pt. 7- Sept 2007 - July2008 (some months missing)
September 1: A suicide car bomber wounded six people when he targeted an Iraqi army patrol in Mosul.[704]
September 2: A suicide car bomber killed two soldiers and injured eight when he targeted the first gate of an Iraqi Army base in Taji.[705]
September 3: A suicide car bomb targeted a police checkpoint in the al-Jazeera area near Ramadi, killing two policemen and wounding 13 other people. US forces killed five gunmen who had attacked a police station in al-Saqlawiyah, including one who was wearing a suicide vest.[706][707]
September 5: A suicide car bomb at a Mosul checkpoint killed one policeman and wounded 28 other people.[708]
September 6: A suicide truck bomber attacked a Marine security checkpoint in Al Anbar province killing 4 Marines.[709]
September 8: A suicide car bomb near a Sadr City police station in Baghdad killed 15 and wounded 45 others.[710][711]
September 9: A suicide fuel tanker bombing hit an Iraqi army checkpoint near a bridge in Balad, Salahuddin province. Four soldiers were killed and 15 wounded.[712] Two people were killed and six wounded when a suicide car bomber targeted an Iraqi army checkpoint in Mahmudiya.[713][714]
September 10: A suicide truck bomb killed at least ten people and wounded 60 others in the village of Tal Marag, near Mosul, when he targeted the offices of the Kurdish Democratic Party.[715][716] A suicide bomber attacked a Saqlawiyah police checkpoint, killing two policemen and two civilians and wounding two other policemen.[717]DUD CITATION
September 14: A suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint at a restaurant in Baiji killing 11 people, including nine policemen, and wounding 15 others.[718][719][720]
September 15: Ten people were killed and 15 injured when a suicide car bomber blew up his vehicle near a bakery in Baghdad's southwestern Amil district as Muslims were preparing to break the Ramadan fast.[721][722][723] The Iraqi military detained a would-be suicide bomber in Mosul.[724][725][726] The Iraqi military detained a would-be suicide bomber in Mosul.[727]
September 16: A bomb - either attached to a suicide bomber or a booby-trapped bicycle - killed six people at an outdoor cafe in the northern town of Tuz Khurmato.[728][729]
September 18: A suicide bomber killed a civilian in the Baladiyat neighborhood of Baghdad. A suicide bomber attacked a mobile phone shop in Jalawlaa, killing four and wounded 15 others. In Mosul Iraqi soldiers killed a suicide bomber before he attacked their convoy but two soldiers were still wounded.[730] A suicide bomber attacked a U.S. military patrol in central Iraq killing a U.S. civilian translator.[731] A suicide bomber attacked a U.S. military patrol in central Iraq killing a U.S. civilian translator.[732]
September 22: In Hibhib a suicide bomber attacked an army checkpoint wounding five people, including Iraqi soldiers.[733]
September 24: A suicide bomber attacked a gathering of local leaders in Baquba, the chief of police was among the 28 dead and another 50 were wounded, one other police official was killed and two U.S. soldiers were among the wounded.[734] In Abu Maria, a suicide truck bomber killed six people, including two policemen and an Iraqi soldier, and wounded 17 others at a checkpoint.[735]
September 25: A suicide car bomber in Basra killed three policemen and wounded 20 during an attack on a police station. In Mosul, a suicide bomber detonated his vest near a police colonel; ten were wounded, including the police officer and a judge. A suicide car bomber targeted the head of the Hawija City Council; the chairman, two guards, and a civilian were wounded.[736]
September 26: A suicide bomber killed a civilian and wounded another in Baghdad. A suicide bomber killed three people and wounded 50 in Mosul. Also, police killed a suicide bomber before he could detonate his cargo. A suicide bomber in Fallujah caused no casualties.[737]
September 29: A suicide bomber in Mosul killed five policemen and one civilian and wounded 21.[738]
October 1: In Mosul a suicide car bomber killed a university professor and wounded seven other people.[739]
October 2: In Khalis a suicide bomber attacked a police station killing six people, including two policemen.[740]
October 4: A suicide bomber in Tal Afar killed three people and wounded 57 at a marketplace.[741]
October 8: A suicide truck bomber destroyed a police station in the village of Dijlah, north of Baghdad, killing 13 people, including 3 policemen, and wounding 22 other people. A suicide bomber attacked a police checkpoint in Tikrit killing 3 policemen and 1 civilian and wounded 10 other people. A suicide bomber wounded seven policemen in Khalis.[742] A suicide bomber in the Arab Jabour area on Baghdads' southern outskirts blew himself up to avoid captured killing one other insurgent and wounding two U.S. special forces soldiers.[743]
