Draft:Terrorist incidents during the Iraq war (2003-2011)

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2003

February edit

February 26: A suspected Ansar al-Islam member detonated a suicide vest at a checkpoint in northern Iraq, killing three.[1]

March edit

March 22: Three people were killed, including an Australian cameraman, and nine others injured when a suicide car bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint in Sayed Sadiq.[2]
March 29: Iraqi soldier Ali Hammadi al-Namani killed four US soldiers in a suicide car bombing near Najaf.[3]

April edit

April 3: A female suicide bomber killed three coalition soldiers at a checkpoint north-west of Baghdad. Her apparent accomplice, a pregnant woman who was also killed in the attack, exited the vehicle prior to the explosion and began screaming in fear. It is unclear if she was attempting to flee, or trying to draw the coalition troops towards her vehicle.[4]
April 10: A suicide bomber walked up to a military checkpoint in central Baghdad and blew himself up, wounding four U.S. Marines.[5]

August edit

August 7: Jordanian embassy bombing in Baghdad: A bus bombing outside the embassy killed 17 people.[6]
August 19: Canal Hotel bombing: in Baghdad, killed 22 people (including the top United Nations representative Sergio Vieira de Mello) and wounds over 100.
August 29: Imam Ali mosque bombing: One or two car bombs, possibly detonated by suicide bombers, exploded outside the Imam Ali Shrine in Najaf. Between 85 and 125 people were killed, including the leader of the nation's Shia community Grand Ayatollah Mohammed Baqr al-Hakim.[7][8][9]

September edit

September 9: A suicide car bomber targeted the US intelligence headquarters in the northern city of Irbil, killing three people and injuring 41.[10]
September 22: A suicide car bomber blew himself up near the UN HQ in Baghdad, killing a security guard and wounding 19 people.[11]

October edit

October 9: In the first attack on an Iraqi police station, a suicide car bomb exploded outside a station in Sadr City, killing at least eight people.[7][12]
October 12: One or two suicide car bombs near the Baghdad Hotel killed six Iraqis and wounded more than 30 others, including three US soldiers.[13][14][15]
October 14: A suicide car bomb exploded outside the Turkish embassy in Baghdad, wounding two security guards.[7]
October 16: A would-be suicide vehicle bomber was killed by security services before he could attack the Interior Ministry building in Irbil.[16]
October 27: 2003 Baghdad bombings: Four or five suicide car bombings rocked Baghdad, killing 30-40 people including, two US soldiers. The deadliest attack was on the HQ of the International Committee of the Red Cross, where a suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed 12 people and wounded 20. The other attacks targeted Iraqi police stations.[7][17]
October 28: A suicide car bomber blew himself up 100 yards from a police station in Fallujah, killing four people.[18][19]

November edit

November 12: 2003 Nasiriyah bombing: A suicide car bombing in the southern town of Nasiriyah killed about 30 people. The target was an Italian military base; 19 of the dead were Italians.[7][20][21]
November 20: A suicide truck bomb exploded outside the office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, a US-allied Kurdish political party in Kirkuk. Four people were killed and 30 wounded.[7]
November 22: Two suicide car bombers struck police stations in the towns of Khan Bani Saad and Baquba almost simultaneously, killing at least 18 people and leaving over 30 wounded.[22]
November 29: Seven Spanish agents of the Centro Nacional de Inteligencia were killed in an ambush at Latifiya.[23]

December edit

December 9: Suicide bombers, one in a car and another on foot, blew themselves up at the gates of two US military bases, wounding 61 American soldiers.[7]
December 10: Three suicide bombers attacked the HQ of the 82nd Airborne Division in Ramadi. One US soldier died and 14 others were wounded.[7]
December 14: Hours before the US military announced that they captured Saddam Hussein, a suspected suicide car bomber killed 16 police officers and two civilians outside a police station in Khaldiya, 60 miles west of Baghdad.[24][25]
December 15: On the northern outskirts of the Iraqi capital, a suicide bomber driving a four-wheel-drive taxi killed eight policemen at their station in Husainiyah. Just hours before, in the Ameriyah neighbourhood of the city, eight policemen were injured by another suicide car bomber.[26]
December 17: A suicide truck bomber, who was trying to attack a police station in the al-Bayaa district of Baghdad, collided with a bus at an intersection killing at least ten people and wounding 20.[27]
December 18: A VBIED attacked a civilian convoy on MSR Hershey at approximately 0700 hours as they were leaving their encampment to go to work near Bayji. A South African armored personnel carrier was destroyed in the process. Several injuries, but no US personnel - military or civilian - were killed.[citation needed]
December 24: A suicide bombing killed four and wounds over 100 at the Interior Ministry offices in Arbil.[25]
December 27: 2003 Karbala bombings: Five Bulgarian soldiers and two Thai soldiers were among 19 people killed and 18 injured in a coordinated attack on coalition military bases in Karbala. Four suicide car bombers struck a Bulgarian base, a compound containing the city hall and police HQ, and a multinational logistics base run by Polish, Thai, and American soldiers.[7][28]
December 31

Five Iraqis are killed and at least 21 people were injured by a car bomb which targeted a restaurant popular with Westerners in Baghdad. At least three buildings were destroyed by the explosion.[29]

2004

January

January 14: A suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside an Iraqi police station in Baquba. At least three Iraqis are killed and 29 wounded.[1]
January 18: 18 January 2004 Baghdad bombing - A suicide bomber blew up a Toyota pickup truck packed with 1,000 pounds of explosives outside the headquarters of the US-led coalition, killing 24-31 people, including two American soldiers, and injuring more than 60.[1][2]
January 31: A suicide car bombing at the Shahine Hotel in Baghdad killed three people, including a South African security contractor.[3][4]
January 31: A suicide car bomber killed nine and wounds 44 at a police station in Mosul.[1]

February

February 1: 2004 Erbil bombings - At least 105 people are killed and nearly 250 wounded in Erbil when twin suicide bombers blew themselves up at the headquarters of the two leading Kurdish political parties - the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan & the Kurdish Democratic Party. A former government minister, the deputy governor of Erbil Province, and the city's police chief are among those killed.[5]
February 9: A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the Ramadi home of Majid and Amer Ali Suleiman, two tribal leaders who had cooperated with US forces. Three of their bodyguards were seriously injured by the blast, but the leaders were unhurt.[6]
February 10: At least 55 people were killed in a car bombing outside a police station in Iskandariyah, south of Baghdad.[5]
February 11: Forty-seven Iraqis are killed in a suicide attack outside an army recruitment centre in Baghdad. Ansar al-Islam is blamed.[1]
February 18: Two suicide bombers attack a Polish military barracks in Hillah, killing 11 Iraqis.[1]
February 23: Shortly before a visit by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, at least ten people were killed by a suicide car bomber targeting a police station in Kirkuk.[7]

