2006 in Iraq
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There were a number of events in 2006 in Iraq.
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[edit] January
- January 1
- The body of a man, bound and shot to death, was found by police south of the capital. [1]
- Insurgents explode 12 car bombs in Iraq. 20 people were injured but no one was killed. [2]
- A car bomb wounded 16 people in Baji whilst targeting a US/Iraqi patrol. [3]
- US Task Force Soldier dies from wounds caused by a mortar attack in Baghdad on 31st December. [4]
- A bomb exploded near a gas station near Daura. Three civilians were injured.
- One Iraqi soldier was killed and 3 were wounded by a roadside bomb near Balad. [5]
- The bodies of four people were found bound and shot near the Syrian border town of Rutba. [6]
- The 17 year-old son of a Palestinian cultural attache to Iraq shot. [7]
- 4 Iraqi soldiers killed by a roadside bomb whilst patrolling the main street in the city of Fallujah. [8]
- Suicide car bombs kill one Iraqi soldier and wound 24 others in Baghdad. [9]
- January 2
- 7 Iraqi police killed, another 13 injured in a suicide car bomb attack north of Baghdad.[10]
- 2 Iraqi soldiers died when their patrol was hit by a roadside bomb near Dujail. Another soldier was killed and an officer wounded in a drive-by shooting on road between Baiji and Tikrit.[11]
- 2 policemen were killed in a gun fight in Baghdad and one more dies in a car bomb blast in Tikrit.[12]
- Police find bodies of 8 men who had been handcuffed and shot in the head in South East Baghdad.[13]
- Police also found the body of an officer in western Baghdad who had been shot in the head.[14]
- Gunmen killed 5 Iraqi labourers in Baghdad when they opened fire on two cars.[15]
- Police find 3 bodies in Iskandariyah, some 30 miles (50kms) south of Baghdad.[16]
- 4 U.S. civilian contractors killed and 18 Iraqi civilians injured during vehicle accident.[17]
- Gunmen killed 2 children and wounded their parents on the road between Tikrit and Kirkuk.[18]
- Gunmen attacked and shot dead an ambulance driver in Kirkuk
- A civilian was seriously wounded when a bomb targeting a US patrol exploded.
- Two Iraqi policemen were killed in clashes between insurgents and security forces in western Baghdad.[19]
- The Iraqi minister of industry escapes roadside bomb.[20]
- January 3
- U.S. air forces bombed a suspected insurgent hideout, killing seven.[21] It sparks great outrage among the Sunni Arab population.[22]
- Gunmen kidnapped the sister of Iraqi interior minister Bayan Jabr from Baghdad's al-Qadisiyah district.[23]
- Gunmen attack car carrying construction workers in Baghdad, killing 3 and wounding 2. Gunmen in the same neighborhood fired on a car carrying civilians, killing 2 and wounding 3.[24]
- Iraq's oil minister resigns as Iraqis protested and rioted over soaring gas prices and long queues at petrol pumps.[25]
- Iraq's main Sunni Arab group made a trip to see Kurdish leaders.[26]
- The 4 civilian contractors who died in western Iraq on New Year's Day were subcontractors of Halliburton subsidiary Kellog Brown & Root.[27]
- Unidentified gunmen shot dead senior surgeon in Baghdadi hospital.[28]
- 3 Iraqi Police were killed and 14 others wounded during a suicide car bomb attack in Baqubah.[29]
- Gunmen kill senior official in a government auditing body, he was the third senior official from the body to be killed.[30]
- A U.S. air strike killed 14 members of one family in the oil refining town of Baiji in northern Iraq.[31]
- Gunmen in Baghdad kill two Interior Ministry bodyguards and three civilians elsewhere in Baghdad were shot to death.[32]
- January 4
- Suicide bomber struck a Shiite funeral, killing 32 and wounding 40.[33]
- Interior Ministry Claimed that more than 7,000 Iraqis, mostly civilians, were killed by violence in 2005.[34]
- Gunmen in Mosul attack offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, killing a civilian. Roadside bomb in Baqouba kills 1 woman.[35]
- In the capital, gunmen kill a former army captain. In Aziziyah gunmen fired on a police patrol, killing one policeman.[36]
- US General says he is 'upbeat about Iraq's future' but hasn't turned the corner.[37]
- Three civilians died in Kirkuk after their car was hit by a bomb intended for a U-S patrol.[38]
- At least 3 people were killed and 13 wounded when car bomb explodes outside police station in Baghdad.[39]
- Enemy fire has wounded 16,000 American troops in Iraq. Nonbattle injuries and disease cause evacuations of 20,449 U.S. troops from Iraq through.[40]
- A US drone crashed Wednesday in a residential area in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.[41]
- Suicide bomber kills about 30 people and wounded dozens during a Shiite Muslim funeral at Miqdadiya.[42]
- Insurgents torched three tanker trucks just north of Baghdad.[43]
- Rahim Ali Sudani, a director-general at the oil ministry, and his son were shot dead Wednesday in Baghdad.[44]
- At least 8 people were killed and 12 wounded when a car bomb exploded in southern Baghdad.[45]
- Suicide bomber kills 36 people and wounded 40 at a Shi'ite funeral on Wednesday and a car bomb exploded in the lately peaceful holy city of Kerbala.[46]
- 1 Iraqi soldier killed and 2 wounded in IED attack..[47]
- 2 Iraqi policemen wounded in bomb attack near Iskandariya.[48]
- Rebels destroy 20 out of 60 fuel tankers on a road near Baghdad.[49]
- 2 dead bodies found shot near Mahawil, about 75 km west of Bagdhad.[50]
- 2 police commandos were killed and 9 wounded in mortar attack on checkpoint.[51]
- 2 guards of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the leader of one of Iraq's most powerful Shi'ite political parties, were shot dead on Tuesday while attending a funeral in southern Baghdad, police said.[52]
- In the western part of Baghdad, police became involved in a half-hour firefight with insurgents. One policeman was killed and 16 other officers injured.[53]
- January 5
- 50 people were killed and 80 wounded by a suicide bomb attack in the Iraqi city of Karbala.[54]
