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I was surprised no one had started a page for events in Iraq for 2006 so I set this one up. It will take me time to update it for this year given the masses of news. Having said that no doubt much more than this simply isnt reported. Many of the articles are taken off the icasualties.org RSS news feed, which is a fantastic source of information. I'll try to find more general articles to fit around the reports of killings. Barking Mad 16:01, 28 April 2006 (UTC)Barking_Mad[reply]

Can someone advise me on what I should do about the length of this article please? Im hoping to include every news report I can find on Iraq over the course of 2006 but Im getting a warning that the article length may be too long. Clearly its not JUST an article, its a page of links to the events in Iraq. Im I ok to carry on increasing the size or should I divide it up into seperate months for each set of links.

Any help would be appreaciated Barking Mad 16:00, 28 April 2006 (UTC)Barking_Mad[reply]

I think it's OK for you to continue at this time although at some point it may be reasonable to split the page if it becomes too unwieldy. --hydnjo talk 22:32, 26 May 2006 (UTC)[reply]

Im hoping to include every news report I can find on Iraq - This is too much!! What is the point of it anyways? I think we should only post events ie attacks. I'm going to clean this page.Chaldean 12:22, 25 June 2006 (UTC)[reply]

January, March, April

A barrage of a relatively unimportant events - someone clean it up. --HanzoHattori 19:45, 4 March 2007 (UTC)[reply]

I cleaned out some of it...I tried to keep the human toll, but took out the stories that didn't focus on current events (i.e., stories that focused on events that have unfolded over several years and merely published on a certain day in 2006) to make it more like a timeline. Sirkan 15:28, 14 April 2007 (UTC)[reply]

April 1
- Recent weeks [have] been among the most lethal of the war for Iraqi civilians, police and soldiers who were killed and wounded at a rate of about 75 per day, a rate three times as high as at the start of 2004.[1]
- Iraqi gunmen ambush minibus carrying Shiites, killing six men.[2]
- Soldiers at a joint U.S.-Iraqi army checkpoint killed three gunmen who opened fire on them in the town of Thuluiya, north of Baghdad.[3]
- A roadside bomb hit a police patrol on the highway in eastern Baghdad on Saturday, wounding four policemen, according to an Interior Ministry source.[4]
- Gunmen kidnap Iraqi physician in Baghdad.[5]
- Gunmen in three cars killed a Shiite tribal chief and four male relatives near Balad Ruz as they drove home from a funeral.[6]
- U.S. military helicopter went down southwest of Baghdad on Saturday. A militant group said it shot down a helicopter in the same area.[7]
- A Sunni sheikh was killed by armed men in a speeding car when he left his home in the southern city of Basra. His brother, who was with him, was wounded.[8]
- Iraq Shi'ites break ranks, urge PM to quit.[9]
- A Marine was killed Friday during combat operations in Anbar province west of the capital.[10]
- Journalist Jill Carroll rejects statements made during her kidnapping.[11]

April 2
- 2 U.S. soldiers killed by roadside bomb in central Baghdad according to the US military.[12]
- Six men have been killed in an explosion inside a house in the southern outskirts of Baghdad, while insurgents destroyed a small Shiite mosque east of Baquba, police said.[13]
- Japan's foreign minister said Sunday the withdrawal of Japanese troops from southern Iraq will depend on stability in that country, denying local media reports that Tokyo might pull out by May.[14]
- In Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, unidentified gunmen planted explosives around the small Guba Shiite mosque and blew it up, police said. Three stores selling music CDs were also bombed.[15]
- Police reported the discovery of nearly 40 bodies in several neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital. The bodies were handcuffed and had been shot in the head or chest.[16]
- Iraq’s resistance has replaced Jordanian-born Abu Musab Al Zarqawi as political head of the rebels, confining him to a military role, the son of Osama bin Laden’s mentor told AFP on Sunday in Jordan.[17]
- Five Iranians were arrested north of Iraq on charges of illegal entry to Iraqi territory.[18]
- Brother of Sunni lawmaker presumed kidnapped.[19]
- Gunmen assassinated a Sunni Arab sheik, Abdul-Minaam Awad, in his village of Zobaa 40 miles west of Baghdad, a Sunni clerical association announced.[20]
- Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and five others wounded in the explosion of two bombs in areas located west and southwest of Kirkuk, a police source said.[21]
- In the Sunni neighborhood of Khadra, a policeman was shot dead by unknown gunmen, while in the Mustansiriyah neighbourhood the director of religious tourism at the transport ministry, Walid Sobhi Ahmed, was stopped in his car and kidnapped.[22]