March

March 2: 2004 Ashura massacre - In the deadliest coordinated attacks since the fall of President Saddam Hussein, a series of explosions killed 181 Shiites celebrating the Ashura festival in Baghdad and Karbala. 49 Iranian pilgrims were among the victims of the bombings, at least four of which were suicide attacks.[1][8][9]
March 17: A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb near the Hotel Lebanon in Baghdad, killing 16, including one Briton.[1]
March 30: A suicide car bomber detonated outside the house of a police chief in Hillah, wounding seven people.[10]
March 31: 2004 Fallujah ambush

April

April 21: 21 April 2004 Basra bombings - five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people including 18 schoolchildren and wounding 160 others.[11][12]
April 24: In one of the most extravagant insurgent attacks to date, three suicide boats targeted the al-Basra oil terminal, seven miles off the southern coast of Iraq. Three US sailors were killed after they attempted to board one of the insurgent dhows, and oil exports from al-Basra were shut down for at least one day, costing Iraq one million barrels in lost exports.[13][14]

May

May 6: Six people, including one US soldier, were killed when a suicide car bomb exploded at a checkpoint outside the Green Zone.[15]
May 7: Killing of Nick Berg

May 17: A suicide car bomber killed Izzadine Saleem, the head of the Iraqi Governing Council, as his car waited at a checkpoint outside the Green Zone in Baghdad. Up to seven other people were killed.[16]

May 22: Another senior Iraqi official was the target of a suicide car bomb which killed at least four people and wounded deputy interior minister Abdul-Jabar Youssef al-Sheikhli at his home in Baghdad.[17]

June

June 1: A suicide car bomb attack at a checkpoint near a US Army base in Baiji killed at least ten Iraqis.[18]
June 8: A suicide car bomber hit a US outpost at the former al-Faris air force base in Baquba, killing four Iraqis and one US soldier, and injuring 16 Iraqis and ten US soldiers. In Mosul, an orange and white taxi with three suicide bombers on board detonated outside the mayor's office, killing ten people.[19][20]
June 13: Four police officers and eight civilians were killed when a suicide car bomber struck a police post in southern Baghdad.[21]
June 14: A suicide bombing in Baghdad killed 13 people, including two Britons, a Filipino, a Frenchman, and an American.[22][23]
June 17: June 2004 Baghdad bombing - A suicide car bomber driving a white 4x4 detonated his vehicle amongst a crowd of 300 unemployed young men queuing at the gates of an Iraqi army base in central Baghdad. 35 people were killed and 138 injured.[24]
June 24: A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint in Baghdad, killing four Iraqi soldiers. The attack came a week before the scheduled handover of power from the US government to the Iraqi Interim Government.[25]

July

July 6: A suicide car bomber targeted a funeral tent in Khalis, killing 13 people and wounding at least 37 others.[26]
July 14: A suicide car bomber killed at least nine people and wounded 40 others at a checkpoint next to the British Embassy in Baghdad.[27]
July 17: Five people were killed and eight others injured when a suicide car bomb rammed into a convoy carrying Iraqi Justice Minister, Malik Dohan al-Hassan, in Baghdad. Al-Hassan managed to escape the attack, but three of his bodyguards and two civilian bystanders were killed.[28] uncertain number of suicide attacks on this day
July 19: Nine people were killed and at least 60 others injured when a large fuel tanker, rigged as a car bomb, exploded as it drove toward a police station in the Seidiyeh neighbourhood of Baghdad.[29]
July 20: A suicide truck bomb blew up outside a Baghdad police station, killing at least nine Iraqis and injuring more than 60 others.[30]
July 28: 2004 Baqubah bombing - A suicide car bomb exploded outside a police recruiting centre in central Baqubah, killing 68 Iraqis.[12]

August

August 1: A suicide car bomb went off outside a police station in Iraq's northern city of Mosul, killing four people and wounding 34.[31]
August 5***: A suspected suicide car bombing outside a police station in Southern Baghdad killed four people and injured twenty-one.[32]
August 28: A suicide car bomber detonated after attempting to block the path of A Kurdish media team's car when they reached a checkpoint between Erbil and Mosul. No-one apart from the bomber was hurt.[33]

September

September 4: A suicide car bomb exploded in front of an Iraqi Police Academy in Kirkuk, killing at least 21 people.[34]
September 6: A suicide car bombing in Fallujah killed seven U.S. Marines and three Iraqi Guardsmen.[35]
September 14: 14 September 2004 Baghdad bombing - A suicide car bomber killed 47 people outside a police station on Haifa Street in Baghdad, where a crowd of volunteers and recruits were waiting to sign up.[36] A suicide car bomber exploded by a convoy of civilian contractors in Baghdad, hurting no-one but himself.[37]
September 17: A suicide car bomb detonated near an Iraqi police checkpoint on al-Rashid Street in central Baghdad, killing at least eight Iraqis and wounding 41 others. Another vehicle-borne explosive device detonated on Haifa Street in Baghdad when US forces opened fire on it. The vehicle was attempting to breach a security perimeter, and both of its occupants were killed in the ensuing explosion.[38]
September 18: A suicide car bomb detonated in front of the Iraqi national guard headquarters in the northern city of Kirkuk, killing 19 people and wounding 67 others, including guardsmen and recruits.[38]
September 20: A car bomb detonated in Mosul, killing all three people in the car and one bystander. Authorities believe that the victims were insurgents who were planning to carry out a suicide attack in the area, when their bomb detonated prematurely.[39]
September 22: A suicide car bomber killed 11 people and wounded up to 54 outside a photocopy shop in Baghdad, where Iraqi National Guard applicants were preparing their papers. Another suicide car bomb struck US military vehicles in the upmarket Mansour district of the capital, injuring four US soldiers and two civilians. One US military death was later attributed to these bombings.[40]
September 30: 30 September 2004 Baghdad bombing - Up to two suicide bombers targeted US troops as they handed out sweets to Iraqi children in Baghdad, killing 42 and wounded 141. Of the dead 35 were children, while the wounded included 10 US soldiers & 72 children under the age of 14. Hours earlier a suicide blast in the Abu Ghraib area killed between three and nine people, including one US soldier.[41][42]

