In Baghdad, a female suicide bomber killed at least forty people on Sunday in an attack outside one of Iraq’s holiest Shiite shrines. The dead included sixteen Iranian pilgrims. On Friday, another twenty-three people died in a suicide bombing inside the home of a tribal leader south of Baghdad. The attacks came just after a new US-Iraq security agreement went into effect. Meanwhile, former US-backed Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi has denounced the policies of President George W. Bush. Allawi said Bush’s policies have been an “utter failure” that gave rise to the sectarian venom that ravaged his country.