2006 in Iraq
There were a number of events in 2006 in Iraq.
See also: 2006, Iraq, Iraqi insurgency, Iraq war
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Events
January
- January 6
- Thousands of Shiites demonstrated in Baghdad after two days of bloodshed that claimed almost 200 lives.[5]
- A secret Pentagon study has found that at least 80 percent of the marines who have been killed in Iraq from wounds to their upper body could have survived if they had extra body armor. That armor has been available since 2003.[6]
- Paul Bremer, who led the U.S. civilian occupation authority in Iraq after the 2003 invasion, has admitted the United States did not anticipate the insurgency in the country, NBC television said on Friday.[7]
- January 7
- Demonstrations in the Iraqi town of Nasiriyah turned violent leaving two dead and two dozen injured.[8]
February
- February 22 - The Al Askari Mosque bombing. Although no injuries occurred in the blast, the bombing was hugely offensive to Shi'ites and resulted in violence over the following days. The Iraqi government has stated that 379 people were killed in the subsequent attacks, although the Washington Post reported that over 1,300 people were killed.
March
- March 24
- 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 30
- Pentagon requests hundreds of millions of dollars in emergency funds for military construction in Iraq.[15]
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.[16]
- Iraqi gunmen ambush minibus carrying Shiites, killing six men.[17]
- 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.[18]
- A roadside bomb hit a police patrol on the highway in eastern Baghdad on Saturday, wounding four policemen, according to an Interior Ministry source.[19]
- Gunmen kidnap Iraqi physician in Baghdad.[20]
- Gunmen in three cars killed a Shiite tribal chief and four male relatives near Balad Ruz as they drove home from a funeral.[21]
- U.S. military helicopter went down southwest of Baghdad on Saturday. A militant group said it shot down a helicopter in the same area.[22]
- 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.[23]
- Iraq Shi'ites break ranks, urge PM to quit.[24]
- A Marine was killed Friday during combat operations in Anbar province west of the capital.[25]
- Journalist Jill Carroll rejects statements made during her kidnapping.[26]
- April 2
- 2 U.S. soldiers killed by roadside bomb in central Baghdad according to the US military.[27]
- 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.[28]
- 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.[29]
- 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.[30]
- 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.[31]
- 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.[32]
- Five Iranians were arrested north of Iraq on charges of illegal entry to Iraqi territory.[33]
- Brother of Sunni lawmaker presumed kidnapped.[34]
- Gunmen assassinated a Sunni Arab sheik, Abdul-Minaam Awad, in his village of Zobaa 40 miles west of Baghdad, a Sunni clerical association announced.[35]
- 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.[36]
- 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.[37]
- April 3
- Gunmen shot down six people, including a child, in a market area of the southern city of Basra, police said. The victims of the drive-by shooters in Basra included a navy officer, two policemen, two workers at an electrical plant, and a boy.[38]
- Slovakian soldiers at Camp Echo, near the Iraqi town of Ad Diwaniyah was hit by two shells on Thursday.[39]
- Bombings in Buhriz damaged several buildings, including a barber shop and grocery store.[40]
- A policeman was killed and two others wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol in Baiji, police said.[41]
- Two soldiers were killed and three wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol near Baiji, north of Baghdad.[42]
- Iraqi civilian killed, five people injured in attack on fuel station in Huwaija.[43]
- 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.[44]
- Gunmen killed the Imam of a Sunni mosque in the oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.[45]
- Two truck drivers carrying US construction materials killed, another kidnapped north of Nibaie.[46]
- Food prices rise after reduction of monthly rations.[47]
- Two bodies found shot dead and mutilated near Latifiya.[48]
- 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.[49]
- University student killed in Baqubah's downtown market.[50]
- Roadside bomb kills an Iraqi civilian near Baqubah.[51]
- 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.[52]
- 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.[53]
- U.S. Plan to Build Iraq Clinics Falters after building only 20 clinics costing $200m.[54]
- Iraq's interior ministry refusing to deploy US-trained police, whilst instead hiring their own security.[55]
- Scottish Infantry levels drop after soldiers leave.[56]
- Many Iraqi Soldiers Wounded by fellow soldiers.[57]
- April 4
- Kurdish journalist released.[58]
- Iraqi politician says 1,700 Sunnis killed in unrest since Samarra Shrine bombing.[59]
- Violence is driving doctors from Iraq as patients suffer.[60]
- Poverty forces Iraqi children to pick through rubbish dumps.[61]
- British HQ in Misan mortared several times in last few days according to the Iraqi police.[62]
- Two mortar rounds exploded near the British consulate in Basra during a reception, causing no injuries but forcing the party to end early.[63]
- 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.[64]
- U.S. jets reported in action in Tikrit, Habaniyah and Fallujah.[65]
- Violence in Baghdad kills judge, two vendors, and a policeman.[66]
- Civilian killed at Tikrit checkpoint, truck driver kidnapped.[67]
- Civilian killed in Fatiha, two truck drivers killed near Dujail.[68]
- In the Sahl area near the border with Saudi Arabia, two teenage shepherds were killed by an anti-personnel mine.[69]
- Iraq leaders put off gov't talks despite US pressure.[70]
- Car bomb kills one city council member, wounds four in Samarra.[71]
- In southern Iraq, gunmen killed a policeman and wounded another as the two were driving in the city of Basra, police said.[72]
- American troops have clashed with insurgents in Iraq. They began exchanging fire after a US military base was attacked in Ramadi, west of Baghdad.[73]
- 4 more handcuffed and tortured bodies found on western highway in Bahgadad and floating in a river south of the capital.[74]
- Car bomb kills 10 people, wounding 28 others in Baghdad.[75]
- 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.[76]
- UAE Foreign Minister condemns killing of two UAE embassy staffers in Baghdad.[77]
- 600 Iraqi security forces capture two insurgents during operations.[78]
- Baghdad Bomb Kills Woman, 2 Sons aged nine and twelve.[79]
- Car bomb kills one, wounds four in Samarra.[80]
- In southern Iraq, gunmen killed a policeman and wounded another as the two were driving in the city of Basra.[81]
- American troops have clashed with insurgents in Iraq. They began exchanging fire after a US military base was attacked in Ramadi, west of Baghdad.[82]
- April 5
- More than 40,000 people have been displaced countrywide as a result of ongoing sectarian violence, Ministry of Displacement and Migration officials said on Sunday.[83]
- A civil engineer was shot to death Wednesday in front of a barber shop in west Baghdad, police said.[84]
- A motorist was also killed as he drove past a US military convoy and a man found blindfolded and shot on Wednesday in Iskandiriyah, 50 km south of Baghdad.[85]
- Three civilians were killed and five wounded when a car bomb exploded at an army checkpoint in eastern Baghdad, police said.[86]
- A civilian was killed and two others wounded when a roadside bomb went off near U.S. forces in Kirkuk, police said.[87]