October 9: 22 people were killed and 30 were wounded in an attack by two suicide truck bombers in Baiji.[744]
October 10: A suicide bomber attacked the KDP headquarters in Mosul killing seven people and wounding 20. A suicide bomber attacked an army base in al-Zab killing one Iraqi soldier and wounding seven others.[745]
October 11: A suicide bomber attacked a caffe in Baghdad killing 8 people and wounding 25. A suicide bomber attacked the PUK headquarters in Mosul wounding 8 people, including 4 PUK guards.[746]
October 14: A suicide car bomber killed 18 people and wounded 37 in Samara in an attack near a mosque. A suicide bomber also attacked a police commando station in Samara killing 4 police commandos and wounding 9. In the village of Baghdadi near Ramadi, a suicide car bomber killed four members of a police major’s family and wounded eight others.[747]
October 15: In Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed four people and wounded 25 others. A suicide car bomber attacked a checkpoint of a U.S.-allied Iraqi militia in Balad killing 6 militamen and wounding 8. A policeman and four members of his family were killed when a suicide bomber drove into the policeman’s home in Heit.[748]
October 16: A suicide truck bomber killed 16 people and wounded 80 in an attack on a police station in Mosul.[749]
October 26: A suicide bomber killed a woman and wounded four other people in an attack on the headquarters of the U.S.-allied Iraqi militia, 1920s Revolution Brigades, in Muqdadiyah.
2008
January 1: A suicide bomber kills more than 30 people and injures 32 in an attack in Baghdad. The blast is targeted at mourners at the funeral of a Shia army officer, Nabil Hussein Jassim, who had himself been killed by a car bombing in central Baghdad three days earlier.[750]
January 7: A double bombing in Baghdad kills at least 14 people, including Riyadh Samarrai, leader of the US-backed Adhamiya Awakening group, which fights al-Qaeda in Sunni areas of the city.[751]
January 16: A female suicide bomber blows herself up near a Shia mosque in the town of Khan Bani Saad Diyala, killing 11 others. Eighteen people are wounded in the attack, near a market in the town, south of Baqubah in the Diyala Governorate.[752]
A January 24 suicide bomber kills a high-ranking police chief and two other police officers in Mosul at the site of an explosion that had killed at least 34 people and wounded at least 217 the day before. Brigadier General Salah Mohammed al-Jubouri, the director of police for Ninawa Governorate, was inspecting the scene of Wednesday's blast when gunmen ambushed his convoy.[753]
February 1: Two bombs explode in Baghdad animal markets killing 99 people and wounding 200. The Iraqi government claims that the bombs were carried by women and detonated remotely.[754]
February 24: A leader of a Sunni Awakening Council group, Sheikh Ibrahim Mutayri al-Mohammedi, is killed in a suicide bombing in Falluja.[755]
February 25: A man in a wheelchair blew himself up in a northern Iraqi police station, killing three National Police officers, including a commander.[756]
March 3: A pair of car bombings targeting Iraqi security forces killed at least 18 people and wounded dozens in Baghdad.[757]
March 6: Fifty-three people were killed and 125 were wounded in two bomb attacks in a Baghdad commercial district.[758]
March 17: A female suicide bomber apparently targeting Shiite worshippers killed at least 33 people and wounded at least 50 in Karbala.[759]
March 19: In Baquba, five people were killed and 16 wounded when a suicide bomber detonated his explosives belt in a public market. Another suicide bomb wounded 11 Iraqi soldiers and 3 civilians in Mosul. [4]
March 22: A roadside bomb blast struck an Iraqi police patrol in Kirkuk, killing a civilian and wounding nine people.[760]
March 23: 13 Iraqi soldiers were killed by a suicide bomber who drove a fuel tanker into an army base in Mosul and at least 40 people were injured.[761]
March 27: A car bomb explosion killed three people and wounded five others near a police patrol in central Baghdad.[762]
March 29: A car bomb explosion killed three people and wounded five others near a police patrol in central Baghdad.[762]
March 31: A suicide car bomber killed 5 US backed Sunni fighters at a checkpoint in Siniya, at least eight other people were injured.[763]
April 3: A suicide bomber attacked a checkpoint near Mosul, killing 7 people and wounding 12 (the US military claims 5 killed and 19 injured).[764]
April 4: A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people in an attack on on the funeral for a Sunni policeman in the province of Diyala, in the town of Saadiyah.[765]
