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2003 August 7th - Iraq, Baghdad: car bomb outside the Jordanian embassy; 19 people died

2003 August 19th - Iraq, Baghdad, UN headquarters: truck bomb exploded; 22 people died, including the UN envoy to Iraq

2003 August 29th - Iraq, Najaf: car bomb outside a mosque; at least 85 people died, including a Shiite Muslim leader

2003 October 9th - Iraq, Baghdad, Sadr City district: suicide bomber drove into a police station; 9 people died

2003 October 27th - Iraq, Baghdad: Suicide bomb attacks at the International Red Cross headquarters and 3 Iraqi police stations; at least 40 people died

2003 November 12th - Iraq, Nasiriyah: suicide truck bombing at the headquarters if the Italian paramilitary police; at least 30 people died

2003 November 20th - Iraq, northern Kirkuk: truck bomb near a Kurdish party office; 5 people died and more than 30 were injured

2003 November 22nd - Iraq, Baghdad: two suicide car bombs attacked two police stations in the northeastern part of the city; at least 12 people died

2003 December 14th - Iraq, Khaldiyah: car bomb outside a police station: 17 people died and 33 others were injured

2003 December 31st - Iraq, Baghdad: car bomb at a restaurant hosting a New Year's Eve party; 8 people died and more than 35 were injured

2004 January 18th - Iraq, Baghdad: suicide car bombing near the main gate of the US-led coalition headquarters; at least 20 people died

2004 January 31st - Iraq, Mosul: car bomb outside a police station; at least 9 people died and more than 45 were injured

2004 February 1st - Iraq, Erbil: two suicide bombings at two Kurdish party offices; at least 109 people died

2004 February 10th - Iraq, Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of Baghdad: suicide car bombing outside a police station; at least 53 people died

2004 February 11th - Iraq, Baghdad: around 7:30 a.m. suicide bomber drove a white 1991 Oldsmobile Cutlass Sierra into a crowd of hundreds of Iraqis outside an army recruiting center and detonated a significant load of explosives; at least 47 people died and more than 55 others were injured

2004 March 2nd - Iraq, Karbala: around 10 a.m. local time up to five suicide bombers struck simultaneously when thousands of Shiite Muslims gathered around the Iman Hussein mosque; more than 100 people died and at least 230 were injured

2004 March 2nd - Iraq, Baghdad; the suicide bombers attacked people gathering near the Kazimiya shrine; at least 65 people died and more than 200 were injured;

Following the explosions a mob of Iraqis assaulted U.S. troops and medics who tried to control crowds and help wounded at Kazimiya, pelting them with stones and forcing their convoy of Humvees back into a nearby walled outpost. Two soldiers suffered broken bones. When the Iraqis tried to storm the outpost, U.S. soldiers fired tear gas to disperse them. A fourth suicide bomber was captured at Kazimiya after his explosives failed to detonate.

Police in the southern Shiite city of Basra discovered two women strapped with explosives marching in an Ashoura procession, and other bombs were found near Shiite mosques in Basra and Najaf.