October

October 4: Ten people were killed when a suicide car bomber rammed an entrance to the Green Zone in Baghdad, close to where recruits were lining up to join Iraq's security forces. Seventy others were wounded. A car bomb in Mosul detonated with two people on board, killing the occupants and five others, though it was not clear if the attack was a deliberate suicide mission.[43]
October 6: A suicide car bomber killed at least 16 people at an Iraqi National Guard centre near the Syrian border.[44]
October 10: A suicide attacker detonated explosives packed on a minibus near a police academy in eastern Baghdad, killing 10 to 17 people. Another suicide car bomb in the capital struck a military convoy near the Culture Ministry, killing one US soldier.[45][46]
October 14: A pair of suicide bombers succeeded in penetrating the Green Zone in Baghdad. The twin blasts killed at least six people, including three or four Americans.[47][48]
October 15: A suicide car bomb blew up in an Iraqi Police contingent in main street in al-Dawrah, south Baghdad. Five police officers were killed, and nine policemen injured.[49]
October 17: A suicide car bomb detonated on a bridge in the northern city of Mosul, killing five Iraqis and wounding 15 others.[50] A suicide car bomb detonated outside a Baghdad cafe popular with Iraqi police and near to the Australian embassy, killing seven and wounding more than 20.[51][52]
October 23: At least 16 Iraqi policemen were killed and 40 others were wounded when a suicide driver detonated his car at a police station near a US Marine base in Khan al-Baghdadi, 140 miles west of the capital. A second suicide driver killed four guardsmen and injured six others in an attack near an Iraqi National Guard checkpoint in Ishaqi, 6 miles south of Samarra.[53]
October 25: Two suicide car bombs detonated in Mosul, killing at least three Iraqis and wounding at least nine government employees.[54] A suicide car bomber attacked a US convoy in Khaldiya, destroying at least two Humvees and causing an unknown number of US casualties.[55]

November

November 3: A suicide car bombing at a checkpoint on the Baghdad Airport Road killed at least one British security contractor. Up to nine airline employees were also injured.[56][57]
November 4: Three Scottish Black Watch soldiers and an Iraqi translator were killed by a suicide bomber near Camp Dogwood, outside of Baghdad.[58] A suicide bomber blew up a car in front of the municipal council building in Tikrit, wounding ten.[59]
November 6: Four car bombs in Samarra targeted local police forces, killing about 40 people. At least two of the blasts are detonated by suicide bombers.[60][61]
November 7: Two bomb disposal experts from the Royal Signals and Royal Logistics Corps were seriously injured by a suicide car bomb. The explosion blew the legs off one of the men and caused serious limb injuries to the other.[62]
November 8: Near simultaneous suicide car bomb attacks on St. Matthews Catholic Church and St. Georges Catholic Church in Baghdad killed at least three people and wounded over 40.[63]
November 11: At least 18 people were killed and 15 wounded when a suicide car bomber targeted a vehicle carrying Americans in a central Baghdad market during rush hour.[64]
November 13: A suicide bomber exploded near an Iraqi police patrol in the center of Hillah, wounding four policemen.[65]
November 19: A suicide bomber exploded his vehicle near an Iraqi police patrol in Baghdad, injuring up to 11 people and killing one policeman.[66]
November 26: According to Al-Diyar Television, a suicide bomber blew up his car near the 14 July suspension bridge in Baghdad, causing an unknown number of casualties.[67]
November 29: A suicide bomber drove his vehicle into a group of policemen waiting to collect their salaries in western Ramadi. Twelve people were killed and ten wounded.[68]

December

December 3: A van with four suicide bombers on board drove into a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad, killing 14 civilians who had gathered for morning prayers.[69] A police station within the compound of the Ministry of Housing and Construction was attacked with a suicide car bomb, wounding an unknown number of people.[70]
December 4: A suicide bomber drove into a bus carrying Kurdish Peshmerga fighters in the northern city of Mosul, killing 16. A suicide bomber targeted a police station just outside the main entrance to the Green Zone in Baghdad, killing seven and injuring 50.[71]
December 5: A suicide car bomber drove into a convoy of National Guardsmen in Baiji, killing the local commander, Mohammad Jassim Rumaied, along with three bodyguards.[71]
December 8: A suicide bomber attacked a US convoy in Samarra, killing three Iraqis.[72]

December 13: A suicide car bomber kills 13 while in line at a checkpoint at the Western Gate of Baghdad's Green Zone.[73][74]

December 14: A suicide car bomber strikes the same Green Zone checkpoint that was hit 24 hours earlier, killing at least six people and wounding 13.[75][76]
December 19: A suicide bomber in Najaf killed at least 51 people when he targeted a funeral procession near the Imam Ali shrine. A suicide car bomb near a bus stop in Karbala killed at least 14 people. It occurred near the twin shrines of Hussein and Abbas, and also near the home of Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani.[77][78][79] Zarqawi's group al-Qaeda in Iraq claimed that the group was not responsible for these attacks.[80]
December 21: 2004 Forward Operating Base Marez bombing - A suicide bomber infiltrated Mosul's Marez Base and detonated his vest amongst a crowd of US soldiers sitting down for lunch. Twenty two people were killed, including nineteen American soldiers and three military contractor. The Ansar al-Sunnah Army claimed responsibility.[81]
December 23: According to Al-Sharqiyah Television, a suicide bomber detonated his vehicle during rush hour at a checkpoint in the al-Latifiyah area, killing five people and wounding 13.[82]
December 24: A fuel tanker driven by a suicide bomber exploded in the Mansour district of Baghdad near the Libyan and Jordanian embassies. The explosion killed at least eight people, including guards at the Libyan embassy, and injured 19.[83]
December 27: A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle outside the home of Abdul Aziz al-Hakim, the head of SCIRI. Thirteen people were killed and about 50 injured, but Hakim escaped unharmed.[84]
December 28: A suicide bomber detonated his bomb in the center of Samarra, wounding ten people. The target of the blast was unclear.[85][86]

2005

January

January 2: A suicide car bomber struck a bus carrying Iraqi National Guardsmen north of Baghdad, killing 26 people.[1]
January 3: A suicide car bomb near the Green Zone in Baghdad killed at least four foreign civilian contractors, including three Britons and an American.[2][3] A suicide bomb in Baghdad exploded near the headquarters of the Iraqi National Accord Party, killing two police officers and a civilian.[4] A suicide car bomber in Balad killed four Iraqi National Guardsmen and wounded 14.[5]
January 4: A suicide truck bomber targeted a compound housing an elite commando division of the Iraqi Police force in Baghdad, killing at least eight officers.[6][7]
January 5: Fezan Khan hit a police academy and recruiting station in Hillah during a graduation ceremony, killing 19 people.[8] Six police officers were killed when a suicide car bomber struck a checkpoint in the al-Mafraq neighborhood of Baqubah.[9] A suicide bomber struck in Baghdad near a US convoy, killing two Iraqi civilians.[10]
January 8: A suicide car bomb detonated by a gas station in southern Baghdad, killing four and wounding nineteen.[11]
January 10: A suicide bomber drove his vehicle into an Iraqi Border Security Forces base in Rubai'a, killing four soldiers.[12] A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle in the courtyard of a police station in southern Baghdad, killing seven people including four police officers.[13]
January 11: A suicide bomber detonated his car near a police station in Tikrit, killing seven Iraqi policemen.[14][15] A suicide car bomber targeted the Interior Ministry in Basra, killing one person.[16] A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle outside the Independent Electoral Commission in Basra, injuring no-one but himself.[17]
January 13: Four suicide bombers struck in Baghdad within a 90-minute period, killing at least 25 Iraqis. The targets included the Australian embassy, a hospital, Baghdad International Airport, and the Iraqi Army base of Al-Muthanna Airport. None of the bombers penetrated the security checkpoints at their targets.[18]
January 16: A suicide car bomber struck at a crowd of people gathering for the funeral of a police officer in Kut, killing seven.[19]

