2005 in Iraq
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Events
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January
- January 4 - Governor Ali Al-Haidri, governor of Baghdad province, is assassinated along with two of his bodyguards.
- January 26 - 31 U.S. Marines are killed in a helicopter crash near the Jordan border.
- January 27 - Iraq's expatriates start voting for the Iraqi National Assembly election, 2005
- January 28 - The insurgency continues with several dozen Iraqi deaths. Seven U.S. soldiers killed, three in a helicopter crash.
- January 29 - About 17 people died from car bombs on the eve of the elections. A rocket hit the U.S. Embassy compound inside Baghdad's fortified Green Zone, killing two people and wounding at least four. According to the embassy spokesman, all of them are Americans.
- January 30 - Iraq's interim president Ghazi Yawer was one of the first people to vote in the Iraqi National Assembly election. Up to 15 British military personnel were killed in Iraq when an air force transport plane crashed northwest of Baghdad. Meanwhile, at least 35 people die in attacks at polling places.
- January 31 - Nine RAF personnel and one soldier are KIA after a British Hercules plane comes down 25 miles (40km) north-west of Baghdad.
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February
- February 4 - Paul Wolfowitz announces that 15,000 U.S. troops whose tours of duty had been temporarily extended will be withdrawn by the next month.
- February 7 - Two suicide bombers strike in Mosul and Baquba, claiming at least 27 lives, mostly police recruits.
- February 8 - At least 21 people are killed in a blast at an Iraqi army recruitment centre in Muthenna airfield in west Baghdad.
- February 9 - At least nine Iraqis die including a correspondent for a U.S.-funded Arabic TV station.
- February 10 - At least 50 Iraqis are killed when rebels attack targets across the country. Meanwhile, the election results are postponed because of a limited recount.
- February 11 - More than 20 Iraqis killed in attacks near a Shia mosque and on a Baghdad bakery.
- February 12 - A car bomb attack blast outside a hospital killed at least 17 people in the town of Musayyib.
- February 13 - Limited election results are announced.
- February 17 - Full results are announced in the national legislative election. The United Iraqi Alliance wins a slight majority.
- February 19 - At least 40 people were killed and more than 100 wounded in attacks by suicide bombers in Baghdad and other parts of Iraq during festival of Ashoura.
- February 22 - Two policemen and two civilians were killed and another 30 police were injured in an suicide attack against a convoy of security forces in Baghdad.
- February 24 - A car bombing attack in the Iraqi city of Tikrit has reportedly killed up to 15 people. Another 25 were injured in the attack on a police station.
- February 25 - Three US troops have been killed and eight others injured in an bomb explosion in Tarmiyah just north of Baghdad.
- February 27 - Five people was kill in a bomb blast in Hammam Alil. In another incident, a US soldier was shot and killed in Baghdad on Sunday while manning a traffic checkpoint.
- February 28 - About 125 Iraqis killed by a suicide car bomb outside a medical centre in Hilla, south of Baghdad.
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March
- March 2 - Judge Barwez Mohammed Mahmoud al-Merwani and his son Aryan Barwez al-Merwani were murdered in the Azamyiah district. Also 10 people was killed in attacks on an Iraqi army base and a checkpoint in Baghdad.
- March 3 - Two car bombs exploded near Iraq’s Interior Ministry killing at least five policemen. In total 17 people was killed in various incidents.
- March 4 - Four U.S. soldiers were killed in [Anbar] province. Also freed Italian hostage, journalist Giuliana Sgrena was hurt by friendly fire and an Italian secret service agent was killed .
- March 7 - 33 people was killed and dozens wounded as Iraqi insurgents attack in Baqouba and Baghdad.
- March 9 - A suicide car bomb attack reportedly carried out by a group linked to al-Qaeda killed three and injured more than 20 people in Baghdad.
- March 10 - At least 47 people have been killed by a suicide bomber who blew himself up at a Shia funeral service in the northern city of Mosul.
- March 20 - A gun battle between Iraqi insurgents and US troops near Baghdad has left 24 rebels dead. Earlier a suicide bomber killed the head of the police anti-corruption department in the northern city of Mosul. Insurgents then attacked his funeral, killing at least two other people.
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April
- April 9 - Tens of thousands of demonstrators loyal to Shia cleric Muqtada Sadr marched through Baghdad denouncing the US occupation of Iraq, two years after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Also insurgents killed 15 Iraqi soldiers travelling in a convoy south of Baghdad.
- April 14 - Two car bombs kills 18 in Baghdad neighborhood.
- April 15 - At least four people are killed in bombings in the Iraqi city of Samarra and in the capital Baghdad.
