List of Suicide Bombings in Iraq in 2003 - October To December

October To December

• October 9: In the first attack on an Iraqi police station, a suicide car bomb explodes outside a station in Sadr City, killing at least eight people.
• October 12: One or two suicide car bombs near the Baghdad Hotel kills six Iraqis and wound more than 30 others, including three US soldiers.
• October 14: A suicide car bomb explodes outside the Turkish embassy in Baghdad, wounding two security guards.
• October 16: A suicide vehicle bomber was killed by security agents before he could attack the Interior Ministry building in Irbil.
• October 27: Four or five suicide car bombings rock Baghdad, killing 30-40 people including two US soldiers. The deadliest attack was on the HQ of the International Committee of the Red Cross, where a suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed 12 and wounded 20. The other attacks targeted Iraqi Police stations.
• October 28: A suicide car bomber blew himself up 100 yards from a police station in Fallujah, killing four.
• November 12: A suicide car bombing in the southern town of Nasiriyah kills 30 one people. The target was an Italian military base, and 19 of the dead are Italians.
• November 20: A suicide truck bomb explodes outside the office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, a US-allied Kurdish political party in Kirkuk. Four people are killed and 30 wounded.
• November 22: Two suicide car bombers struck police stations in the towns of Khan Bani Saad and Baquba almost simultaneously, killing at least 18 and leaving over 30 wounded.
• December 9: Suicide bombers, one in a car and another on foot, blow themselves up at the gates of two US military bases, wounding 61 American soldiers.
• December 10: Three suicide bombers attack the headquarters of the 82nd Airborne Division in Ramadi. One US soldier dies and 14 others are wounded.
• December 14: Hours before the US military announces that they have captured Saddam Hussein, a suspected suicide car bomber kills 16 police officers and two civilians outside a police station in Khaldiya, 60 miles west of Baghdad.
• December 15: On the northern outskirts of the Iraqi capital, a suicide bomber driving a four-wheel-drive taxi killed eight policemen at their station in Husainiyah. Just hours before, in the Ameriyah neighbourhood of the city, eight policemen were injured by another suicide car bomber.
• December 17: A suicide truck bomber, who was trying to attack a police station in the al-Bayaa district of Baghdad, collided with a bus at an intersection killing at least ten people and wounding 20.
• December 18: A VBIED attacked a civilian convoy on MSR Hershey at approximately 0700 hours as they were leaving their encampment to go to work near Bayji Iraq. A South African APC was destroyed in the process. Several injuries, but no US personnel military or civilian were killed.
• December 24: A suicide bombing kills four and wounds over 100 at the Interior Ministry offices in Arbil.
• December 27: Five Bulgarian soldiers and two Thai soldiers are among 19 people killed and 18 injured in a coordinated attack on Coalition military bases in Karbala. Four suicide car bombers struck a Bulgarian base, a compound containing the City Hall & police headquarters, and a multinational logistics base run by Polish, Thai, and American soldiers.