Iraq - Bomber Strikes Iranian Pilgrims - NYTimes.com Suicide attackers on Friday rammed car bombs into a bus carrying Iranian pilgrims and into a police checkpoint west of Baghdad, killing 19 people in all. In the first attack, a suicide bomber drove his explosives-laden car into a bus carrying Iranian Shiite pilgrims who were on their way to visit shrines in the holy city of Najaf. The attack took place near the town of Muqdadiya, about 60 miles north of Baghdad. The police said 11 people were killed and 31 were wounded in the blast. Later, attackers drove two car bombs into a major highway checkpoint between the cities of Falluja and Ramadi in Anbar Province, west of Baghdad. Four police officers and four civilians died in that attack, the police said. According to the United Nations, at least 1,045 Iraqi civilians and members of the security forces were killed in May and 712 were killed in April.