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Uncle Sam
02-11-2004, 10:19 AM
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Aug 7 - Truck bomb explodes outside Jordanian embassy compound in Baghdad, killing 17 and wounding more than 60.

Aug 19 - Truck bomb devastates U.N. headquarters in Baghdad, killing 22, including top U.N. envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello, in the worst attack on a U.N. civilian complex.

Aug 29 - Car bomb kills at least 83, including top Shi'ite Muslim leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqer al-Hakim, and wounds some 175 at the Imam Ali mosque in Najaf.

Oct 27 - Bombers strike four times in Baghdad, killing at least 35 near a Red Cross building and three police stations. Some 230 are wounded.

Nov 12 - Car bomb kills at least 28 -- 19 Italians, mostly carabinieri, and nine Iraqis -- in Nassiriya.

Nov 22 - Suicide bombers detonate car bombs outside Baquba police headquarters and a police station in the nearby town of Khan Bani Saad, killing at least 18.

Dec 14 - Car bomb rips through a police station in Khalidiyah in western Iraq, killing at least 17 and wounding 33.

Dec 27 - Nineteen die in attacks on government buildings and foreign military bases in the southern city of Kerbala using suicide car bombers, machineguns and mortars.

Dec 31 - Car bomb at a Baghdad restaurant kills eight and wounds more than 30, including three Western journalists.

2004:

Jan 18 - Suicide car bomber kills at least 25, mostly Iraqi civilians, at the entrance to the main U.S. Baghdad headquarters. More than 100 are wounded.

Jan 31 - Guerrillas kill nine in a car bomb blast outside a police station in Mosul. At least 44 are wounded.

Feb 1 - At least 101 are killed and 133 wounded when two suicide bombers blow themselves up in Arbil at the offices of the two main Kurdish factions in northern Iraq.

Feb 10 - Hospital officials say at least 50 people are killed and at least 75 wounded when a suicide car bomb rips through a police station in Iskandariya south of Baghdad.

Feb 11 - Suicide car bomb explodes at an Iraqi army recruitment centre in central Baghdad, killing 44.