BAGHDAD, Jan. 21 (UPI) -- A Muslim holy day Friday was marred by a series of bombings in Iraq that claimed as many as 30 lives. An ambulance drove into a wedding party in a town south of Baghdad and blew up late Friday, killing as many as 12 people and injuring many others, Sky News reported. Earlier in the day, at least 18 people were killed and 40 injured in a car bombing outside a Shiite mosque in Baghdad www.canadagoosestoreca.com, security reports said. Witnesses said the blast occurred as worshippers were heading to the mosque for Friday prayers in the southern part of the Iraqi capital. The attack, the second to target a Shiite mosque in Baghdad in a week, cut through the worshippers marking the second day of the Muslim Eid al-Adha feast, which comes at the end of the annual pilgrimage to the holy city of Mecca in Saudi Arabia. CNN reported a U.S. soldier was killed and another wounded early Friday as they raided a bomb-making cell north of Baghdad. A dozen suspects were detained after the raid on eight separate locations Women's Shoes, the military said. The British army said Friday nine British soldiers and several Iraqis were injured in an explosion near a British base outside the southern city of Basra. The blast, which targeted the logistics and supply base some 20 miles south of Basra, was reportedly claimed by al-Qaida's branch in Iraq canada goose jakke parka, led by Abu Musab al-Zarqawi.

• Afghans blast Pakistan for TV ban
• Analysis French result won't help Turkey
• Intel sets up $250M India capital fund