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Events

January

• January 4
  • Suicide bomber struck a Shiite funeral in Karbala, killing 32 and wounding 40.[1]

• January 5
  • 50 people were killed and 80 wounded by a suicide bomb attack in the Iraqi city of Karbala.[2]
  • 50 people were killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack on a line of police recruits in Ramadi.[3]
  • Insurgent violence shut down Iraq's largest oil refinery.[4]

• January 6
  • Thousands of Shiites demonstrated in Baghdad after two days of bloodshed that claimed almost 200 lives.[5]
  • A secret Pentagon study has found that at least 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to their upper body could have survived if they had extra body armor. That armor has been available since 2003.[6]
  • Paul Bremer, who led the U.S. civilian occupation authority in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, has admitted the United States did not anticipate the insurgency in the country, NBC television said on Friday.[7]

• January 7
  • Demonstrations in the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah turned violent leaving two dead and two dozen injured.[8]

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February

• February 22 - The Al Askari Mosque bombing. Although no injuries occurred in the blast, the bombing was hugely offensive to Shi'ites and resulted in violence over the following days. The Iraqi government has stated that 379 people were killed in the subsequent attacks, although the Washington Post reported that over 1,300 people were killed.

• February 28 - A bomber blew himself up near a petrol station in one of the Iraqi capital's Shia areas just before curfew and hours after other blasts killed 35.[9]

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March

• March 24
  • Joint Center for Operational Analysis at United States Department of Defense on March 24, 2006, released a report compiled from captured Iraqi intelligence. The report stated that Russia aided Saddams regime with correct information on the coalition invasion. Iraqi Perspectives Report

• March 25
  • 40 people killed or wounded in gun battle near Mahmoudiya.[10]
  • US Ambassador Zalmay Khalilzad said on Saturday, March 25, that militias, many with strong ties to powerful Shiite leaders and well entrenched in security and police forces, are killing more Iraqis than terrorists.[11]

• March 26
  • 30 beheaded bodies found in Iraq.[12]

• March 27
  • Memo shows US president was firmly set on the path to war two months before the 2003 Iraq invasion.[13]
  • 40 people were killed and 20 others wounded in recruitment centre suicide bomb attack.[14]

• March 29
  • Around 30-40 bodies are being found on the streets of Baghdad every day, morgue officials said.[15]

• March 30
  • Pentagon requests hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency funds for military construction in Iraq.[16]

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April

• April 1
  • Recent weeks [have] been among the most lethal of the war for Iraqi civilians, police and soldiers who were killed and wounded at a rate of about 75 per day, a rate three times as high as at the start of 2004.[17]
  • Iraqi gunmen ambush minibus carrying Shiites, killing six men.[18]
  • Soldiers at a joint U.S.-Iraqi army checkpoint killed three gunmen who opened fire on them in the town of Thuluiya, north of Baghdad.[19]
  • A roadside bomb hit a police patrol on the highway in eastern Baghdad on Saturday, wounding four policemen, according to an Interior Ministry source.[20]
  • Gunmen kidnap Iraqi physician in Baghdad.[21]
  • Gunmen in three cars killed a Shiite tribal chief and four male relatives near Balad Ruz as they drove home from a funeral.[22]
  • U.S. military helicopter went down southwest of Baghdad on Saturday. A militant group said it shot down a helicopter in the same area.[23]
  • A Sunni sheikh was killed by armed men in a speeding car when he left his home in the southern city of Basra. His brother, who was with him, was wounded.[24]
  • Iraq Shi'ites break ranks, urge PM to quit.[25]
  • A Marine was killed Friday during combat operations in Anbar province west of the capital.[26]
  • Journalist Jill Carroll rejects statements made during her kidnapping.[27]

• April 2
  • 2 U.S. soldiers killed by roadside bomb in central Baghdad according to the US military.[28]
  • Six men have been killed in an explosion inside a house in the southern outskirts of Baghdad, while insurgents destroyed a small Shiite mosque east of Baquba, police said.[29]
  • Japan's foreign minister said Sunday the withdrawal of Japanese troops from southern Iraq will depend on stability in that country, denying local media reports that Tokyo might pull out by May.[30]
  • In Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, unidentified gunmen planted explosives around the small Guba Shiite mosque and blew it up, police said. Three stores selling music CDs were also bombed.[31]
  • Police reported the discovery of nearly 40 bodies in several neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital. The bodies were handcuffed and had been shot in the head or chest.[32]
  • Iraq’s resistance has replaced Jordanian-born Abu Musab Al Zarqawi as political head of the rebels, confining him to a military role, the son of Osama bin Laden’s mentor told AFP on Sunday in Jordan.[33]
  • Five Iranians were arrested north of Iraq on charges of illegal entry to Iraqi territory.[34]
  • Brother of Sunni lawmaker presumed kidnapped.[35]
  • Gunmen assassinated a Sunni Arab sheik, Abdul-Minaam Awad, in his village of Zobaa 40 miles west of Baghdad, a Sunni clerical association announced.[36]
  • Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and five others wounded in the explosion of two bombs in areas located west and southwest of Kirkuk, a police source said.[37]
  • In the Sunni neighborhood of Khadra, a policeman was shot dead by unknown gunmen, while in the Mustansiriyah neighbourhood the director of religious tourism at the transport ministry, Walid Sobhi Ahmed, was stopped in his car and kidnapped.[38]

• April 3
  • Gunmen shot down six people, including a child, in a market area of the southern city of Basra, police said. The victims of the drive-by shooters in Basra included a navy officer, two policemen, two workers at an electrical plant, and a boy.[39]
  • Slovakian soldiers at Camp Echo, near the Iraqi town of Ad Diwaniyah was hit by two shells on Thursday.[40]
  • Bombings in Buhriz damaged several buildings, including a barber shop and grocery store.[41]
  • A policeman was killed and two others wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol in Baiji, police said.[42]
  • Two soldiers were killed and three wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol near Baiji, north of Baghdad.[43]
  • Iraqi civilian killed, five people injured in attack on fuel station in Huwaija.[44]
  • Five Katyusha rockets slammed near an Iraqi army barracks north of Kirkuk. There were no damages reported. Unknown gunmen also attacked an Iraqi army vehicle in central Kirkuk.[45]
  • Gunmen killed the Imam of a Sunni mosque in the oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.[46]
  • Two truck drivers carrying US construction materials killed, another kidnapped north of Nibaie.[47]
  • Food prices rise after reduction of monthly rations.[48]
  • Two bodies found shot dead and mutilated near Latifiya.[49]
  • Police also discovered three bodies in eastern Baghdad neighborhoods. One in Mashtal was handcuffed and shot in the head, another in Baladiyat was strangled and covered with bandages, and the third was found in Sadr City, shot in the forehead.[50]
  • University student killed in Baqubah's downtown market.[51]
  • Roadside bomb kills an Iraqi civilian near Baqubah.[52]
  • A car bomb killed at least 10 people and wounded 30 others near a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Monday, Interior Ministry sources said.[53]
  • A U.S. military truck rolled over in a flash food in western Iraq's Anbar province, killing five U.S. Marines, injuring another and leaving three other troops missing.[54]
  • U.S. Plan to Build Iraq Clinics Falters after building only 20 clinics costing $200m.[55]
  • Iraq's interior ministry refusing to deploy US-trained police, whilst instead hiring their own security.[56]
  • Scottish Infantry levels drop after soldiers leave.[57]
  • Many Iraqi Soldiers Wounded by fellow soldiers.[58]

• April 4
  • Kurdish journalist released.[59]
  • Iraqi politician says 1,700 Sunnis killed in unrest since Samarra Shrine bombing.[60]
  • Violence is driving doctors from Iraq as patients suffer.[61]
  • Poverty forces Iraqi children to pick through rubbish dumps.[62]
  • British HQ in Misan mortared several times in last few days according to the Iraqi police.[63]
  • Two mortar rounds exploded near the British consulate in Basra during a reception, causing no injuries but forcing the party to end early.[64]
  • One of the bodies of a US marine missing after a deadly road accident caused by a flash flood in Iraq's western Al-Anbar province was found Tuesday, said the US military.[**Iraqi civilian killed in bomb explosion targeting UK troops near Kirkuk.[65]
  • U.S. jets reported in action in Tikrit, Habaniyah and Fallujah.[66]
  • Violence in Baghdad kills judge, two vendors, and a policeman.[67]
  • Civilian killed at Tikrit checkpoint, truck driver kidnapped.[68]
  • Civilian killed in Fatiha, two truck drivers killed near Dujail.[69]
  • In the Sahl area near the border with Saudi Arabia, two teenage shepherds were killed by an anti-personnel mine.[70]
  • Iraq leaders put off gov't talks despite US pressure.[71]
  • Car bomb kills one city council member, wounds four in Samarra.[72]
  • In southern Iraq, gunmen killed a policeman and wounded another as the two were driving in the city of Basra, police said.[73]
  • American troops have clashed with insurgents in Iraq. They began exchanging fire after a US military base was attacked in Ramadi, west of Baghdad.[74]
  • 4 more handcuffed and tortured bodies found on western highway in Bahgadad and floating in a river south of the capital.[75]
  • Car bomb kills 10 people, wounding 28 others in Baghdad.[76]
  • Three Iraqi army officers arrested for suspected sabotage. Elsewhere, police said three Iraqi army officers were arrested in connection with an attack on an oil pipeline in Hawija.[77]
  • UAE Foreign Minister condemns killing of two UAE embassy staffers in Baghdad.[78]
  • 600 Iraqi security forces capture two insurgents during operations.[79]
  • Baghdad Bomb Kills Woman, 2 Sons aged nine and twelve.[80]
  • Car bomb kills one, wounds four in Samarra.[81]
  • In southern Iraq, gunmen killed a policeman and wounded another as the two were driving in the city of Basra.[82]
  • American troops have clashed with insurgents in Iraq. They began exchanging fire after a US military base was attacked in Ramadi, west of Baghdad.[83]

• April 5
  • More than 40,000 people have been displaced countrywide as a result of ongoing sectarian violence, Ministry of Displacement and Migration officials said on Sunday.[84]
  • A civil engineer was shot to death Wednesday in front of a barber shop in west Baghdad, police said.[85]
  • A motorist was also killed as he drove past a US military convoy and a man found blindfolded and shot on Wednesday in Iskandiriyah, 50 km south of Baghdad.[86]
  • Three civilians were killed and five wounded when a car bomb exploded at an army checkpoint in eastern Baghdad, police said.[87]
  • A civilian was killed and two others wounded when a roadside bomb went off near U.S. forces in Kirkuk, police said.[88]
  • A policeman was killed by gunmen while he was heading to work in Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.[89]
  • Three civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a joint U.S. and Iraqi police patrol in the oil city of Kirkuk.[90]
  • A translator with Polish troops was killed and his nephew wounded on Monday by gunmen wearing police commando uniforms in Diwaniya.[91]
  • Unknown gunmen in military uniforms killed 2 Iraqi workers in the Egypt-owned mobile phone company of Iraqna in western Baghdad and kidnapped two others on Wednesday.[92]
  • 2 bodies found in Baghdad, 1 in Iskandiriyah.[93]
  • Basra police found the body of a Sunni ambulance driver, handcuffed and shot in execution-style.[94]
  • Lecturer, two other Sunnis killed in Basra.[95]
  • Two Sunni Arabs were slain in the majority Shiite city of Basra and the body of a Sunni lecturer in the Basra Technical Institution, was found by police early Wednesday.[96]
  • A car bomb went off on Wednesday in a Shiite neighbourhood of north Baghdad, injuring 13 people, police said. The car bombing occurred in the Shulah district and was the second car bomb in a Shiite part of Baghdad in as many days.[97]
  • Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has rejected growing pressure on him to resign, saying Iraqis must be left to choose their leader democratically.[98]
  • Cameraman for U.S. network CBS freed after a year in detention without charge when an Iraqi court ruled there was no evidence to support charges of terrorism against him.[99]
  • Video posted on internet claims to show Iraqi insurgents dragging the burning body of a U.S. pilot on the ground after the crash of an Apache helicopter.[100]
  • Polish President Lech Kaczyński paid a surprise visit to Iraq on Thursday, his press office said.[101]

• April 6
  • A prominent Iraqi Sunni politician said that some 40,000 Iraqi Sunni Muslims had been killed in sectarian fighting in Iraq since Ibrahim Jaafari took office as Prime Minister.[102]
  • A suicide car bomb exploded near a joint patrol of Iraqi army and U.S. troops west of Baghdad killing seven, one of them an Iraqi policeman, the Iraqi army said.[103]
  • 15 people were killed when a car bomb exploded near a sacred Shi'ite shrine in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on Thursday afternoon.[104]
  • Iraqi forces have captured the prime suspect in last year's kidnapping of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, the U.S. military said Thursday. Mohammed Hila Hammad Obeidi, also known as Abu Ayman, was arrested in southern Baghdad on the 7th March.[105]
  • Saddam-era judge insists 148 Shiites sentenced to death all confessed.[106]
  • Iraq's religious leaders to meet in Amman.[107]
  • Two roadside bombs in Western Baghdad kill one policeman, wounds seven.[108]
  • Iraq oil exports fall to 1.34 million barrels per day (bpd) from 1.37 million bpd in February.[109]
  • South of Baghdad, gunmen in three cars ambushed five Shiite truck drivers on their way to the capital from the town of Mahawil, killing all of them and stealing their trucks.[110]
  • Roadside bomb explodes in Baqubah damaging shops but causing no injuries.[111]
  • 5 civilians were killed and another 2 wounded when gunmen shot at their cars near a police station in Haswa, south of Baghdad.[112]
  • A U.S. patrol was struck by a roadside bomb south of Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. There were no reports on the number of casualties.[113]
  • Gunmen seriously wounded a Kurdish captain in the Iraqi army in the eastern part of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.[114]
  • Fleeing Baghdad’s sectarian violence, Shia families find shelter in the southern city of Kut.[115]
  • A US soldier was killed Thursday when an explosive detonated near his vehicle in Beiji.[116]
  • The bodies of 6 unidentified corpses were found in the western Baghdad district of al-Ghasaliya on Thursday discovered the bodies of six unidentified corpses believed to have been shot dead by insurgents.[117]
  • In Basra Thursday a tutor at an art school was shot dead by unidentified armed men. The body of art teacher Salah Abdel Aziz, who was abducted from his home Wednesday was found on a street in the city.[118]
  • Saddam co-accused defends actions.[119]
  • Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua says legal proceedings against him have begun in connection with the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal.[120]
  • Anti-U.S. forces have spread their control over the city of Samarra, according to a Shiite cleric in charge of Shiite shrines in the city. "Samarra is still in the hands of terror … It is outside the jurisdiction and control of the state,"[121]

• April 7
  • 85 people were killed and at least 158 wounded when three suicide bombers, dressed as women, struck a Shi'ite Buratha mosque affiliated with a major Shiite political party, the Iraqi Health Ministry said.[122]
  • Gunmen kill 4 in Iraq. 2 men were killed and 1 person wounded when gunmen opened fire on them near Baquba early Friday. 2 others were also shot dead by gunmen in Baquba's northwestern al-Yarmuk neighbourhood.[123]
  • Eight mass graves containing around 1,000 bodies have been found near Iraq's northern oil hub of Kirkuk, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) announced on Thursday.[124]
  • Iraq's interior ministry cautioned people in Baghdad to avoid crowds near mosques and markets due to a car bomb threat.[125]
  • British defense chief warns of Iraq power vacuum.[126]
  • Baghdad on Alert After Car Bomb Threat.[127]
  • Three explosions at Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad.[128]
  • Iraqi civilian kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Kirkuk.[129]
  • Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has blamed US-led coalition forces for the rampant violence across Iraq, including the deadly car bombing in the holy city of Najaf a day before.[130]
  • Three mortar shells are fired at a Shia mosque in the Kazimiya area of northern Baghdad. Police say the mortars missed their target. There are reports of casualties.[131]
  • The controller-general of the Iraqi Islamic Virtue (Fadilah) Party Sheikh Muhammad al-Ya'qubi has decided to dissolve all the party's leading committees and has set up a special caretaker committee to pave the way for disbanding the party.[132]
  • Reuters news agency quotes Dennis McNamara of the UN's Office for Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs as saying that more than a million people remain internally displaced in Iraq - mainly marsh Arabs and Kurds who fled after uprisings against Saddam Hussein.[133]
  • US ambassador to Iraq has said he believes that talks between US officials and groups linked to the insurgency have led to a fall in the number of attacks on American troops. But in the interview with the BBC, Zalmay Khalilzad warns that civil war in Iraq remains a real risk.[134]
  • The decapitated body of man wearing a man in an military uniform was found in the town of al-Shahaimiya, 120 kilometres south of Baghdad.[135]
  • In the town of al-Suwaira south of Baghdad, police discovered the bodies of three members of the security forces, including an Iraqi soldier and a lieutenant-colonel. The bodies were found with their hands cut off.[136]
  • US soldiers on Friday arrested a tribal leader and four members of his clan near the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, witnesses reported.[137]
  • U.S. Aid in Iraq Now Equal to Assistance in Germany after World War II.[138]
  • A Shi'ite tailor was shot dead by gunmen inside his shop in the al-Zab area about 70 km (40 miles) southwest of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police said.[139]
  • German parliament votes to set up a committee to examine claims that German intelligence agents helped the US during the 2003 war in Iraq.[140]
  • 19 US troops have died so far this month.[141]