- A policeman was killed by gunmen while he was heading to work in Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.[88]
- 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.[89]
- A translator with Polish troops was killed and his nephew wounded on Monday by gunmen wearing police commando uniforms in Diwaniya.[90]
- 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.[91]
- 2 bodies found in Baghdad, 1 in Iskandiriyah.[92]
- Basra police found the body of a Sunni ambulance driver, handcuffed and shot in execution-style.[93]
- Lecturer, two other Sunnis killed in Basra.[94]
- 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.[95]
- 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.[96]
- 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.[97]
- 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.[98]
- 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.[99]
- Polish President Lech Kaczyński paid a surprise visit to Iraq on Thursday, his press office said.[100]
- 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.[101]
- 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.[102]
- 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.[103]
- 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.[104]
- Saddam-era judge insists 148 Shiites sentenced to death all confessed.[105]
- Iraq's religious leaders to meet in Amman.[106]
- Two roadside bombs in Western Baghdad kill one policeman, wounds seven.[107]
- Iraq oil exports fall to 1.34 million barrels per day (bpd) from 1.37 million bpd in February.[108]
- 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.[109]
- Roadside bomb explodes in Baqubah damaging shops but causing no injuries.[110]
- 5 civilians were killed and another 2 wounded when gunmen shot at their cars near a police station in Haswa, south of Baghdad.[111]
- 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.[112]
- 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.[113]
- Fleeing Baghdad’s sectarian violence, Shia families find shelter in the southern city of Kut.[114]
- A US soldier was killed Thursday when an explosive detonated near his vehicle in Beiji.[115]
- 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.[116]
- 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.[117]
- Saddam co-accused defends actions.[118]
- Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua says legal proceedings against him have begun in connection with the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal.[119]
- 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,"[120]
- April 7
- 85 people were killed and at least 158 wounded when three suicide bombers, dressed as women, struck a Shi'ite Buratha mosque affiliated with a major Shiite political party, the Iraqi Health Ministry said.[121]
- 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.[122]
- 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.[123]
- Iraq's interior ministry cautioned people in Baghdad to avoid crowds near mosques and markets due to a car bomb threat.[124]
- British defense chief warns of Iraq power vacuum.[125]
- Baghdad on Alert After Car Bomb Threat.[126]
- Three explosions at Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad.[127]
- Iraqi civilian kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Kirkuk.[128]
- 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.[129]
- 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.[130]
- 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.[131]
- 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.[132]
- 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.[133]
- 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.[134]
- 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.[135]
- US soldiers on Friday arrested a tribal leader and four members of his clan near the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, witnesses reported.[136]
- U.S. Aid in Iraq Now Equal to Assistance in Germany after World War II.[137]
- 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.[138]
- German parliament votes to set up a committee to examine claims that German intelligence agents helped the US during the 2003 war in Iraq.[139]
- 19 US troops have died so far this month.[140]
- 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.[141]
- Bomb attack on bus kills three people in Baghdad.[142]
- 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.[143]
- 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.[144]
- In the southern city of Basra, gunmen shot dead a Sunni professor as he was leaving his house Tuesday morning.[145]
- In the outskirts of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, gunmen killed a policeman on his way to work.[146]
- 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.[147]
- Roadside bomb wounds two near Baghdad.[148]
- Roadside bomb wounds four Iraqi police near Baqubah.[149]
- Political turmoil leaves Iraq adrift.[150]
- Mannequins, fake funerals, booby-trapped bodies in Ramadi.[151]
- Doctors, NGOs warn of infant mortality 'higher than under Saddam's rule' in Basra.[152]
- Busy Iraqi firefighters get shot at by all sides.[153]
- 16 bodies found in Al Masayyib village, 60 miles south of Baghdad.[154]
- 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.[155]
- 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.[156]
- 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.[157]
- 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.[158]
- 3 U.S. soldiers killed north of Baghdad, 4th near Balad.[159]
- 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.[160]
- 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.[161]
- 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.[162]
- A roadside bomb killed two policemen in the town of Sulayman Beg, about 90 north of Baghdad.[163]
- 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.[164]
- 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.[165]
- Two trucks carrying goods for US military were destroyed near Ramadi and their drivers killed.[166]
- 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.[167]
- A policeman was shot dead in Baghdad early Wednesday.[168]
- 2 civilians died when hit by a roadside bomb south of the northern oil hub of Kirkuk and four others were wounded.[169]
- Two US Soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb south of Baghdad at approximately 9:20 a.m. 12th April.[170]
- 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.[171]
- 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.[172]
- 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.[173]
- Insurgent attacks have killed seven U.S. soldiers since Sunday.[174]
- 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.[175]
- Police said they found the bodies of three men in different areas of the capital. The identities of the victims were not immediately clear.[176]
- Suicide car bomber kills 2 in Tal Afar and wound 7 others.[177]
- 4 Iraqis including one policeman and three civilians killed by bomb in Waziriya district in Baghdad early Wednesday morning.[178]
- 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.[179]
- 150 British soldiers based in Cyprus to be deployed in Iraq.[180]
- [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.[181]
- 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.[182]
- 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.[183]
- 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.[184]
- 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.[185]
- 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.[186]
- Two civilians were killed during clashes between insurgents and U.S. military forces in central Ramadi.[187]
- 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.[188]