- 50 people were killed and 40 injured in a suicide attack on a line of police recruits in Ramadi.[55]
- President Bush meets with former foreign policy secretaries for their insight on Iraq.[56]
- Insurgent violence shut down Iraq's largest oil refinery.[57]
- Two U.S. soldiers die when a bomb struck their patrol north of Baghdad.[58]
- 4 policemen were killed and 4 wounded in attack on police patrol.[59]
- Iraq's largest oil refinery closed again Thursday after fuel convoy attack.[60]
- Suicide car bomb kills 3 Iraqi soldiers in Baghdad. Gunmen kill 3 other people in separate incidents..[61]
- Five Task Force Baghdad Soldiers die in Baghdad IED explosion.[62]
- Bomb kills 6 members of same family near Baiji.[63]
- 4 Iranian nationals were killed and 13 others injured in a bomb explosion in the Iraqi holy city of Karbala.[64]
- Unidentified Iraqi prisoner dies whilst being transferred between prisons.[65]
- 2 civilians were killed and 4 wounded when a roadside bomb attack south of Baghdad.[66]
- Major gas pipeline in Bajwan was seriously damaged in mortar attack.[67]
- Gunmen ambush convoy carrying senior Iraqi Lieutenant-Colonel wounding him and killing 3 bodyguards.[68]
- Car bomb explodes in Baghdad wounded three police officers. Another suicide attack near a bridge in the centre of the capital kills an Iraqi soldier and citizen whilst wounding 3 others.[69]
- A bomb exploded on an oil pipeline in Bagman, about 16 miles northwest of Kirkuk.[70]
- January 6
- US Marine commander claims Iraqi police will re-emerge in Western towns over the course of 2006.[71]
- A suicide car bomber kills 1 police officer in Baghdad.[72]
- Thousands of Shiites demonstrated in Baghdad after two days of bloodshed that claimed almost 200 lives.[73]
- A riot outside Baghdad has left two dead and dozens injured.[74]
- British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw is meeting with the governor of the southern city of Al-Basrah and other local officials to discuss efforts to form a coalition government following parliamentary elections held on 15 December.[75]
- 1 Iraqi civilian was killed Friday and three others were wounded when a booby-trapped car went off as an Iraqi military parade passed nearby in the Zaafaranyia area , to the south of Baghdad.[76]
- In the northern city of Mosul, 5 policemen and 10 civilians were also wounded by a car bomb explosion targeting a Iraqi police patrol in the Muthanna neighborhood.[77]
- A police source said the militants abducted Kirkuk Governorate Council member Ahmad Akkar Nezar while he was visiting a relative in Al-Shaeb area in Baghdad .[78]
- Iraqi police found 7 bodies on Friday near the Rustumiya reservoirs at the Diyala River, southern Baghdad. the bodies showed signs of gun wounds, and had been bound and blind-folded.[79]
- Mortar fire rattled a ceremony marking Iraq's army day on Friday following one of the country's bloodiest days since the fall of Saddam as British Foreign Secretary Jack Straw arrived on a surprise visit.[80]
- 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.[81]
- Polish troops on Thursday handed control of Al Hilla provinces in Iraq, south of Baghdad to their US counterparts. Polish soldiers remaining in Iraq will be stationed in two camps at Qut and Diwaniyah.[82]
- 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.[83]
- Iraqis buried their dead on Friday from a day of bloodshed which left some Shi'ites calling for a backlash against the Sunni Arab militants they blame for a suicide bombing in their holy city of Kerbala.[84]
- Army Lt. Gen. John R. Vines voiced concerns that sectarian rivalries and incompetence could cripple major ministries and turn newly U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces into militias for hire.[85]
- January 7
- Clashes break out between insurgents and U.S. troops in Fallujah, reports say one U.S. soldier killed.[86]
- Baghdad's 'Green Zone' comes under mortar rounds attack.[87]
- Demonstrations in the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah turned violent Friday leaving two dead and two dozen injured.[88]
- 4 soldiers and 2 civilians were wounded as a car bomb hits Iraqi army patrol in Baghdad.[89]
- One civilian was killed and another wounded when U.S. soldiers opened fire on their car as it approached a checkpoint on a main road in Baiji.[90]
- Doctor Ali Hussein, an employee at Falluja hospital, was killed by gunmen in the city police said.[91]
- Female US journalist kidnapped, translator killed.[92]
- Number of badly wounded soldiers on rise in Iraq.[93]
- US generals disagree on Iraq violence.[94]
- Eyewitnesses in the city told United Press International they saw American military helicopters hovering above the area and heard a series of explosions.[95]
- Insurgents clash with US troops in Fallujah.[96]
[edit] February
- February 1
- Gunmen kill civilian in Baghdad, interior ministry bombed.[97]
- A bomb blew up an oil pipeline on Wednesday just north of the southern town of Hilla, police said.[98]
- Police in Baghdad found three corpses in two separate locations in southern Baghdad.[99]
- Roadside bomb blasts in Amiriyah, west of Baghdad, and Baqouba, to the north, killed 2 civilians. A mortar barrage killed 2 Iraqi soldiers in the north western city of Tal Afar, officials said.[100]
- A bomb exploded alongside a group of Iraqi men waiting for work in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least eight and wounding more than 50.[101]
[edit] 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
- Baghdad police said they discovered 25 more bodies, blindfolded, shot and dumped throughout the capital.[102]
- A bomb exploded in a booth for traffic police in north Baghdad Saturday, killing four civilians, police said. A policeman was among five people wounded in the attack near the Iraqi finance ministry, police said.[103]
- In north Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on a police patrol in a drive-by shooting, wounding one officer, police said.[104]
