TIMELINE-Deadliest bomb attacks in Iraq

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TIMELINE-Deadliest bomb attacks in Iraq
Wed Aug 15, 2007 12:32PM BST

(Reuters) - The U.S. military said on Wednesday al Qaeda was the "prime suspect" in suicide bombings overnight on an ancient minority sect that Iraqi officials said killed at least 175 people in northern Iraq.

Here is a list of some of the deadliest bomb attacks in Iraq this year:

January 16, 2007 - A car bomb and suicide bomber strike the Mustansiriya University in central Baghdad, killing at least 70 people and wounding 180.

January 22 - A double car bombing at a second-hand goods market in Bab al-Sharji, central Baghdad, kills 88 people and wounds 160.

February 1 - Two suicide bombers strike at a market in the Shi'ite town of Hilla, killing 61 people and wounding 150.

February 3 - A truck bomb kills 135 people and wounds 305 at a market in the Sadriya quarter of central Baghdad.

February 12 - Multiple car bombs explode in the Shorja wholesale market, killing at least 71 people and wounding 165. At least nine others are killed at the Bab al-Sharji market, also in central Baghdad.

March 6 - Two suicide bombers strike in Hilla, south of Baghdad, killing 105 pilgrims. Insurgents also launch a total of 12 attacks against Shi'ite pilgrims. In all, 137 pilgrims die and 310 are wounded.

March 27 - A truck bomb explodes in Tal Afar, close to the Syrian border and the regional capital of Mosul. The final death toll of 152 makes it the deadliest single insurgent attack in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in 2003.

April 14 - A suicide car bomber kills 40 people and wounds more than 70 at a bus station in the Iraqi holy city of Kerbala.

April 18 - Multiple car bombings kill 191 people around Baghdad. Near a market in the central Sadriya neighbourhood, one car bomb kills 140 people and wounded 150.

April 28 - A suicide car bomber kills 60 people and wounds 170 at a checkpoint in Kerbala.

May 13 - Suicide truck bombing in northern town of Makhmour kills 50, with 70 people wounded.

June 19 - A car bomb near the Khilani Shi'ite mosque in central Baghdad kills 87 people.

July 7 - A truck packed with explosives covered with hay blows up in a crowded market in the northern town of Tuz Khurmato, killing 150 people and wounding 250.

July 16 - Eighty-five people are killed by a suicide truck bomb in the oil-producing city of Kirkuk. At least 180 were wounded.

August 14 - At least three suicide bombers driving fuel tankers kill at least 175 people in Yazidi residential compounds in the villages of Kahtaniya and al-Jazeera in northern Iraq near the Syrian border. Yazidis are members of a pre-Islamic Kurdish sect who live in northern Iraq and Syria.

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Some of the Deadliest Attacks in Iraq
Some of the Deadliest Attacks in Iraq
By The Associated
The Associated Press

Some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the war began in March 2003:

Aug. 14: Four suicide bombers hit a Kurdish Yazidi community in northwest Iraq, killing at least 200 people and wounding 300 others, the Iraqi military said.

July 7: A suicide truck bomber rips through a market in a Shiite Turkoman town north of Baghdad, killing at least 160 people.

June 19: A truck bomb packed with explosives strikes the Shiite Khulani mosque in central Baghdad, killing at least 87 people.

April 18: A car bomb explodes at a Baghdad market as workers leave for the day, killing 127 people.

March 6: Two suicide bombers blow themselves up in Hillah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, killing 93 people in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims.

Feb. 3: A suicide truck bomber strikes a market in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad, killing 137 people.

Jan. 22: A parked car bomb followed immediately by a suicide car bomber strikes a predominantly Shiite commercial area in the Bab al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, killing 88 people.

Nov. 23, 2006: Mortar rounds and five car bombs kill 215 people in the Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City.

April 7, 2006: Two suicide bombers attack the Shiite Buratha mosque in northern Baghdad, killing 85 people.

Sept. 29, 2005: Three suicide attackers detonate car bombs in an outdoor market and two nearby commercial streets in the mostly Shiite town of Balad, north of Baghdad, killing at least 102 people.

Sept. 14, 2005: A suicide car bomber strikes as day laborers gather shortly after dawn in a heavily Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad, killing 112 people.

July 16, 2005: A suicide bomber detonates explosives strapped to his body at a gas station near a Shiite mosque in Musayyib, killing at least 90 people.

Feb. 28, 2005: A suicide car bomber targets mostly Shiite police and national guard recruits in Hillah, killing 125 people.

March 2, 2004: A suicide bomber kills at least 85 people at the Imam Hussein shrine in the Shiite holy city of Karbala.

Feb. 1, 2004: Twin suicide bombers kill 109 people in two Kurdish party offices in the northern city of Irbil.

Aug. 29, 2003: A car bomb explodes outside a mosque in Najaf, killing more than 85 people, including Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim.

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Aug 29, 2003: Najaf

Car bomb explodes outside the Imam Ali mosque in the Shia holy city, killing 125 people including Ayatollah Mohammad al-Hakim, one of Iraq's most prominent Shia ayatollahs.

Feb 1, 2004: Irbil

Twin suicide bombers target two Kurdish party offices, killing 109 people and injuring a further 250.

Mar 2, 2004: Karbala and Baghdad

Suicide bombers attack Shia Ashoura festival-goers, killing at least 140, including 49 Iranian pilgrims.

Feb 28, 2005: Hillah, north of Baghdad

A suicide car bomber targets Shia police and national guard recruits, killing 125 people.

Sept 29, 2005: Balad, north of Baghdad

A string of car bomb attacks in the centre of Balad, a mostly Shia town, kill at least 102 people.

Nov 23, 2006: Sadr City, Baghdad

Mortar fire and five car bombs kill 215 people in the capital's Shia Muslim slum.

Feb 3, 2007: Sadriya, Baghdad

A suicide truck bomber kills at least 128 people and wounds 343 others in a market place. The market was attacked again on April 18, when more than 140 are killed.