January 17: At least ten people, including seven Iraqi Police officers, were killed when a suicide bomber exploded his vehicle at a checkpoint outside an Iraqi police headquarters in Baiji.[20]

January 18: A suicide car bomber killed four people outside the office of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.[21]
January 19: 19 January 2005 Baghdad bombings – Five suicide bombings took place in Baghdad, killing a total of 26 people and wounding at least 30. All of the blasts targeted checkpoints manned by soldiers or police officers.[22]
January 21: Fourteen people were killed when a suicide car bomb exploded outside the al-Taf mosque just after morning prayers.[23] Twelve people were killed when a suicide bomber drove his ambulance into a crowd of Shiites celebrating a wedding near Youssifiyah.[24]
January 23: A suicide bomber exploded a minivan packed with explosives outside a polling station in Hillah, injuring eight Iraqi army personnel.[25]
January 24: A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle at a police checkpoint outside the Baghdad party offices of the Iraqi National Accord Party, injuring ten people.[26]
January 26: Three suicide car bombs exploded within one hour of each other in the northern Iraqi town of Riyadh. Nine people were killed in the attacks which targeted an Iraqi army post, a police station and a road.[27][28][29] A suicide bomber detonated a tractor bomb outside the Kurdistan Democratic Party office in Sinjar, killing fifteen people.[30]
January 27: A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle outside the Diyala provincial governor's office, killing four people.[31] Another car bomber attacked a US military base in the centre of Ramadi. It was not clear if any casualties were caused.[32]
January 28: A suicide car bomb exploded outside of the al-Dora police station and a power station in southern Baghdad, killing six police officers.[33]
January 29: A suicide vest bomber blew himself up near the US-Iraqi Joint Coordination Center in Khanaqin, killing eight people.[34]
January 30: Eight or nine suicide vest bombers, mostly targeting polling stations, struck in Baghdad on election day.[35] Another suicide bomber hit a minibus carrying voters to the polls near Hillah, killing at least four people.[36]

February

February 3: A suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle near a foreign convoy on Baghdad Airport Road. No official casualty figures were released.[37]
February 7: A suicide bomber targeted a hospital in Mosul, killing at least 12 policemen. A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near a crowd of police recruits in Baqubah, killing 15.[38][39][40]
February 8: A suicide bomber walked into a crowd of Iraqi Army recruits outside the Iraqi National Guard Headquarters at the Muthana airfield in Baghdad, killing at least 20 people.[41]
February 11: A suicide bomber blew up a car bomb near the a Shiite mosque in Balad Ruz at the end of evening prayers, killing 12 people.[42]
February 17: In Baghdad, a man wearing two suicide vests filled with explosives was shot and killed before he could detonate them.[43]
February 18: A suicide bomber blew himself up outside the al-Khadimain Mosque in Baghdad, killing 17 people.[44] Two suicide bombers attacked the Ali Baiya Mosque in Baghdad, killing ten. One of the bombers detonated his explosives, but the other was shot by a guard before he was able to detonate his.[45] A suicide bomber detonated himself at a checkpoint in a Sunni neighborhood in Baghdad, killing two police officers and one national guard member.[46]
February 19: A suicide vest bomber struck a bus filled with Shiite worshippers in Kadhimiya, killing 17.[47] A suicide bomber blew himself up near the Nada Mosque in Baghdad's Kadhimiya neighborhood, killing seven Shiites.[48] A suicide bomber detonated his explosives near an academic building in Kadhimiya, injuring no-one but himself.[49] Another bomber in Kadhimiya was killed by US troops before he could detonate his explosive device.[50] Also in Baghdad, three suicide bombers detonated their explosive devices in a procession of worshippers participating in the Ashura holiday, killing five.[51] A suicide bomber drove his scooter into a tent filled with Sunnis attending a funeral in Baghdad, killing six people.[52] A suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi National Guard base in Baqouba, killing one guardsman. A suicide car bomber targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint in Latifiya, killing two Iraqi soldiers.[53] A suicide bomber preparing to launch an attack in Baghdad was detained by Iraqi soldiers before he could detonate his bomb.[54]
February 22: A suicide car bomber hit a convoy of police commandos in Baghdad, killing two police officers.[55] Police arrested a Sudanese man who was attempting to detonate his explosive belt inside of the Adnan Khair Allah hospital.[56]
February 24: A suicide car bomber struck a police compound in Tikrit, killing fifteen officers.[57] A suicide car bomb exploded in Iskandariya, targeting the police headquarters and the nearby offices of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq. Two police officers were killed and eight people injured.[58]
February 28: At least 120 people die when a suicide car bomber in Hilla explodes his vehicle amongst a crowd of people applying for jobs in Iraq's new security forces. 130 more are wounded in the deadliest single attack of the nearly 2-year-old insurgency.[59][60] A suicide car bomb exploded at a police checkpoint in Musayyib, killing at least one police officer and wounding several others.[61]

March

March 2: A suicide car bomb targeted an Iraqi Army recruiting center at the Al-Muthanna Airport Army Base in Baghdad, killing six people.[62]
March 3: Two suicide car bombers targeted the Interior Ministry building in Baghdad, killing five police officers.[63] A suicide car bomber killed one person outside the headquarters for the Iraqi emergency police in Baqubah.[64]
March 7: A suicide car bomb exploded outside an Iraqi police station in Baqubah, killing 11 people.[65]
March 8: Four potential suicide belt bombers were arrested in Baghdad before carrying out their attacks. All the would-be bombers were female.[66][67]
March 9: A garbage truck with two suicide bombers on board blew up near the Al-Sadir Hotel and the Agriculture Ministry building. Four people were killed.[68]
March 10: A suicide bomber attacked a funeral being held at a Shiite mosque in Mosul, killing 47 people and injuring more than 100.[69][70]
March 14: A suicide car bomb killed four people outside a police and army checkpoint north of Baghdad.[71]
March 15: A suicide car bomber killed a child when he attempted to target a police patrol in northeastern Baghdad.[72]
March 20: A suicide bomber infiltrated Mosul's police HQ and blew himself up in the office of the city's anti-corruption department, killing two.[73] A suicide car bomber killed two civilians when he targeted a convoy of foreigners in Fallujah.[74]
March 21: The driver of a suicide truck bomb killed only himself when he detonated his cargo prematurely near a hospital in Samarra.[75]
March 24: A suicide car bomb killed 11 Iraqi special police commandos at a checkpoint in Ramadi.[76]
March 28: A suicide motorcycle bomber killed five people at a checkpoint set up to protect pilgrims near Musayyib.[77] A suicide car bomb struck a crowd of Shiite pilgrims on the road between Hilla and Karbala, killing six.[78]
March 31: A suicide car bomb hit a temporary checkpoint set up to guard a Shiite shrine in Tuz Khormato, south of Kirkuk. The attack killed five people.[79]