- 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.[189]
- 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.[190]
- 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.[191]
- 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.[192]
- April 25
- US troops still haven't removed detainees from Iraqi ministries where abuse occurred.[194]
- Turkish military action in Iraq will take place if needed.[195]
- Shiite Militias Move Into Oil-Rich Kirkuk, as Kurds Dig In.[196]
- British paratroopers secretly operating in support of the SAS in Iraq are using American uniforms, weapons and vehicles as part of their cover.[197]
- British troops in Iraq could hand over the Maysan province to local security forces within a matter of weeks.[198]
- Inspectors Find More Torture at Iraqi Jails - Top General's Pledge To Protect Prisoners 'Not Being Followed'.[199]
- 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.[200]
- 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.[201]
- Iraq expresses dismay at Turkish incursion into northern Iraq.[202]
- Conflicting Accounts Obscure Even Identity of Combatants in 2 Days of Street Fighting.[203]
- US ambassador: America is facing long stay in Iraq.[204]
- 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.[205]
- 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.[206]
- Iraqi Strife Seeping Into Saudi Arabia.[207]
- Turkey shells Kurdish rebel targets along border with Iraq.[208]
- After Year of Gov't, Killings Up in Iraq.[209]
- Italian soldier gravely injured in Nassiriya attack.[210]
- 6 Iraqi army soldiers killed in checkpoint attack.[211]
- Iraqi soldier killed in Ramadi.[212]
- US forces kill eight insurgents in Ramadi.[213]
- Insurgents kill sister and brother of new Iraqi leader.[214]
- 73-year-old Khatab al-Ani shot dead on his way to prayers.[215]
- US military sees Iraq edging away from civil war.[216]
- 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.[217]
- Iraqi PM visits Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani in Najaf.[218]
- 7 killed in raids on Iraqi checkpoints.[219]
- Gunmen kill senior Baghdad judge.[220]
- Bullet-riddled bodies surface as Iraq political crisis deepens.[221]
- Brain injuries common for Iraq war vets - Thanks to body armor, thousands survive combat but face lengthy rehab.[222]
- Abuse Charge Set for a US Colonel.[223]
- 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.[224]
- Militias could spark Iraq civil war - PM-designate.[225]
- Ayatollah Ali Sistani, one of Iraq's most senior Shia clerics, has called for the next government to dismantle militias operating in the country.[226]
- April 28
- The bodies of 16 Iraqis who had been kidnapped and tortured were found Thursday in Baghdad and other cities.[227]
- Iraq War Costs US taxpayers £180bn ($320bn US).[228]
- U.S. Forces Kill a Key Insurgent in Iraq.[229]
- The death toll in two days of fighting in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, climbed to 58, including seven Iraqi soldiers.[230]
- 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.[231]
- American soldier was killed by a roadside bomb that hit a military vehicle north of Baghdad.[232]
- A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol exploded in southwestern Baghdad at 8:20 a.m., killing one policeman and wounding two.[233]
- Police found the corpses of two middle-aged Iraqi men in a mostly Sunni Arab neighborhood of western Baghdad.[234]
- 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.[235]
- 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.[236]
- 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.[237]
- Iraqi forces kill 3 insurgents in raid.[238]
- In the former rebel bastion of Fallujah, two policemen were killed by a roadside bomb against their patrol.[239]
- 21 rebels killed,another 43 captured in the last 24 hours.[240]
- Kurdistan buzzes as other parts of Iraq burn.[241]
- Iraqis Building Makeshift Roadblocks.[242]
- Young Iraqi couples court danger from militia.[243]
- Iraqis faking their IDs to hide religious affiliations.[244]
- Danish reporters charged after publishing leaked intelligence reports on Iraq.[245]
- 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.[246]
May
- May 10 - Iraqi President Jalal Talabani made a public announcement urging all political parties to "quell this bleeding" after figures showed sectarian violence killed 1,091 in Baghdad the prior month.[1]
June
- 7 June
- Al-Qaeda in Iraq leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi is killed by an American air strike. Zarqawi was a Jordanian militant who had called for attacks against Shi'ites. Most Iraqis hoped his death will help ease sectarian bloodshed, much of which was masterminded by him.
July
- July 1 - Attacks in the Shi'ite slum of Sadr City in Baghdad killed 66 people.
- July 9 - Shia gunmen allegedly massacred 40 Sunni Muslims in Baghdad after setting up fake security checkpoints a day after the Shi'ite Zahra mosque in the area was bombed.
- July 18 - A car bomb killed 53 people in the holy Shi'ite city of Kufa.
- In July 2006, Baghdad's central morgue received 1,855 bodies, the most since the bombing of a Shia shrine in February prompted a wave of sectarian killings. The Iraqi government stated that 3,438 Iraqis died around the country that month.[2]
August
- August 20 - Sunni snipers shot and killed at least 22 Shiites during a pilgrimage in Baghdad.
October
- October 2
- Fifty bodies were discovered in Kut and at least 31 elsewhere.[247]
- Troops also detained 59 "wanted suspects." [248]
- A round also fell on a nearby home during the attack, killing two young children and wounding another.[249]
- Elsewhere in Basra, gunmen killed an Iraqi intelligence office.[250]
- Seven headless bodies were found in the Tigris River near Suwayra; their hands were bound.[251]
- Gunmen also killed 7 in the cities of Kut, Mosul, Dhuluiya and Ishaqi.[252]
- Stray fire killed a woman and child sleeping on a roof in Sadr City.[253]
- Car bombs took the lives of 4 in Latifiya and 5 in Falluja. [254]
- Twenty-four men were kidnapped from a meat processing plant in the Amel district and placed into a truck; two were shot when they refused to board the vehicle.[255]
- Another 14 men were kidnapped from computer stores adjacent to the Baghdad Technical University in Central Baghdad, but their fate is unknown.[256]
- A noontime bomb blast at a market in Al Nasr reportedly killed 4 and injured 13.[257]
- October 3
- Unidentified gunmen killed Naeem Manei, an assistant judge, in Hay.[258]
- Police also found the body of Col Adnan Hussein al Hreshawi, an officer in Hussein’s army. He was cuffed and shot several times.[259]
- A suicide bomber killed three and wounded nineteen at a fish market in Baghdad. [260]
- In the Dora neighborhood, a mortar attack killed one, injured 17. [261]
- In another Baghdad neighborhood, a mortar attack killed seven and injured 25. [262]**Two women were found dead in Kut. One was beheaded, the other burned.[263]
- Morters fells on Mahmoudiya, killing one and injuring five.[264]
- In Muqdadiyah, gunmen entered a home and killed one while injuring three others.[265]
- October 4
- In Tal Afar, a suicide car bomber attacked an Iraqi army and police checkpoint; three policemen, two soldiers and nine civilians were wounded.[266]
- Six policemen were killed and their chief, Brigadier Shaaban al-Obeidi, wounded when a roadside bomb struck their motorcade near Al-Baghdadi.[267]
- In Ramadi, a car bomber rammed his vehicle into the entrance of a police station and wounded four. [268]
- Gunmen killed a translator working for U.S. forces in Siniya.[269]
- Police found the bodies of four men, three near Tuz Khurmatu and one near Tikrit.[270]
