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A bomb hidden in a vegetable truck explodes outside a Shia mosque in Balad Ruz northeast of Baghdad. Thirteen people are killed and 40+ are injured. |
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Just after a US military convoy passes, a radio detonated car bomb explodes in busy Tahrir Square in the center of Baghdad. Three people are killed and three others wounded. In al-Hafriyah, about 20 km south of Baghdad, a second remotely detonated car bomb wounds 5 Iraqi police officers who were o ... |
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Masked insurgents kill Al-Hurra television correspondent Abdul Hussein Khazaal and his 3-year-old son in Basra's al-Maaqal neighborhood. The United States finances Al-Hurra, an Arab-language TV channel, which translated means "The Free." Muslim clerics have denounced the channel as propaganda. |
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Col. Riyadh Gatte Elawi, of the Iraqi Interior Ministry, is abducted while leaving his house for work in the al-Dora neighborhood of Baghdad, |
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A suicide bomber attack at Jumhuriya Hospital in Mosul, Iraq leaves 12 Iraqi police dead and 4 others injured. A later taxi-cab attack at the Diyala police station in Baquba results in 14 fatalities. To date, the total number of American troops killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom is 1,448. |
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At approximately 0600Z in al-Souaira, insurgents use rocket propelled grenades to attack a convoy of three trucks hauling Kia cars destined for Iraq's Ministry of the Interior. The vehicles are destroyed and the drivers are kidnapped. The town of al-Souaira is located about 60 km southeast of Baghd ... |
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At 1320Z, Iraqi insurgents use a roadside bomb to kill one US Soldier and wound two others north of the Iraqi capital. The two wounded soldiers are reported as having been taken to a military hospital for treatment. To date, the total number of American troops killed in Operation Iraqi Freedom is 1 ... |
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Abu Musab al-Zarqawi issues a taped message condemning democracy as "the big American lie" and declaring participants in Iraq's January 30 election are enemies of Islam. |
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Insurgents use a car bomb to kill 14 worshippers at theShia al-Taf Mosque in south west Baghdad. Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has continued to denounce Shias for fighting alongside American troops in Iraq. A suicide bomber kills four people at a Shia wedding in Youssifiyah south of Baghdad. Zarqawi has a ... |
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