April

April 21: A suicide bombing on the road to Baghdad airport killed at least one person: English security contractor Alan Parkin.[80]

May

May 7: A suicide car bomb in Baghdad's Tahir Square killed 22 people, including two American security contractors and a number of Iraqi children.[80][81]

June

June 14: A suicide bomber targets a bank in Kirkuk, killing 23 people and wounding nearly 100. In Kan'an, 30 miles north of Baghdad, five Iraqi soldiers are killed and two wounded in a suicide car bombing at a checkpoint.[82]
June 26: Three suicide bombings hit Iraqi army & police posts in Mosul, killing 15 police officers and 18 civilians.[83]

July

July 16: In Musayyib, a suicide bomber blew up a fuel truck in front of a Shiite mosque, killing over 90 and injuring 150.[84][85]
July 17: A suicide car bomber struck the offices of Iraq's electoral commission in eastern Baghdad, killing five election employees and one policeman. In another suicide attack, insurgents dumped two bodies on the road, then struck police who stopped to inspect them. About an hour later a suicide car bomber attacked a police convoy near a bus station in southern Baghdad, killing three police commandos and four civilians. Another suicide car bomber missed a US convoy but blasted two minibuses, killing six civilians in Mahmoudiya.[84][85]
July 29: A suicide bomber killed at least 26 people when he targeted an army recruiting center in the northern Iraqi town of Rubia.[86]

August

August 23: A suicide bomber struck the joint U.S. and Iraqi Police (IP) dining facility inside the Baquba police headquarters around lunch time. The attack claimed the lives of numerous Iraqis and two U.S. personnel: American International Police Liaison Officer Mike Dawes and 1st Lieutenant Carlos Diaz.[80]

September

September 9: Suicide bombers with 2 large dump trucks loaded with an estimated 2500 pounds of explosives each were stopped from entering FOB KALSU by a small patrol of U.S. Special Forces. The dump trucks exploded killing at least 19 Iraqis, and injuring 4 U.S Special Forces soldiers.
September 14: A suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of poor Shiite Muslim laborers waiting for work in Baghdad, killing at least 112.[87][88] Possibly more suicide attacks on this day
September 19: A suicide car bombing in Mosul killed at least three American security contractors.[80]
September 28: In the first female suicide bombing of the post-Baathist insurgency, a woman dressed as a man detonated her explosive belt outside a US military facility in Tal Afar, killing nine and wounding thirty. Al Qaeda in Iraq claimed responsibility.[89][90]

October

October 10: Insurgent suicide car bomb leaves US and Iraqi soldiers dead outside FOB in Baghdad, Iraq.

October 11: Insurgent suicide bomb attacks leave over 30 people dead in Talafar, North West Iraq.[91]

October 12: At least 30 people die following an insurgent suicide bomb attack in Talafar, the second such attack in as many days. Three other suicide car bombs took place in Baghdad and Baqouba, including an assassination attempt on Iraq’s minister of provincial affairs, Saad Naif al-Hardan. In that attack, a bomber in Baghdad targeted a convoy of cars preparing to pick up the minister at his office, leaving five bodyguards and five bystanders wounded.[92] Possible fifth other attack on this day.

November

November 9: A failed car bombing of US troops killed a female suicide bomber and injured one soldier. The bomber was later identified as Muriel Degauque from Belgium, who had converted to Islam after marrying a Moroccan man.[93]
November 10: At least 30 people have died following an insurgent suicide bomb attack on a restaurant in Baghdad.[94]
November 14: A suicide bombing in Baghdad killed at least three South African security contractors.[80]
November 18: Two suicide bombers wearing explosive belts struck two Shia mosques in the town of Khanaqin near the Iranian border, killing at least 74 people. Two suicide car bombs exploded outside an interior ministry building in the central Jadiriya district of Baghdad, killing six people.[95]
November 23: One suicide car bomber kills 18 people, mostly Iraqi police in an ambush in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.[94]
November 24: 15 people die after a suicide bomb attack in Hilla.[94]

December

December 6: A pair of suicide bombers kill 40 and wound 70 in an attack on a police academy in eastern Baghdad. One of the suicide bombers detonated near a group of students outside a classroom, and then when the Iraqi police and students fled to a bunker for shelter, a second bomber detonated his vest.[96][97]
December 8: A suicide bomber detonated inside a passenger bus in southern Baghdad, killing 30 passengers and wounding 40.[96]
December 11: One U.S. soldier was killed by a suicide car bomber near Ramadi.[98]
December 19: An Iraqi police colonel was almost assassinated when a suicide bomber attacked the colonel's convoy in Baghdad, two civilians were killed.[99]
December 25: A suicide bomber attacked two Iraqi army vehicles in central Baghdad killing five soldiers and wounding seven policemen and civilians.[100]
December 26: A suicide bomber threw grenades at police recruits outside a training center killing two and then detonated his explosive belt.[101]
December 29: A suicide bomber killed four police officers in Baghdad.[102]

December 30: A suicide bomber killed a police officer in Baghdad.

