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Letter to the editor

Deadliest attacks

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published July 8, 2007

Some of the deadliest attacks in Iraq since the war began in March 2003:

July 7: A suicide truck bomber rips through a market in Tuz Khormato, a Shiite town north of Baghdad, killing at least 115 people.

April 18: A car bomb explodes at a Baghdad market as workers leave for the day, killing 127.

March 6: Two suicide bombers blow themselves up in Hillah, about 60 miles south of Baghdad, killing 93 in a crowd of Shiite pilgrims.

Feb. 3: A suicide truck bomber strikes a market in a predominantly Shiite area of Baghdad, killing 137.

Jan. 22: A parked car bomb followed immediately by a suicide car bomber strikes a predominantly Shiite commercial area in the Bab al-Sharqi market in central Baghdad, killing 88.

Nov. 23, 2006: Mortar rounds and five car bombs kill 215 in Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Sadr City.

April 7, 2006: Two suicide bombers attack the Shiite Buratha mosque in northern Baghdad, killing 85.

Sept. 29, 2005: Three suicide attackers detonate car bombs in an outdoor market and two nearby commercial streets in the mostly Shiite town of Balad, north of Baghdad, killing at least 102.

Sept. 14, 2005: A suicide car bomber strikes as day laborers gather shortly after dawn in a heavily Shiite neighborhood of Baghdad, killing 112.

July 16, 2005: A suicide bomber detonates explosives strapped to his body at a gas station near a Shiite mosque in Musayyib, killing at least 90.

Feb. 28, 2005: A suicide car bomber targets mostly Shiite police and national guard recruits in Hillah, killing 125.

March 2, 2004: A suicide bomber kills 85 at the Imam Hussein shrine in the Shiite holy city of Karbala.

Feb. 1, 2004: Twin suicide bombers kill 109 in two Kurdish party offices in the northern city of Irbil.

Aug. 29, 2003: A car bomb explodes outside a mosque in Najaf, killing more than 85, including Shiite leader Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim.

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