30 September 2004 Baghdad bombing
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30 September 2004 Baghdad bombing was a series of bombings targeting U.S. soldiers handing out sweets to the Iraq
i children at the celebration during the opening of a water treatment plant in Baghdad
. The bombings killed at least 41, including 35 children, and wounded 131, including 10 U.S. soldiers.
It is unclear whether the U.S. troops or the crowds were the prime target. A statement hailing "heroic operations" was posted in the name of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
.
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Iraq
Iraq ; officially the Republic of Iraq is a country in Western Asia spanning most of the northwestern end of the Zagros mountain range, the eastern part of the Syrian Desert and the northern part of the Arabian Desert....
i children at the celebration during the opening of a water treatment plant in Baghdad
Baghdad
Baghdad is the capital of Iraq, as well as the coterminous Baghdad Governorate. The population of Baghdad in 2011 is approximately 7,216,040...
. The bombings killed at least 41, including 35 children, and wounded 131, including 10 U.S. soldiers.
It is unclear whether the U.S. troops or the crowds were the prime target. A statement hailing "heroic operations" was posted in the name of Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi
Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ; October 30, 1966 – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh was a Jordanian militant Islamist who ran a paramilitary training camp in Afghanistan...
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