2006

January January 1: Two suicide car bombs kill one Iraqi soldier and wound 24 others north of Baghdad.[1] January 2: A suicide bomber kills seven people on a bus in Baquba.[2] January 4: A suicide bomber struck a Shiite funeral, killing 32 and wounding 40.[3] January 5: A suicide bomber in Kerbala detonated an explosive belt laced with ballbearings and a grenade, killing 51 and wounding 138. A suicide bomber in Ramadi blew himself up near a group of police and Army recruits, killed more than 60 and wounded around 70. Two other suicide car bombs explode in Baghdad.[4] January 6: A suicide bomber targeted an Interior Ministry patrol, and one policeman was killed in the explosion which wounded seven others.[5] January 9: Two suicide bombers disguised as police infiltrated the heavily fortified Interior Ministry compound in Baghdad and blow themselves up killing 29.[6] January 20: A suicide car bomber killed two U.S. soldiers in Haqlaniyah.[7][8] January 23: A suicide bomber kills three people and injures seven others near the Iranian embassy in Baghdad.[9] February 2006 February 14: A suicide car bomber killed two U.S. marines near Qaim.[10] February 22: Al-Askari Mosque bombing, blamed by U.S. and Iraq on al Qaeda in Iraq leading to civil war. March 2006 March 10: A suicide truck bomber kills eight and wounds 11 at a checkpoint in Falluja.[11] March 14: A suicide bombing in Northern Iraq killed at least one person: America security contractor Chaz Benjamin Crawford.[12] March 27: A suicide bomber kills 30 to 40 people at a security-forces recruitment center in northern Iraq[13] March 29: Two suicide bombers on a mini-bus filled with explosives attempted to attack a police station in Haswa, south of Baghdad, but the bus exploded prematurely when police opened fire on it, wounding 11 policemen and a female bystander.[14] March 30: 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.[15] April 2006 April 3: Ten die and 38 are wounded during a suicide truck bomb attack near a Shiite mosque in northeastern Baghdad[16] April 7: Two or three suicide bombers target the Baratha mosque in Baghdad, killing 85 people and wounding 160.[17][18][19] April 11: A suicide bomber kills an American soldier in Raweh.[20] April 17: A suicide bomber attacked a market in the town of Mahmudiya killing at least 13 people and wounding 19.[21] Two or three suicide car bombers targeted the Government Center in Ramadi, wounding one U.S. Marine.[22][23] May 2006 May 1: A suicide bomber attacked a US army patrol killing one Iraqi civilian and wounding two others in Iskandariya south of Baghdad.[24] May 2: Ten people die and six are injured when a suicide bomber explodes near a convoy carrying the governor of Anbar in central Ramadi.[25] May 3: Suicide bomber kills 16 and wounds 25 at a police recruitment center in Falluja.[26] May 4: A suicide bomber attacked a crowd of police officers and civilians outside the civil court building in Baghdad.[27] May 6: Suicide bomber kills three Iraqi soldiers at a base in Tikrit.[28] May 7: Suicide bomber kills five and wounds 18 in Karbala.[29] A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army patrol as it left a base in the neighborhood of Azamiyah in Baghdad killing 10 people and wounding 15, most were Iraqi soldiers.[30] May 9: A suicide car bombing kills 22 and wounds 134 in Tal Afar.[31] May 14: A double suicide car bomb attack outside the Baghdad airport, near the Victory Base checkpoint, killing 14 people and wounding six others.[32] May 20: A suicide car bomber attacked a police station in Al-Qaim, killing five people and wounding ten. Victims were both civilians and policemen.[33] May 21: A suicide bomber kills 13 and wounds 18 in a restaurant in central Baghdad.[34] May 29: A suicide car bomber attacked a police patrol in Baghdad wounding two police and killing one.[35] May 30: A suicide bomber killed at least 12 people and wounded 36 in Hilla.[36] June 2006 June 3: A suicide bomber attacked a market in Basra, killing 28 people and wounding 62 others.[37] June 11: A suicide car bomb explodes at an Iraqi Army checkpoint in Baquba, killing three Iraqi soldiers and wounding six.[citation needed] June 12: A suicide bomber blew himself up at a gas station in Tal Afar killing four civilians and wounding more than 40.[38] June 13: As many as five suicide attacks hit Kirkuk on this day. In the central Quraya neighbourhood, a suicide car bomber struck the house of a senior police officer, Colonel Taher Salah al-Din, seriously wounding him and killing one of his bodyguards. Shortly afterwards, a suicide bomber in a car was shot by guards as he tried to attack Kirkuk's police headquarters. He blew himself up, killing two policemen. Across town a suicide car bomber blew himself up outside the offices of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, wounding two people. A second suicide car bomber then targeted the same building but was shot and killed by guards before he could detonate his bomb. Another suicide bomber struck a security building in the Wasit neighbourhood, wounding four civilians.[39][40] June 14: Police shot and killed a suicide bomber as he tried to attack a police checkpoint in Kirkuk.[41] June 16: A suicide bomber slips into a Shiite mosque in Baghdad, killing 11 and wounding 25 during Friday prayers.[42] June 17: A suicide bomber detonated his vehicle near a police checkpoint in Mahmoudiya, killing four people and injuring 15.[43] June 19: A suicide bomber killed four civilians and wounded 10 in an attack on an Iraqi army checkpoint in central Baghdad.[44] June 20: A suicide bomber kills two and injures two in a senior citizens' home in Basra.[45] June 24: A suicide bomber in Dhuluyia killed five Iraqi policemen.[46] June 25: A suicide bomber killed a police commando and wounded nine people in an attack on a police checkpoint in Baghdad's.[47] June 26: Two Iraqi police commandos die and four people are injured when a suicide bomber explodes at a military checkpoint in western Baghdad.[48] June 27: A suicide bomber attacked a gas station in Kirkuk killing at least three people and wounding 17.[49] June 28: A suicide car bomber attacked a Sunni mosque, near a market in Baqubah, killing three people.[50] June 29: A suicide car bomber kills five and wounds at least 31 during a wake for an Iraqi soldier in Kirkuk.[51][52] July 2006 July 1: a suicide car bombing at a crowded market in Sadr City, a Shi'ite district of Baghdad, killed 62 people and wounded 114. A group calling themselves The Supporters of the Sunni People claimed responsibility for the attack.[53] Also, a suicide bomber killed two policemen and wounded six people in an attack on a police patrol in Mosul.[54] July 3: A suicide car bomber attacked a security patrol in Baghdad, wounding two policemen, two soldiers, and one civilian.[55] July 5: A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Mosul, killing two people, including a policeman.[56] July 6: A suicide bomber attacked two buses carrying Iranian pilgrims outside a Shi'ite Muslim shrine in Kufa killing 12 people and wounding 41, eight of the dead were Iranians.[57] July 10: A suicide bomber attacked the offices of the Kurdish PUK party in Kirkuk killing three and wounding eight. A suicide bomber attacked a crowd of civilians gathered at the site of an earlier explosion in Baghdad's Sadr City district killing 8 and wounding 41 people.[58][59] July 11: More than 50 people were killed in Baghdad in violence that included a double suicide bombing near busy entrances to the fortified Green Zone.[60] July 12: A suicide bomber blows himself up in a restaurant in southern Baghdad, killing seven and injuring 20.