- 4 people were killed today by a roadside explosion targeting a minibus in a northern Baghdad district, eyewitnesses said.[105]
- 2 people were killed and 1 injured by gunshots fired by the US military in al-Ratba.[106]
- The United States will talk to Iran about Washington's accusations of Iranian destabilisation of Iraq, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice said on Friday.[107]
- Gunmen ambushed a convoy of trucks heading to a U.S. base in Badush, west of Mosul. Six trucks were destroyed.[108]
- Police found ten bodies in different parts of Baghdad, police said. The corpses showed signs of torture and some had been garroted, police said.[109]
- Salvadoran troops hit by IED explosion and small arms fire in southern Iraq.[110]
- In Balad Ruz a roadside bomb killed two teenage boys selling farm produce from the back of their bicycles. A passing car was also hit, and the three occupants were injured.[111]
- PDF file on detailed study of equipment losses for the Army Reserve and Army National Guard as reported by the Government Accountability Office.[112]
- Car bomb wounds 3 police commandos in Samarra.[113]
- 4 civilians were killed and 13 wounded when four mortar rounds landed on houses in al-Mahmudiya, 20 miles south of Baghdad.[114]
- Police found two bodies, shot, blindfolded and with their hands bound in Yusifiya, 9 miles (15 km) south of Baghdad.[115]
- Norman Kember, the British hostage held in Iraq for almost four months before being freed this week, arrived back in London on a flight from Kuwait.[116]
- A school teacher and a Sunni mosque preacher were shot dead in Baghdad. The teacher was killed by Iraqi soldiers as she drove past their convoy, police said. The Imam had stopped to have his car repaired in west Baghdad when he was gunned down.[117]
- Roadside bomb kills 2 in Balabroz.[118]
- In Mosul, three people in a car were killed by gunmen and two were wounded, police said.[119]
- Iraqi police found a body in southeastern Baghdad and another floating in the Tigris River, 55 miles south of the capital. Both were shot in the head, their hands and legs tied.[120]
- 40 people killed or wounded in gun battle near Mahmoudiya.[121]
- 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".[122]
- Bound, Blindfolded and Dead: The Face of Atrocity in Baghdad.[123]
- U.S. authorities arrest translator working in Iraq, charging him with offering a bribe to entice a police official to buy armored vests and other equipment for $1 million.[124]
- Schools are on the front line in Iraq violence.[125]
- Syria bolsters status of Iraqi cleric Moqtada al-Sadr.[126]
- March 26
- Romanian soldier dies in Iraq.[127]
- Bombing at Basra School Kills Student.[128]
- Background on boy killed in above article.[129]
- Bomb explodes in Baghdad killing one woman and wounding 3 others.[130]
- Security contractors wounded by bomb in north Baghdad.[131]
- Gunmen killed two policemen in Wajihiya.[132]
- Mortar rounds slam to earth near al-Sadr's home.[133]
- Iraqi police major held for death squad role.[134]
- Kidnappings Becomes Lucrative Industry in Iraq.[135]
- 10 bodies found in Dora, 2 in Baquba, 1 in Hurriyah.[136]
- Security guard killed.[137]
- Police killed in Baquba, Farmer killed in Buhriz.[138]
- Three corpses found in Baghdad's al-Yarmouk neighborhood.[139]
- 291 detainees released from MNF supervised prisons.[140]
- Iraqi authorities warn of exploding candy.[141]
- 17 Iranian pilgrims arrested in Iraq on charge of illegal entry.[142]
- 30 Beheaded bodies found in Iraq.[143]
- Amid confusion, Iraq Shi'ites accuse US troops.[144]
- Bomb kills 30 at U.S.-Iraqi base in Mosul.[145]
- Gunmen kill three people in western Iraq.[146]
- At least 69 Iraqis die in violence.[147]
- March 27
- Memo shows US president was firmly set on the path to war two months before the 2003 Iraq invasion.[148]
- 40 people were killed and 20 others wounded in recruitment centre suicide bomb attack.[149]
- Police found nine bodies in southwestern Baghdad's Bayya neighborhood.[150]
- Saddam Hussein's former deputy Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri in audiotape message.[151]
- Iraqi police found 18 bodies along a road near Tall al-Sakher. [152]
- Bomb explodes inside a minibus killing two, wounding six.[153]
- Two people were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad's Zayuna neighborhood. In western Baghdad, four people were wounded when a roadside bomb hit an Iraqi police patrol.[154]
- Three people were wounded when a mortar round landed in central Baghdad.[155]
- Bomb in Sadr office in Baqubah wounds three.[156]
- A U.S. soldier dies of heart attack.[157]
- Gunmen wound four workers near U.S. base in Tikrit.[158]
- Five policemen were wounded in Mosul grenade attack.[159]
- 21 bodies reported found on Monday - nine were found in west Baghdad.[160]
- Car bomb kills one in Sadr City.[161]
- Iraq's oil exports are currently running at around 1.5 million barrels per day.[162]
- Rocket hitting a building in Baghdad kills at least 7 and wounds 30 others. A separate rocket attack kills one person and wounds two more in Baghdad.[163]
- Police found the body of a man with gunshot wounds north of Baghdad.[164]
- Police find body of a man working as an Iraqi army supplier.[165]
- Gunmen kidnap 16 employees of the Baghdad trading company Al Saeed Import Export.[166]
- Shi'ite Islamist Alliance bloc demand U.S. forces return control of security to the Iraqi government after mosque killings.[167]
- March 28
- Defense officials displayed photographs of arms cache after raid.[168]
- Bomb placed close to the governorate headquarters injures female student and four policemen.[169]
- Iraqi police patrols find 14 dead bodies in execution-style in western Baghdad district.[170]
- US Government to release further pictures showing US soldiers tormenting Iraqi detainees at Abu Ghraib.[171]
- 16 American security contractors not to be charged by US for shooting incident in Fallujah.[172]
- One U.S. Soldier was killed and three were wounded by IED.[173]
