Bombers dressed as women kill 79 in Iraq

SUICIDE attackers wearing women's robes blew themselves up yesterday in a Shi'ite mosque in northern Baghdad, killing at least 79 people and wounding 164.

It was the second major attack against Shi'ite targets in as many days.

The violence came as US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad warned Iraq faces the possibility of sectarian civil war if efforts to build a national unity government do not succeed, and that such a conflict could affect the entire Middle East.