On April 14, a car bombing in Karbala killed 44 people and wounded scores more.

在四月十日，卡尔巴拉的汽车爆炸杀死了44个人丧生，造成无数人受伤。

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Abduredha Joda stood on a dry plot of land where he lives with his family on the outskirts of Karbala.

Abduredha Joda站在卡尔巴拉郊区一片干旱的土地上，他和家人曾经在此居住。

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A train passenger traveling from Baghdad to Karbala, a Shiite holy city some 60 miles south of the capital, reads a prayer book.

一名从巴格达到卡尔巴拉的乘客正在火车上阅读祈祷书，卡尔巴拉是距离首都南部60英里外的圣城。

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Ibn Khaldun wrote his penetrating works on the philosophy of history some 700 years after Karbala.

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In the south, Shiite rebels controlled major cities such as Karbala, Najaf, and Basra.

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In the coming week, 2 million Shiites are expected to attend services in Najaf and Karbala.

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