• April 11
  • Three civilians were killed in clashes between Interior Ministry forces and insurgents on the main road of the former rebel stronghold of Falluja west of Baghdad on Monday (April 10) Interior Ministry sources said.[142]
  • Bomb attack on bus kills three people in Baghdad.[143]
  • The bodies of four Iraqi soldiers who had been beheaded were found in Jurf al-Sahkar, 80 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.[144]
  • In Baghdad a mortar round hit a home in northern Baghdad, killing a man and wounding four members of his family, and gunmen killed a metal worker in the southwest Shurta neighborhood, police said.[145]
  • In the southern city of Basra, gunmen shot dead a Sunni professor as he was leaving his house Tuesday morning.[146]
  • In the outskirts of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, gunmen killed a policeman on his way to work.[147]
  • Five more bodies found in Iraq Musayyib, about 40 miles south of Baghdad, plus the body of a woman with an Iranian passport was found in a gutter in the city of Baqouba, with bruises to her head, police said.[148]
  • Roadside bomb wounds two near Baghdad.[149]
  • Roadside bomb wounds four Iraqi police near Baqubah.[150]
  • Political turmoil leaves Iraq adrift.[151]
  • Mannequins, fake funerals, booby-trapped bodies in Ramadi.[152]
  • Doctors, NGOs warn of infant mortality 'higher than under Saddam's rule' in Basra.[153]
  • Busy Iraqi firefighters get shot at by all sides.[154]
  • 16 bodies found in Al Masayyib village, 60 miles south of Baghdad.[155]
  • Three Iraqi army recruits were killed Tuesday after coming under fire in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The bodies of two Iraqi civilians were also found in the city, police reports said.[156]
  • Two assailants on board two cars without license plates kidnapped an Iraqi civilian called Imad Omar Hassan in the middle of Kirkuk.[**Roadside bomb reported hit a US patrol near Kirkuk.[157]
  • Three Iraqi soldiers died Tuesday during a firefight with insurgents in Ramadi that ended when US troops stepped in and imposed a curfew on the western Iraqi city.[158]
  • A car bomb that exploded near a Baghdad restaurant frequented by police killed at least five people on Tuesday, including three policemen. The blast also wounded 13 people.[159]
  • 3 U.S. soldiers killed north of Baghdad, 4th near Balad.[160]

• April 12
  • Car bomb kills 26 outside a Shi'ite mosque north of Baghdad, some 70 people were wounded in the explosion. Hospital officials said casualty tolls were expected to rise as ambulances were still rushing in with victims.[161]
  • Iraq's interior minister has acknowledged the existence of so-called death squads within certain security forces but denied any link with his own ministry.[162]
  • 3 civilians, including a photographer, were also killed by gunmen on Baghdad streets, and an attack at a barber shop in the southern Dora district left the owner and a customer wounded, police said.[163]
  • A roadside bomb killed two policemen in the town of Sulayman Beg, about 90 north of Baghdad.[164]
  • Iraq’s oil production has shrunk to 1.8 million barrels a day, way below average output rates prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of the country. The northern oil fields of Kirkuk now produce (only) about 300,000 barrels a day for local consumption.[165]
  • Gunmen shot dead two Iraqi army soldiers and wounded another while they were traveling in a civilian car in central Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi military officials said.[166]
  • Two trucks carrying goods for US military were destroyed near Ramadi and their drivers killed.[167]
  • One hundred and fifty British soldiers, based in Dhekelia, Cyprus, have been ordered to deploy on operations to southern Iraq, Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Peter Merriman announced.[168]
  • A policeman was shot dead in Baghdad early Wednesday.[169]
  • 2 civilians died when hit by a roadside bomb south of the northern oil hub of Kirkuk and four others were wounded.[170]
  • Two US Soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb south of Baghdad at approximately 9:20 a.m. 12th April.[171]
  • Two rockets hit the British military base at the Basra airport complex about 3 a.m. local time, but there were no damages or casualties. In Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, mortar rounds struck a police station, wounding three policemen.[172]
  • A roadside bomb in the city of Baqouba targeted a convoy carrying the deputy of the governor of Diyala province, wounding two of his guards.[173]
  • An internal affairs officer at the Interior Ministry was killed by men in two cars while leaving his house in Amil in western Baghdad, and a Housing Ministry employee was killed as he drove to work in the same neighbourhood, police said.[174]
  • Insurgent attacks have killed seven U.S. soldiers since Sunday.[175]
  • Two people were killed and 20 wounded when a car bomb exploded near a market in the town of Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.[176]
  • Police said they found the bodies of three men in different areas of the capital. The identities of the victims were not immediately clear.[177]
  • Suicide car bomber kills 2 in Tal Afar and wound 7 others.[178]
  • 4 Iraqis including one policeman and three civilians killed by bomb in Waziriya district in Baghdad early Wednesday morning.[179]
  • Bitter rivalry between two powerful clans for leadership of Iraq's Shiite Muslims snarled efforts Tuesday to agree on the next prime minister, the key issue that is blocking a national unity government.[180]
  • 150 British soldiers based in Cyprus to be deployed in Iraq.[181]
  • [Baghdad] is seething with confusion. Murder, assassination and kidnapping are the words of the day. Blast walls rule all. Security is the growth industry in a city ravaged by bloodshed.[182]
  • Gunmen shot dead three policemen just west of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. Gunmen also shot dead one policeman in the city.[183]

• April 13
  • At least 65,000 Iraqis have fled their homes as a result of sectarian violence and intimidation, according to new figures from the Iraqi government. And the rate at which Iraqis are being displaced is increasing.[184]
  • Gunmen on Thursday fired rockets and mortar rounds at a U.S. military base near the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, witnesses said. local police in Fallujah said they found five bodies in a desert area south of the city.[185]
  • An Iraqi businessman linked to Saddam Hussein told a US television network the kidnapping of US journalist Jill Carroll was a mistake and a ransom was paid for her release.[186]
  • A source at the Yarmouk hospital said it had received the bodies of two truck drivers, who were shot dead by gunmen in Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad.[187]
  • Two civilians were killed during clashes between insurgents and U.S. military forces in central Ramadi.[188]
  • A New Hampshire soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq Tuesday. Pvt. George Roehl, 21, of Manchester, was riding in a convoy south of Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle, relatives said.[189]
  • In Kirkuk gunmen kidnapped the young daughter of an oil company employee. South of the city, a doctor who heads the health center in Daqouq was also abducted.[190]
  • Two Iraqi contractors who supply the army with food were killed by gunmen who stopped their car about 30 miles south of the city of Kirkuk.[191]
  • In Mosul, gunmen killed a policeman who was driving his sons to school. One of the sons was also killed and the other seriously wounded, police said. In southern Iraq, the body of a barber kidnapped four days earlier was found in the city of Basra.[192]
  • A Foreign Ministry worker was kidnapped and a Health Ministry laborer wounded in a shooting that killed her driver. A Housing Ministry employee was also wounded in a drive-by shooting, police said.[193]

• April 22
  • British brigadier attacks America's 'Hollywood' generals.[194]

• April 25
  • US troops still haven't removed detainees from Iraqi ministries where abuse occurred.[195]
  • Turkish military action in Iraq will take place if needed.[196]
  • Shiite Militias Move Into Oil-Rich Kirkuk, as Kurds Dig In.[197]
  • British paratroopers secretly operating in support of the SAS in Iraq are using American uniforms, weapons and vehicles as part of their cover.[198]
  • British troops in Iraq could hand over the Maysan province to local security forces within a matter of weeks.[199]
  • Inspectors Find More Torture at Iraqi Jails - Top General's Pledge To Protect Prisoners 'Not Being Followed'.[200]

• April 26
  • One man was killed on Wednesday night while his son escaped death when gunmen in a car shot at them in a southern Baghdad area, neighbours said.[201]
  • It doesn't cost a lot to set up your own death squad in Iraq. Military uniforms, guns and even police vehicles are easily available to all comers in the markets of Baghdad.[202]
  • Iraq expresses dismay at Turkish incursion into northern Iraq.[203]
  • Conflicting Accounts Obscure Even Identity of Combatants in 2 Days of Street Fighting.[204]
  • US ambassador: America is facing long stay in Iraq.[205]

• April 27
  • Some 25,000 people have fled their homes in the past three weeks alone, in fear of becoming the next victims of escalating sectarian violence, a government official said on Tuesday.[206]
  • More than 90 women become widows each day due to continuing violence countrywide. Since not all the dead are heads-of-households, this would mean that well over 100 a day are dying in Iraq, or over 36,000 a year, by official figures.[207]
  • Iraqi Strife Seeping Into Saudi Arabia.[208]
  • Turkey shells Kurdish rebel targets along border with Iraq.[209]
  • After Year of Gov't, Killings Up in Iraq.[210]
  • Italian soldier gravely injured in Nassiriya attack.[211]
  • 6 Iraqi army soldiers killed in checkpoint attack.[212]
  • Iraqi soldier killed in Ramadi.[213]
  • US forces kill eight insurgents in Ramadi.[214]
  • Insurgents kill sister and brother of new Iraqi leader.[215]
  • 73-year-old Khatab al-Ani shot dead on his way to prayers.[216]
  • US military sees Iraq edging away from civil war.[217]
  • The grieving relatives of an Australian soldier killed in Iraq were distressed to learn that the wrong body accidentally was sent home, the defense minister said Thursday.[218]
  • Iraqi PM visits Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani in Najaf.[219]
  • 7 killed in raids on Iraqi checkpoints.[220]
  • Gunmen kill senior Baghdad judge.[221]
  • Bullet-riddled bodies surface as Iraq political crisis deepens.[222]
  • Brain injuries common for Iraq war vets - Thanks to body armor, thousands survive combat but face lengthy rehab.[223]
  • Abuse Charge Set for a US Colonel.[224]
  • U.S. forces killed four Iraqi police commandos by mistake on Wednesday in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, a joint U.S. and Iraqi military centre said.[225]
  • Militias could spark Iraq civil war - PM-designate.[226]
  • Ayatollah Ali Sistani, one of Iraq's most senior Shia clerics, has called for the next government to dismantle militias operating in the country.[227]

• April 28
  • The bodies of 16 Iraqis who had been kidnapped and tortured were found Thursday in Baghdad and other cities.[228]
  • Iraq War Costs US taxpayers £180bn ($320bn US).[229]
  • U.S. Forces Kill a Key Insurgent in Iraq.[230]
  • The death toll in two days of fighting in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, climbed to 58, including seven Iraqi soldiers.[231]
  • Two mortars or rockets were fired at downtown Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, where Iraq's government meets and the U.S. Embassy is located.[232]
  • American soldier was killed by a roadside bomb that hit a military vehicle north of Baghdad.[233]
  • A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol exploded in southwestern Baghdad at 8:20 a.m., killing one policeman and wounding two.[234]
  • Police found the corpses of two middle-aged Iraqi men in a mostly Sunni Arab neighborhood of western Baghdad.[235]
  • Iraqi forces perched on rooftops in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, exchanged sporadic fire with insurgents in a residential district where guerrillas have been active. One Iraqi soldier was killed.[236]
  • The U.S. military's lack of understanding about Iraqi culture helped create the conditions for the insurgency that U.S. forces face there, according to a military adviser.[237]
  • The State Department's annual terrorism report finds that Iraq is becoming a safe haven for terrorists and has attracted a "foreign fighter pipeline" linked to terrorist plots, cells and attacks throughout the world, a senior State Department.[238]
  • Iraqi forces kill 3 insurgents in raid.[239]
  • In the former rebel bastion of Fallujah, two policemen were killed by a roadside bomb against their patrol.[240]
  • 21 rebels killed,another 43 captured in the last 24 hours.[241]
  • Kurdistan buzzes as other parts of Iraq burn.[242]
  • Iraqis Building Makeshift Roadblocks.[243]
  • Young Iraqi couples court danger from militia.[244]
  • Iraqis faking their IDs to hide religious affiliations.[245]
  • Danish reporters charged after publishing leaked intelligence reports on Iraq.[246]
  • According to a very rough tally of newspaper reports collated by iCasualties website 972 Iraqis, both police and civilians, have died in the days from the 1st April to the 27th April.[247]

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May

• May 10 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani made a public announcement urging all political parties to "quell this bleeding" after figures showed sectarian violence killed 1,091 in Baghdad the prior month.^[1]

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June

• 7 June
  • Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is killed by an American air strike. Zarqawi was a Jordanian militant who had called for attacks against Shi'ites. Most Iraqis hoped his death will help ease sectarian bloodshed, much of which was masterminded by him.

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July

• July 1 - Attacks in the Shi'ite slum of Sadr City in Baghdad killed 66 people.

• July 9 - Shia gunmen allegedly massacred 40 Sunni Muslims in Baghdad after setting up fake security checkpoints a day after the Shi'ite Zahra mosque in the area was bombed.

• July 18 - A car bomb killed 53 people in the holy Shi'ite city of Kufa.

• In July 2006, Baghdad's central morgue received 1,855 bodies, the most since the bombing of a Shia shrine in February prompted a wave of sectarian killings. The Iraqi government stated that 3,438 Iraqis died around the country that month.^[2]

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August

• August 20 - Sunni snipers shot and killed at least 22 Shiites during a pilgrimage in Baghdad.

is the 232nd day of the year (233rd in leap years) in the Gregorian calendar. ...

