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seemslikeadream Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 07:48 AM
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CHRONOLOGY-The deadliest bomb attacks in Iraq
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(Reuters) - A suicide bomber killed 47 people in central Baghdad on Tuesday, the Interior Ministry said.

Here is a list of some of the deadliest bomb attacks in Iraq since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein in 2003:

August 19, 2003 - A truck bomb wrecks U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22 people, including U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello.

August 29, 2003 - A car bomb kills at least 83 people, including top Shi'ite Muslim leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim, at the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf.

February 1, 2004 - 117 people are killed when two suicide bombers blew themselves up in Arbil at the offices of the two main Kurdish factions in northern Iraq.

February 10, 2004 - Suicide car bomb rips through a police station in Iskandariya, south of Baghdad, killing 53.

February 11, 2004 - Suicide car bomb explodes at an Iraqi army recruitment center in Baghdad, killing 47.

March 2, 2004 - 171 people are killed in twin attacks in Baghdad and Kerbala.

December 19, 2004 - A suicide car bomb blast in Najaf, 300 meters from the Imam Ali shrine, kills 52 and wounds 140. Continued...
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Botany Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-12-06 08:02 AM
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1. And who lit the fuse that set off this powder keg?
"I thought they were both muslims." Feb. 2003 G.W. bush when told that
there are different factions in Iraq and if he invaded there would be trouble.
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