I do believe . . . that the ability of these insurgents to conduct sustained high-intensity operations [in Baghdad] as they did last year -- we've mostly eliminated that . . . I would say in the next couple of months we will not see sustained, long, bloody months in Baghdad.
Maj. Gen. William Webster, Jr.
Commander of Multinational Division Baghdad
Press Briefing
July 8, 2005
A suicide bomber detonated a blast at an Iraqi army recruitment center in the capital today, witnesses said. A doctor at Yarmouk hospital said 20 people were killed and several were injured. The blast occurred just before 9 am (0500 GMT) at a western Baghdad recruiting center that had been hit several times by suicide attackers.
NDTV
July 10, 2005
Up to 27 people, including seven children, have been killed and at least 18 wounded by a car bomb in Baghdad. The attack on Wednesday occurred near a patrol of US forces, police sources said. US troops said one US soldier and many Iraqi civilians were killed by the blast, including at least seven Iraqi children. Three US soldiers were among the wounded.
Aljazeera
July 13, 2005
At least 22 people have been killed by a suicide bomber who blew up a lorry laden with explosives at a police station in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad.
BBC July 24, 2005
Two car bombs in Baghdad left at least eight dead and 27 wounded, an interior ministry official said.
Forbes July 25, 2005
In Baghdad, guerrillas shot up a minibus transporting factory workers near Abu Ghraib to the west of Baghdad, killing as many as 18 and wounding 9.
Also in the capital, guerrillas assassinated 3 employees of the Ministry of Health.
In a third incident in Baghdad, guerrillas injured a policeman when they attacked the Major Crimes Unit in the Karkh quarter.
Informed Comment July 27
Elsewhere, a senior Baghdad International Airport official was abducted today by gunmen, along with his driver and another companion, police said.
Mahir Yassin, director of the communication department at Baghdad airport, was kidnapped from Baghdad’s western Mansour neighbourhood on his way to work by assailants in two cars, said police Lt Saad Jawad.
The exclusive, largely residential neighbourhood, home to many foreign embassies, was the site of last week’s abduction of two Algerian diplomats, who on Wednesday were murdered by al-Qaida.
Ireland Online July 27, 2005Update: Khaleej Times July 30
The bodies of two Baghdad International Airport employees and their driver, kidnapped earlier this week, were discovered Saturday in a field in southwestern Baghdad, police and hospital officials said.
A twin suicide attack struck a US-Iraqi army checkpoint near al-Nu'man Hospital in northern Baghdad on Wednesday, wounding eight soldiers, police said.
"The first blast was a suicide car bomb detonated at a checkpoint manned by US and Iraqi army forces near al-Nu'man Hospital in Adhamiyah district," an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.
Xinhuanet July 27, 2005
Two U.S. soldiers were killed Wednesday when their patrol struck a bomb in north Baghdad, military officials said Thursday. A third soldier was wounded in the attack.[...]
Insurgents bombed a train Thursday in southern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding four, an Iraqi police official said. The train was pulling fuel tanker cars to a refinery when the bomb exploded, the official said.
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The U.S. ambassador to Iraq said the United States will work with Iraqi officials and other diplomats to see what can be done to improve security for Baghdad's foreign envoys. Zalmay Khalilzad made the comments Thursday, a day after militants said they killed two Algerian diplomats kidnapped last week in Baghdad.
CNN July 28, 2005
An oil tanker train car was set on fire in Baghdad Thursday. Iraqi police officials suspected a bombing. One person was killed and four injured in the blaze. The train was carrying oil products from a refinery in Doura.
NY Times July 29, 2005
A car bomb exploded Saturday near the National Theater in Baghdad, killing five people, including three policemen, police and witnesses said.
Guardian Unlimited July 30, 2005
Gunmen kidnapped a female Iraqi Health Ministry official in western Baghdad on Saturday, police said.[...]
Hours earlier, the bodies of three Baghdad airport employees kidnapped on Wednesday were found in southwestern Baghdad. Allthree were blindfolded and shot in the head.