October

• October 2
  • Fifty bodies were discovered in Kut and at least 31 elsewhere.[248]
  • Troops also detained 59 "wanted suspects." [249]
  • A round also fell on a nearby home during the attack, killing two young children and wounding another.[250]
  • Elsewhere in Basra, gunmen killed an Iraqi intelligence office.[251]
  • Seven headless bodies were found in the Tigris River near Suwayra; their hands were bound.[252]
  • Gunmen also killed 7 in the cities of Kut, Mosul, Dhuluiya and Ishaqi.[253]
  • Stray fire killed a woman and child sleeping on a roof in Sadr City.[254]
  • Car bombs took the lives of 4 in Latifiya and 5 in Falluja. [255]
  • Twenty-four men were kidnapped from a meat processing plant in the Amel district and placed into a truck; two were shot when they refused to board the vehicle.[256]
  • Another 14 men were kidnapped from computer stores adjacent to the Baghdad Technical University in Central Baghdad, but their fate is unknown.[257]
  • A noontime bomb blast at a market in Al Nasr reportedly killed 4 and injured 13.[258]
• October 3
  • Unidentified gunmen killed Naeem Manei, an assistant judge, in Hay.[259]
  • Police also found the body of Col Adnan Hussein al Hreshawi, an officer in Hussein’s army. He was cuffed and shot several times.[260]
  • A suicide bomber killed three and wounded nineteen at a fish market in Baghdad. [261]
  • In the Dora neighborhood, a mortar attack killed one, injured 17. [262]
  • In another Baghdad neighborhood, a mortar attack killed seven and injured 25. [263]**Two women were found dead in Kut. One was beheaded, the other burned.[264]
  • Morters fells on Mahmoudiya, killing one and injuring five.[265]
  • In Muqdadiyah, gunmen entered a home and killed one while injuring three others.[266]
• October 4
  • In Tal Afar, a suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi army and police checkpoint; three policemen, two soldiers and nine civilians were wounded.[267]
  • Six policemen were killed and their chief, Brigadier Shaaban al-Obeidi, wounded when a roadside bomb struck their motorcade near Al-Baghdadi.[268]
  • In Ramadi, a car bomber rammed his vehicle into the entrance of a police station and wounded four. [269]
  • Gunmen killed a translator working for U.S. forces in Siniya.[270]
  • Police found the bodies of four men, three near Tuz Khurmatu and one near Tikrit.[271]
  • In Mosul, mortars landed on an army recruitment center. Four were killed and eight wounded.[272]
  • Police in Muqdadiya reported that they killed 11 foreign fighters, including nine Syrians, a Saudi national and a Sudanese man.[273]
• October 5
  • The bodies of four people, including one woman, were found floating in the Tigris River at Sweera. They were shot and possibly tortured.[274]
  • Several mortar rounds fell on a small village near the town of Balad Ruz. Two people were killed and five wounded.[275]
  • Near Kirkuk, one body with gunshot wounds to the head was discovered.[276]
  • During clashes between U.S. forces and insurgents in Ramadi, four people were killed and six wounded.[]
  • In Baquba, gunmen killed a police officer and injured another.[277]
  • Militants separately shot dead two civilians in the al-Moallemeen and al-Tahrir districts. [278]
  • A child was killed and his two brothers were injured by bomb planted near their home.[279]
  • In Mahmudiya, Iraqi police found the bodies of two people who were shot to death.[280]
  • Just outside of Mahmudiya, mortar rounds fell on the home of a man; police said he was killed and five members of his family were wounded.[281]
• October 6
  • Seven more bodies were discovered floating in the Tigris at Suwayrah.[282]
  • Also in Baghdad, police recovered the bodies of 35 people in the Sunni, western half of the capital. The bodies were tortured and shot in the head.[283]
  • Mortars fell in the Qahira neighborhood, injuring seven people.[284]
• October 7
  • In Mahawil, the child of a Shi’te tribal sheihk was injured by a bomb blast.[285]
  • A gunman attacking an army checkpoint in Ishaqi was killed. Four soldiers were wounded in the attack.[286]
  • In Baaj, gunmen killed a contractor and two of his employees.[287]
  • Near the Syrian border at Sinjar, two Yezidi laborers were killed and two others wounded by gunmen.[288]
  • In Mosul, gunmen killed two, including a woman, in separate incidents.[289]
  • Killing two and wounding four, mortar rounds struck a home in Iskandariya.[290]
  • At an Iraqi army checkpoint in Tal Afar, a suicide car bomber killed at least 17 and wounded 13.[291]
  • In Khan Bani Saad, a man was killed when a roadside bomb blasted his car.[292]
  • Sheikh Abdel Sattar Baziya in Anbar province said tribal fighters had killed 34 foreign fighters and captured 40 others during a week-long drive.[293]
  • In Baquba, two bound and tortured bodies were discovered.[294]
  • A mortar also landed on the main bus station; one civilian was killed and eight were wounded. [295]
  • Elsewhere in the capital, gunmen killed two and wounded one worker at a bakery in the relatively upscale neighborhood of Mansour. [296]
  • In Baghdad, at least 51 corpses have been discovered, many in the Sunni western half.[297]
• October 8
  • In Haditha, gunmen killed five people.[298]
  • In Baiji, gunmen killed a university student.[299]
  • Gunmen killed a farmer in Ishaqi.[300]
  • Mortar rounds killed one and wounded two others in Iskandariya.[301]
  • In Samarra, gunmen shot to death an Iraqi policeman and his 8-year-old son as they left a mosque.[302]
  • A roadside blast in Tikrit killed four civilians and wounded two others.[303]
  • Outside a hospital in Muqdadiya, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives, killing two people and wounding seven.[304]
  • In Diwaniya, a combined force of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers killed 30 members of the Shi’te militia.[305]
  • In Mosul: Gunmen killed a Kurdish lawyer and the mother of a man who works with the city police.[306]
  • Also in the capital, Police recovered the bodies of 15 people who were shot to death and possibly tortured.[307]
  • A bomb targeting a police patrol injured 20 in Nasr Square.[308]
  • Gunmen killed an employee of the Sharqia satellite channel, while he was driving his car in the Yarmouk neighborhood and an Iraqi soldier in the Mansour district.[309]
• October 9
  • In Tal Afar, a suicide car bomber killed a policeman and wounded 13 others at a police checkpoint.[310]
  • Mortars fell on Mussayab’s residential district. One man was killed, two others wounded.[311]
  • Outside of Khalida, police found a body, which was shot in the head.[312]
  • In Falluja, gunmen killed a policemen.[313]
  • In Basra, a bomb planted in Galli Najim’s car exploded, killing one bodyguard and wounding two others. [314]
  • In Baquba, Gunmen killed Colonel Faleh al-Obeidi and Lt. Col. Salih al-Karkhi in separate events.[315]
  • In a village near town, a roadside bomb killed two policemen and wounded three others.[316]
  • Elsewhere in Baghdad, Abdul-Sattar Abdullah Al-Mashhadani was killed at a sectarian militia checkpoint.[317]
  • Also in the capital, gunmen dressed as policemen stormed the Sulaikh district home of Major General Amer al-Hashimi and killed him; they also killed an unknown number of bodyguards and kidnapped his son.[318]
  • A car bomb killed at least 13 and wounded 46 in the Shaab district.[319]
  • In Baghdad: Police found at least 40 corpses throughout the city.[320]
  • In the Sadr City neighborhood, gunmen kidnapped 11 soldiers from a checkpoint.[321]
  • Near the near Al-Mudallal mosque in Al-Ateefiya suburb, six civilians were also kidnapped.[322]
• October 10
  • A roadside bomb in Rasheed killed two police officers and wounded four others.[323]
  • In Tal Afar, police discovered four bodies.[324]
  • Gunmen killed three and wounded one person in Ishaqi.[325]
  • In Balad, gunmen attacked a car belonging to a senior Iraqi officer. One bodyguard was killed.[326]
  • Near Hilla, gunmen killed a policeman and a bomb near the headquarters of a political party killed one person.[327]
  • Near Falluja, police found the shot and tortured bodies of four.[328]
  • A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed two policemen outside Mussayab.[329]
  • In Mosul, gunmen killed a police colonel and a civilian in separate drive-by shootings.[330]
  • Also, roadside bombs targeting police patrols instead wounded five civilians.[331]
  • In Diwaniyah, battles between joint U.S./Iraqi forces and militiamen subsided, but not without the deaths of 11 militiamen near the Al Qaim mosque.[332]
  • In Ramadi, a U.S. airstrike killed seven militiamen.[333]
  • In Baghdad, authorities discovered 110 more bodies throughout the city. They were shot to death and some bore evidence of torture.[334]
  • Gunmen also kidnapped 11 worshippers who were exiting a Sunni mosque. [335]
  • Also in the capital, a roadside bomb killed four and injured nine in the Azamiyah district.[336]
  • Bomb blasts in the Dura neighborhood, killed one policeman and injured four others.[337]
  • In a separate explosion in Dura, 10 bystanders were killed and four others were injured in an explosion outside a bakery.[338]
  • In the Yarmouk neighborhood, a roadside blast injured a policeman and six other people. [339]
• October 11
  • Near Tikrit, a roadside bomb killed one and injured another person.[340]
  • Near Baquba, gunmen killed three and injured a three others when they sprayed the victims’ car with bullets. [341]
  • In Falluja, gunmen shot dead a policemen as he was standing in front of his home.[342]
  • Gunmen stormed the home of Sheikh Raad Mutar Saleh in Suwayra and shot the Mandanien religious cleric dead.[343]
  • In Iskandariya, a roadside bomb blasted Brigadier Qais al-Mamouri’s convoy; he is the chief of Babil police. He was not hurt, but his driver and two bodyguards were injured.[344]
  • The bodies of seven men were discovered in Kut. Three were recovered from the Tigris; the others were found elsewhere. All had been tortured and shot multiple times.[345]
  • In western Baghdad, gunmen shot dead a member of the Iraqi national police force as he was driving in his car. [346]
  • Gunmen also stormed a home in the Dura district; they killed four and injured two other members of one family.[347]
  • In the Ghandeer district, a car bomb targeting a police patrol killed two and wounded 10, including four policemen.[348]
  • Also, a booby-trapped car in a southern neighborhood caused the deaths of two bystanders and injured 22 others, including eight policemen.[349]
  • In the Al-Mansour district a civilian was injured when two car bombs exploded.[350]
  • Three Iraqis were killed and eight were injured by a car bomb in the Sara district.[351]
  • A car bomb near an auto parts store in southwestern Baghdad killed the store owner and wounded four pedestrians.[352]
  • In the Amil neighborhood, a roadside bomb killed five laborers and wounded six others.[353]
  • A roadside bomb exploded near the Yarmouk hospital, killing one and wounding six.[354]
• October 12
  • In Ramadi, a suicide truck bomber blew himself up outside army headquarters.[355]
  • Also in Mosul, police killed eight militiamen and confiscated their vehicles. [356]
  • In separate attacks around the city, four civilians and two policemen were killed, including Group Captain Ali Subhi Al-Mashhadani and two of his sons.[357]
  • In Diyala, nine were killed in four separate incidents. Among the dead are a director of the provincial department for children's affairs and his son who were killed when gunmen stormed their home.[358]
  • In Falluja, a disembodied head was discovered.[359]
  • Gunmen killed four civilians on a road between Kirkuk and Baghdad. When family and soldiers arrived to recover the bodies, a booby-trap went off and killed a soldier.[360]
  • A woman was killed and six others wounded during a bomb attack in a residential neighborhood of Samarra.[361]
  • Four bodies were found in Kirkuk. They bore evidence of torture.[362]
  • Gunmen attacking a police patrol killed five, including Lieutenant Basem Mohammad.[363]
  • Near Kirkuk, a suicide bomber rammed his car into an Iraqi Army checkpoint; the bomber was killed and a soldier was injured.[364]
  • In Suweira, four blindfolded and bound bodies were found in the Tigris River. [365]
  • Elsewhere in Baghdad, at least 40 bullet-riddled bodies were discovered throughout the city on Wednesday and 17 more today, including the body of Azad Mohammed Hussein, a Kurdish radio reporter.[366]
  • Four people were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a petrol station in the Qahira neighborhood.[367]
  • In Qurtaba Square, two booby-trapped cars exploded, killing 5 and wounded 25.[368]
  • Also, 10 Iraqis were killed or injured when an explosives-laden motorcycle was detonated in the Cairo neighborhood.[369]
  • In Baghdad, 11 were killed when gunmen raided the al-Shaabiya satellite television offices.[370]
• October 13
  • In Khan Bani Saad, a battle between Iraqi soldiers and militiamen left six wounded.[371]
  • Near Garma, two bodies were discovered. They were shot and possibly tortured.[372]
  • A suicide car bomber in Mazraa drove his car into a patrol and detonated it. Three Iraqi soldiers were killed.[373]
  • In Kirkuk, Three Shi’ite youths were gunned down next to a cigarette stand, and an off-duty soldier was killed in front of his house.[374]
  • Near Suwayrah, gunmen killed six peasants and two children, all female, in an orchard; two other women were kidnapped.[375]
  • Sheikh Radhi al-Assadi was gunned down near Basra. He was the head of a local Shi’ite religious association. [376]
  • In Baghdad, police found 36 bodies scattered throughout the city. [377]
• October 14
  • In the Shi'ite village of Wahda, gunmen killed four men and three women.[378]
  • A Shi’te family of four were killed when gunmen stormed their house in Mahmudiya.[379]
  • In Hawija, clashes between the Iraqi Army and militiamen killed two militants and injured five Iraqi soldiers. [380]
  • Mortar rounds also hit a building, wounding three policemen.[381]
  • In Diwaniyah, gunmen killed a teacher, Mohammad Mohsin Al Marmadhi, during a drive-by shooting.[382]
  • A Samarra shopkeeper was shot dead in the city’s center.[383]
  • Gunmen in Safiya killed a Shi’ite family of 10. Five women and three children were among the dead.[384]
  • In Balad, the sectarian killings escalated; twenty-six bodies were found throughout the city.[385]
  • Four beheaded bodies were fished out of the Tigris River at Suwayra.[386]
• October 15
  • At Tal Afar, a man wearing a bomb vest detonated himself near a group of policemen; five were killed, including three officers. [387]
  • In Kut, clashes between gunmen and police, left three officers wounded.[388]
  • Near Falluja, four tortured and shot bodies were found.[389]
  • Gunmen stormed a home in Latifiya, killing a Shi’ite family of eight. Among the dead were two children, three women and three men.[390]
  • In Mosul, gunmen stormed a home. A married couple and their two sons were killed. Their two daughters-in-law were injured. [391]
  • In Balad, 20 more bodies were found in addition to the 26 found yesterday. They are believed to be in retaliation for the murder of 17 Shi’ites on Friday.[392]
  • In Kirkuk, there were at least six bomb blasts, including one at the all-girls al-Mallimin high school. There, suicide bomber detonated bombs strapped to his body; ten people, including two girls, were killed. [393]
  • A different suicide bomber targeted the Facilities Protection Service’s convoy; five were killed and ten were wounded in that attack.[394]
  • Another suicide bomber detonated his cargo in a marketplace in a southern part of the city; three were killed and eight injured. Early estimates place the total number of wounded at more than 70.[395]
  • A separate bomb attack on a passing convoy of security contractors killed two.[396]
  • Another roadside bomb wounded two civilians in eastern Baghdad.[397]
  • A separate roadside bomb killed one and injured two in the Amil district. [398]
• October 16
  • Gunmen stormed a home in Mahmuyida and killed a Shi'ite family of five.[399]
  • Clashes between gunmen and military forces in Kirkuk left one gunmen dead and four others injured.[400]
  • In Basra, an Iraqi security worker was injured when militiamen shot a rocket-propelled grenade at an empty vehicle belonging to the British consulate.[401]
  • In Khalis, a policeman and a civilian were killed in a drive-by shooting.[402]
  • Gunmen also shot dead four and wounded seven civilians when they attacked a crowd of people at a bus station. [403]
  • Gunmen killed two civilians in Muqdadiyah.[404]
  • In the Shi’ite town of Najaf, a roadside bomb targeted the head of the police crime department, Mohammad Daeekh; one bodyguard was wounded in the attack.[405]
  • Gunmen also attacked a police patrol, wounding two officers.[406]
  • The mayor of Suwayra reports that a car bomb killed nine and wounded 35 near a bank in the town’s market.[407]
  • In Balad, the bodies of 28 more Sunnis were discovered.[408]
  • Just south of Baghdad, gunmen killed one member of an oil protection force. [409]
  • Three roadside bombs exploded near a bank in central Baghdad, killing three and wounding seven. [410]
  • In the al-Jadida district, a car bomb blasted a patrol near a bakery; seven were wounded, including four policemen.[411]
  • Near the University of Technology, a roadside bomb wounded three Iraqi policemen.[412]
  • In the Fadel neighborhood, clashes between gunmen and the Iraqi army in Midas Square left three civilians dead and another six wounded. [413]
• October 17
  • A suicide car bomber targeted a checkpoint in Shirqat. He killed a soldier and wounded two others.[414]
  • In Samarra, Gunmen injured Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai's two nephews; he is an official at the Sunni Endowment group.[415]
  • A booby-trapped car in Al-Saydiya killed two and injured 10 near the Shakir Al-Oboud Mosque.[416]
  • A roadside bomb blast in Karmah killed five Iraqi soldiers.[417]
  • In Kirkuk, two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the police academy.[418]
  • Ten people were killed in separate shootings in Basra; the dead included four students and a well-known doctor.[419]
  • In Fallujah, gunmen shot dead two policemen in their patrol car.[420]
  • In Balad Ruz, gunmen stormed a Shi’ite home and killed a woman and her four grown sons. The father was also injured.[421]
  • Four bound and tortured bodies were found in Haditha.[422]
  • In Baghdad, two bound and blindfolded bodies were found early today in the capital; another 30 bodies were found later in various parts of the city.[423]
  • Mortar rounds fell on Wathiq Square and in the Doura neighborhood; five died and 20 were injured.[424]
  • A car bomb in the capital left one policeman dead and three others injured.[425]
• October 18
  • Gunmen killed a police officer in Fallujah.[426]
  • In Diyala, 20 more bodies were found on Wednesday.[427]
  • Near Kirkuk, three Iraqi soldiers were killed and three others wounded by a roadside bomb.[428]
  • In Suwayra, gunmen killed a policeman and a former member of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party.[429]
  • In central Baghdad, a car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol wounded five civilians instead.[430]
  • A roadside bomb killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded two others in the Yarmouk district.[431]
  • A booby-trapped car on Kifah Street killed one civilian and wounded 12 others.[432]
  • And 31 more bodies were discovered dumped around the capital.[433]
• October 19
  • In Baquba, three police officers were killed in clashes with gunmen.[434]
  • At a busy market in Khalis, a roadside bomb blast killed 10 and injured 20 shoppers shortly before the Iftar, the meal that breaks the daily fasting during Ramadan.[435]
  • Four Iraqis were killed, including two policemen, in clashes between police and rebels in Basra. Eight others were wounded, but 17 kidnap victims were freed.[436]
  • In the southern Maysan Province, eight were wounded in clashes between militiamen and police.[437]
  • Gunmen killed a man during an attack in the town of Diwaniya.[438]
  • In Kirkuk, a suicide car bomber blew up his explosives at the entrance to the Al-Mansour Mosque as Iraqi soldiers were waiting to collect their salaries; 11 were killed and 60 others were wounded; among the dead were Colonel Abdul-Wahhab Aziz and his son.[439]
  • A bomb at the headquarters of the First Legion for Infrastructure took the lives of two Iraqi soldiers and injured four others.[440]
  • In Mahmudiya, several mortar rounds blasted a residential neighborhood, killing two and wounding three members of one family.[441]
  • Four bodies bearing gunshot wounds were also found in the city.[442]
  • A roadside bomb killed four and wounded one other person in Kut.[443]
  • Police found seven tortured and shot bodies on a road outside town.[444]
  • In Mosul, a suicide bomber blew up a fuel truck, killing 13 and wounding 25 others at a police center and neighboring gas station; over 40 cars were reportedly destroyed.[445]
  • In Baghdad, 27 bodies were discovered in various parts of the city this morning.[446]
  • In the Doura district, a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed three policemen and two civilians; nine civilians and three policemen were also wounded.[447]
  • A pair of roadside bombs outside the Iraqi National Theatre in central Baghdad wounded two people.[448]
  • In a separate incident, gunmen attacked a police station, killing four policemen and wounding 10 civilians.[449]
• October 20
  • In Aziziyah, gunmen stormed a home and killed nine members of a Shi'ite family.[450]
  • Two militia members were killed by coalition forces in Muqdadiyah.[451]
  • Gunmen killed three and wounded three others in Khalis.[452]
  • Gunmen killed a worker and three others who work at a U.S. base near Baiji.[453]
  • Fifteen mortars fell on Balad, killing nine and injuring 12.[454]
  • Twenty-five were killed and 97 injured in police clashes with the Mahdi Army at several police stations in Amarah today.[455]
  • Also, a roadside bomb killed one civilian and wounded three others in the Doura district.[456]
• October 21
  • Five bodies were found in unspecified locations or from the Tigris River.[457]
  • At least two people were killed and four were wounded during gunfights between rival Shi'ite militias in Hamza.[458]
  • In Hawija, gunmen killed two Iraqi soldiers.[459]
  • U.S. forces killed a suspected Al Qaeda member during a raid in Ramadi.[460]
  • In Suwayra, clashes between the Al-Mahdi Army (a.k.a. Al-Sadr Militia) and Iraqi forces killed nine people and wounded an Iraqi police captain.[461]
  • In Baghdad, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives on an Iraqi bus packed with holiday shoppers; five passengers were killed and 15 were injured.[462]
  • Over in a northern section of the capital, two civilians were killed and five were injured when a car loaded with explosives blew up.[463]
  • The bodies of four kidnapped electrical workers were delivered to a morgue.[464]
• October 22
  • Four bodies bearing gunshot wounds were found in Basra.[465]
  • Near Baquba, gunmen attacked a police convoy. Fifteen police recruits were killed, 25 were wounded and several were kidnapped. [466]
  • In Shujeiriya, clashes between Sunni and Shi’te tribes left nine dead.[467]
  • In Mosul, five bodies, one belonging to a policeman and all bearing gunshot wounds, were discovered.[468]
  • In Haditha, four people were killed and five others wounded in clashes between U.S. forces and gunmen.[469]
  • Near Mahaweel, a roadside bomb blasted a car, killing the civilian within it.[470]
  • Also in the capital, gunmen in the Yarmuk district killed two street cleaners.[471]
  • And U.S. forces came upon a group of gunmen planting a roadside bomb in the Doura district; five of the men were killed and another was wounded after aircraft were called to the scene.[472]
• 23 October
  • In Hit, Coalition forces killed six militiamen and wounded four others.[473]
  • In and near Balad, U.S. forces killed five militiamen.[474]
  • An Iraqi soldier was killed in clashes with gunmen near the town, and a mortar wounded three in town.[475]
  • Five bodies were pulled out of the Tigris River at Suwayra. They were bound, blindfolded, tortured and had their throats slit.[476]
  • In Amarah, the beheaded, bullet-riddled and severely tortured body of Hussein al-Bahadli was found; he was the brother of a local Mahdi Army leader whose kidnapping by local police last week intensified hostilities between the militia and police.[477]
  • Elsewhere in town, two police commanders were shot dead. [478]
  • One was killed in front of his home. The other was kidnapped and his body later found dumped.[479]
  • At least two other policemen were also kidnapped and killed.[480]
  • In Baghdad, 52 bodies bearing gunshot wounds were found scattered around the city.[481]
  • In the al-Fadhil neighborhood, gunmen killed four officers from Facility Security Services.[482]
  • A car bomb in the Bab Al-sheikh district killed three, including a police officer, and wounded 13 others.[483]
  • Another car bomb, this time in the Ghazaliya neighborhood, killed two policemen and wounded four others.[484]
  • Near Beirut square, another car bomb killed a civilian and wounded another 13.[485]
  • Just outside the capital yet another car bomb, this one targeting a American military patrol, killed two civilians and wounded five others.[486]
• October 24
  • In Anbar, the U.S. Army killed six gunmen and arrested four others after a firefight.[487]
  • Two died near the Syrian border when a bomb exploded at a market in the town of Qaim.[488]
  • In Kirkuk, a roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed two soldiers and wounded another.[489]
  • Meanwhile, separate roadside bombs wounded three policemen and two civilians.[490]
  • In Baghdad, 14 bodies were found throughout the city or in the Tigris River.[491]
  • Clashes between gunmen and police at the Diyala bridge left three dead and 12 wounded.[492]
  • In the Zaafaraniya neighborhood, clashes between gunmen and police left two civilians dead and eight others wounded.[493]
  • A bomb inside a Sadriya district ice cream shop killed one and injured seven others, while in northern Baghdad, a bomb laden car that was parked between a mosque and a coffee shop killed two and injured 11 others when it was detonated.[494]
  • Another car bomb killed two and wounded three in the Hurriya neighborhood.[495]
• October 25
  • Seven bound and shot bodies were found scattered around Mosul.[496]
  • In Diwaniya, four people were wounded when a grenade was tossed at their home.[497]
  • Also, gunmen wounded three policemen and killed an Iraqi soldier in separate incidents.[498]
  • Six were killed in Balad Ruz when a roadside bomb blasted their vehicle.[499]
  • In Yusufiya, a mortar killed one man and wounded three others.[500]
  • A suicide truck driver set off his explosives near a hospital in Baquba; two policemen were killed and three civilians were wounded.[501]
  • In Tal Afar, three soldiers were killed and another two wounded when a bomb exploded in the home they were entering.[502]
  • Four bound and gagged corpses were found in Mahmudiya.[503]
  • On the Syrian border at Husaybah, two suicide car bombers were killed and another was injured after they detonated their cargo at a market. A bystander was also wounded.[504]
  • In Baghdad, Iraqi forces launched a raid against "death squads" based in the Sadr City section of the capital. When they came under fire, the Iraqi troops asked for American support. U.S. air strikes then killed ten and wounded 20.[505]
  • Elsewhere in the capital, a roadside bomb wounded two policemen in the Camp Sara neighborhood, and four handcuffed bodies