- Baghdad Soldier was killed by small-arms fire south of Baghdad.[174]
- Civilian injured in car explosion in northwestern Baghdad.[175]
- Rocket attack near Balad Ruz and wounds six people, including two children.[176]
- Gunmen abduct the Dean of Anbar University in the city of Ramadi.[177]
- A member of the Interior Ministry's public order brigade was injured by gunfire.[178]
- Iraqi intelligence agent was shot by gunmen in the southern Risala neighborhood.[179]
- In north Baghdad five people were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a restaurant.[180]
- 2 policemen injured as bomb hits their patrol near the northern town of Samarra.[181]
- 6 policemen wounded by a bomb targeting their near Kirkuk.[182]
- Bomb in Nasiriya kills three Iraqis.[183]
- Car bomb explodes injures a dozen or more people as Iraqi Police battle insurgents. Last two days of violence kill 151 Iraqis.[184]
- George W. Bush 'does not want Jaafari to lead a new government of national unity.[185]
- Authorities imposed a curfew Tuesday in the northern city of Beiji.[186]
- Iraq's unemployed paid cash to launch attacks on British troops in southern Iraq, say military commanders.[187]
- March 29
- Around 30-40 bodies are being found on the streets of Baghdad every day, morgue officials say.[188]
- Iraqi prisoner is killed during a clash with inmate at the U.S. military's Camp Bucca prison.[189]
- Gunmen kill 8 and wound 6 at an Iraqi electronic trading company.[190]
- A general director in the Central Bank was wounded in attack.[191]
- Three soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Hawija.[192]
- Gunmen attack businesses affiliated to SOuth Korean firm in Baghdad.[193]
- A roadside bomb explodes outside Iraqi soldier's home and wounds his 7-year old son.[194]
- Gunmen killed two civilians and wounded another in a drive-by shooting in the town of Khalis.[195]
- Iraqi and American special forces claim they didn't know their target contained a mosque.[196]
- U.S. commanders in Iraq on Monday accused Shi‘ite groups of moving the corpses of gunmen killed in mosque battle.[197]
- An Australian resident has been shot dead by security contractors in Iraq.[198]
- University students in Basra are promoting peace.[199]
- Iraqi police major-general arrested for corruption.[200]
- Rival Shi'ite Groups unite after US/Iraqi Raid on mosque.[201]
- The bodies of 14 men found in Baghdad's western al-Adel district.[202]
- Iraqi police thwarted a suicide bomb attack on a police station in Haswa.[203]
- Gunmen attacked a highway police patrol in west Baghdad Wednesday, killing 1 policeman and wounding 4 more.[204]
- In south Baghdad, a sniper killed a policeman on patrol in the Dora neighborhood.[205]
- Halliburton Co., 'overcharged taxpayers and provided substandard cost reports'.[206]
- Bulgaria sends 154 troops to Iraq.[207]
- Pentagon claims photos show Iraqi and U.S. forces were fired on from buildings during mosque killings.[208]
- One Iraqi army soldier was killed and another two wounded when their patrol was struck by a roadside bomb near Abu Ghraib prison.[209]
- An unmanned U.S. Air Force Predator kills 3 Iraqis planting bombs near US airbase.[210]
- Bomb explodes outside store, wounding one Another exploded nearby the residence of Chief of Police Rahim Awah, no injuries.[211]
- Unknown gunmen kill store owner in Kirkuk.[212]
- 5 oil security guards wounded in Kirkuk
- Bomb explodes at Kirkuk oil facility injuring 5 guards.[213]
- 6 Iraqi soldiers wounded near Baiji.[214]
- A five-week-old strike at Sikorsky Aircraft is causing "rapidly dwindling" supplies of spare parts for US helicopters in Iraq.[215]
- A terror suspect being held by UK forces in Iraq without charge or court access loses challenge over detention.[216]
- US President Blames Hussein for Iraq Instability.[217]
- Iraq raid photos show weapons caches.[218]
- Austrian-Kurdish journalist to 18 months in prison by the Kurdish Democratic Party for criticizing Massoud Barzani.[219]
- US appeals to al-Sistani to help end political impasse,[220]
- March 30
- Pentagon requests hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency funds for military construction in Iraq.[221]
- US forces launch operation in the town of Baiji, Tikrit. Heavy weapon fire was heard in the town.[222]
- Roadside bomb wounds five Iraqi commandos in Baghdad.[223]
- Two guards protecting oil pipelines wounded in Nasiriyah.[224]
- 3 people killed when armed men in Baghdad targeted a bakery in the neighborhood of Dura, During a second attack on a bakery in the neighborhood of Amiriyah, one employee was wounded in a hail of bullets.[225]
- Insurgents also blew up a pipeline transporting oil from the northern city of Kirkuk to the Beiji refinery.[226]
- Roadside bomb kills one policeman in Kirkuk.[227]
- Roadside bomb, gunmen wound seven Iraqis in Baghdad.[228]
- A suicide car bomber rammed a police convoy in west Baghdad’s Yarmouk neighborhood, killing one police commando and wounding three others. Two civilians also were hurt.[229]
- Kidnapped U.S. reporter Jill Carroll released after nearly three months in captivity.[230]
- 1 U.S. airman was killed and another was wounded by a roadside bomb while conducting an operation near Baghdad.[231]
- Police discover body of strangled man.[232]
- U.S. soldier killed in western Iraq.[233]
- Assailants gunned down a police commando in south Baghdad Thursday, and drive-by shooters killed a lawyer as she got out of a taxi in the southern city of Basra.[234]
- Russian company Tekhnopromexport stop construction of a power plant in Iraq after 18 of its employees were abducted in Baghdad.[235]
- March 31
- A mortar round slammed into a street in northeastern Baghdad Friday, killing three bystanders and wounding three others.[236]
- Garbage Dump Second Home for Iraqi Children - Every day before school, seven year old Mohammed Fariq Rostam goes with his father on their donkeys to scrounge through Sulaimaniyah's garbage dump.[237]
