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A truck bomber carrying food supplies killed eight Iraqi schoolgirls and a baby in the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Monday as suspected militants executed 21 Shiite workers north of Baghdad. Politically, Grand Ayatollah Ali Sistani, Iraq's most senior Shiite cleric, opposes a new draft law that would allow thousands.

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