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• October 26
  • Gunmen in Basra wounded Sheik Dhiyaa al-Ibadi and two bodyguards.[507]
  • South of Mosul, gunmen killed a local Arab official.[508]
  • Seven bullet-riddled bodies were found scattered about town.[509]
  • At least 28 policemen, including a commander, were killed and another 25 were injured when gunmen attacked their convoy near Baquba.[510]
  • Another attack took place at a police station; six officers were killed and 10 others were injured. The Iraqi army was called in to support the police.[511]
• October 27
  • At Hufariya, Iraqi troops stormed a militia hideout and killed 10 people.[512]
  • Nine bodies, bearing gunshot wounds and signs of torture, were pulled out of the Tigris in Suwayra and Kut.[513]
  • In Fallujah, a roadside bomb targeting a police vehicle killed a policeman and wounded three others who were aboard the vehicle.[514]
  • Mortars fell on the Mussayab home of Abdul Nasir al-Janabi, who is a member of parliament; a woman was killed. [515]
  • At least five dumped bodies were discovered in Mosul; two belonged to police officers.[516]
  • Four were killed and five injured when their van was attacked upon their return from a funeral in Najaf.[517]
  • Gunmen killed two policemen in separate incidents; three civilians were killed in other parts of the city.[518]
  • In Baghdad, mortars struck the Saba'a Al-Boor district and injured seven people.[519]
  • Late Thursday and overnight into Friday, 11 bodies were found scattered throughout the capital.[520]
• October 28
  • 11 soldiers traveling in a minibus were kidnapped in Udhaim.[521]
  • Two civilians died during an attack by gunmen in Muqdadiya.[522]
  • U.S. forces attacked Dhuluiya. Eleven were killed and six were wounded.[523]
  • In Shejeriyah, U.S. forces killed 15 militiamen during a raid on their hideout.[524]
  • Two bullet-riddled bodies bearing evidence of torture were found on a road between Kirkuk and Hawija.[525]
  • Three bodies were found in Baquba. Two were discovered in the central district, the third in a river. All were thought to be victims of sectarian violence.[526]
  • In Iskandariya, a car bomb exploded near a residential area, killing at least five and wounded 20 others.[527]
  • Iraqi soldiers raided a home in Hawija; one soldier was killed and three wounded in clashes with gunmen inside.[528]
  • At a separate home, gunmen killed Halima Ahmed Hussein al Juburi, the head of a woman’s organization, and then shot dead a police officer as they fled.[529]
  • At Nasariya, a Nepalese security guard was wounded when gunmen attacked the electrical plant he was protecting.[530]
  • One policemen was killed and three others were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol in Mahdudiya.[531]
  • Five people, including a policeman, were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a municipal building in Dujail.[532]
  • In Ramadi, a U.S. airstrike killed six members of a single family, including three women and two children. The military denied the airstrike, but reported that they had killed an undisclosed number of militiamen with precision munitions and tank fire.[533]
  • Two soldiers and one civilian were killed plus another three civilians were wounded during clashes between the Iraqi army and militiamen in Falluja.[534]
  • Gunmen killed a former member of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party in Wihda.[535]
  • In Khalis, gunmen fired on a commuter bus carrying mourners from a funeral in Sadr City. Five were killed.[536]
  • A body was fished out of a river near Numaniya; it bore gunshot wounds and evidence of torture.[537]
  • In Suwayra, five bodies bearing gunshot wounds and signs of torture were fished out of the Tigris River.[538]
  • U.S. troops killed a suspect and detained ten others including a senior al Qaeda member, who disguised as a woman, in a raid just south of the capital.[539]
  • In Baghdad, 12 bodies thought to belong to victims of sectarian violence were found scattered in different locations.[540]
  • Mortars rained on the Abu Dshir neighborhood, killing one and wounding at least 25 others.[541]
  • A rocket struck an outdoor market in the Doura neighborhood; one person was killed, 35 others wounded. [542]
  • A bomb in a minibus blasted one person to his death and nine others were wounded in the attack that occurred on Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad.[543]
  • A roadside bomb wounded two officers who were guarding an oil industry facility in eastern Baghdad.[544]
  • And in the Sadr City district, a car bomb killed one and wounded 11 others.[545]
• October 29
  • Three bodies were discovered in Mosul. One belonged to a police officer, another to an off-duty soldier.[546]
  • Seventeen instructers were kidnapped from a Basra police academy this morning; their bodies were found in the afternoon.[547]
  • In Diwaniya, Maitham Taqi al-Asadi who translated for U.S. forces was killed by gunmen.[548]
  • A roadside bomb in Kirkuk wounded two people, including a policeman.[549]
  • In al-Shirqat, a roadside bomb blasted to death a police officer.[550]
  • A bomb exploded near a primary school in Samarra, wounding eight people.[551]
  • In Baquba, a roadside bomb killed five soldiers in an army patrol.[552]
  • About 15 miles outside the city, gunmen attacked a convoy of Sunni pilgrims on their way to Mecca; at least one person died.[553]
  • U.S. forces and Iraqi police killed 17 suspects during an airstrike and ground clashes near Balad.[554]
  • In Tal al-Thahab, a village near Balad, gunmen killed three Iraqi soldiers.[555]
  • In Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s bodyguard was shot and wounded while in a government vehicle; the prime minister was not present.[556]
  • At least 25 bodies were found today; among them were two al-Aytaf TV announcers.[557]
  • In the Cairo suburb, gunmen using machine guns fire upon a police vehicle near the Al-Nida mosque; two policemen were killed and a third seriously wounded.[558]
  • A double bombing occurred in the Furat district, injuring one woman and a car bomb killed two policemen and injured two more in a separate incident in the Binoog neighborhood.[559]
  • Four people were killed and four others were injured when mortars fell near the Institute of Technology.[560]
• October 30
  • In Kirkuk, a suicide bomber detonated his belt at a police station. Two officers and a child were killed, 11 others wounded.[561]
  • In Baquba, gunmen killed four Iraqis, including two policemen, in the Mafraq district.[562]
  • Six blindfolded, bullet-riddled bodies bearing evidence of torture were discovered in Mahmudiya.[563]
  • Near Khalis, a roadside bomb blasted a vehicle carrying laborers. Two were killed and three were wounded.[564]
  • The bodies of six policemen were fished out of the river in Suwayra. The corpses bore gunshot wounds and signs of torture.[565]
  • In Balad, coalition forces disarming a roadside bomb killed two militiamen they noticed nearby.[566]
  • Five were wounded in Mosul when mortars struck an electrical power unit.[567]
  • At a police center in Baiji, gunmen killed two policemen and destroyed one car.[568]
  • Three were killed and six wounded when a car bomb went off in the Amil district.[569]
  • In the Hurriya neighborhood, two were wounded when a car bomb exploded there as well.[570]
  • In the al-Bayaa district, a car bomb killed seven and wounded 25 others.[571]
  • In Baghdad’s Sadr City area, day laborers waiting for jobs at a market square were greeted by a bomb hidden in a trash bin instead; at least 33 were killed and 59 wounded.[572]
  • Elsewhere, gunmen killed Essam al-Rawi and his bodyguard near his home in the capital.[573]
• October 31
  • During clashes in Tal Afar, four gunmen and an Iraqi soldier were killed.[574]
  • Eight bodies, which were bound, gagged and shot, were discovered in Baquba.[575]
  • A policeman and young boy were killed and four others wounded during clashes between police and gunmen.[576]
  • Two shop-owners were shot and wounded by a suspected Mahdi Army member, and at least four other people were shot and killed by gunmen throughout the city.[577]
  • A suicide car bomber in the Shaab neighborhood drove his car into a Shi’ite wedding party; at least 15 were killed and other 19 were wounded.[578]
  • Five militiamen were killed and one was detained when coalition forces raided their Baghdad building; they are suspected of being members of al Qaeda.[579]
  • In the Doura district, a roadside bomb killed a policeman while wounding three others.[580]
  • A car bomb at a Sadr City entry point killed three and wounded seven. [581]
  • Five unidentified bodies, including a woman’s, were so far discovered in eastern Baghdad; they were found bound, blindfolded, and showing signs of torture.[582]