- In Mosul, mortars landed on an army recruitment center. Four were killed and eight wounded.[271]
- Police in Muqdadiya reported that they killed 11 foreign fighters, including nine Syrians, a Saudi national and a Sudanese man.[272]
- October 5
- The bodies of four people, including one woman, were found floating in the Tigris River at Sweera. They were shot and possibly tortured.[273]
- Several mortar rounds fell on a small village near the town of Balad Ruz. Two people were killed and five wounded.[274]
- Near Kirkuk, one body with gunshot wounds to the head was discovered.[275]
- During clashes between U.S. forces and insurgents in Ramadi, four people were killed and six wounded.[]
- In Baquba, gunmen killed a police officer and injured another.[276]
- Militants separately shot dead two civilians in the al-Moallemeen and al-Tahrir districts. [277]
- A child was killed and his two brothers were injured by bomb planted near their home.[278]
- In Mahmudiya, Iraqi police found the bodies of two people who were shot to death.[279]
- Just outside of Mahmudiya, mortar rounds fell on the home of a man; police said he was killed and five members of his family were wounded.[280]
- October 6
- October 7
- In Mahawil, the child of a Shi’te tribal sheihk was injured by a bomb blast.[284]
- A gunman attacking an army checkpoint in Ishaqi was killed. Four soldiers were wounded in the attack.[285]
- In Baaj, gunmen killed a contractor and two of his employees.[286]
- Near the Syrian border at Sinjar, two Yezidi laborers were killed and two others wounded by gunmen.[287]
- In Mosul, gunmen killed two, including a woman, in separate incidents.[288]
- Killing two and wounding four, mortar rounds struck a home in Iskandariya.[289]
- At an Iraqi army checkpoint in Tal Afar, a suicide car bomber killed at least 17 and wounded 13.[290]
- In Khan Bani Saad, a man was killed when a roadside bomb blasted his car.[291]
- Sheikh Abdel Sattar Baziya in Anbar province said tribal fighters had killed 34 foreign fighters and captured 40 others during a week-long drive.[292]
- In Baquba, two bound and tortured bodies were discovered.[293]
- A mortar also landed on the main bus station; one civilian was killed and eight were wounded. [294]
- Elsewhere in the capital, gunmen killed two and wounded one worker at a bakery in the relatively upscale neighborhood of Mansour. [295]
- In Baghdad, at least 51 corpses have been discovered, many in the Sunni western half.[296]
- October 8
- In Haditha, gunmen killed five people.[297]
- In Baiji, gunmen killed a university student.[298]
- Gunmen killed a farmer in Ishaqi.[299]
- Mortar rounds killed one and wounded two others in Iskandariya.[300]
- In Samarra, gunmen shot to death an Iraqi policeman and his 8-year-old son as they left a mosque.[301]
- A roadside blast in Tikrit killed four civilians and wounded two others.[302]
- Outside a hospital in Muqdadiya, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives, killing two people and wounding seven.[303]
- In Diwaniya, a combined force of U.S. and Iraqi soldiers killed 30 members of the Shi’te militia.[304]
- In Mosul: Gunmen killed a Kurdish lawyer and the mother of a man who works with the city police.[305]
- Also in the capital, Police recovered the bodies of 15 people who were shot to death and possibly tortured.[306]
- A bomb targeting a police patrol injured 20 in Nasr Square.[307]
- Gunmen killed an employee of the Sharqia satellite channel, while he was driving his car in the Yarmouk neighborhood and an Iraqi soldier in the Mansour district.[308]
- October 9
- In Tal Afar, a suicide car bomber killed a policeman and wounded 13 others at a police checkpoint.[309]
- Mortars fell on Mussayab’s residential district. One man was killed, two others wounded.[310]
- Outside of Khalida, police found a body, which was shot in the head.[311]
- In Falluja, gunmen killed a policemen.[312]
- In Basra, a bomb planted in Galli Najim’s car exploded, killing one bodyguard and wounding two others. [313]
- In Baquba, Gunmen killed Colonel Faleh al-Obeidi and Lt. Col. Salih al-Karkhi in separate events.[314]
- In a village near town, a roadside bomb killed two policemen and wounded three others.[315]
- Elsewhere in Baghdad, Abdul-Sattar Abdullah Al-Mashhadani was killed at a sectarian militia checkpoint.[316]
- Also in the capital, gunmen dressed as policemen stormed the Sulaikh district home of Major General Amer al-Hashimi and killed him; they also killed an unknown number of bodyguards and kidnapped his son.[317]
- A car bomb killed at least 13 and wounded 46 in the Shaab district.[318]
- In Baghdad: Police found at least 40 corpses throughout the city.[319]
- In the Sadr City neighborhood, gunmen kidnapped 11 soldiers from a checkpoint.[320]
- Near the near Al-Mudallal mosque in Al-Ateefiya suburb, six civilians were also kidnapped.[321]
- October 10
- A roadside bomb in Rasheed killed two police officers and wounded four others.[322]
- In Tal Afar, police discovered four bodies.[323]
- Gunmen killed three and wounded one person in Ishaqi.[324]
- In Balad, gunmen attacked a car belonging to a senior Iraqi officer. One bodyguard was killed.[325]
- Near Hilla, gunmen killed a policeman and a bomb near the headquarters of a political party killed one person.[326]
- Near Falluja, police found the shot and tortured bodies of four.[327]
- A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed two policemen outside Mussayab.[328]
- In Mosul, gunmen killed a police colonel and a civilian in separate drive-by shootings.[329]
- Also, roadside bombs targeting police patrols instead wounded five civilians.[330]
- In Diwaniyah, battles between joint U.S./Iraqi forces and militiamen subsided, but not without the deaths of 11 militiamen near the Al Qaim mosque.[331]
- In Ramadi, a U.S. airstrike killed seven militiamen.[332]
- In Baghdad, authorities discovered 110 more bodies throughout the city. They were shot to death and some bore evidence of torture.[333]
- Gunmen also kidnapped 11 worshippers who were exiting a Sunni mosque. [334]
- Also in the capital, a roadside bomb killed four and injured nine in the Azamiyah district.[335]
- Bomb blasts in the Dura neighborhood, killed one policeman and injured four others.[336]
- In a separate explosion in Dura, 10 bystanders were killed and four others were injured in an explosion outside a bakery.[337]
- In the Yarmouk neighborhood, a roadside blast injured a policeman and six other people. [338]
- October 11
- Near Tikrit, a roadside bomb killed one and injured another person.[339]
- Near Baquba, gunmen killed three and injured a three others when they sprayed the victims’ car with bullets. [340]
- In Falluja, gunmen shot dead a policemen as he was standing in front of his home.[341]
- Gunmen stormed the home of Sheikh Raad Mutar Saleh in Suwayra and shot the Mandanien religious cleric dead.[342]
- In Iskandariya, a roadside bomb blasted Brigadier Qais al-Mamouri’s convoy; he is the chief of Babil police. He was not hurt, but his driver and two bodyguards were injured.[343]
- The bodies of seven men were discovered in Kut. Three were recovered from the Tigris; the others were found elsewhere. All had been tortured and shot multiple times.[344]
- In western Baghdad, gunmen shot dead a member of the Iraqi national police force as he was driving in his car. [345]
- Gunmen also stormed a home in the Dura district; they killed four and injured two other members of one family.[346]
- In the Ghandeer district, a car bomb targeting a police patrol killed two and wounded 10, including four policemen.[347]
- Also, a booby-trapped car in a southern neighborhood caused the deaths of two bystanders and injured 22 others, including eight policemen.[348]
- In the Al-Mansour district a civilian was injured when two car bombs exploded.[349]