[61] July 13: A suicide bomber attacked a police patrol killing three people and wounding eight in Kirkuk. A suicide bomber attacked the city council of Abi Saida, north of Baghdad, killing six people and wounding three, including the head of the city council. A suicide car bomber attacked a police patrol in Mosul, killing two policemen and three civilians and wounding five, including two policemen.[62][63] July 14: A suicide bomber attacked a police patrol killing five people, including three civilians, in Mosul.[64] July 15: A suicide bomber attacked a police commando checkpoint in eastern Baghdad killing two police commandos and wounding four. A suicide car bomb attacked a police patrol in Baghdad, wounding six people, including two policemen.[65][66] July 16: A suicide bomber strikes a cafe in Tuz Khurmatu, killing 28 people.[67][68] July 18: A suicide car bomb kills 53 to 59 people and injures more than 100 at a market in Kufa.[69][70] A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army patrol in Mosul killing four people and wounding two.[70][71] July 21: A suicide bomber killed six policemen and wounded 13 others near Falluja. A suicide bomber killed six policemen and wounded 13 others near Falluja. A suicide bomber broke into the home of As'ad Ali Yasin, the head of the Samarra local council, and blew himself up, killing himself but not harming Yasin or anybody else.[72][73] July 23: 32 to 34 are killed and 65 to 70 are wounded when a suicide bomber driving a minibus blows it up near a market in Sadr City, Baghdad.[74][75] July 24: A suicide bomber killed five Iraqi soldiers and wounded four in an attack on their patrol in Mosul. A suicide bomber attacked a Samarra Emergency Battalion checkpoint killing a civilian and wounding six policemen.[76][77] July 25: A suicide bomber attacked a house used by the Iraqi police in Samarra killing one person and wounding seven other people.[78] July 29: A suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint near Qaim, killing himself and wounding two policemen.[79] July 30:A suicide car bomber attacked a police patrol in Mosul killing a policeman and wounding three other officers.[73] July 31: A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi observation post outside Mosul killing four soldiers and wounding six.[80] August 2006 August 1: A suicide car bomber kills at least 10 soldiers and four civilians and wounds 22 near an Iraqi army convoy in central Baghdad.[81] August 4: A suicide bomber in a pick-up truck blew up in an athletic field in Hadhar, killing 10 and wounding 12.[82][83] August 6: A suicide bomber attacks a funeral in central Tikrit, killing 15 people and injuring 17.[84][85] August 7: Nine soldiers die and 10 civilians are injured due to a suicide truck bomb in Samarra.[86] August 10: A suicide bomber struck a checkpoint near a shrine in Najaf, killing 35 and injuring 122.[87][88] August 13: Insurgents used a rocket, a car bomb, a suicide bomber on a motorcycle and two other devices to attack the Zafaraniya neighbourhood of southeastern Baghdad over the course of an hour. 57 people were killed, and almost 150 wounded.[89] August 15: A suicide truck bomber killed nine people and wounded 36 outside the headquarters of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan in Mosul.[90] August 19: A suicide car bomber attacked a Shiite mosque in Baghdad's Doura district killing one person.[91] August 23: A suicide bomber attacked a police headquarters in Mosul killing one person and wounding ten. A suicide bomber dressed as a policeman wounded six policemen in an attack on a police station.[92][93] August 27: A suicide truck bomber killed two Kurdish guards and wounded 16 people in an attack on the party offices of the PUK. A suicide car double suicide bombing in Kirkuk near the home of Peyrut Talabani, a cousin of President Talabani, 9 people were killed and 22 wounded.[94][95][96] August 28: In Baghdad, 16 people died, including 13 policemen, when a suicide car bomber attacked a compound of the Iraqi interior ministry. In Baghdad, dozens of people were injured in the mid-morning blast outside the interior ministry. The ministry complex has been frequently targeted in the past and is heavily guarded. The Baghdad bomber struck as UK Defence Minister Des Browne was in the capital for talks with Iraqi officials. A suicide car bomber attacked a line of cars waiting for fuel at a gas station in the Dora district of Baghdad killing three and wounding 15 people.[97][98] August 29: A suicide car bombing somewhere in Iraq killed at least one person: American interpreter Saher Georges.[12] August 31: A suicide bomber attacked a gas station in eastern Baghdad killing 2 people and wounding 13.[99] September 2006 September 3: A suicide bomber attacked a police patrol in Mosul killing two policemen and wounding three.[100] September 7: A suicide bomber attacked a police fuel depot in Baghdad killing 12 policemen. A suicide bomber attacked a police patrol killing 3 people and wounded 10 in a tunnel in the Bab al-Sharji district of Baghdad.[101] September 9: A suicide bomber killed one policeman and wounded 10 civilians after police at Baghdad's Adhamiya police station fired at the bombers car and it to detonated prematurely.[102] September 10: A suicide car bomber attacked a police raiding party killing 3 people and wounding 14, mostly policemen.[103] September 11: A suicide bomber blew himself up on a bus full of army recruits in Baghdad killing 16 people and wounding 7.[104] September 14: A suicide truck bomb hit a U.S. Army outpost in Baghdad killing three soldiers and wounding 25. A suicide bomber strapped himself with explosives and detonated them at an Iraq police checkpoint in Tal Afar, killing one police officer and wounding two others.[105] September 16: A suicide bomber attacked a U.S. patrol in Ramadi killing four civilians. A suicide bomber attacked a well-fortified police station in Baghdad's Doura district killing one civilian and wounding 22 others.[106] September 17: A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Kirkuk killing only himself.[107] September 18: A suicide bomber attacked a police recruitment centre in Ramadi killing 13 people and wounding 10. A suicide bomber attacked a Tal Afar market killing at least 21 people and wounding 17.[108][109] September 19: A suicide bomber attacked a crowd of people who had gathered at the scene of an earlier bomb attack on an army base in Sharqat. At least 21 people were killed and 50 wounded in both attacks.[110] September 20: A suicide bomber attacked the house of Khalid al-Fulalli, a Sunni leader of the Bazi tribe, in Samarra, one child was killed and 26 people were wounded in the attack. A suicide truck bomber attacked a police checkpoint in the Doura district of Baghdad, killing seven police commandos and wounding 11 other, among them three civilians. A suicide bomber attacked a Tal Afar market killing at least 22 people and wounding 24.[111][112] September 24: A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint in Tal Afar killing two Iraqi soldiers and wounded three, including a civilian.[113] September 25: A suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Ramadi 7 policemen and wounding 7 others.[114] September 26: A suicide bomber attacked a new police station in Jurf al-Sakhar killing 2 policemen and wounding 4 policemen and 8 U.S. soldiers.[115] September 27: A suicide bomber attacked the Iraqi Communist Party's headquarters in Baghdad killing five people and wounding fifteen.[116] September 28: A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near the U.S. military base at Kirkuk airport, killing one policeman and wounding eight. A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army headquarters killing two civilians and wounding 25, including nine soldiers, in the Shaab district of Baghdad.[117] September 30: A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint in Tal Afar killing two people and wounding 30.[118] October 2006 October 3: A suicide bomber killed three and wounded 19 at a fish market in Baghdad.