Xinhuanet July 30, 2005
The bodies of 20 people, one of them beheaded, some of them shot and others with their hands bound behind their backs with plastic straps, were found dumped in southwest Baghdad, police sources said.[...]
Interior ministry official Brigadier Salam Lutfi was killed and two of his guards were wounded when gunmen attacked his car on a highway in eastern Baghdad, a police source said.Two bomb attacks on Sunday killed five U.S. soldiers during patrols in Baghdad neighbourhoods, a U.S. military statement said on Monday.
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Four more soldiers were killed when their patrol struck a roadside bomb in southwest Baghdad.
Reuters August 1, 2005
In Baghdad, gunmen killed 10 people, including three Iraqi soldiers.[...]
Gunmen killed two Iraqi Oil Ministry employees in their car early Sunday, an Iraqi police official said. The shooters also wounded two other ministry employees while they were in the New Baghdad district of southeastern Baghdad.
On Saturday night, two people were killed in the capital's southwestern Bayaa neighborhood, a police official said. Gunmen killed Haider Harbi, an employee of the Independent Electoral Commission in Iraq, and Mehdi Abbas, a member of the Supreme Council of Islamic Revolution in Iraq's Shiite party.[...]
Two Sunni Arab leaders and a driver were gunned down Sunday in southeastern Baghdad in a drive-by shooting, police said.
CNN - August 7, 2005
A suicide car bomber struck a U.S. convoy waiting at an intersection Tuesday in Baghdad, killing seven people -- including one American soldier -- and wounding more than 90.[...]
Late Tuesday, gunmen killed an Iraqi Cabinet employee, Abbas Ibrahim Mohammed, in Baghdad. In addition, three civilians were killed in a mortar attack, police said.
New York Times August 9, 2005
>Police Maj. Ahmed Kamil was killed in an ambush in western Baghdad.
An Iraqi soldier was shot to death in the Dora district of south Baghdad, police said, while a civilian was killed in a bombing there.
An unidentified man was found dead in Baghdad's Sadr City neighborhood. His hands were cuffed and he had been shot in the head and legs, police said.
Yahoo News Aug 13, 2005
Ah, now there's a turn that might make some people take notice - Central Bank manager abductions.In Baghdad, a U.S. soldier died and another was wounded by a roadside bomb in the west of the city on Saturday, the military said in a statement.
Hasib Juwaid, general manager at the Central Bank of Iraq, was abducted outside his home by armed men in two cars, police and relatives said.
Reuters August 14, 2005
Update 5:00 pm:
The WaPo quotes Army Brig. Gen. Karl Horst, the deputy commander of the 3rd Infantry Division: “If you look at the past few months, insurgents have not been able to sustain attacks, but they tend to surge every four weeks or so. We are right in the middle of one of those periods and predicted this would come.” A rather dismissive tone coming from someone who’s just lost a fair number of soldiers in his command. “Tends to surge every four weeks”; he makes it sound like a phenomenon of nature, a weather pattern or PMS. And, oo, they’re not able to sustain attacks, he says so belittlingly. Well, no, they’re not trying to, they’re fighting a guerilla war. What sort of war are you fighting, Gen. Horst?
Thirty more bodies of police or police recruits were found in Baghdad Sunday; most of these are probably Shiites killed by Sunni Arab guerillas in an unconventional civil war already begun.
--Juan Cole August 15, 2005
A suicide bomber on a motorcycle struck a restaurant frequented by policemen in central Baghdad on Monday, wounding 11 people, police said.
-- People's Daily Online August 15, 2005
Four Iraqi civilians and one army officer were killed in Baghdad in two separate attacks on Monday, a police source said.
The source from Iraqi Interior Ministry told Xinhua that the four civilians were shot dead by gunmen in southwest of Baghdad on Monday evening.
In another attack, an Iraqi Army officer was also killed by gunmen in north of Baghdad, the source added.
-- People's Daily Online August 16, 2005
Well, by now, you get the picture.
I think I'll stop the chronicle.
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