- A policeman was killed when gunmen fired on his patrol in Falluja 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.[238]
- A 62-year-old prisoner at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison died of an apparent heart attack, the US military said on Friday.[239]
- American forces are damaging the ancient city of Kish and must withdraw from the 5,000-year-old archaeological site, an Iraqi ministry said Thursday.[240]
- Soldiers find 6 more bullet-riddled bodies.[241]
- A leading Iraqi Shi'ite cleric demanded on Friday that the United States sack its ambassador, accusing Zalmay Khalilzad of siding with his fellow Sunni Muslims.[242]
- A peace activist, Harmeet Singh Sooden, held hostage in Iraq for nearly four months says he believes a ransom was paid for his freedom.[243]
- Almost 6,700 UK troops needed hospital treatment in Iraq since the invasion three years ago - almost as many as the total number of British troops still stationed there.[244]
- Iraqi officials disdain Bush messages.[245]
- Oil pipeline blown up in Baghdad, crews battle to put it out.[246]
- A mortar shell fell on Friday on the headquarters of the multi-national forces in Kirkuk in northern Iraq.[247]
- Bomb explodes near an oil pipeline in Kirkuk near the village of Jedou'a.[248]
- At least 5 civilians were killed when gunmen fired on their car near Baquba, about 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad.[249]
- Three car bombs also went off nearly simultaneously in a market area of southern Baghdad, killing one person and injuring seven, police said.[250]
- Damage to the military will take years to repair.[251]
[edit] 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.[252]
- Iraqi gunmen ambush minibus carrying Shiites, kill six men.[253]
- Gunmen kill 3 ice cream vendors and a butcher and his son in Baghdad.[254]
- In the western Iskan neighborhood, gunmen killed the owner of an air conditioner repair shop on his way to work.[255]
- 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.[256]
- Police discovered 2 more bodies of young men shot in the head and wearing handcuffs in Baghdad. Witnesses also saw three gunmen in a BMW pull a handcuffed man out of the car and shoot him near a highway in west Baghdad.[257]
- A roadside bomb hit a police patrol on the highway in eastern Baghdad on Saturday, wounding four policemen, according to an Interior Ministry source.[258]
- An Iraqi sergeant major was killed on Friday South of Baquba after his patrol surprised a group of suspected anti-government fighters trying to steal a dump truck.[259]
- Police reported the discovery of at least 7 bodies, mostly young men who were shot in the head or strangled in Baghdad.[260]
- Gunmen kidnap Iraqi physician in Baghdad.[261]
- Gunmen in three cars killed a Shiite tribal chief and four male relatives near Balad Ruz as they drove home from a funeral.[262]
- U.S. military helicopter went down southwest of Baghdad on Saturday. A militant group said it shot down a helicopter in the same area.[263]
- 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.[264]
- The war in Iraq has entered a bloodier phase, with the killings of Iraqi civilians rising tremendously in daily sectarian violence while American casualties have steadily declined, spurring tens of thousands of Iraqis to flee Shiite-Sunni areas.[265]
- Iraq Shi'ites break ranks, urge PM to quit.[266]
- A Marine was killed Friday during combat operations in Anbar province west of the capital.[267]
- Journalist Carroll rejects statements made during her kidnapping.[268]
- April 2
- 2 U.S. soldiers killed by roadside bomb in central Baghdad according to the US military.[269]
- 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.[270]
- 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.[271]
- U.S. forces killed an insurgent, wounded another and arrested seven more on Saturday during clashes in Dujail.[272]
- A senior U.S. military official said on Saturday that Iraqi leaders struggling to form a government should stamp out militias.[273]
- 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.[274]
- A civilian was killed on Saturday when a bomb exploded in front of a music shop in Tikrit, 175 km north of Baghdad.[275]
- 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.[276]
- Gunmen killed two civilians and wounded three others, including a 12 year-old girl, when they attacked a family coming from Nahrwan and heading to Balad Rouz.[277]
- 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.[278]
- Five civilians, including three children, were killed in clashes between U.S. forces and insurgents in Ramadi, a hospital source said.[279]
- Two farmers were killed on Saturday by U.S. forces in Riyadh, 40 km southwest of Kirkuk, police Lieutenant Saddam Aasaf said.[280]
- Three policemen were wounded when a roadside bomb hit their patrol in the oil refinery of Baiji, 180 km north of Baghdad.[281]
- A Turkish driver was killed just outside Baghdad late on Saturday, according to the Anatolia news agency.[282]
- Five Iranians were arrested north of Iraq on charges of illegal entry to Iraqi territory.[283]
- Brother of Sunni lawmaker presumed kidnapped.[284]
- Gunmen assassinated a Sunni Arab sheik, Abdul-Minaam Awad, in his village of Zobaa 40 miles west of Baghdad, a Sunni clerical association announced.[285]
- 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.[286]
- 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.[287]
- April 3
- US Intelligence agencies warned White House about growing local insurgency.[288]
- Iraqi police say four members of a Shiite family were killed in southern Baghdad last night. They say gunmen lined up a brother, two sisters and their uncle against a wall and shot them.[289]
- Drive-by shooters killed a police captain outside his home in Baghdad neighbourhood.[290]
- 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.[291]
- Five civilians were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a convoy of SUVs in central Baghdad, police said. The vehicles are usually used by foreign contractors.[292]