[119] October 4: A suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi police and army checkpoint in the northern city of Tal Afar, wounding three policemen, two soldiers and nine civilians. A suicide truck bomber blew himself up outside the Iraqi army headquarters in western Ramadi, police said. No one other than the bomber was killed but a number were wounded.[120] In Ramadi, a car bomber rammed his vehicle into the entrance of a police station and wounded four.[121] October 7: A suicide car bomb killed 14 people, including four soldiers, and wounded 13, including nine civilians, at an Iraqi Army checkpoint in the northern Iraqi town of Tal Afar.[122] October 9: A suicide car bomber killed a policeman and wounded 11 others, a policeman and 10 civilians, at a police checkpoint in the northern town of Tal Afar, about 420 km (260 mi) north of Baghdad.[123] A suicide car bomber rammed a police checkpoint wounding six officers and commandos near the Jordanian border at Trebil.[124] October 12: In Kirkuk a suicide bomber rammed his car into an Iraqi Army checkpoint wounding one soldier.[125] A suicide bomber attacked the army headquarters in Ramadi, there were no casualties.[126] October 13: A suicide bomber attacked a patrol in Mazraa killing three Iraqi soldiers.[127] October 15: Suicide bombers attacked at least six targets in Kirkuk killing 18 people and wounding more than 70 others.[128] A suicide bomber in Tal Afar killed five people, including three policemen.[129] A suicide bomber attacked a market in Al Qaim killing eight people.[130] October 17: A suicide car bomber targeting police commandos killed two police and wounded nine, including four civilians, in Baghdad's southern Saidiya district. A suicide car bomber targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint, killing a soldier and wounding two others in the town of Shirqat, 300 km (190 mi) north of Baghdad.[131] Two suicide bombers attacked the police academy in Kirkuk, there were no casualties.[132] October 19: A suicide car bomb killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded four more some 35 km (22 mi) southwest of Kirkuk. Six suicide bombers in vehicles, including one in a fuel truck, attacked Iraqi police and U.S. patrols, and insurgents fired mortars and clashed with police, the violence killed at least 20 people in Mosul. A suicide car bomber killed at least eight people and wounded 70 others in the oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km (160 mi) north of Baghdad.[133] October 21: A suicide bomber blew himself up on an Iraqi bus in Baghdad killing five passengers and wounding 15 others.[134] October 22: A suicide bomber killed six people and wounded 20 on Palestine Street in central Baghdad.[135] October 25: A suicide bomber attacked a hospital in Baquba killing two policemen.[136] October 26: A suicide bomber wounded two Iraqi soldiers in Tal Afar.[137] October 30: A suicide attacker blew himself up inside a police headquarters in Kirkuk, killing two policemen and a three-year-old girl and wounding 19, including 10 policemen.[138] A double suicide attack hit an Iraqi army checkpoint at a border pass near Syria, killing six soldiers and wounding one.[139] November 2006 November 1: Two suicide car bomb attacks on police positions north of Ramadi killed five policemen and wounded three.[140] November 7: A suicide bomber walked into a cafe in the Shi'ite Greyat district and blew himself up after dark, killing 17 people and wounding 20.[141] November 10: A suicide car bomber hit an army checkpoint, killing a colonel and four soldiers, and wounding 17 people including 10 soldiers in Tal Afar, about 240 km (150 mi) northwest of Baghdad.[142] November 11: A suicide car bomber attacked a police station, killing two people, including one woman, in the town of Zaghinya to the north of Baquba, 65 km (40 mi) north of Baghdad.[143] November 12: A suicide bomber walked into a police recruiting centre in Baghdad and blew himself up, killing 35 people and wounding 58.[144] November 18: A suicide car bomb at a police checkpoint in Haditha, west of Baghdad, killed one policeman and wounded another.[145] November 19: A suicide car bomb near a funeral procession killed three people and wounded 22 in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk.[145] November 20: A suicide car bomber exploded his vehicle near a police checkpoint and killed two people, including a policeman, and wounded six others, including four policemen, in Ramadi. A suicide car bomber rammed his car into a joint Iraqi police-army patrol and killed three soldiers and wounded four others, including a policeman, in a town west of Mosul.[146] November 23: Mortar rounds and five car bombs, at least three of which were suicide attacks, killed 215 in bombings in Baghdad's Sadr City.[147][148] November 24: A double suicide attack killed 22 people and wounded 45 at a market in a Shi'ite district in the northern city of Tal Afar, near the Syrian border.[149] November 29: A suicide car bomber targeting a police station killed one civilian and wounded 23 in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 mi) north of Baghdad. A suicide car bomber targeting a police patrol killed a policeman and wounded seven people, including three policemen, in southwestern Baghdad. A suicide car bomber exploded near a police patrol, killing a policeman and wounding five civilians in al-Nidhal street in central Baghdad.[150] December 2006 December 1: A suicide bomber attacked a U.S. patrol in Kirkuk killing two civilians.[151] December 3: A suicide bomber attacked a police patrol in Mosul killing two people. A suicide bomber attacked the convoy of a police official near Kirkuk killing three policemen.[152] December 6: A suicide bomber attacked a minibus in Baghdad killing three people.[153] December 9: A suicide bomber killed seven people in Karbala in an attack on a market.[154] December 11: A suicide bomber killed one police commando in Baghdad.[155] December 12: A suicide bomber struck a crowd of mostly poor Shiites in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing at least 71 people and wounding 220 after luring construction workers onto a pickup truck by offering them jobs as they were eating breakfast.[156] A suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Baghdad killing one person.[157] December 13: A double suicide attack on an Iraqi army base in Riyadh, near Kirkuk, killed seven soldiers and wounded 15.[158] A double suicide attack on the headquarters of the Iraqi army's 2nd Battalion, near Kirkuk, killed 4 soldiers and wounded 10.[159] December 20: A suicide car bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Baghdad killing 11 people.[160] December 21: A suicide bomber attacked a police recruitment centre in Baghdad killing three police officers and 12 recruits. A suicide bomber attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint near Kirkuk killing one soldier. A suicide bomber killed two people in Baghdad.[161] December 24: A suicide bomber walked into a police station in the Iraqi town of Muqdadiya in Diyala province and detonated his explosives, killing at least seven police officers and wounding 30 more.[162] December 25: A suicide bomber killed three people and wounded 20 others when he blew himself up aboard a crowded bus in the Shi'ite Talibiya district in northeastern Baghdad. A suicide bomber targeting a police checkpoint near the main entrance of Anbar University killed three policemen and wounded two students in the city of Ramadi, 110 km (68 mi) west of Baghdad.[163] December 28: A suicide bomber using a minibus attacked the offices of the KDP in Mosul, two people were killed and 19 were wounded.[164] December 29: A suicide bomber a Shi'ite mosque in Khalis killing 10 people.[165] December 30: A suicide bomber killed five people in Tal Afar.[166]