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November

• November 1
  • In Falluja, police found five bodies bearing gunshot and evidence of torture.[583]
  • Two suicide bomb attacks north of Ramadi took the lives of five policemen and wounded three others.[584]
  • Nine bodies were found in Mosul; one was charred, but the rest bore gunshot wounds.[585]
  • Gunmen also killed a policewoman, and a roadside bomb wounded two other officers.[586]
  • Two policemen were killed, three others wounded when a bomb blew up in the al-Aden district.[587]
  • In Suwayra, ten bodies were discovered in the Tigris River; one was beheaded.[588]
  • During clashes between police and smugglers in the border town of Safwan, Sunni cleric Sheikh Yasin al-Kubaisi and his son Ahmed were killed.[589]
  • Thirty-five bodies were found scattered in the capital; they bore the usual gunshot wounds and signs of torture, which suggest sectarian violence.[590]
  • In the southern Bayaa district, a bomb exploded in a minibus, killing three and wounding seven.[591]
  • A roadside bomb killed two and wounded seven people at a market in central Baghdad’s Shoran neighborhood.[592]
  • In eastern Baghdad, a car bomb exploded, killing a police officer and four civilians; seven people were also wounded. [593]
  • Also, a mortar round landed in eastern Baghdad where the blast killed a police officer and wounded two others.[594]
  • A member of the Transportation Ministry protection force was kidnapped while visiting relatives in Rahsad, and a teacher was abducted from his classroom at a school in Amarah.[595]
  • The head of Iraq's basketball federation and coach to blind athletes is the latest sports figure kidnapped, and another Sunni coach were abducted from a youth club.[596]
  • In Baghdad, the leader of the Iraqi National Party, Hazim al-Hemedawi, was wounded along with two bodyguards, when gunmen attacked their convoy.[597]
• November 2
  • In Tal Afar, four suspected militiamen were killed and another ten were arrested.[598]
  • Three bound bodies were discovered in Yusufiya.[599]
  • A car bomb placed in a Mahmudiya marketplace killed a man and wounded four others.[600]
  • Four blindfolded bodies were found elsewhere in town.[601]
  • A mortar landed on a house, killing two people and injuring seven others in Mosul.[602]
  • In Kirkuk, gunmen shot dead an oil security policman.[603]
  • In a separate incident, gunmen stormed a pharmacy and killed a female pharmacist.[604]
  • In a Sadr City marketplace, a motorcycle bomb killed seven and wounded 45 others.[605]
  • A bomb in the al-Gadeedah district market killed two Iraqis and wounded 22 more people.[606]
  • In central Baghdad, gunmen killed three policemen and injured two others.[607]
  • Two were killed and five wounded when mortars landed on a Shi’ite mosque in a northern suburb.[608]
  • Mortars also fell in the Rahmaniya neighborhood, killing two and wounding four.[609]
  • Two bound, blindfolded bodies bearing gunshot wounds were found.[610]
  • Gunmen opened fire on a primary school in a southern neighborhood, wounding the principal and three students.[611]
  • A bakery in west Baghdad was the scene of a separate attack in which gunmen shot dead two people and wounded two others.[612]
• November 3
  • In Zab, gunmen killed a fuel station employee.[613]
  • Two policemen were killed in central Kirkuk when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol.[614]
  • In the town of Manathira, Shiite cleric Sadiq al-Hakim’s bodyguard was shot dead by gunmen.[615]
  • At a police checkpoint in Numaniya, two gunmen were wounded and a third arrested.[616]
  • In Kifil, a Shi'ite sheikh was shot dead as he left his home.[617]
  • Seven bodies were fished out of the Tigris at Suwayrah.[618]
  • Three bodies were found in the Wadha area, and two more bullet-riddled bodies were found outside Karmah.[619]
  • In Baghdad, the harvest of corpses yielded 87 unidentified bodies and one severed head over a 36-hour period ending Friday night.[620]
  • Also in Doura, mortars fell on a private home, killing three family members and wounding six.[621]
  • Three Katyusha rockets landed in a southern neighborhood, killing one man and wounding nine others, which included women and children.[622]
  • U.S. forces, conducting raids in the Mahmudiya area killed 13 suspected militiamen and destroyed various types of weaponry.[623]
  • Gunmen also killed singer Resan al-Sayab and television journalist Ahmed Rasheed in separate incidents in the capital.[624]
• November 4
  • A woman and her son were shot dead and another three wounded in Latifiya.[625]
  • In two separate events in Mosul, four Iraqis were injured.[626]
  • Gunmen killed a civilian in Diwaniya; four were subsequently arrested.[627]
  • In Mahmudiya, a car bomb killed one civilian and wounded three others.[628]
  • Eleven were wounded in Suwayrah when a cycle bomb exploded in a marketplace.[629]
  • Three bodies were also fished out of the Tigris.[630]
  • In Baghdad, up to 15 unidentified bodies were discovered late Friday into Saturday; they bore signs of torture and gunshot wounds.[631]
  • In western Baghdad, gunmen in a car killed three people and wounded five others.[632]
  • Mortars fell on a police station and crowded marketplace; two policemen, one civilian were killed and eight others were injured.[633]
  • In northern neighborhood, mortars also fell on a mosque, killing five and wounding 17 others.[634]
  • Also, a criminal law professor was kidnapped from his home.[635]
  • Late Friday night on the Baghdad-Kirkuk highway, a bomb killed five of President Talabani’s personal guards and wounded two others; Talabani is in France.[636]
  • Today, gunmen wounded two of Prime Minister Maliki’s bodyguards in Yusufiya.[637]

• November 5
  • The Iraqi High Tribunal sentences Saddam Hussein to death by hanging. [638]
  • During a raid by coalition forces in Yusifiyah, one suspected al Qaeda leader was killed.[]
  • Five people were wounded in Hawija when a bomb exploded near a police patrol. Two of the injured were policemen.[639]
  • A bomb near a truck killed the driver and wounded two others in Kirkuk.[640]
  • U.S. helicopters were used in an attack on Balad. Two people were killed and five others, including two Iraqi policemen, were wounded.[641]
  • In Baghdad, police spokesman Lt. Thaer Mahmoud reported that 72 bodies had been recovered by daybreak; he gave no details on their deaths, but this is an almost daily occurrence in the capital.[642]
• November 6
  • Two bodies were discovered in Hillah. They bore signs of torture.[643]
  • In Iskandariyah, a bomb on a bus wounded ten passengers.[644]
  • In eastern Baghdad, gunmen killed two firefighters.[645]
  • Also, mortar shells fell on the Adhamiya neighborhood and wounded seven people.[646]
• November 7
  • Six Iraqi soldiers were killed in separate events involving a sniper and a roadside bomb in the town of Karmah.[647]
  • In Basra, a bomb attack killed one and wounded seven others.[648]
  • In Falluja, a roadside bomb that was targeting a U.S. patrol killed three civilians instead; eight others were wounded.[649]
  • Two bodies and severed head were discovered in Mahmudiya.[650]
  • In Kirkuk, gunmen shot dead a policeman.[651]
  • Fifteen bodies were fished out of the Tigris at Suwayrah; they were bound, blindfolded and bore gunshot wounds to the head and chest.[652]
  • In the capital, 10 bodies were found late Monday and early Tuesday; some showed the usual signs of torture.[653]
  • Five people were killed and another 26 wounded by falling mortars this morning in the Azamiyah district.[654]
  • An explosion of unknown origin killed 17 and injured 20 at the Greyaat Cafe.[655]
  • Also, gunmen attacked a Civil Defense center in southeastern Baghdad; four people were kidnapped but two were later released.[656]
• November 8
  • Donald Rumsfeld tendered his resignation as United States Secretary of Defense. President George W. Bush then appointed former CIA chief Robert Gates to replace him.
  • A roadside bomb near a house in Iskandariya killed a man and his 13-year old son.[657]
  • In a small village near Kirkuk, clashes between gunmen and the Iraqi army resulted in nine dead gunmen and one wounded Iraqi soldier.[658]
  • Clashes between two Sunni tribes in Dhida resulted in five deaths.[659]
  • A car bomb in Muqdadiya killed four people and injured six others.[660]
  • Near town, gunmen killed four related people including two policemen.[661]
  • A suicide car bomber exploded his cargo near a U.S. convoy in Ramadi, but five civilians were wounded instead.[662]
  • Six gunshot bodies were discovered scattered around Mosul.[663]
  • In a Mahmudiya marketplace, a car bomb killed six people and wounded 28 others.[664]
  • In the southwestern Amil district, a car bomb killed three and wounded three others.[665]
  • A car bomb in an unspecified northern neighborhood killed one and wounded six.[666]
  • Yet another car bomb wounded four police commandos in the eastern Baladiyat district.[667]
  • A car bomb targeting a southern checkpoint killed a member of the National Police.[668]
  • And a car bomb in the Mansour neighborhood killed one and wounded three.[669]
  • Also, a Shi’ite bakery was the scene of a gun attack where one man was killed and four others injured.[670]
  • In the greater Baghdad area, 29 bodies, probable victims of sectarian violence, were discovered late Tuesday into Wednesday.[671]
  • Mortars killed eight people and wounded 20 when they fell on a Sadr City district soccer game.[672]
  • Another mortar fell in the Shi'ite Kadhimiya neighborhood, killing two and wounding eight.[673]
  • A mortar round also fell in the al-Qahira district, killing one and wounding six.[674]
  • Two mortars struck al-Amin square in central Baghdad and wounded eight people.[675]
  • In the Sunni Adhamiya neighborhood, mortars killed one and wounded 12 others.[676]
• November 9
  • Four bodies, bound and gagged, were discovered in Latifiya.[677]
  • In Mosul, six people were shot dead, including one policeman.[678]
  • A roadside bomb in Tal Afar killed four, including a policeman, and wounded eight other people.[679]
  • Two policemen were killed and four civilians were injured when a rocket landed in a residential neighborhood.[680]
  • In Muqdadiyah, gunmen stormed a primary school and killed three: a guard, a policeman and a student.[681]
  • In Suwayrah, four bodies were recovered from the Tigris River. Three of them in police uniforms.[682]
• November 10
  • A police lieutenant colonel was abducted in a northern area of Baghdad.[683]
  • Near Baqouba, gunmen killed three members of one family.[684]
  • In Diwaniya, a former member of the Baath party was shot dead.[685]
  • A roadside bomb in Kirkuk blasted an Iraqi patrol. Two soldiers were wounded.[686]
  • Gunmen stormed two homes in Kwerisha village and kidnapped 14 people. Their bodies were later found dumped in a field.[687]
  • In Tal Afar, a suicide car bomber drove into an army checkpoint. At least six Iraqi soldiers were killed and 18 others wounded, including 10 soldiers.[688]
  • The Iraqi defense ministry reported the death of an al Qaeda leader and his aide in Rawah.[689]
  • At least 33 bodies were found in unspecified locations. Most of them were victims of sectarian violence.[690]
• November 11
  • Two bodies were fished out of the Tigris River at Suwayrah.[691]
  • In Diyala, a booby-trapped car killed a police officer.[692]
  • Two militiamen were killed in Tal Afar during a search for those responsible for an attack on the Iraqi army on Friday.[693]
  • Near Baquba, in the town of Zaghinya, a suicide car bomber targeting a police station killed two people, including a woman and the police chief.[694]
  • In Kirkuk, a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded three civilians instead. [695]
  • Also, gunmen killed an Iraqi army soldier in front of his home in east Kirkuk.[696]
  • On a highway near Latifiyah, Sunni gunmen set up a phony checkpoint and used it to ambush a convoy of minibuses. Twelve Shi'ite passengers were killed and at least 52 were kidnapped.[697]
  • In Baghdad, at least 25 bodies were found late Friday through Saturday evening; they bore gunshot and torture wounds.[698]
  • Two car bombs exploded in quick succession, killing eight people and wounding at least 38 others in a Hafidh al-Qadi marketplace.[699]
  • A roadside bomb killed one motorist and wounded five others in an eastern area of the capital.[700]
  • A car exploded in eastern Baghdad, killing a suspected suicide bomber.[701]
• November 12
  • In Efeg, gunmen matching the description of those who staged a mass kidnapping in Latifiya yesterday kidnapped 10 more people.[702]
  • Gunmen abducted one, injured another and killed five persons in Diyala Province.[703]
  • The director of the main electrical power station in Kirkuk was shot dead by gunmen.[704]
  • Gunmen stormed a school in Samarra and killed a female teacher.[705]
  • Two bodies bearing gunshot wounds were discovered in Mahaweel.[706]
  • In Tikrit, a roadside bomb injured Police Colonel Abbas al- Dulaimi, head of the U.S.-Iraqi Joint Coordination Center.[707]
  • Five were killed in drive-by shootings in Baqouba.[708]
  • A car bomb killed three children and wounded 15 people in Yusufiya.[709]
  • In Suwayrah, three bodies were found floating in the Tigris River.[710]
  • Mortars fell near a police station in Mosul, wounding five people.[711]
  • Twelve unidentified bodies were found scattered around town on Saturday and two more were discovered on Sunday.[712]
  • In Najaf, a bomb at the front gate of Sheik Abu Jaafar's home killed three of his sons and injured four neighbors.[713]
  • In Baquoba, Iraqi troops discovered 75 bodies behind a regional electric company. It was feared that the bodies might be rigged with explosives.[714]
  • Also in the capital, a roadside and car bomb combination killed six people and wounded ten near the Iraqi Interior Ministry's offices.[715]
  • In the Karadah district, a car bomb killed two and wounded seven.[716]
  • A roadside bomb in the southwestern Radhwaniyah area killed three and wounded 13.[717]
  • In the nearby Um al-Maalif neighborhood, another roadside bomb killed five people. [718]
  • Two more roadside bombs were left on a highway in central Baghdad, killing four and wounding ten.[719]
  • One civilian was killed and four people, including two policemen, were injured by an explosion in the Mustansiria neighborhood.[720]
  • In west-central Baghdad, two suicide bombers walked up to a police recruitment center in al-Nusur Square before detonating their cargo; at least 35 people were killed and another 65 injured.[721]
• November 13
  • A police officer was shot dead in front of his Kut home.[722]
  • In Baquba, the bodies of two women were discovered, and a civilian was shot dead downtown.[723]
  • Mortar rounds fell on Karbala, wounding three policemen.[724]
  • Near Kirkuk, a roadside bomb blasted General Anwar Amin’s convoy, wounding three guards.[725]
  • Gunmen killed Mohammed al-Ban, a cameraman for the TV station al-Sharqiya, and wounded his wife.[726]
  • Five bodies, two beheaded, were discovered between Yusifiya and Mahmudiya.[727]
  • In Waziriyah, one councilmember was killed and another wounded in a drive-by shooting.[728]
  • In the northern Shaab district, a bomb killed at least 20 passengers and wounded 18 others on a minibus.[729]
  • Mortars fell in the Husseniya neighborhood, injuring two people.[730]
  • In Baghdad, 46 bodies were discovered late Sunday night and early Monday.[731]
  • Sunni Sheik Namis Karim was shot dead as he was headed to the Abbasiya Mosque downtown.[732]
  • Gunmen also killed two people and wounded another; the victims were purported to be guards to Vice-President Adil Abdul Mahdi, but his office denied it.[733]
  • Traffic police Brigadier Salih Kamil was killed when gunmen attacked him in north Baghdad.[734]
  • Also, gunmen abducted police Major Muhammed Salim in the Karrada district; he was later found dead.[735]
  • Another police official, Major Maher Moussa, was kidnapped, but his fate remains unknown.[736]
  • In one raid, eight gunmen attempting to flee were killed and another one injured, the rest surrendered.[737]
  • In a separate raid by U.S. forces, a residential neighborhood filled with followers of Shi'ite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr came under attack; at least five, but possible nine, were killed and another 15 were wounded. Witnesses said that tanks, armored personnel carriers, helicopters and warplanes were used in the battle.[738]