- Car bomb kills two civilians, wounds six in northeastern Baghdad.[293]
- Slovakian soldiers at Camp Echo, near the Iraqi town of Ad Diwaniyah was hit by two shells on Thursday.[294]
- Bombings in Buhriz damaged several buildings, including a barber shop and grocery store.[295]
- A policeman was killed and two others wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol in Baiji, police said.[296]
- Two soldiers were killed and three wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol near Baiji, north of Baghdad.[297]
- Iraqi civilian killed, five people injured in attack on fuel station in Huwaija.[298]
- 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.[299]
- Gunmen killed the Imam of a Sunni mosque in the oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.[300]
- Two truck drivers carrying US construction materials killed, another kidnapped north of Nibaie.[301]
- Food prices rise after reduction of monthly rations.[302]
- Two bodies found shot dead and mutilated near Latifiya.[303]
- 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.[304]
- University Student killed in Baqubah's downtown market.[305]
- Roadside bomb kills an Iraqi civilian near Baqubah.[306]
- 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.[307]
- 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.[308]
- U.S. Plan to Build Iraq Clinics Falters after building only 20 clinics costing $200m.[309]
- A reconstruction contract for the building of 142 primary health centers across Iraq is running out of money, after two years and roughly $200 million.[310]
- Iraqi civilians take up arms amid Iraqi violence.[311]
- Iraq's interior ministry refusing to deploy US-trained police, whilst instead hiring their own security.[312]
- Scottish Infantry levels drop after soldiers leave.[313]
- Many Iraqi Soldiers Wounded by fellow soldiers.[314]
- April 4
- Kurdish journalist released.[315]
- Iraqi politician says 1,700 Sunnis killed in unrest since Samarra Shrine bombing.[316]
- Education hampered by sectarian violence, say officials.[317]
- Iraq still at impasse over government.[318]
- Violence is driving doctors from Iraq as patients suffer.[319]
- Poverty forces Iraqi children to pick through rubbish dumps.[320]
- Of the 18 corpses found since Monday night, 17 were discovered around Baghdad, while one was found near the Tigris river in the village of Al-Sherkat, north of Baghdad.[321]
- British HQ in Misan mortared several times in last few days according to the Iraqi police.[322]
- A British military patrol was attacked by unknown gunmen armed with RPG's and machine guns north of Basra city.[323]
- Two mortar rounds exploded near the British consulate in Basra during a reception, causing no injuries but forcing the party to end early.[324]
- 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.[325]
- U.S. jets reported in action in Tikrit, Habaniyah and Fallujah.[326]
- Violence in Baghdad kills judge, two vendors, and a policeman.[327]
- Civilian killed at Tikrit checkpoint, truck driver kidnapped.[328]
- Civilian killed in Fatiha, two truck drivers killed near Dujail.[329]
- In the Sahl area near the border with Saudi Arabia, two teenage shepherds were killed by an anti-personnel mine.[330]
- Iraq leaders put off govt talks despite US pressure.[331]
- Car bomb kills one city council member, wounds four in Samarra.[332]
- In southern Iraq, gunmen killed a policeman and wounded another as the two were driving in the city of Basra, police said.[333]
- American troops have clashed with insurgents in Iraq. They began exchanging fire after a US military base was attacked in Ramadi, west of Baghdad.[334]
- 4 more handcuffed and tortured bodies found on western highway in Bahgadad and floating in a river south of the capital.[335]
- Car bomb kills 10 people, wounding 28 others in Baghdad.[336]
- 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.[337]
- UAE Foreign Minister condemns killing of two UAE embassy staffers in Baghdad.[338]
- 600 Iraqi security forces capture two insurgents during operations.[339]
- Baghdad Bomb Kills Woman, 2 Sons aged nine and twelve.[340]
- Car bomb kills one, wounds four in Samarra.[341]
- In southern Iraq, gunmen killed a policeman and wounded another as the two were driving in the city of Basra.[342]
- American troops have clashed with insurgents in Iraq. They began exchanging fire after a US military base was attacked in Ramadi, west of Baghdad.[343]
- April 5
- Figures show that Iraq's civil war is equivalent to 11,000 US citizens dying each month.[344]
- 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.[345]
- An explosion in a building housing the Iraqna cell phone company in the Mansour district damaged the building and 14 nearby stores but no injuries were reported.[346]
- A civil engineer was shot to death Wednesday in front of a barber shop in west Baghdad, police said.[347]
- A motorist was also killed as he drove past a US military convoy and a man found blindfolded and shot on Wednesday in Iskandiriyah, 50km south of Baghdad.[348]
- Three civilians were killed and five wounded when a car bomb exploded at an army checkpoint in eastern Baghdad, police said.[349]
- A civilian was killed and two others wounded when a roadside bomb went off near U.S. forces in Kirkuk, police said.[350]
- A policeman was killed by gunmen while he was heading to work in Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.[351]
- 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.[352]
- A translator with Polish troops was killed and his nephew wounded on Monday by gunmen wearing police commando uniforms in Diwaniya.[353]
- 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.[354]
- Suffering of Iraq casualties takes toll on hospital staff.[355]
- 2 bodies found in Baghdad, 1 in Iskandiriyah.[356]
- Basra police found the body of a Sunni ambulance driver, handcuffed and shot in execution-style.[357]
- Lecturer, two other Sunnis killed in Basra.[358]
