Close to 1,200 people were crushed to death or died in a stampede on the
Al-Aaimmah bridge over the river
Tigris in
Baghdad on Wednesday when thousands of
Shia Muslims began marching to a
shrine to the Imam
Musa al-Kazim. The stampede appears to have been caused by rumours of a series of
suicide attacks.
The relatives of the four
Israeli Arabs killed on a bus in
Galilee have been denied the usual terrorism compensation payments because their killer was a
Jew, and thus not an "enemy of Israel" as defined by Israeli law.
(BBC)
Close to 1,200 people were crushed to death or died in a stampede on the
Al-Aaimmah bridge over the river
Tigris in
Baghdad on Wednesday when thousands of
Shia Muslims began marching to a
shrine to the Imam
Musa al-Kazim. The stampede appears to have been caused by rumours of a series of
suicide attacks.
The relatives of the four
Israeli Arabs killed on a bus in
Galilee have been denied the usual terrorism compensation payments because their killer was a
Jew, and thus not an "enemy of Israel" as defined by Israeli law.
(BBC)