• November 15
  • One hundred people are kidnapped from an Iraqi higher education building.
  • A traffic police officer was gunned down in Kirkuk.[739]
  • The bound body of woman was recovered from the Tigris River at Samarra. She had been shot in the head.[740]
  • Attackers stormed the home of a top provincial official in Diyala. He was not home, but his brother and cousin were killed in the attack.[741]
  • In Baquba, journalist Luma al-Karkhi was gunned down on her way to work.[742]
  • Six bodies were also recovered in the city.[743]
  • Ten corpses were discovered in Latifiya. Police suspect they might belong to men kidnapped over the weekend.[744]
  • Fadia Mohammed Ali, a reporter at Al Masar newspaper, and her driver were gunned down as they were driving to her workplace.[745]
  • Gunmen also killed two construction workers and wounded three others.[746]
  • And an Iraqi soldier was gunned down outside his home.[747]
  • Late Tuesday and into Wednesday, police recovered 62 bodies in Baghdad, mostly in western districts; many bore the usual gunshot and torture wounds.[748]
  • Also, in the capital, a car bomb exploded at a fueling station in central Baghdad; twelve were killed and 32 injured.[749]
  • Three were killed and 15 injured when a suicide car bomber targeted a funeral in the Dora district.[750]
  • In the northern Shaab district, three were wounded by a car bomb.[751]
  • In the Jamiaa area, gunmen attacked the convoy of Salama al-Khafagi, a former member of the governing Council; a bodyguard and a passerby were killed.[752]
  • And two Shi’ites were killed after militiamen set their home on fire.[753]
  • U.S. forces killed 11 militiamen in Anbar Province and three people in Ramadi.[754]
• November 16
  • A bomb targeting a police patrol in Mosul killed two civilians instead.[755]
  • Ten people were shot dead in Baquba.[756]
  • Four gunshot bodies were found in Yusifiya.[757]
  • Two gunshot and mutilated bodies were recovered in Baiji.[758]
  • In Mosul, gunmen attacked a convoy serving the governor of Mosul, Duraid Kashmula. The governor was not in the convoy, but one bodyguard was killed and four others were injured in the attack.[759]
  • Also in Baghdad, 35 bodies were found scattered around the city.[760]
  • Gunmen also attacked a bakery in eastern Baghdad, killing nine and wounding two.[761]
  • Falling mortars in the Bab Al Sharqi region killed one person and wounded three others.[762]
  • A roadside bomb killed one and wounded three in the Shorja area in central Baghdad.[763]
  • In the Shaab area in northeastern Baghdad, a roadside bomb near the national stadium killed one police commando and wounded another.[764]
  • In the northern Qahira area, a car bomb killed one and wounded four.[765]
  • In the southwestern Amil district, a bicycle or motorbike rigged with explosives killed a man and wounded two others near a petrol station.[766]
  • A car bomb near a petrol station on Palestine St., in northeast Baghdad, killed one person and wounded four more.[767]
  • Kidnappings continued today with as many as 60 victims being snatched off minibuses in western Baghdad.[768]
  • Another 15 people were abducted from a cafe in the Bataween neighborhood, and fourteen more were taken near Nasariyah, when a contractor convoy was ambushed.[769]
  • The military also said that Coalition forces killed nine suspected al Qaeda members in a raid near Yusifiya.[770]
• November 17
  • A policewoman and her daughter were killed in Mosul.[771]
  • In Numaniya, police recovered two bodies from the Malih River.[772]
  • Lieutenant Colonel Sattar Jabar, who was the chief police spokesman in Baquba, was shot dead.[773]
  • Gunmen in Kirkuk shot dead a civilian and wounded his baby daughter.[774]
  • The tomb of religious leader Ahmad Thiyab Al-Nuaimi was blown up in southern Kirkuk; events like these in the past have sparked increased sectarian violence.[775]
  • Two bodies bearing gunshot and torture marks were discovered in Fallujah.[776]
  • In the capital, 20 bodies were recovered from several neighborhoods.[777]
• November 18
  • One child was killed when a roadside bomb in Nassiriya exploded.[778]
  • In Muwafaqiya, tribal leader Sultan Salman was assassinated.[779]
  • Gunmen attacking alcohol dealers in Kut wounded a nine-year-old passerby instead.[780]
  • One civilian was killed and two policemen were injured when a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol blew up near Latifiya.[781]
  • A suicide car bomber drove to an army checkpoint in Mosul before detonating his explosives. Seven Iraqi soldiers were wounded.[782]
  • In Ishaqi, gunmen assassinated Shi’ite tribal leader Asif al Khazraji and seven others.[783]
  • Two were killed and five wounded when a pair of mortar rounds fell on a residential neighbohood.[784]
  • Also, a gunman and three policemen were killed and three other officers injured in unspecified incidents.[785]
  • In the capital, the daily search for dumped bodies netted 20 corpses in western Baghdad.[786]
  • Also, Ali Al-Adhadh and his wife were assassinated while traveling through the Yarmouk district.[787]
  • Also, an attack on the home of Iraq’s science and technology minister in the Zayouna district; gunmen killed one guard and injured another there.[788]
  • Coalition forces also reported killing 11 suspected al Qaeda members in separate events, and U.S. forces conducted raids in Sadr City.[789]
• November 19
  • And Iraqi forces said they killed a local al Qaeda leader and his son in an unspecified village 60 miles north of Iraq.[790]
  • The U.S. military reported today that a suicide car bomber killed one police officer and wounded another at a police checkpoint in Haditha on Saturday.[791]
  • Shortly after sunset in Kirkuk, three people were killed and 22 wounded when a suicide bomber attacked a funeral for a man shot dead late Saturday.[792]
  • Kurdish artist, Masaud Koran, was assassinated in Mosul’s Jaza’er neighborhood.[793]
  • In another incident in Mosul, gunmen shot dead an Iraqi soldier.[794]
  • Gunmen also killed Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Ganim and his driver; he worked for the Facility Protection Services. [795]
  • A booby-trapped doll blasted three children to their deaths and wounded another child in Hawija.[796]
  • Gunmen near Sadiya al Jabal shot at a minibus carrying farm workers; eight were killed and two wounded.[797]
  • In Hilla, at least 22 were killed and 48 injured when a suicide car bomber posing as a contractor blew up his cargo amid a group of laborers looking for work.[798]
  • Police recovered 49 unidentified bodies late Saturday night and into Sunday; they were bound and bore the usual gunshot and torture wounds.[799]
  • At a bus station in Baghdad’s Al-Mashtel neighborhood, 15 were killed and 54 wounded when four car bombs blew up within a span of a few minutes.[800]
  • A roadside bomb in the Saidiya neighborhood wounded six people and one in an Eastern neighborhood killed two people and wounded three others.[801]
  • In the Zaitoun area, gunmen shot dead two people; minutes later, three policemen were killed and three wounded when bombs rattled the same neighborhood.[802]
  • Two more Iraqis were gunned down in the Oroba neighborhood and a policeman on foot patrol was shot dead in an unspecified location in the capital.[803]
  • Judge Mudhafar Al-Obeidi was kidnapped in west Baghdad, and men wearing camouflage kidnapped the Iraqi deputy health minister, Ammar al Saffar, in a separate event.[804]
  • In an eastern neighborhood, a kidnapping attempt on police Colonel Yasin Ibrahim ended in his death, the death of an accompanying policeman and the kidnapping of their driver.[805]
  • Also, a police captain, Falah Hassan, was wounded as he escaped an abduction attempt.[806]
  • Also, Coalition forces killed eight gunmen in a raid in Ramadi and two others in an airstrike in Baghdad, both events occurred yesterday as well.[807]
  • Combined U.S. and Iraqi forces also killed another 12 militiamen and freed eight Iraqi hostages in Baquba and near Kirkuk.[808]
• November 20
  • And in Tikrit, police found eight bodies; five had belonged to men who were kidnapped yesterday.[809]
  • Gunmen killed Hussein Qadar and a colleague as they were leaving a store in south Kirkuk. He was the administration director at Kirkuk University's College of Education.[810]
  • Four were killed in Diyala province, when gunmen attacked their bus.[811]
  • Between Hillah and Baghdad, Dr. Fulayeh al-Ghurabi was killed in a drive-by shooting. He was a professor at Babil University in Hillah.[812]
  • In Ramadi, a suicide car bomber exploded his cargo near a police checkpoint; the explosion killed two people, including a policeman, and wounded six others, including four policemen.[813]
  • Also, a mortar round fell near a court and wounded three people.[814]
  • In Mosul, police reported the recovery of 47 corpses.[815]
  • Gunmen also shot dead Professor Ahmed Hamid al-Taie, head of the clinic department at Mosul University.[816]
  • In Iskandariya, a roadside bomb meant for a police patrol killed two civilians and wounded three others instead.[]
  • In Baquba, gunmen killed a senior policemen in front of his home.[817]
  • Gunmen also attacked a police patrol, killing one officer and wounding three others.[818]
  • Six civilians were also killed by random gunfire.[819]
  • In front of a central Baghdad restaurant, a roadside bomb killed a policeman and wounded three others.[820]
  • A separate roadside bomb intended for a police patrol instead wounded 3 civilians near a highway in central Baghdad.[821]
  • In a Jamal district marketplace, another roadside bomb killed three people and wounded five others.[822]
  • At least 60 bodies were found in and around the city, including fourteen dumped bodies found just south of Baghdad.[823]
  • Another seven bodies were found downstream in the Tigris River.[824]
  • The body of TV comedian Waleed Hassan was discovered with three bullet wounds to the head; he starred in his popular sketch show "Caricature."[825]
  • Another Iraqi deputy health minister was targeted by gunmen today; Hakim al-Zamily was unhurt but two of his guards were killed near the Fadhil area.[826]
• November 21
  • Six bodies were found in Babil province.[827]
  • Three civilians were killed and another wounded in Balad Ruz when gunmen opened fire on the main road.[828]
  • Mortars fell on Hay al-Amil, killing three civilians and wounded another.[829]
  • Gunmen in Hawija killed a policeman on his way to work.[830]
  • Mayor Ali al-Shimari was shot dead and four guards were wounded in Hibhib.[831]
  • Gunmen killed 11 in separate events across Baquba, including one person just outside of town, and police found 10 bodies.[832]
  • Gunmen killed seven students on a minibus in the Saedea area.[833]
  • In the capital, parliamentary speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani’s car was blasted by a car bomb; however, he was not in the vehicle, and no one was injured.[834]
  • Another Iraqi was killed and three more wounded in a car bomb attack in the Amel neighborhood.[835]
  • U.S. warplanes launched an air strike early today in the Sadr City area of Baghdad. Three people were killed and 15 others were wounded in the attack; a small boy was among the dead.[836]
  • In a separate event elsewhere in Baghdad, Coalition forces killed three gunmen during a raid.[837]

• November 22
  • United Nations officials report 3,709 Iraqi civilians were killed in October 2006, the highest toll for civilian casualties since the Iraq War began in 2003. [838]
  • In Mosul, a roadside bomb injured three policemen, and 14 bodies were recovered throughout the city.[839]
  • Gunmen killed a policeman in Falluja.[840]
  • Three corpses were discovered near Ramadi.[841]
  • Near Muqdadiya, during a combined small arms and car bomb attack at an army checkpoint, four people were killed, including a professor, a police officer and two soldiers. Three civilians were wounded as well.[842]
  • In Iskandariya, a bomb killed seven guards and wounded another.[843]
  • Gunmen also wounded local tribal leader Ahmed al-Allawi when they fired upon his car.[844]
  • The body of Karbala Mayor Basin Hasan al-Basnawi was found two days after he had been kidnapped; he was shot in the head several times.[845]
  • In Baghdad, at least 60 bodies were found scattered around town.[846]
  • Gunmen killed a bodyguard and injured a second guard working for the Iraqi General Assembly speaker Dr. Mahmoud Al-Mashhadani, only a day after a bomb attack on the speaker’s vehicle.[847]
  • Raad Jaafar Hamadi, a reporter for al Sabah newspaper, was killed in a drive-by shooting.[848]

• November 23
  • A man was pulled off a bus in Tal Afar and shot dead.[849]
  • A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol in Iskandariya killed one officer and wounded a second.[850]
  • Yashua Mageed Hedaya, the head of the independent Assyrian movement, was gunned down in Qarqash.[851]
  • Gunmen killed two policemen and two civilians in separate incidents around Mosul.[852]
  • Colonel Yasin Abd-Ali was also shot dead near his home northeast of the city.[853]
  • In Baquba, gunmen killed two men selling black market gasoline and their customer. At least nine others were also killed in separate events.[854]
  • Another roadside bomb, this one in the Bayaa district, wounded four police commandos.[855]
  • Gunmen shot dead Najim al-Kinani, a former military pilot, in the Mansour neighborhood.[856]
  • In Coalition news, police reported that Coalition forces fired upon a minibus carrying day laborers; four Iraqis were killed and another eight injured in the incident which occurred before dawn.[857]
  • Also, the Multi-National Force said that Coalition forces killed a suspected terrorist in Balad Ruz.[858]
  • Another 17 suspected terrorists and militiamen were killed in separate events involving Coalition forces around the country.[859]
  • In the Sadr City district, a series of mortar and bomb attacks left 215 dead and 257 wounded. The explosions rocked the large, Shi’ite slum at 15 minute intervals beginning at about 3:00 p.m. Among the specific attacks were two car bombs that blasted the Jamila and al-Hay markets and another car bomb at Shahidein Square. Sunni militiamen were thought to be behind the attacks.[860]
  • Shi’ite militiamen responded by firing several mortar rounds at the Sunni Adhamiya neighborhood, killing 20 and wounding seven more people.[861]
  • Three more Sunni targets were blasted by explosives; 11 died and 23 were wounded in Azamiyah, Bab al-Moazzam and on Palestine Street.[862]

• November 24
  • A roadside bomb in front of a mosque in Kirkuk wounded five people.[863]
  • Elsewhere, a suicide bomber in Tal Afar blew himself up at about the same time as a car bomb was detonated. Twenty-two were killed and 45 injured.[864]
  • Gunmen also killed two guards in Baghdad's Amil district.[865]
  • In a separate attack, gunmen doused six Sunni worshippers with kerosene and burned them to death as Iraqi army soldiers looked on.[866]
  • 31 dumped bodies were found scattered around the capital.[867]
  • In Baghdad, despite a curfew, the Sunni area of Hurriyah came under retaliatory attack; at least 30 were killed and another 24 injured, some due to smoke inhalation in burning buildings.[868]
  • In Adhamiya and Ghazaliya, mortars killed one and wounded ten people.[869]
  • Morters also fell in Azamiyah, wounding at least five people and damaging a mosque.[870]
  • More rounds fell on the Association of Muslim Scholars, injuring an unspecified number of guards. [871]
  • In Tarmiyah, four militiamen were killed in a gunfight with U.S. troops.[872]
  • U.S. troops raided a building housing Moqtada al Sadr’s office in Baquba. Gunmen retaliated by bombing the building.[873]
• November 25
  • Four civilians were killed when mortar rounds fell on Samarra.[874]
  • The bodies of two men were discovered on the highway between Kut and Baghdad. They showed evidence of torture.[875]
  • A roadside bomb wounded four policemen in Kirkuk.[876]
  • Gunmen killed a police officer and wounded another in Mosul. In a separate incident, three more officers were wounded.[877]
  • In the Diyala province, Sunni gunmen stormed two homes in Balad Ruz and killed 21 male occupants, including a 12-year-old boy.[878]
  • Iraqi police reported killing 47 militiamen and wounding dozens more in separate incidents.[879]
  • Mortars landed in Hurriya, a heavily targeted mixed neighborhood, killing one person and wounding three others.[880]
  • One person was killed and six others were wounded in the Abu Dshir neighborhood during a mortar attack on a funeral.[881]
  • Ten other mortar rounds landed in the Adhamiya neighborhood, wounding 13 people.[882]
  • In northwestern Baghdad, three people were wounded during clashes between gunmen and Iraqi police.[883]
  • Police recovered 17 unidentified bodies that were scattered in different locations.[884]
  • Coalition forces killed 11 gunmen during an operation to capture a suspected terrorist just north of Baghdad.[885]
  • In a separate event, another 10 suspected militiamen were killed during a raid in Taiji; a teenage boy also died and a pregnant woman was injured in the incident.[886]
  • During an Coalition air strike in Baquba, four women were killed and another one wounded.[887]
• November 26
  • A policeman and four civilians were killed when a bomb exploded at a police checkpoint in southern Iraq.[888]
  • The body of a kidnapped truck driver was recovered in Kirkuk.[889]
  • Gunmen killed a woman who worked for Iraqiya state television outside her home in Mosul.[890]
  • Five students were injured by falling mortar rounds near the technical school.[891]
  • In Mahaweel, two town council members were dragged from their car and shot dead.[892]
  • Two people were killed and eight wounded during clashes between militia and police in Aziziya.[893]
  • Gunmen attacked at car at a junction in central Basra, killing three men and one woman.[894]
  • At least eight were killed and 28 injured when a car bomb exploded in a crowded market in Iskandiriya.[895]
  • Eleven bodies were discovered in Haqlaniya. The one youth and ten men were shot dead.[896]
  • In Wajeiya, gunmen killed a local council member and wounded three others.[897]
  • Twenty-five men were kidnapped from the small town of Kanaan late Saturday. No word on their fate.[898]
  • The Imam of the Al-Ma'moun mosque in Zameila was shot dead.[899]
  • In Baquba, 25 dumped bodies were found with gunshot wounds to the head; seven of the dead were teenagers.[900]
  • Fighting resumed between militia and police on Sunday. Eleven militiamen were killed during those clashes.[901]
  • U.S forces also killed four militiamen with suspected links to al Qaeda in Baquba.[902]
  • American forces aided the Abu Soda tribe who came under attack from suspected al Qaeda forces in Anbar province. The Anbar Salvation Council, a group of participating tribes, reported that tribal fighters had also raided an al Qaeda stronghold. Sixty-four people were killed, including nine of the tribal fighters.[903]
  • Two people were killed and two injured when mortars fells in the Karrada neighborhood.[904]
  • In the Mashtal area, four more were injured by mortars, and at least six were wounded in Talibiya.[905]
  • At least five other people were killed in other incidents, and one body was found in the Tigris River.[906]