- 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.[359]
- 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.[360]
- 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.[361]
- 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.[362]
- 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.[363]
- Polish President Lech Kaczyński paid a surprise visit to Iraq on Thursday, his press office said.[364]
- 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.[365]
- 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.[366]
- 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.[367]
- 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.[368]
- Saddam-era judge insists 148 Shiites sentenced to death all confessed.[369]
- US says Saudi individuals still funding terrorism.[370]
- Iraq's religious leaders to meet in Amman.[371]
- Two roadside bombs in Western Baghdad kill one policeman, wounds seven.[372]
- Iraq oil exports fall to 1.34 million bpd from 1.37 million bpd in February.[373]
- 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.[374]
- Roadside bomb explodes in Baqubah damaging shops but causing no injuries.[375]
- 5 civilians were killed and another 2 wounded when gunmen shot at their cars near a police station in Haswa, south of Baghdad.[376]
- 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.[377]
- 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.[378]
- Fleeing Baghdad’s sectarian violence, Shia families find shelter in the southern city of Kut.[379]
- A US soldier was killed Thursday when an explosive detonated near his vehicle in Beiji.[380]
- 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.[381]
- 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.[382]
- Saddam co-accused defends actions.[383]
- Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua says legal proceedings against him have begun in connection with the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal.[384]
- 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,"[385]
- April 7
- 74 people were killed and at least 136 wounded when three suicide bombers on Friday struck a Baghdad mosque affiliated with a major Shiite political party, the Iraqi Health Ministry said.[386]
- 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.[387]
- 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.[388]
- Iraq's interior ministry cautioned people in Baghdad to avoid crowds near mosques and markets due to a car bomb threat.[389]
- British defense chief warns of Iraq power vacuum.[390]
- Baghdad on Alert After Car Bomb Threat.[391]
- Three explosions at Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad.[392]
- Iraqi civilian kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Kirkuk.[393]
- 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.[394]
- 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.[395]
- 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.[396]
- 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.[397]
- 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.[398]
- 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.[399]
- 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.[400]
- US soldiers on Friday arrested a tribal leader and four members of his clan near the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, witnesses reported.[401]
- U.S. Aid in Iraq Now Equal to Assistance in Germany after World War II.[402]
- 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.[403]
- German parliament votes to set up a committee to examine claims that German intelligence agents helped the US during the 2003 war in Iraq.[404]
- 19 US troops have died so far this month.[405]
- 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.[406]
- Bomb attack on bus kills three people in Baghdad.[407]
- 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.[408]
- 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.[409]
- In the southern city of Basra, gunmen shot dead a Sunni professor as he was leaving his house Tuesday morning.[410]
- In the outskirts of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, gunmen killed a policeman on his way to work.[411]
- 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.[412]
- Roadside bomb wounds two near Baghdad.[413]
- Roadside bomb wounds four Iraqi police near Baqubah.[414]
- Political turmoil leaves Iraq adrift.[415]
- Mannequins, fake funerals, booby-trapped bodies in Ramadi.[416]
- Doctors, NGOs warn of infant mortality 'higher than under Saddam's rule' in Basra.[417]
- Busy Iraqi firefighters get shot at by all sides.[418]
- 16 bodies found in Al Masayyib village, 60 miles south of Baghdad.[419]
- 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.[420]
- 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.[421]
- 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.[422]
- Unrelenting Violence Drains Iraq Blood Supply.[423]
- 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.[424]
- 3 U.S. soldiers killed north of Baghdad, 4th near Balad.[425]
- 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.[426]
- 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.[427]
- 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.[428]
- A roadside bomb killed two policemen in the town of Sulayman Beg, about 90 north of Baghdad.[429]
- 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.[430]
- 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.[431]
- Two trucks carrying goods for US military were destroyed near Ramadi and their drivers killed.[432]
- 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.[433]
- A policeman was shot dead in Baghdad early Wednesday.[434]
- 2 civilians died when hit by a roadside bomb south of the northern oil hub of Kirkuk and four others were wounded.[435]
- Two US Soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb south of Baghdad at approximately 9:20 a.m. 12th April.[436]
- 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.[437]
- 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.[438]