April 11: Suicide bombings killed at least four people -- three of them police. The first bombing was in Ramadi, the provincial capital of the predominantly Sunni Anbar province. At least three national police officers were killed. The second attack took place at a checkpoint about 20 km north of Baiji, the bomber and one other person a local Awakening Council were killed. Also, at least three people were killed in a mortar attack on Baghdad's Palestine Hotel.[766]
April 14: Three people died in the nearby city of Tal Afar when a suicide attacker blew himself up at an Iraqi soldier's funeral.[767]
April 15: A wave of bombings blamed on Al-Qaeda in Iraq-jihadists shook Baghdad, Baquba, Ramadi and Mosul, killing at least 60 people. Nonetheless, the overall violence in Baquba has decreased by 80% since June 2007.[767]In Baquba, as many as 53 people were killed and at least 70 more were wounded during a car bombing near the courthouse.[768] A suicide bomber killed 13 people and injured 20 more outside a kebab restaurant in Ramadi.[769] Five policemen were killed and four more were wounded during a suicide bombing at a checkpoint in the Hamidhiya area of Ramadi.[770] In Mosul, a double car bombing killed three people and wounded at least 16 people.[771] In Baghdad, a car bomb targeting a police patrol killed four people and wounded 15 in a central neighborhood.[768]
April 17: A suicide bomber killed at least 15 people and wounded many others in a suicide attack on a crowd of mourners in Baquba, during the funeral of two members of a local group who had died fighting al-Qaeda in Iraq militants.[772]
April 18, 2008: A suicide bomber attacked a U.S. military patrol near Tikrit killing one soldier.[773]
April 21, 2008: A female suicide bomber attacked a U.S.-allied militia post, killing four people and wounding five others in Baquba.[774]
April 22: A female suicide bomber killed six people and wounded a dozen others when she blew herself up north of Baghdad according to Iraqi police.[775] A suicide car bomber at a checkpoint near Ramadi killed two U.S. Marines and wounded three more. Two policemen and 24 civilians were also wounded. A second car bombing, this one at a police station in the city, wounded 20 people, including women and policemen.[776] In Jalawla, a female suicide bomber killed eight people and wounded 17 at a police station.[777]
April 26: A series of co-ordinated bomb attacks has killed at least seven people and injured more than 20 in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul.[778]
April 29: At least 9 people were killed and were 23 wounded in a bomb attack in central Baghdad, Iraqi police say.[779]
May 1: At least 35 people have been killed in a double suicide bombing in the Iraqi province of Diyala, officials say. At least 76 other people are said to have been injured.[780]
May 14: A suicide bomber killed 20 people and wounded dozens more when he blew himself up at a funeral west of Baghdad on Wednesday, there was no claim for responsibility but Iraqi police suspect al-Qaeda in Iraq.[781] A teen aged girl blew herself up outside an Iraqi army post south of Baghdad on Wednesday, killing one soldier, the U.S. military said.[782]
May 16: A car bomb which struck an Iraqi police station in Fallujah injured four Iraqi police officers.[783]
May 17: A female suicide bomber targeted a US-backed militia office in Baquba, killing one woman and wounding 16.[784]
May 26: A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck a checkpoint manned by Iraqi police and US-backed Sunni millita, killing four people including a policeman, two awakening council guards and a civilian.[785]
May 27: A car bombing in the city of Talafer, some 70 km west of Mosul, killed 4 people and injured 46.[786]
May 29: A suicide bomber killed 14 police recruits and two policemen in northern Iraq.[787] 19 others were killed in 2 other suicide bombings that day.[788]
June 1: At least two people were killed and five others wounded in a car bomb explosion at a parking lot near the Iranian embassy in central Baghdad.[789]
June 2: A suicide bomber killed at least five policemen and four civilians in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul and wounded 46.[790]
June 4: A suicide bomber drove a truck towards the house of police Brigadier-General Nadhim Taeih, in northern Baghdad, killing at least 13 people and wounding 50.[791]
June 7: A suicide car bomb and another car packed with explosives targeted Iraqi police patrols Saturday on opposite sides of Baghdad, killing at least six people.[792]
June 8: A vehicle driven by a suicide bomber blew up near a patrol base in Iraq killing one US-soldier, wounding 18 others in Baghdad.[793]
July 28: Three suicide bombers struck a Shiite pilgrimage in Baghdad and a Kurdish protest rally in northern Iraq, killing at least 57 people and wounding nearly 300.[794]