• November 27
  • The former mayor of Buhriz was assassinated north of Baghdad.[907]
  • A gunman shot dead a mobile phone shop owner and planted bombs in the establishment. Four were killed and 25 wounded when those bombs exploded.[908]
  • In Haswa, the bodies of four people were found bound and shot.[909]
  • During clashes in Tal Afar, three policemen and a gunman were killed.[910]
  • Gunmen killed a bridegroom and his mother in Mosul on his wedding day.[911]
  • Near Dujail, gunmen attacked a police checkpoint. They abducted eight policemen, but a ninth officer escaped with wounds. When a pair of policemen arrived later, the gunmen killed one and wounded a second officer.[912]
  • Sixty bodies were found in Baghdad and just north of the capital, another five bodies were discovered.[913]
  • Gunmen also kidnapped Police Captain Abdul-Qadir Abbas.[914]
  • Two Mahdi Army members were killed in a clash with gunmen.[915]
  • On a busy street in central Baghdad, gunmen killed six people and wounded three others.[916]
  • Small arms attacks resumed apace in the capital: Gunmen attacked a municipal office in central Baghdad, where they killed one guard and abducted three people.[917]
  • An Iraqi Interior Ministry source reported that U.S. forces conducted a raid in the Baghdad neighborhood of Husainiya. At least five were killed and eight wounded in the incident, but other reports place the casualties higher.[918]
  • In Ramadi, U.S. forces killed two suspected rebels and injured four people, including three boys, in separate incidents reported by U.S. military authorities.[919]
• November 28
  • A roadside bomb wounded two police officers in Mosul.[920]
  • Three people were killed and four injured when a roadside bomb exploded in Balad Ruz.[921]
  • Gunmen killed two people near a government office and three people near a garage in central Baquba.[922]
  • In Kirkuk, a suicide bomber detonated his explosive vest while standing next to a convoy carrying the provincial governor. One passerby was killed and another 19 people were injured.[923]
  • In Baghdad, a car bomb near the Yarmouk hospital killed four and wounded forty.[924]
  • Seven mortars rocked the western neighborhood of Ghazaliya and wounded 23 people.[925]
  • At least 50 unidentified bodies were found in Iraq, 36 of those were found in the capital.[926]
  • Also, an Interior Ministry source reported that U.S. forces had raided a mosque in Baghdad’s Doura neighborhood and wounded four gunmen.[927]
  • In Ramadi, five girls and another Iraqi died during a clash between U.S. forces and gunmen; another girl was injured. [928]
• November 29
  • Five gunmen were killed during an attack on a police station in central Baquba.[929]
  • Southwest of Samarra, a car bomb killed four policemen and wounded six other people.[930]
  • A suicide car bomber killed one person and wounded 23 others in Mosul.[931]
  • In Kirkuk, an assistant undersecretary for the Interior Ministry survived an assassination attempt. Ahmad Khalaf’s convoy was bombed while he was visiting relatives in the city. No casualties were reported.[932]
  • Also, mortars fell near the health ministry building, wounding two civilians, and in Shula, injuring three more.[933]
  • A bomb targeting a police patrol as it passed near a crowded parking lot killed two people and wounded seven others.[934]
  • In the Shurta al Rabi’a neighborhood, a suicide car bomber killed one police commando and wounded seven others.[935]
  • One person was killed and eight others wounded in a car bomb attack in the Karrada district.[936]
  • Coalition forces reported killing eight suspected al Qaeda fighters and two women in Baquba.[937]
  • Iraqi army soldiers killed three gunmen in unspecified locations in Iraq.[938]

• November 30
  • In Mosul, six bodies were discovered.[939]
  • A roadside bomb explosion in Jurf al Sakhar killed three police officers and wounded three others late Wednesday.[940]
  • Four civilians were wounded and 23 injured during clashes between the Mahdi Army and Iraqi security forces in Samawa.[941]
  • The bodies of Nasser al-Qatrani, the deputy manager of Sunni Endowment in Basra, his three guards and four members of the Facility Protection Services were discovered in Basra.[942]
  • In Baghdad, 25 bodies were recovered in different neighborhoods throughout the city.[943]
  • Near the national stadium, gunmen shot dead a police colonel.[944]
  • In Baquba, which has been under siege for several days, Iraqi soldiers discovered a mass grave containing 28 bodies.[945]
  • Two people were injured near a bus stop in central Baquba when a roadside bomb exploded.[946]
  • Also, a gunman and a police officer were injured in a shootout in the al Mafraq area, and attorney Jassim al Temimi was assassinated in the Gatoon neighborhood.[947]

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December

• December 1
  • Mortar rounds fell in Mahmudiya, killing one person and wounding four.[948]
  • Near Muqdadiya, mortar rounds fell on a village, killing three and wounding 14 others.[949]
  • A suicide car bomber in Mosul attacked a police checkpoint. Five people, including the bomber, were killed and 29 people were wounded.[950]
  • In Latifiya, a roadside bomb blasted a minibus; one person was killed and four were injured.[951]
  • A roadside bomb in Kirkuk intended for a U.S. patrol killed two civilians and wounded four others instead, and a suicide car bomber killed himself and three others.[952]
  • In Samawa, two people were killed and 13 wounded when mortars fell in a residential area late yesterday.[953]
  • Also, one civilian and 31 others were wounded late last night during more clashes between the Mahdi army and police.[954]
  • Early in the day, gunmen attacked an empty Sunni mosque; residents drove off the vandals with gunfire, but no casualties were reported.[955]
  • Last night, Hadib Majhoul, the chairman of the Talaba club and a member of the Iraqi Soccer Federation, waskidnapped while on his way to work, and two young Iraqi women were abducted on Friday.[956]
  • 20 bodies were found scattered around the capital.[957]
  • In the Sadiyah area, a family was drawn out of their house by an explosion; a second bomb killed one man and wounded six of his relatives.[958]
  • Three were killed and four injured in the Rashidiya neighborhood when mortars fell onthem.[959]
  • A car bomb in the Hussainiya neighborhood killed 3 and wounded 15 people.[960]
  • Three people were killed and 28 wounded as another car bomb was detonated at the al-Ghazel pet market.[961]
  • During clashes in the Fadhil neighborhood of Baghdad, combined U.S. and Iraqi troops engaged militiamen; three Iraqis were killed and another 11 wounded.[962]
  • U.S forces killed two suspected militiamen and wounded a female human shield in raids near Baghdad.[963]
• December 2
  • In Samawa, clashes between militia and police left one bystander dead.[964]
  • Gunmen killed six people, including two children, in Garma.[965]
  • Near Fallujah in Ezejiyah village, a roadside killed an Iraqi soldier and injured three others aboard a Humvee.[966]
  • Last night a bomb killed one person and wounded a second in Iskandariya.[967]
  • In Mosul, a contractor was shot dead and a roadside bomb injured three policemen.[968]
  • A gunshot-riddled body was found in Mussayab.[969]
  • A funeral procession in Khalis was interrupted by gunmen who killed two Shi’ites and wounded three others.[970]
  • Gunmen shot dead five people as they traveled along a main road outside Balad.[971]
  • In central Baghdad, three separate car bombs killed at least 91 people and wounded 43 others, most of them at a busy farmer’s market.[972]
  • Also, a Katyusha rocket, believed intended for a mosque where Sunni politicians were meeting, instead landed on a private home; the explosion killed two and injured six members of the same family.[973]
  • At least one policeman was killed and two wounded when gunmen attacked a police checkpoint near Yarmouk hospital.[974]
  • Iraqi police Captain Hayder Mousa was shot dead in the New Baghdad area.[975]
  • A soft drink salesman and his assistant were killed while delivering goods in the Doura neighborhood.[976]
  • 44 unidentified bodies were found in the capital and another two just south of Baghdad.[977]
  • Coalition forces and the Iraqi army concentrated troops on Baquba in order to quell recent violence; one militiaman was killed, and a child hostage was freed.[978]
  • U.S. forces also killed a person planting a roadside bomb in southern Iraq.[979]
• December 3
  • 16 bodies were found in Baquoba.[980]
  • In Najaf, Muslim cleric Sheikh Yassin Al-Harab was assassinated by unknown gunmen.[981]
  • In Mosul, a suicide car bomb killed two and wounded four other people. Six bodies were discovered around the city.[982]
  • Three university students were injured in a roadside bomb attack in Basra.[983]
  • Near Kirkuk, a suicide bomber targeted the convoy of a senior police officer. He and two guards were injured; another three guards and the bomber were killed.[984]
  • In Baghdad, a roadside bomb planted near al Shaab stadium wounded six people.[985]
  • A mortar round landed on a secondary school in the Bab al-Muadham neighborhood, wounding ten students.[986]
  • Three people were killed and ten wounded when a car bomb exploded near a Qahira district bakery.[987]
  • Also, gunmen dragged an official from the Mandean religious group out of his house and then killed him.[988]
  • The body of Hidaib Mejhoul of the Iraqi Football Association was found two days after he was kidnapped, and Haitham Yassin, an advisor to the electricity minister, was kidnapped.[989]
  • 50 unidentified bodies were discovered in Baghdad, and four south of the capital.[990]
  • Military offensives continued in Baquba; three militiamen were killed and three Iraqi soldiers were injured.[991]
  • Near Garma, U.S. air strikes killed at least eight people, including women, children and militamen.[992]
  • The Iraqi army also reported killing one militiaman in an unspecified location.[993]
  • At least four others were killed in unspecified attacks around Baquba.[994]
• December 4
  • An Iman was kidnapped from a Sunni mosque in the town of Yathrib.[995]
  • In Ramadi, a policeman was shot dead.[996]
  • A body was found shot dead and bearing torture marks in Mahaweel.[997]
  • In Mosul, gunmen killed four policemen.[998]
  • A man and woman were shot dead in Khalis.[999]
  • In Baquba, three agricultural engineers and their driver were killed in a drive-by shooting.[1000]
  • In Baghdad, at least 52 unidentified bodies were recovered between sunset Sunday to sunset Monday; many bore the usual gunshot wounds and torture marks attributed to sectarian death squads.[1001]
  • Gunmen shot dead Nabil al Dulaimi, who worked for the Dijla radio station.[1002]
  • Iraqi police thwarted an attempt to kidnap assistant dean Abdulsalam Al-Samer in the Doura neighborhood; four kidnappers were killed during the rescue.[1003]
  • A five-year-old girl was killed during an attack on Coalition and police forces in the Doura neighborhood.[]
  • U.S. forces killed two militiamen during a morning raid in Baghdad.[1004]
  • The Iraqi army killed a militiaman in an unspecified location.[1005]
• December 5
  • In Khalis, two policemen were killed and three civilians were injured when a car bomb exploded near a group of policemen transferring detainees to the hospital.[1006]
  • Gunmen fired on a pick-up truck, killing three employees of a private company and wounding six people.[1007]
  • A man was killed in the al Aumal area, and three bodies were turned in to the morgue.[1008]
  • A car bomb in a Mahmudiya market killed one person and wounded two others.[1009]
  • In Kirkuk, the body of an abducted policeman was found buried inside a house. Two kidnappers were arrested.[1010]
  • In Ramadi, Iraqi troops and police killed 63 militiamen during a two-hour battle.[1011]
  • In the Bayaa district, a fuel station was the target of three car bombs that killed 16 people and wounded 25 others.[1012]
  • A pair of car bombs killed five and wounded 12 in the Amil district.[1013]
  • At least 60 bodies were discovered throughout the capital.[1014]

• December 6
  • The Iraq Study Group releases their recommendations over the situation in Iraq.[1015]
  • At least 10 civilians were abducted from a Muqdadiyah bus station.[1016]
  • Late Tuesday in Suwayra, falling mortar rounds killed one person and injured two others.[1017]
  • While they were driving towards Kirkuk, a man and woman were shot dead.[1018]
  • Gunmen seriously wounded Mohammad Haidar Suleiman of Mosul University.[1019]
  • A bomb blast outside the Khalis hospital was immediately followed by a drive-by shooting that left three dead and four wounded. [1020]
  • Gunmen shot dead a police captain and injured one in his retinue in Hawija.[1021]
  • A bomb exploded inside an Iskandariya shop; the owner and three others were killed, 12 were wounded.[1022]
  • The bodies of three bound and blindfolded gunshot victims were discovered on a street in Mahmudiya.[1023]
  • The violence continued apace today in Baghdad: At least 48 bodies were recovered throughout the city.[1024]
  • At the al Haraj market in central Baghdad, mortars killed 10 people and wounded 54 others.[1025]
  • A suicide bomber detonated his cargo on a minibus in the Sadr City district; three people were killed and 16 wounded there.[1026]
  • A bomb planted on Mohammed al Qassem road injured nine people.[1027]
  • In western Baghdad, gunmen broke into a school and killed the headmaster.[1028]
  • A U.S airstrike killed one suspected militiaman in Khanaqin.[1029]
• December 7
  • In Diwaniyah, gunmen killed a former Baath party member.[1030]
  • Three bodies were discovered in Iskandariya; they bore gunshot wounds and signs of torture.[1031]
  • In Fallujah, a car bomb killed three police officers.[1032]
  • 35 bullet-riddled bodies were recovered in several neighborhoods.[1033]
  • Gunmen killed deputy police chief Basil Abdullah and two of his guards near the al Shaab National Stadium.[1034]
  • The head of security at the Iraqi Ministry of Education, Brigadier General Mohsen al-Yaseri, was killed in the Mansour district after gunmen stopped his car.[1035]
  • A third assassination occurred in the Gaderiya district where Professor Abdul Hameed al-Harith was killed in an unspecified manner.[1036]
  • Also in the capital, an explosion in the Wehda neighborhood killed one person and wounded two others, and mortars fell in the Bayaladit district, injuring four people.[1037]
  • Combined American and Iraqi forces killed a regional al Qaeda leader.[1038]
• December 8
  • An Iraqi translator was shot dead in Karmah.[1039]
  • A body was found in Muqdadiyah.[1040]
  • Three bodies were discovered around Baquba.[1041]
  • In Tal Afar, a car bomb killed three and wounded 15 at an Iraqi army checkpoint.[1042]
  • Brigadier General Humam Nuri and his brother were slain in Baghdad; he was the head of customs in Najaf.[1043]
  • Gunmen attacked a crowd of people in the Amil district, killing one and wounding three.[1044]
  • Five truck drivers were abducted in the Jiser Diyala neighborhood.[1045]
  • In the capital, police found 18 dumped bodies throughout the city; they bore the usual gunshot wounds and many displayed signs of torture.[1046]
  • Mortars fell on the poor, Shi'ite suburb of Al-Nehrewan; 25 were killed and 22 wounded in the attack.[1047]
  • Four gunmen were killed in a clash with American forces in Dijel.[1048]
• December 9
  • Gunmen killed four people, including a ten-year-old girl, in separate acts in Baquba.[1049]
  • A roadside bomb in Rashad wounded a policeman.[1050]
  • In Mosul, three were killed and another three wounded when a car bomb exploded there.[1051]
  • A suicide car bomber killed seven, including himself and wounded 44 at the Abassi market in the Shi’ite holy city of Kerbala.[1052]
  • In Baghdad, at least 39 bodies were dumped in various locations.[1053]
  • Mortars fell on the Shi’ite district of Kadhimiya, killing two and wounding three others.[1054]
  • Also, primary school headmaster, Yussif Faraj al-Shimari was shot dead in the Doura neighborhood.[1055]