- 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.[439]
- Insurgent attacks have killed seven U.S. soldiers since Sunday.[440]
- 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.[441]
- Police said they found the bodies of three men in different areas of the capital. The identities of the victims were not immediately clear.[442]
- Suicide car bomber kills 2 in Tal Afar and wound 7 others.[443]
- 4 Iraqis including one policeman and three civilians killed by bomb in Waziriya district in Baghdad early Wednesday morning.[444]
- 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.[445]
- 150 British soldiers based in Cyprus to be deployed in Iraq.[446]
- [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.[447]
- 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.[448]
- 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.[449]
- 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.[450]
- 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.[451]
- 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.[452]
- Two civilians were killed during clashes between insurgents and U.S. military forces in central Ramadi.[453]
- 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.[454]
- 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.[455]
- 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.[456]
- 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.[457]
- 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.[458]
- April 25
- US troops still haven't removed detainees from Iraqi ministries where abuse occurred.[460]
- Turkish military action in Iraq will take place if needed.[461]
- Shiite Militias Move Into Oil-Rich Kirkuk, as Kurds Dig In.[462]
- British paratroopers secretly operating in support of the SAS in Iraq are using American uniforms, weapons and vehicles as part of their cover.[463]
- British troops in Iraq could hand over the Maysan province to local security forces within a matter of weeks.[464]
- Inspectors Find More Torture at Iraqi Jails - Top General's Pledge To Protect Prisoners 'Not Being Followed'.[465]
- 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.[466]
- 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.[467]
- Iraq expresses dismay at Turkish incursion into northern Iraq.[468]
- Conflicting Accounts Obscure Even Identity of Combatants in 2 Days of Street Fighting.[469]
- US ambassador: America is facing long stay in Iraq.[470]
- 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.[471]
- 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.[472]
- Iraqi Strife Seeping Into Saudi Arabia.[473]
- Turkey shells Kurdish rebel targets along border with Iraq.[474]
- After Year of Gov't, Killings Up in Iraq.[475]
- Italian soldier gravely injured in Nassiriya attack.[476]
- 6 Iraqi army soldiers killed in checkpoint attack.[477]
- Iraqi soldier killed in Ramadi.[478]
- US forces kill eight insurgents in Ramadi.[479]
- Insurgents kill sister and brother of new Iraqi leader.[480]
- 73-year-old Khatab al-Ani shot dead on his way to prayers.[481]
- US military sees Iraq edging away from civil war.[482]
- 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.[483]
- Iraqi PM visits Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani in Najaf.[484]
- 7 killed in raids on Iraqi checkpoints.[485]
- Gunmen kill senior Baghdad judge.[486]
- Bullet-riddled bodies surface as Iraq political crisis deepens.[487]
- Brain injuries common for Iraq war vets - Thanks to body armor, thousands survive combat but face lengthy rehab.[488]
- Abuse Charge Set for a US Colonel.[489]
- 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.[490]
- Militias could spark Iraq civil war - PM-designate.[491]
- Ayatollah Ali Sistani, one of Iraq's most senior Shia clerics, has called for the next government to dismantle militias operating in the country.[492]
- April 28
- The bodies of 16 Iraqis who had been kidnapped and tortured were found Thursday in Baghdad and other cities.[493]
- Iraq War Costs US taxpayers £180bn.[494]
- U.S. Forces Kill a Key Insurgent in Iraq.[495]
- The death toll in two days of fighting in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, climbed to 58, including seven Iraqi soldiers.[496]
- 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.[497]
- American soldier was killed by a roadside bomb that hit a military vehicle north of Baghdad.[498]
- A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol exploded in southwestern Baghdad at 8:20 a.m., killing one policeman and wounding two.[499]
- Police found the corpses of two middle-aged Iraqi men in a mostly Sunni Arab neighborhood of western Baghdad.[500]
- 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.[501]
- 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.[502]
- 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.[503]
- Iraqi forces kill 3 insurgents in raid.[504]
- In the former rebel bastion of Fallujah, two policemen were killed by a roadside bomb against their patrol.[505]
- 21 rebels killed,another 43 captured in the last 24 hours.[506]
- Kurdistan buzzes as other parts of Iraq burn.[507]
- Iraqis Building Makeshift Roadblocks.[508]
- Young Iraqi couples court danger from militia.[509]
- Iraqis faking their IDs to hide religious affiliations.[510]
- Danish reporters charged after publishing leaked intelligence reports on Iraq.[511]
- 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.[512]
[edit] June
- 7 June
- Insurgent leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is killed.
[edit] October
- 23 October
- Ahmed Qusai al-Taei, an Iraq-American soldier, is kidnapped while visiting relatives in Baghdad. He is listed as 'Duty Status-Whereabouts Unknown.'
- 31 October
- US casualties reach 105 for October, the fourth highest count since the war began.
[edit] November
- November 5
- The Iraqi High Tribunal sentences Saddam Hussein to death by hanging. [513]
- November 15
- One hundred people are kidnapped from an Iraqi higher education building.
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