The victims were headed to Karbala, 50 miles from the capital, for a weekend festival.

Never mind.