- Three Iraqis were killed and eight were injured by a car bomb in the Sara district.[350]
- A car bomb near an auto parts store in southwestern Baghdad killed the store owner and wounded four pedestrians.[351]
- In the Amil neighborhood, a roadside bomb killed five laborers and wounded six others.[352]
- A roadside bomb exploded near the Yarmouk hospital, killing one and wounding six.[353]
- October 12
- In Ramadi, a suicide truck bomber blew himself up outside army headquarters.[354]
- Also in Mosul, police killed eight militiamen and confiscated their vehicles. [355]
- In separate attacks around the city, four civilians and two policemen were killed, including Group Captain Ali Subhi Al-Mashhadani and two of his sons.[356]
- In Diyala, nine were killed in four separate incidents. Among the dead are a director of the provincial department for children's affairs and his son who were killed when gunmen stormed their home.[357]
- In Falluja, a disembodied head was discovered.[358]
- Gunmen killed four civilians on a road between Kirkuk and Baghdad. When family and soldiers arrived to recover the bodies, a booby-trap went off and killed a soldier.[359]
- A woman was killed and six others wounded during a bomb attack in a residential neighborhood of Samarra.[360]
- Four bodies were found in Kirkuk. They bore evidence of torture.[361]
- Gunmen attacking a police patrol killed five, including Lieutenant Basem Mohammad.[362]
- Near Kirkuk, a suicide bomber rammed his car into an Iraqi Army checkpoint; the bomber was killed and a soldier was injured.[363]
- In Suweira, four blindfolded and bound bodies were found in the Tigris River. [364]
- Elsewhere in Baghdad, at least 40 bullet-riddled bodies were discovered throughout the city on Wednesday and 17 more today, including the body of Azad Mohammed Hussein, a Kurdish radio reporter.[365]
- Four people were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a petrol station in the Qahira neighborhood.[366]
- In Qurtaba Square, two booby-trapped cars exploded, killing 5 and wounded 25.[367]
- Also, 10 Iraqis were killed or injured when an explosives-laden motorcycle was detonated in the Cairo neighborhood.[368]
- In Baghdad, 11 were killed when gunmen raided the al-Shaabiya satellite television offices.[369]
- October 13
- In Khan Bani Saad, a battle between Iraqi soldiers and militiamen left six wounded.[370]
- Near Garma, two bodies were discovered. They were shot and possibly tortured.[371]
- A suicide car bomber in Mazraa drove his car into a patrol and detonated it. Three Iraqi soldiers were killed.[372]
- In Kirkuk, Three Shi’ite youths were gunned down next to a cigarette stand, and an off-duty soldier was killed in front of his house.[373]
- Near Suwayrah, gunmen killed six peasants and two children, all female, in an orchard; two other women were kidnapped.[374]
- Sheikh Radhi al-Assadi was gunned down near Basra. He was the head of a local Shi’ite religious association. [375]
- In Baghdad, police found 36 bodies scattered throughout the city. [376]
- October 14
- In the Shi'ite village of Wahda, gunmen killed four men and three women.[377]
- A Shi’te family of four were killed when gunmen stormed their house in Mahmudiya.[378]
- In Hawija, clashes between the Iraqi Army and militiamen killed two militants and injured five Iraqi soldiers. [379]
- Mortar rounds also hit a building, wounding three policemen.[380]
- In Diwaniyah, gunmen killed a teacher, Mohammad Mohsin Al Marmadhi, during a drive-by shooting.[381]
- A Samarra shopkeeper was shot dead in the city’s center.[382]
- Gunmen in Safiya killed a Shi’ite family of 10. Five women and three children were among the dead.[383]
- In Balad, the sectarian killings escalated; twenty-six bodies were found throughout the city.[384]
- Four beheaded bodies were fished out of the Tigris River at Suwayra.[385]
- October 15
- At Tal Afar, a man wearing a bomb vest detonated himself near a group of policemen; five were killed, including three officers. [386]
- In Kut, clashes between gunmen and police, left three officers wounded.[387]
- Near Falluja, four tortured and shot bodies were found.[388]
- Gunmen stormed a home in Latifiya, killing a Shi’ite family of eight. Among the dead were two children, three women and three men.[389]
- In Mosul, gunmen stormed a home. A married couple and their two sons were killed. Their two daughters-in-law were injured. [390]
- In Balad, 20 more bodies were found in addition to the 26 found yesterday. They are believed to be in retaliation for the murder of 17 Shi’ites on Friday.[391]
- In Kirkuk, there were at least six bomb blasts, including one at the all-girls al-Mallimin high school. There, suicide bomber detonated bombs strapped to his body; ten people, including two girls, were killed. [392]
- A different suicide bomber targeted the Facilities Protection Service’s convoy; five were killed and ten were wounded in that attack.[393]
- Another suicide bomber detonated his cargo in a marketplace in a southern part of the city; three were killed and eight injured. Early estimates place the total number of wounded at more than 70.[394]
- A separate bomb attack on a passing convoy of security contractors killed two.[395]
- Another roadside bomb wounded two civilians in eastern Baghdad.[396]
- A separate roadside bomb killed one and injured two in the Amil district. [397]
- October 16
- Gunmen stormed a home in Mahmuyida and killed a Shi'ite family of five.[398]
- Clashes between gunmen and military forces in Kirkuk left one gunmen dead and four others injured.[399]
- In Basra, an Iraqi security worker was injured when militiamen shot a rocket-propelled grenade at an empty vehicle belonging to the British consulate.[400]
- In Khalis, a policeman and a civilian were killed in a drive-by shooting.[401]
- Gunmen also shot dead four and wounded seven civilians when they attacked a crowd of people at a bus station. [402]
- Gunmen killed two civilians in Muqdadiyah.[403]
- In the Shi’ite town of Najaf, a roadside bomb targeted the head of the police crime department, Mohammad Daeekh; one bodyguard was wounded in the attack.[404]
- Gunmen also attacked a police patrol, wounding two officers.[405]
- The mayor of Suwayra reports that a car bomb killed nine and wounded 35 near a bank in the town’s market.[406]
- In Balad, the bodies of 28 more Sunnis were discovered.[407]
- Just south of Baghdad, gunmen killed one member of an oil protection force. [408]
- Three roadside bombs exploded near a bank in central Baghdad, killing three and wounding seven. [409]
- In the al-Jadida district, a car bomb blasted a patrol near a bakery; seven were wounded, including four policemen.[410]
- Near the University of Technology, a roadside bomb wounded three Iraqi policemen.[411]
- In the Fadel neighborhood, clashes between gunmen and the Iraqi army in Midas Square left three civilians dead and another six wounded. [412]
- October 17
- A suicide car bomber targeted a checkpoint in Shirqat. He killed a soldier and wounded two others.[413]
- In Samarra, Gunmen injured Abdul Ghafour al-Samarrai's two nephews; he is an official at the Sunni Endowment group.[414]
- A booby-trapped car in Al-Saydiya killed two and injured 10 near the Shakir Al-Oboud Mosque.[415]
- A roadside bomb blast in Karmah killed five Iraqi soldiers.[416]
- In Kirkuk, two suicide bombers blew themselves up near the police academy.[417]
- Ten people were killed in separate shootings in Basra; the dead included four students and a well-known doctor.[418]
- In Fallujah, gunmen shot dead two policemen in their patrol car.[419]
- In Balad Ruz, gunmen stormed a Shi’ite home and killed a woman and her four grown sons. The father was also injured.[420]
- Four bound and tortured bodies were found in Haditha.[421]
