An Iraqi military helicopter flies over the Imam Huusein shrine as Shiite Muslims mark Ashoura in the holy city of Karbala, 80 kilometers (50 miles) south of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Dec. 23, 2009. The festival of Ashoura commemorates the martyrdom of Imam Hussein, the grandson of Muhammad at the Battle of Karbala, Iraq, in the year A.D. 680.
(AP Photo/Ahmed al-Husseini)