• December 10
  • A mortar round fell on a home in southern Basra, killing one and injuring five others, four of them children.[1056]
  • Clashes between Iraqi army and gunmen in Khalis left four gunmen dead and one injured.[1057]
  • In Mahmudiya, three bodies were found bearing gunshot wounds and signs of torture.[1058]
  • A sniper killed three Iraqi soldiers in Saqlawiyah. Five civilians, including a woman an child, were injured during the crossfire.[1059]
  • Near Mishada, well-known television director Hussein Rasheed al-Tikriti was kidnapped yesterday.[1060]
  • In Rabia, a suicide car bomber rammed fuel trucks in a carpark, setting them on fire.[1061]
  • A 15-year-old baker and a hairdresser were killed in separate events in Kirkuk, and two policemen were injured in a third event.[1062]
  • In Tikrit, gunmen killed a hospital security guard while he was on his way to work.[1063]
  • During a series of attacks in Baquba, seven people were killed.[1064]
  • Three bodies were recovered in Mosul; two belonged to policemen and one to an Iraqi army soldier.[1065]
  • In Ramadi, three people were wounded in a mortar attack.[1066]
  • Gunmen also launched rocket-propelled grenades at a joint U.S.-Iraqi checkpoint; a university student standing nearby was killed in the attack.[1067]
  • On a road north of Baghdad, two children were killed and six other members of the same family were wounded during a drive-by shooting.[1068]
  • Colonel Yarub Khazal was shot dead in Baghdad's Yarmouk neighborhood.[1069]
  • Two people were killed and two wounded when a mortar landed in the Kadhimiya district.[1070]
  • Two more people were killed and eight injured by a mortar in the neighborhood of Azamiyah.[1071]
  • In the Hurriyah district, 17 bodies were recovered; at least another 43 bodies were recovered elsewhere.[1072]
  • Shi’ites attacked Sunni homes also in Hurriya; 30 families fled the area, and one person was killed.[1073]
  • Gunmen stormed a home in the Jihad neighborhood and killed five Shi’ite brothers, one a policeman.[1074]
  • In the Amil neighborhood, five people were killed and six wounded in a clash between Shi’ite militiamen and members of the Sunni Janabat tribe.[1075]
  • American troops also killed three militiamen after observing them planting a roadside bomb in Saqlawiyah.[1076]
• December 11
  • In Balad a man was gunned down at a railway station.[1077]
  • Four civilians were injured by a mortar round in Taji.[1078]
  • Eight farmers were abducted from a minibus in Dujail.[1079]
  • Near Tuz Khormato, six family members were killed and the father injured when gunmen stormed their home.[1080]
  • Four people were shot dead at a Khalis vegetable market.[1081]
  • Three family members were killed and three wounded during a drive-by shooting near Baquba.[1082]
  • In separate incidents, four brothers in a car and a policeman were gunned down in Mosul.[1083]
  • Two people were killed and six others injured, including two children, when gunmen attacked a minibus near Muqdadiyah.[1084]
  • Near Mustasiriyah University, a roadside bomb wounded seven people.[1085]
  • A car bomb in the Mahmoun University parking lot killed two and wounded four, including two policemen.[1086]
  • In the Iskan district, a car bomb exploded, killing two civilians and wounding three others.[1087]
  • A roadside bomb injured four civilians in the ameiryah pool.[1088]
  • Mortars fell on the Abu Chir neighborhood, killing four and wounding 11 others.[1089]
  • Sixty bodies were discovered in various locations throughout the city.[1090]
  • Iraqi soldiers with help from Coalition forces freed 23 kidnap victims in western Baghdad; one suspected kidnapper was killed and two more were wounded.[1091]

• December 12
  • Police found 13 bodies in Baquba.[1092]
  • Mortars fell on Bani Saad where five people were killed and eights other wounded.[1093]
  • In Mosul, Aswan Fath Allah, an Associated Press TV cameraman, was gunned down.[1094]
  • A mortar landed on a home in the northern city of Riyadh, killing a mother and her two children; two others were wounded in the attack.[1095]
  • Two policemen were gunned down near Hawija.[1096]
  • A gunshot riddled body was found near Chemin.[1097]
  • Gunmen killed an Iraqi army colonel just north of Basra.[1098]
  • Gunmen killed two police officers in Loualwa.[1099]
  • In Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed at least 70 and wounded 236 after luring day laborers to his vehicle at Tayaran Square.[1100]
  • 47 dumped bodies were also discovered throughout the capital.[1101]
  • Coalition forces killed three militiamen in a separate incidents in the capital.[1102]
• December 13
  • Two militiamen were killed in Ramadi by Coalition Forces.[1103]
  • Seven bodies that bore evidence of torture were found in Mosul.[1104]
  • A woman was killed, three others injured, by a roadside bomb in Baiji.[1105]
  • In Baquba, five people were gunned down in separate incidents.[1106]
  • In Mahmudiya, two bound and shot bodies were discovered.[1107]
  • Four bodies were found in Fallujah; they were shot and bore evidence of torture.[1108]
  • Gunmen wounded four soldiers when they attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint near Balad.[1109]
  • One person was killed and three wounded by a roadside bomb near the city council of Jurf al-Sakhar.[1110]
  • Gunmen stormed the home of a Shi’ite family in al Hesna, killing four men, two women and three children.[1111]
  • The general secretary of Thar Allah party, Yousif Al Mosawi, survived an assassination attempt in Basra; a roadside bomb targeting his car wounded two of his guards instead.[1112]
  • In Riyadh, at least nine soldiers were killed and 10 wounded when two suicide truck bombers attacked an Iraqi army base.[1113]
  • In Baghdad, 21 dumped bodies were discovered.[1114]
  • A pair of car bombs killed five people and wounded 10 at a market in the New Baghdad/Jadida district.[1115]
  • 20 people were killed in a heavily Palestinian Baladiyat neighborhood.[1116]
• December 14
  • A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers near Fallujah.[1117]
  • In Samarra, a roadside bomb killed two police commandos and wounded a policeman.[1118]
  • Two shot and tortured bodies were found in al Lij village.[1119]
  • A car bomb in Mahaweel killed two and wounded six others.[1120]
  • Near Mosul, three off duty Iraqi soldiers were shot dead on the highway headed towards Tal Afar.[1121]
  • Fifteen bodies were found near an irrigation canal in Khallisa village; they were shot of showed evidence of torture.[1122]
  • A roadside bomb near Mussayab killed one Iraqi soldier and wounded four more.[1123]
  • In Baghdad, gunmen dressed as security personnel kidnapped at least 20 civilians in the al Sanak district; some witnesses claim as many as 70 were abducted.[1124]
  • Also in the capital, at least 45 dumped bodies were found in town, and three bodies were discovered southwest of Baghdad.[1125]
  • Gunmen attacked a boys' school in southwestern Baghdad, killing a security guard.[1126]
  • Mortars fell on Doura, wounding three people and causing a large fire.[1127]
  • Also, the convoy of Iraqi vice president Adil Abdul Mahdi was attacked but no casualties were reported.[1128]
• December 15
  • In an attack in Diwaniya, a Iraqi intelligence member and an oil company guard were killed by gunmen.[1129]
  • Muhsin al-Kanani, a Shi'ite sheikh, and two of his guards were killed when gunmen opened fire on his vehicle in Basra.[1130]
  • At least 22 bodies were recovered in different areas; some were hancuffed or tortured.[1131]
  • Coalition forces also killed ten militiamen during clashes in between the villages of Dojamah and Zanboor and four militiamen who were burying a roadside bomb near Fallujah.[1132]
• December 16
  • In Mosul, gunmen killed a man selling cooking gas canisters and a Christian car mechanic in separate incidents.[1133]
  • Gunmen killed Sheikh Sattar al-Khadran and a companion in Zuhra; he was the leader of the Bayati tribe.[1134]
  • In Baquba, clashes between Iraqi soldiers and militiamen left two civilians dead and five others wounded.[1135]
  • Police in Baghdad recovered 53 dumped bodies; at least nine were killed execution style.[1136]
  • In the New Baghdad neighborhood of Tal Mohammed, gunmen and residents clashed; three residents were killed and one was wounded.[1137]
  • During a raid in the Baghdad neighborhood of Sadr City, U.S forces killed one militiaman and wounded a second.[1138]
• December 17
  • At least 10 dumped bodies were discovered in Baghdad and Kirkuk.[1139]
  • A police officer was killed in Kut.[1140]
  • Police found the bodies of two people who were shot dead in Mussayab on Saturday.[1141]
  • A leading member of the Muslim Scholars Association was gunned down in Alexandria after meeting with Prime Minister al Maliki.[1142]
  • One Iraqi soldier was killed and another wounded near Tikrit when a roadside bomb targeted their army patrol.[]
  • In Jurf al Sakhar, police found two tortured and shot bodies.[1143]
  • Six people were wounded when mortars landed in Balad.[1144]
  • At a bus station in Mahmudiya, a car bomb killed one person and injured two others.[1145]
  • Near Rutba, police found five bodies bearing gunshot and torture wounds.[1146]
  • In Baghdad, kidnappers targeted the offices of the Red Crescent, which is affiliated with the International Red Cross; at least 28 employees and visitors were abducted. Seventeen were later released, but several are still missing.[1147]
  • Forty-five bodies were also discovered in various part of the capital, many bearing torture marks.[1148]
• December 18
  • During clashes and air strikes near Balad, three Iraqi soldiers and eight militiamen were killed.[1149]
  • Police Captain Nihad Khalid was abducted and an unidentified body was found in Samarra.[1150]
  • Three people were gunned down near Tal Afar.[1151]
  • Mortars killed one villager and injured 12 others in Shah Ali.[1152]
  • Nine bodies were found in Baquba.[1153]
  • In the Diyala province one Iraqi soldier was killed and a second wounded when they were blasted by a roadside bomb.[1154]
  • A member of the city council of Mosul, Khaireddine al-Dabagh, was gunned down. Two bodies were also found.[1155]
  • Near Kirkuk, a roadside bomb wounded two policemen on a road heading towards Tuz Khurmatu.[1156]
  • Gunmen in Kirkuk killed a policeman on his way to work.[1157]
  • During clashes between U.S. forces and militia in Ramadi, one militia member and a civilian were killed.[1158]
  • Coalition forces also killed two militiamembers and injured another in Fallujah.[1159]
  • In Baghdad, at least 49 dumped bodies were discovered around town.[1160]
  • At the Ministry of Education building in the Amil district, gunmen attacked a group of female staff members, killing one and wounding two others.[1161]
  • A car bomb at a Sadiya vegetable market killed five and wounded 19 others.[1162]
• December 19
  • In Barwana village, a member of the Timim tribe and his son were assassinated while traveling in a car.[1163]
  • Mosul city council member Khair Edine Al-Dabbagh and a policeman were gunned down.[1164]
  • Four bodies were found in separate locations around Mosul, and two more bodies were found west of the city.[1165]
  • One person was killed and three wounded when mortars fell on their neighborhood in Rasheed.[1166]
  • Gunmen killed two policemen while they were on patrol in the al Mustafa neighborhood.[1167]
  • In Kirkuk, Lieutenant-Colonel Kamil Ahmed’s convoy was the target of a roadside bomb; seven policemen were injured but Ahmed was unharmed.[1168]
  • In Baghdad, 53 bodies were found scattered in several neighborhoods; some were bound and/or tortured.[1169]
  • The Iraqi Army reported killing two militia members.[1170]
  • Actor Mitashar al Sudami was found dead, a day after he was kidnapped.[1171]
  • Dr. Omar al Jubouri was kidnapped from a hospital.[1172]

• December 20
  • In Shakori village, gunmen killed two civilians and wounded eight others.[1173]
  • A policeman was killed in Amara.[1174]
  • In Kirkuk, a suicide bomber at a checkpoint killed one soldier and wounded three others.[1175]
  • Two bodies bearing gunshot and torture wounds were found in Mahmudiya.[1176]
  • In Baiji, a roadside bomb killed two motorists and wounded three others.[1177]
  • Five people were shot dead and 11 bodies were recovered in different incidents in Mosul.[1178]
  • 76 unidentified bodies were dumped in different sections of the capital.[1179]
  • In Baghdad, a car bomber drove his cargo into a police checkpoint near Baghdad University; 11 people were killed and 31 injured, including students.[1180]
  • Another car bomb killed five and wounded 11 in an Adhamiya district Interior Ministry office.[1181]
• December 21
  • A former Baath Party member was assassinated in Karbala.[1182]
  • Police Colonol Ahmed Saleh was gunned down late yesterday in Tikrit.[1183]
  • Gunmen stormed a pharmacy in the Diyala province; they killed the pharmacist and his brother.[1184]
  • Five bodies were found in Kut. Two were decapitated and three were fished out of the Tigris River.[1185]
  • Two policemen were killed in Baiji when a suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint.[1186]
  • In Irbil, a suicide car bomber drove into a checkpoint where he killed one soldier and wounded four others.[1187]
  • A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. patrol in Mosul wounded two civilians.[1188]
  • In the capital, a suicide bomber killed 16 people and wounded 21 at a police recruitment center in eastern Baghdad.[1189]
  • Iraqi soldiers reported killing twelve militia members across Iraq.[1190]

• December 22
  • Two bodies were found in Diwaniya.[1191]
  • Four people were kidnapped at a fake checkpoint in Baquba.[1192]
  • A mortar attack in al Boalwan wounded an unspecified number of villagers, including a 10-year-old boy.[1193]
  • One unidentified body was found in Khalis.[1194]
  • A motorcycle bomb in Suwayra killed one and wounded three.[1195]
  • In Samarra, a car bomb exploded in front of the home of Ahmed al-Yaseen, brother of Sunni Accordance Front parliament member Abdel Kareem al-Yaseen; he and his wife were killed and four of his children were wounded.[1196]
  • In Kut, police found the body of a hospital worker who had been kidnapped Thursday in Aziziya.[1197]
  • In Baghdad, 12 dumped bodies were found in different sections of the city.[1198]
  • A roadside bomb killed one and wounded seven when it exploded near the national theater.[1199]
  • Three Sunni worshippers, including Imam Emad Al Shamari, were kidnapped from a mosque in the Bunouk neighborhood right before weekly prayers.[1200]
  • Militiamen kidnapped three female university students then raped and killed them.[1201]
  • Coalition forces killed a militia member in an unspecified location.[1202]
• December 23
  • Near Manzala, a bomb left two people dead.[1203]
  • An Iraqi civilian was killed and another wounded by a bomb on the Kirkuk-Mosul highway.[1204]
  • In Mosul, tribal leader Wathaah Abid-Rabbuh was assassinated; he lead the mostly Sunni Jubour tribe.[1205]
  • Militiamen killed an Iraqi soldier in the small town of Dour.[1206]
  • Gunmen killed a policemen in Samarra.[1207]
  • Police found the bodies of an Iraqi intelligence officer and an Iraqi protection services member in Diwaniya.[1208]
  • A roadside bomb outside Hawija killed two civilians.[1209]
  • In Samawa, six people were killed and 19 wounded during clashes between Iraqi army and militiamen loyal to Shi’ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr. Four of the dead were policemen.[1210]
  • Forty-seven bodies were discovered in Baghdad; many bearing the usual signs of torture that are often found on dumped corpses.[1211]
  • A militia member was killed during a raid in Ramadi; several others were arrested.[1212]
• December 24
  • Gunmen stormed a home in Mussayab and killed one man inside.[1213]
  • Gunmen wounded three policemen when they attacked a police station in Jurf al Sakhar.[1214]
  • In Rumaitha, clashes between the Iraqi army and the Mahdi militia left six people dead and one person injured.[1215]
  • Two Shi'ite brothers were gunned down in Hawija.[1216]
  • Five bodies were found in Mosul.[1217]
  • Three dumped bodies were discovered in Diwaniya.[1218]
  • In Tal Afar, a roadside bomb killed two policemen.[1219]
  • A suicide bomber wearing a bomb-laden vest killed seven police officers and injured 30 more during an attack on a police station in Muqdadiyah.[1220]
  • A rocket landed in Khanaquin, wounding 18 people.[1221]
  • Six mortar rounds wounded 12 people in central Baghdad.[1222]
  • 29 bodies were recovered around Baghdad.[1223]
  • U.S. forces killed three militia members in Baghdad and three gunmen in Samisiyah.[1224]
• December 25
  • In Baquba, a roadside bomb killed four people, including two women, near the al Anfal mosque.[1225]
  • Mortars fell in Balad Ruz and injured five civilians.[1226]
  • Seven bodies were discovered in different parts of Mosul.[1227]
  • A sniper killed a police commando in Samarra.[1228]
  • In Mahaweel, gunmen killed a police lieutenant colonel and two police officers; at least one other officer was wounded.[1229]
  • An Iraqi army patrol in Fallujah came under attack from gunmen; two soldiers and a third person were killed.[1230]
  • In Baghdad, 40 dumped bodies were found.[1231]
  • Gunmen killed an employee from the ministry of housing, who was in the Zayouna area, and an employee from the ministry of science of technology, who was on al Kanat street.[1232]
  • British troops in Basra raided a renegade police unit allegedly filled with militia members; seven of the police/militia members were killed.[1233]

• December 26
  • Iraq's highest appeals court upholds Saddam Hussein's death sentence. The sentence is to be carried out within 30 days. [1234]

• December 29
  • Saddam Hussein is transferred to Iraqi custody for execution, expected on Saturday, December 30, 2006 by hanging. [1235]
  • The US military announced 3 Marines were killed in Anbar province, making December the deadliest month for US troops in Iraq in 2006. [1236]

• December 30
  • Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging before dawn in Iraq (0300 GMT / 2200 EST / 0600 Iraq Time).

• December 31
  • The number of US soldiers killed in Iraq reaches 3,000. [1237]
  • US casualties reach 112 for December, the Third highest count since the war began.

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Deaths

• December 30 - Saddam Hussein (b. 1937), executed by hanging

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References

1. ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4756911.stm
2. ^ http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/15/news/iraq.php

 9 Iraq bombs claim dozens of lives BBC News 28th February 2006