- In Baghdad, two bound and blindfolded bodies were found early today in the capital; another 30 bodies were found later in various parts of the city.[422]
- Mortar rounds fell on Wathiq Square and in the Doura neighborhood; five died and 20 were injured.[423]
- A car bomb in the capital left one policeman dead and three others injured.[424]
- October 18
- Gunmen killed a police officer in Fallujah.[425]
- In Diyala, 20 more bodies were found on Wednesday.[426]
- Near Kirkuk, three Iraqi soldiers were killed and three others wounded by a roadside bomb.[427]
- In Suwayra, gunmen killed a policeman and a former member of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party.[428]
- In central Baghdad, a car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol wounded five civilians instead.[429]
- A roadside bomb killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded two others in the Yarmouk district.[430]
- A booby-trapped car on Kifah Street killed one civilian and wounded 12 others.[431]
- And 31 more bodies were discovered dumped around the capital.[432]
- October 19
- In Baquba, three police officers were killed in clashes with gunmen.[433]
- At a busy market in Khalis, a roadside bomb blast killed 10 and injured 20 shoppers shortly before the Iftar, the meal that breaks the daily fasting during Ramadan.[434]
- Four Iraqis were killed, including two policemen, in clashes between police and rebels in Basra. Eight others were wounded, but 17 kidnap victims were freed.[435]
- In the southern Maysan Province, eight were wounded in clashes between militiamen and police.[436]
- Gunmen killed a man during an attack in the town of Diwaniya.[437]
- In Kirkuk, a suicide car bomber blew up his explosives at the entrance to the Al-Mansour Mosque as Iraqi soldiers were waiting to collect their salaries; 11 were killed and 60 others were wounded; among the dead were Colonel Abdul-Wahhab Aziz and his son.[438]
- A bomb at the headquarters of the First Legion for Infrastructure took the lives of two Iraqi soldiers and injured four others.[439]
- In Mahmudiya, several mortar rounds blasted a residential neighborhood, killing two and wounding three members of one family.[440]
- Four bodies bearing gunshot wounds were also found in the city.[441]
- A roadside bomb killed four and wounded one other person in Kut.[442]
- Police found seven tortured and shot bodies on a road outside town.[443]
- In Mosul, a suicide bomber blew up a fuel truck, killing 13 and wounding 25 others at a police center and neighboring gas station; over 40 cars were reportedly destroyed.[444]
- In Baghdad, 27 bodies were discovered in various parts of the city this morning.[445]
- In the Doura district, a roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed three policemen and two civilians; nine civilians and three policemen were also wounded.[446]
- A pair of roadside bombs outside the Iraqi National Theatre in central Baghdad wounded two people.[447]
- In a separate incident, gunmen attacked a police station, killing four policemen and wounding 10 civilians.[448]
- October 20
- In Aziziyah, gunmen stormed a home and killed nine members of a Shi'ite family.[449]
- Two militia members were killed by coalition forces in Muqdadiyah.[450]
- Gunmen killed three and wounded three others in Khalis.[451]
- Gunmen killed a worker and three others who work at a U.S. base near Baiji.[452]
- Fifteen mortars fell on Balad, killing nine and injuring 12.[453]
- Twenty-five were killed and 97 injured in police clashes with the Mahdi Army at several police stations in Amarah today.[454]
- Also, a roadside bomb killed one civilian and wounded three others in the Doura district.[455]
- October 21
- Five bodies were found in unspecified locations or from the Tigris River.[456]
- At least two people were killed and four were wounded during gunfights between rival Shi'ite militias in Hamza.[457]
- In Hawija, gunmen killed two Iraqi soldiers.[458]
- U.S. forces killed a suspected Al Qaeda member during a raid in Ramadi.[459]
- In Suwayra, clashes between the Al-Mahdi Army (a.k.a. Al-Sadr Militia) and Iraqi forces killed nine people and wounded an Iraqi police captain.[460]
- In Baghdad, a suicide bomber detonated his explosives on an Iraqi bus packed with holiday shoppers; five passengers were killed and 15 were injured.[461]
- Over in a northern section of the capital, two civilians were killed and five were injured when a car loaded with explosives blew up.[462]
- The bodies of four kidnapped electrical workers were delivered to a morgue.[463]
- October 22
- Four bodies bearing gunshot wounds were found in Basra.[464]
- Near Baquba, gunmen attacked a police convoy. Fifteen police recruits were killed, 25 were wounded and several were kidnapped. [465]
- In Shujeiriya, clashes between Sunni and Shi’te tribes left nine dead.[466]
- In Mosul, five bodies, one belonging to a policeman and all bearing gunshot wounds, were discovered.[467]
- In Haditha, four people were killed and five others wounded in clashes between U.S. forces and gunmen.[468]
- Near Mahaweel, a roadside bomb blasted a car, killing the civilian within it.[469]
- Also in the capital, gunmen in the Yarmuk district killed two street cleaners.[470]
- And U.S. forces came upon a group of gunmen planting a roadside bomb in the Doura district; five of the men were killed and another was wounded after aircraft were called to the scene.[471]
- 23 October
- In Hit, Coalition forces killed six militiamen and wounded four others.[472]
- In and near Balad, U.S. forces killed five militiamen.[473]
- An Iraqi soldier was killed in clashes with gunmen near the town, and a mortar wounded three in town.[474]
- Five bodies were pulled out of the Tigris River at Suwayra. They were bound, blindfolded, tortured and had their throats slit.[475]
- In Amarah, the beheaded, bullet-riddled and severely tortured body of Hussein al-Bahadli was found; he was the brother of a local Mahdi Army leader whose kidnapping by local police last week intensified hostilities between the militia and police.[476]
- Elsewhere in town, two police commanders were shot dead. [477]
- One was killed in front of his home. The other was kidnapped and his body later found dumped.[478]
- At least two other policemen were also kidnapped and killed.[479]
- In Baghdad, 52 bodies bearing gunshot wounds were found scattered around the city.[480]
- In the al-Fadhil neighborhood, gunmen killed four officers from Facility Security Services.[481]
- A car bomb in the Bab Al-sheikh district killed three, including a police officer, and wounded 13 others.[482]
- Another car bomb, this time in the Ghazaliya neighborhood, killed two policemen and wounded four others.[483]
- Near Beirut square, another car bomb killed a civilian and wounded another 13.[484]
- Just outside the capital yet another car bomb, this one targeting a American military patrol, killed two civilians and wounded five others.[485]
- October 24
- In Anbar, the U.S. Army killed six gunmen and arrested four others after a firefight.[486]
- Two died near the Syrian border when a bomb exploded at a market in the town of Qaim.[487]
- In Kirkuk, a roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed two soldiers and wounded another.[488]
- Meanwhile, separate roadside bombs wounded three policemen and two civilians.[489]
- In Baghdad, 14 bodies were found throughout the city or in the Tigris River.[490]
- Clashes between gunmen and police at the Diyala bridge left three dead and 12 wounded.[491]
- In the Zaafaraniya neighborhood, clashes between gunmen and police left two civilians dead and eight others wounded.[492]
