Terrorist attacks of the Iraq War

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Car bombings are common in Iraq since the US-led invasion
Car bombings are common in Iraq since the US-led invasion
 
Major terrorist attacks of the Iraq War
Attacks with 100+ fatalities in bold:
1st Baghdad – 2nd Baghdad – Najaf – 3rd Baghdad – Nasiriyah – 1st Karbala – Irbil – Ashoura – Basra – Mosul – 4th Baghdad – Karbala-Najaf – Baqubah – Kufa – FOB Marez – 1st Al Hillah – Musayyib – 5th Baghdad – 6th Baghdad – 1st Balad – Khanaqin – Karbala-Ramadi – 1st Samarra – 7th Baghdad – 8th Baghdad – 9th Baghdad – 10th Baghdad – 11th Baghdad – 12th Baghdad – 13th Baghdad – 14th Baghdad – 2nd Al Hillah – Tal Afar – 15th Baghdad – 16th Baghdad – 2nd Karbala – 17th Baghdad – 3rd Karbala – Makhmour – Abu Sayda – 2nd Samarra – 18th Baghdad – Amirli – Kirkuk – 19th Baghdad – 20th Baghdad – Qahtaniya – 21st Baghdad – 2nd Balad – 4th Karbala

After the 2003 invasion of Iraq, insurgents began launching terrorist attacks on civilian targets. In the beginning, foreign civilian targets were attacked, like the Jordanian embassy, UN and Red Cross headquarters. When foreigners became more protected or simply fled Iraq, ordinary Iraqi civilians were attacked, because of sectarian divisions.

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[edit] Bombings

This is a list of major bombings of the Iraq War. For all suicide bombings see Suicide bombings in Iraq since 2003

[edit] 2003

Date PLocation Target(s) Casualties Details
August 7 Baghdad Jordanian embassy 17 dead
40 wounded		 see article
August 19 Baghdad U.N. headquarters (Canal Hotel) 22 dead
100 wounded		 see article
August 29 Najaf Shiite worshippers 83 dead
500 wounded		 see article
October 27 Baghdad Red Cross headquarters, police stations 35 dead
244 wounded		 see article
November 12 Nasiriyah Italian military 28 dead
103 wounded		 see article
December 27 Karbala Coalition military 19 dead
200 wounded		 see article

[edit] 2004

[edit] 2005

[edit] 2006

[edit] 2007

[edit] 2008

[edit] Armed massacres

Main article: List of massacres of the Iraq War

[edit] Kidnappings and hostages

See also: Foreign hostages in Iraq

Beginning in April 2004, members of the Iraqi insurgency began taking hostage foreign civilians in Iraq. Since then, they have kidnapped more than 200 foreigners and thousands of Iraqis; among them, 30 foreign hostages have been killed. The motives behind these kidnappings include influencing foreign governments with troops in Iraq and foreign companies with workers there, as well as ransom money and discouraging travel to Iraq. In 2004, executions of captives were often filmed, and several were beheaded. However, the number of videotaped killings has decreased significantly, and now the deaths of hostages are often announced only in a statement. Many hostages remain missing with no clue as to their whereabouts. The US Department of State Hostage Working Group was organized by the US Embassy in Baghdad in the summer of 2004 to monitor hostages in Iraq.

[edit] Assassinations

Main article: Assassinations of the Iraq War

Since the beginning of the insurgency, several high-profile people have been assassinated. These included:

[edit] Chemical warfare attacks

Main article: 2007 chlorine bombings in Iraq

During 2007 insurgents exploded several chlorine containers attacking Iraqi civilians. Hundreds were killed and many more injured.

[edit] Awareness of US opinion on the war

One study has compared the number of insurgent attacks in Iraq to the number of "anti-resolve" statements in the US media, the release of public opinion polls, and geographic variations in access to international media by Iraqis. The purpose was to determine if insurgents responded to information on "casualty sensitivity." The researchers found that insurgent attacks spiked by 5 to 10% after increases in the number of negative reports of the war in the media. The authors identified this as an "emboldenment effect" and concluded "insurgent groups respond rationally to expected probability of US withdrawal."[1]

In a response, Camillo Mac Bica has expressed surprise that an "unpublished . . . working paper" had excited as much interest as it did among media outlets and bloggers. He argued that the research methodology utilized in this study was flawed and that the researchers, despite recognizing and acknowledging the inadequacies of their argument, continued to draw conclusions not indicated by their findings.[2]

[edit] References

  1. ^ Radha Iyengar and Jonathan Monten, "Is There an "Emboldenment" Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq," National Bureau of Economic Research Working Paper No. 13839, March 2008 (free version at "Is There an “Emboldenment” Effect? Evidence from the Insurgency in Iraq")
  2. ^ Camillo "Mac" Bica, "Does Protest Embolden the Iraqi Insurgency?" (Washington, DC: Foreign Policy In Focus, May 12, 2008).

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