In Iraq, as many as 140 Shiite Muslims have been killed in coordinated bombings today that targeted Shiites celebrating the sect’s holiest day of the year. CNN is reporting 85 people died and hundreds were wounded in Karbala. And at least 50 died in Baghdad. Other news agencies put the total death toll closer to 100. A U.S. military spokesman in Baghdad and an Iraqi police spokesman in Karbala reported that mortars were fired at the religious shrines. The bombings came as Shittes celebrated the festival of Ashura to commemorate the death of the Prophet Mohammad’s grandson Imam Hussein who was killed in Karbala in the year 680.