- A bomb inside a Sadriya district ice cream shop killed one and injured seven others, while in northern Baghdad, a bomb laden car that was parked between a mosque and a coffee shop killed two and injured 11 others when it was detonated.[493]
- Another car bomb killed two and wounded three in the Hurriya neighborhood.[494]
- October 25
- Seven bound and shot bodies were found scattered around Mosul.[495]
- In Diwaniya, four people were wounded when a grenade was tossed at their home.[496]
- Also, gunmen wounded three policemen and killed an Iraqi soldier in separate incidents.[497]
- Six were killed in Balad Ruz when a roadside bomb blasted their vehicle.[498]
- In Yusufiya, a mortar killed one man and wounded three others.[499]
- A suicide truck driver set off his explosives near a hospital in Baquba; two policemen were killed and three civilians were wounded.[500]
- In Tal Afar, three soldiers were killed and another two wounded when a bomb exploded in the home they were entering.[501]
- Four bound and gagged corpses were found in Mahmudiya.[502]
- On the Syrian border at Husaybah, two suicide car bombers were killed and another was injured after they detonated their cargo at a market. A bystander was also wounded.[503]
- In Baghdad, Iraqi forces launched a raid against "death squads" based in the Sadr City section of the capital. When they came under fire, the Iraqi troops asked for American support. U.S. air strikes then killed ten and wounded 20.[504]
- Elsewhere in the capital, a roadside bomb wounded two policemen in the Camp Sara neighborhood, and four handcuffed bodies
bearing gunshot wounds and evidence of torture were found in the Yarmouk district.[505]
- October 26
- Gunmen in Basra wounded Sheik Dhiyaa al-Ibadi and two bodyguards.[506]
- South of Mosul, gunmen killed a local Arab official.[507]
- Seven bullet-riddled bodies were found scattered about town.[508]
- At least 28 policemen, including a commander, were killed and another 25 were injured when gunmen attacked their convoy near Baquba.[509]
- Another attack took place at a police station; six officers were killed and 10 others were injured. The Iraqi army was called in to support the police.[510]
- October 27
- At Hufariya, Iraqi troops stormed a militia hideout and killed 10 people.[511]
- Nine bodies, bearing gunshot wounds and signs of torture, were pulled out of the Tigris in Suwayra and Kut.[512]
- In Fallujah, a roadside bomb targeting a police vehicle killed a policeman and wounded three others who were aboard the vehicle.[513]
- Mortars fell on the Mussayab home of Abdul Nasir al-Janabi, who is a member of parliament; a woman was killed. [514]
- At least five dumped bodies were discovered in Mosul; two belonged to police officers.[515]
- Four were killed and five injured when their van was attacked upon their return from a funeral in Najaf.[516]
- Gunmen killed two policemen in separate incidents; three civilians were killed in other parts of the city.[517]
- In Baghdad, mortars struck the Saba'a Al-Boor district and injured seven people.[518]
- Late Thursday and overnight into Friday, 11 bodies were found scattered throughout the capital.[519]
- October 28
- 11 soldiers traveling in a minibus were kidnapped in Udhaim.[520]
- Two civilians died during an attack by gunmen in Muqdadiya.[521]
- U.S. forces attacked Dhuluiya. Eleven were killed and six were wounded.[522]
- In Shejeriyah, U.S. forces killed 15 militiamen during a raid on their hideout.[523]
- Two bullet-riddled bodies bearing evidence of torture were found on a road between Kirkuk and Hawija.[524]
- Three bodies were found in Baquba. Two were discovered in the central district, the third in a river. All were thought to be victims of sectarian violence.[525]
- In Iskandariya, a car bomb exploded near a residential area, killing at least five and wounded 20 others.[526]
- Iraqi soldiers raided a home in Hawija; one soldier was killed and three wounded in clashes with gunmen inside.[527]
- At a separate home, gunmen killed Halima Ahmed Hussein al Juburi, the head of a woman’s organization, and then shot dead a police officer as they fled.[528]
- At Nasariya, a Nepalese security guard was wounded when gunmen attacked the electrical plant he was protecting.[529]
- One policemen was killed and three others were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol in Mahdudiya.[530]
- Five people, including a policeman, were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a municipal building in Dujail.[531]
- In Ramadi, a U.S. airstrike killed six members of a single family, including three women and two children. The military denied the airstrike, but reported that they had killed an undisclosed number of militiamen with precision munitions and tank fire.[532]
- Two soldiers and one civilian were killed plus another three civilians were wounded during clashes between the Iraqi army and militiamen in Falluja.[533]
- Gunmen killed a former member of Saddam Hussein’s Baath Party in Wihda.[534]
- In Khalis, gunmen fired on a commuter bus carrying mourners from a funeral in Sadr City. Five were killed.[535]
- A body was fished out of a river near Numaniya; it bore gunshot wounds and evidence of torture.[536]
- In Suwayra, five bodies bearing gunshot wounds and signs of torture were fished out of the Tigris River.[537]
- U.S. troops killed a suspect and detained ten others including a senior al Qaeda member, who disguised as a woman, in a raid just south of the capital.[538]
- In Baghdad, 12 bodies thought to belong to victims of sectarian violence were found scattered in different locations.[539]
- Mortars rained on the Abu Dshir neighborhood, killing one and wounding at least 25 others.[540]
- A rocket struck an outdoor market in the Doura neighborhood; one person was killed, 35 others wounded. [541]
- A bomb in a minibus blasted one person to his death and nine others were wounded in the attack that occurred on Palestine Street in eastern Baghdad.[542]
- A roadside bomb wounded two officers who were guarding an oil industry facility in eastern Baghdad.[543]
- And in the Sadr City district, a car bomb killed one and wounded 11 others.[544]
- October 29
- Three bodies were discovered in Mosul. One belonged to a police officer, another to an off-duty soldier.[545]
- Seventeen instructers were kidnapped from a Basra police academy this morning; their bodies were found in the afternoon.[546]
- In Diwaniya, Maitham Taqi al-Asadi who translated for U.S. forces was killed by gunmen.[547]
- A roadside bomb in Kirkuk wounded two people, including a policeman.[548]
- In al-Shirqat, a roadside bomb blasted to death a police officer.[549]
- A bomb exploded near a primary school in Samarra, wounding eight people.[550]
- In Baquba, a roadside bomb killed five soldiers in an army patrol.[551]
- About 15 miles outside the city, gunmen attacked a convoy of Sunni pilgrims on their way to Mecca; at least one person died.[552]
- U.S. forces and Iraqi police killed 17 suspects during an airstrike and ground clashes near Balad.[553]
- In Tal al-Thahab, a village near Balad, gunmen killed three Iraqi soldiers.[554]
- In Baghdad, Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki’s bodyguard was shot and wounded while in a government vehicle; the prime minister was not present.[555]
- At least 25 bodies were found today; among them were two al-Aytaf TV announcers.[556]
- In the Cairo suburb, gunmen using machine guns fire upon a police vehicle near the Al-Nida mosque; two policemen were killed and a third seriously wounded.[557]
- A double bombing occurred in the Furat district, injuring one woman and a car bomb killed two policemen and injured two more in a separate incident in the Binoog neighborhood.[558]
- Four people were killed and four others were injured when mortars fell near the Institute of Technology.[559]
- October 30
