Millions of Shia Muslims are converging on the Iraqi city of Karbala for an annual pilgrimage, despite a spate of recent bombings that have targeted their community.<br /><br />Two years ago, more than 50 Shia pilgrims were killed on their journey, most of them women and children. <br /><br />Refusing to be deterred, just hours after the bombing, the pilgrimage continued, as it has done every year since Saddam Hussein was toppled in 2003.<br /><br />Al Jazeera's Jane Arraf reports from Baghdad.
