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| Iraq-Jordan |
| Car boomers kill 19 |
| 2005-06-07 |
| Car bombers struck in Baghdad and northern Iraq on Tuesday, killing at least 19 people and wounding 38. Four of the attacks were in or near the northern town of Hawija, close to the strategic oil city of Kirkuk. More than 800 Iraqis have been killed in attacks since the formation of a new government on April 28. Here is a short chronology of some of the deadliest bomb attacks since the new cabinet was announced: May 1 — A bombing hits a funeral for a Kurdish official in Tal Afar, near Mosul in northern Iraq, killing at least 30 people. May 4 — Suicide bomber kills up to 60 people at Kurdistan Democratic Party office in the northern Iraqi city of Arbil. The militant Army of Ansar al-Sunna claims responsibility. May 6 — A suicide car bomb at a vegetable market in Suwayra, south of Baghdad, kills 31 people. A little known Muslim group, Jamaat Jund al-Sahaba (Soldiers of the Prophet's Companions) claims responsibility. May 7 — Two suicide car bombs explode close to a foreign civilian security convoy in Baghdad, killing 22 people, including two Americans. Al Qaeda's wing in Iraq claims responsibility. May 11 — Four suicide bombs kill at least 71 people in Tikrit, Hawija and Baghdad. May 12 — A suicide car bomb blast at a market in a mostly Shi'ite part of Baghdad kills 14 people. May 23/24 — At least 56 Iraqis are killed in car bomb attacks in the capital Baghdad and Tal Afar, west of the northern city of Mosul. May 30 — Two suicide bombers blow themselves up among crowds of Iraqis in Hilla, south of Baghdad, killing 27. June 2 — At least 24 people are killed in motorcycle and car bombs attacks in Tuz Khurmatu, Baquba, Kirkuk and Mosul. June 7 — At least 19 people are killed and 38 wounded in four car bomb attacks in or near the northern town of Hawija. |
| Posted by:Dan Darling |