- In Kirkuk, a suicide bomber detonated his belt at a police station. Two officers and a child were killed, 11 others wounded.[560]
- In Baquba, gunmen killed four Iraqis, including two policemen, in the Mafraq district.[561]
- Six blindfolded, bullet-riddled bodies bearing evidence of torture were discovered in Mahmudiya.[562]
- Near Khalis, a roadside bomb blasted a vehicle carrying laborers. Two were killed and three were wounded.[563]
- The bodies of six policemen were fished out of the river in Suwayra. The corpses bore gunshot wounds and signs of torture.[564]
- In Balad, coalition forces disarming a roadside bomb killed two militiamen they noticed nearby.[565]
- Five were wounded in Mosul when mortars struck an electrical power unit.[566]
- At a police center in Baiji, gunmen killed two policemen and destroyed one car.[567]
- Three were killed and six wounded when a car bomb went off in the Amil district.[568]
- In the Hurriya neighborhood, two were wounded when a car bomb exploded there as well.[569]
- In the al-Bayaa district, a car bomb killed seven and wounded 25 others.[570]
- In Baghdad’s Sadr City area, day laborers waiting for jobs at a market square were greeted by a bomb hidden in a trash bin instead; at least 33 were killed and 59 wounded.[571]
- Elsewhere, gunmen killed Essam al-Rawi and his bodyguard near his home in the capital.[572]
- October 31
- During clashes in Tal Afar, four gunmen and an Iraqi soldier were killed.[573]
- Eight bodies, which were bound, gagged and shot, were discovered in Baquba.[574]
- A policeman and young boy were killed and four others wounded during clashes between police and gunmen.[575]
- Two shop-owners were shot and wounded by a suspected Mahdi Army member, and at least four other people were shot and killed by gunmen throughout the city.[576]
- A suicide car bomber in the Shaab neighborhood drove his car into a Shi’ite wedding party; at least 15 were killed and other 19 were wounded.[577]
- Five militiamen were killed and one was detained when coalition forces raided their Baghdad building; they are suspected of being members of al Qaeda.[578]
- In the Doura district, a roadside bomb killed a policeman while wounding three others.[579]
- A car bomb at a Sadr City entry point killed three and wounded seven. [580]
- Five unidentified bodies, including a woman’s, were so far discovered in eastern Baghdad; they were found bound, blindfolded, and showing signs of torture.[581]
November
- November 5
- The Iraqi High Tribunal sentences Saddam Hussein to death by hanging. [582]
- November 8
- Donald Rumsfeld tendered his resignation as United States Secretary of Defense. President George W. Bush then appointed former CIA chief Robert Gates to replace him.
- November 15
- One hundred people are kidnapped from an Iraqi higher education building.
- November 22
- United Nations officials report 3,709 Iraqi civilians were killed in October 2006, the highest toll for civilian casualties since the Iraq War began in 2003. [583]
- November 23
- 215 people are killed and 257 wounded in a string of bombing attacks when five car bombs and two mortars explode in Sadr City. This is the deadliest attack since the Iraq War began in 2003. Iraqi government officials place a 24-hour curfew on Baghdad, shut down commercial traffic to Baghdad International Airport, and close the Basra shipyard and airport. The Shi'ites responded almost immediately, firing 10 mortar rounds at the Abu Hanifa Sunni mosque as Azamiya, the holiest Sunni shrine in Baghdad.[584]
- November 24
- Shiites retaliate for November 23 Sadr City bombings, torching a Sunni mosque and attacking worshipers as they left morning services. [585]
- Muqtada al-Sadr and his supporters threaten to withdraw from Iraq's Parliament if Prime Minister Maliki meets with President George W. Bush on November 29 in Amman, Jordan. [586]
- November 27
- NBC News begins to call the conflict in Iraq a "civil war." President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki disagree with NBC's assessment. [587]
- Curfew following the November 23, 2006 Sadr City bombings is lifted in Baghdad. [588]
- Insurgents bombed oil pipelines and launched mortar attacks against a key oil distribution center, shutting down oil flow to Iraq's largest oil refinery. [589]
- November 29
- Hours before President George W. Bush is to meet with Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki and Jordanian King Abdullah II in Amman, a leaked memo from National Security Adviser Stephen Hadley is printed in the New York Times. The memo expressed Hadley's doubts in Maliki's abilities in quelling sectarian violence. [590] [591]
- President George W. Bush's meeting with Prime Minister Maliki is delayed until November 30. White House officials state the cancellation was not in response to the leaked memo. [592]
- Muqtada al-Sadr and his supporters withdraw from Parliament, following through on al-Sadr's threat the week before. Thirty parliament members and five cabinet ministers walk out of the government. [593]
- November 30
- President George W. Bush and Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki meet in Amman, Jordan. They hold a press conference after the meeting. President Bush reaffirms his commitment to keeping US troops in Iraq until the "job is done." Prime Minister Maliki stated that he believed his government would be ready to take command by June 2007. [594]
December
- December 6
- The Iraq Study Group releases their recommendations over the situation in Iraq.[595]
- December 10
- In late 2006, U.S. officials attempted to pursue negotiations with insurgents in secret talks. These were reported by various news sources to have broken down, though there were no official statements.[3]
- December 12
- In December 2006, some Sunni tribal leaders stated that they were fighting Al-Qaeda insurgents. Other tribal leaders, however, considered insurgents to be legitimate resistance fighters.[4]
- December 20
- U.S. forces turned over control and responsibility for the Najaf Province, in Southern Iraq, to Iraqi police and military forces.[5] In Basra, a planned handover was delayed due to security concerns. However, efforts continued to rebuild local Iraqis' ability to protect themselves. Local sheiks played a leading role in this effort, and relied on the help of the British, whom they termed Abu Naji (the father of salvation).[6]
- December 22
- British troops in Basra staged a raid, and seized Iraqi police who were accused of attacking other police officers.[7]
- December 26
- Iraq's highest appeals court upholds Saddam Hussein's death sentence. The sentence is to be carried out within 30 days. [596]
- December 29
- Saddam Hussein is transferred to Iraqi custody for execution, expected on Saturday, December 30, 2006 by hanging. [597]
- The US military announced 3 Marines were killed in Anbar province, making December the deadliest month for US troops in Iraq in 2006. [598]
- December 30
- Saddam Hussein is executed by hanging before dawn in Iraq (0300 GMT / 2200 EST / 0600 Iraq Time).
- December 31
- The number of US soldiers killed in Iraq reaches 3,000. [599]
- US casualties reach 112 for December, the Third highest count since the war began.
Deaths
- December 30 - Saddam Hussein (b. 1937), executed by hanging
References
- ^ http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4756911.stm
- ^ http://www.iht.com/articles/2006/08/15/news/iraq.php
- ^ Secret American talks with insurgents break down, The Sunday Times, 12/10/06
- ^ "Iraq tribes 'taking on al-Qaeda'", BBC News, 2006-12-22.
- ^ U.S. troops turn over Najaf to Iraqis, Will Weissert, Associated Press, 12/20/06
- ^ Basra: City on the Edge, by Amir Taheri, New York Post, December 22, 2006
- ^ Troops seize Iraq police in massacre probe Associated press, 12/22/06