Bombs in Iraq

Volume 3: December Comments Off

By An Nguyen

On December 5th, car bombs in Baghdad and three other northern Iraqi cities killed twenty people and injured sixty people.

U.S. Defense Secretary Robert Gates was visiting Iraq because of the recent drop in violence. Just minutes before Mr. Gates held a press conference with Abdul Qader, the Iraqi defense minister a bomb exploded in Baghdad.

The deadliest assault was a car bomb that exploded outside a juice shop in central Baghdad killing 16 and injuring 33.

In Kirkuk, explosives were hidden in a parked car killed three Kurdish soldiers and injured twelve.

In Baqouba, a suicide car bomber exploded near an entrance to a bus station, killing five and injuring twenty others.

A suicide bomber detonated near a Shiite shrine that injured thirty- three people.

On December 10th, in Baghdad, a car bomb killed 6 people when US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice made a surprise visit to Iraq.

Four people were killed and seven others were wounded when a car bomb exploded in central Baghdad.

A suicide bomber exploded his explosives-laden car at a police checkpoint in central Baquba, north of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding 15.

There haven’t been bombs in months, stores and peace was restored, but now there were four bombs and the fear is back.

Since the war began in 2003, 3,889 American soldiers died in Iraq. 3,190 American soldiers died in combat. The Iraqi death toll is 1,129, 698.

The death toll info for this article was found at antiwar.com.

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