- April 16 - Three American soldiers were killed when a Marine base came under indirect fire near Ramadi, west of the Baghdad
- April 17 - A roadside bomb near the central city of Samarra killed two Iraqi soldiers. Also other bombs kil one American soldiers and two civilians.
- April 18 -
- Iraqi security forces numbering in the hundreds launch an operation to "root out" Sunni insurgents at the tip of Iraq's "Triangle of Death".
- In Baghdad, gunmen ambush a senior Defence Ministry adviser, Major General Adnan al-Qaraghulli, killing him and his son. [1] (http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=540&ncid=716&e=3&u=/ap/20050419/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq)
- April 19 -
- Two American soldiers were killed and four wounded in a car bombing. Another suicide car bomb outside an Iraqi army recruitment center and other attacks in the country killed a dozen people and wounded more than 50.
- April 20 -
- Iraq's prime minister Iyad Allawi escaped an assassination attempt when a suicide bomber in a car attacked his convoy near his home. The attack killed two policeman and wounded four.
- 60 bodies were fished out of the Tigris river south of Baghdad and 19 Iraqi army soldiers were executed in a football stadium; the bodies appear to not be from a single region or date [2] (http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/iraq/la-fg-bodies22apr22,0,2478098,print.story?coll=la-home-headlines). Also insurgents executed 19 soldiers in Haditha.
- April 21 -
- A commercial helicopter have been shot down about 20km (12 miles) north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, killing all 11 people on board. One survivor is shot by insurgents who rush to the site.
- Two foreign contractors were killed in a roadside bomb on the road to Baghdad airport.
- April 22 -
- A car bomb exploded outside a Shia mosque in Baghdad, killing at least nine people and wounding more than 20.
- April 23 -
- At least 19 people including nine Iraqi and four US soldiers were killed when US and Iraqi convoys were attacked by insurgents near Baghdad.
- April 24 -
- At least 22 people have been killed and 57 more were wounded in twin bombings in a market near the Ahl al-Beit mosque in Shula, in the north of Baghdad.
- April 29 -
- At least 29 people have been killed and more than 100 injured in a wave of car bomb attacks targeting Iraqi security forces in and around Baghdad.
- April 30 -
- Insurgents launched attacks in Baghdad and northern Iraq killing at least 11 Iraqis and wounding more than 40
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May
- May 1 -
- An suicide attack targeted a Kurdish funeral in the northern town of Talafar, near Mosul left at least 25 people dead and injured more than 30 others. Earlier, at least five policemen and four civilians were killed in two separate attacks in Baghdad.
- May 2 -
- Nine people died in a blast in a busy shopping area of Baghdad.At least three people were killed in an explosion in the east of the capital and four more died in two blasts in the northern city of Mosul.
- May 3 -
- Clashes in the Iraqi city of Ramadi have left 12 insurgents, two Iraqi civilians and one Iraqi soldier dead.
- May 4 -
- At least 60 people have been killed and dozens wounded in a suicide bombing at the offices of a Kurdish party in Irbil, northern Iraq.
- May 5
- At least 24 people die in wave of attacks in Baghdad
- May 6
- A suicide car bomber struck a vegetable market in Suwayra, killing at least 58 people and wounding 44. 9 more Iraqi died in other attack.
- May 7
- Two suicide car bombs exploded in a central Baghdad square killing 22 people.
- May 8
- May 11
- At least 71 people were killed and more than 160 wounded as suicide bombers ripped through a crowded market and a line of security force recruits in a wave of explosions and gunfire across Iraq.
- May 12
- Police General Iyad Imad Mehdi was shot by unidentified gunmen as he was driving to work.
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Deaths
- January 1 - Nawfal Abdel Hussein, council leader in Baquba
- January 2 - Ali Herdan, council member
- January 2 - Colonel Abdel Karim Riyadh, police chief of Jebala
- January 4 - Ali Al-Haidri, governor of Baghdad province
- January 5 - Khalifa Hussein, police chief of Baquba and electoral commission officer
- January 6 - Abdel Karim, police chief of Sadr City
- January 8 - Abboud Khalaf al-Lahibi, deputy secretary-general of the National Front for Iraqi tribes
- January 9 - Colonel Mohamed Mudhafir al-Badri, acting police chief of Samarra
- January 9 - Midhat Jassim Abdul Hassan, official in Iraqi National Accord party
- January 10 - Brigadier Amer, Baghdad deputy police chief
- January 13 - Mouayad Sami, Communist Party member of Diyala council
- January 16 - Younes Idris Al-Hiyali, Mosul Law Council member
- January 17 - Shaker Jabbar Sahl, Shia election candidate
- January 18 - Alaa Hamid, election candidate
- January 25 - Judge Qais Hashim Shameri
- February 12- Taha al-Amiri, Judge in Basra