April 3
- Gunmen shot down six people, including a child, in a market area of the southern city of Basra, police said. The victims of the drive-by shooters in Basra included a navy officer, two policemen, two workers at an electrical plant, and a boy.[23]
- Slovakian soldiers at Camp Echo, near the Iraqi town of Ad Diwaniyah was hit by two shells on Thursday.[24]
- Bombings in Buhriz damaged several buildings, including a barber shop and grocery store.[25]
- A policeman was killed and two others wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol in Baiji, police said.[26]
- Two soldiers were killed and three wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol near Baiji, north of Baghdad.[27]
- Iraqi civilian killed, five people injured in attack on fuel station in Huwaija.[28]
- Five Katyusha rockets slammed near an Iraqi army barracks north of Kirkuk. There were no damages reported. Unknown gunmen also attacked an Iraqi army vehicle in central Kirkuk.[29]
- Gunmen killed the Imam of a Sunni mosque in the oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.[30]
- Two truck drivers carrying US construction materials killed, another kidnapped north of Nibaie.[31]
- Food prices rise after reduction of monthly rations.[32]
- Two bodies found shot dead and mutilated near Latifiya.[33]
- Police also discovered three bodies in eastern Baghdad neighborhoods. One in Mashtal was handcuffed and shot in the head, another in Baladiyat was strangled and covered with bandages, and the third was found in Sadr City, shot in the forehead.[34]
- University student killed in Baqubah's downtown market.[35]
- Roadside bomb kills an Iraqi civilian near Baqubah.[36]
- A car bomb killed at least 10 people and wounded 30 others near a Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad on Monday, Interior Ministry sources said.[37]
- A U.S. military truck rolled over in a flash food in western Iraq's Anbar province, killing five U.S. Marines, injuring another and leaving three other troops missing.[38]
- U.S. Plan to Build Iraq Clinics Falters after building only 20 clinics costing $200m.[39]
- Iraq's interior ministry refusing to deploy US-trained police, whilst instead hiring their own security.[40]
- Scottish Infantry levels drop after soldiers leave.[41]
- Many Iraqi Soldiers Wounded by fellow soldiers.[42]

April 4
- Kurdish journalist released.[43]
- Iraqi politician says 1,700 Sunnis killed in unrest since Samarra Shrine bombing.[44]
- Violence is driving doctors from Iraq as patients suffer.[45]
- Poverty forces Iraqi children to pick through rubbish dumps.[46]
- British HQ in Misan mortared several times in last few days according to the Iraqi police.[47]
- Two mortar rounds exploded near the British consulate in Basra during a reception, causing no injuries but forcing the party to end early.[48]
- One of the bodies of a US marine missing after a deadly road accident caused by a flash flood in Iraq's western Al-Anbar province was found Tuesday, said the US military.[**Iraqi civilian killed in bomb explosion targeting UK troops near Kirkuk.[49]
- U.S. jets reported in action in Tikrit, Habaniyah and Fallujah.[50]
- Violence in Baghdad kills judge, two vendors, and a policeman.[51]
- Civilian killed at Tikrit checkpoint, truck driver kidnapped.[52]
- Civilian killed in Fatiha, two truck drivers killed near Dujail.[53]
- In the Sahl area near the border with Saudi Arabia, two teenage shepherds were killed by an anti-personnel mine.[54]
- Iraq leaders put off gov't talks despite US pressure.[55]
- Car bomb kills one city council member, wounds four in Samarra.[56]
- In southern Iraq, gunmen killed a policeman and wounded another as the two were driving in the city of Basra, police said.[57]
- American troops have clashed with insurgents in Iraq. They began exchanging fire after a US military base was attacked in Ramadi, west of Baghdad.[58]
- 4 more handcuffed and tortured bodies found on western highway in Bahgadad and floating in a river south of the capital.[59]
- Car bomb kills 10 people, wounding 28 others in Baghdad.[60]
- Three Iraqi army officers arrested for suspected sabotage. Elsewhere, police said three Iraqi army officers were arrested in connection with an attack on an oil pipeline in Hawija.[61]
- UAE Foreign Minister condemns killing of two UAE embassy staffers in Baghdad.[62]
- 600 Iraqi security forces capture two insurgents during operations.[63]
- Baghdad Bomb Kills Woman, 2 Sons aged nine and twelve.[64]
- Car bomb kills one, wounds four in Samarra.[65]
- In southern Iraq, gunmen killed a policeman and wounded another as the two were driving in the city of Basra.[66]
- American troops have clashed with insurgents in Iraq. They began exchanging fire after a US military base was attacked in Ramadi, west of Baghdad.[67]

April 5
- More than 40,000 people have been displaced countrywide as a result of ongoing sectarian violence, Ministry of Displacement and Migration officials said on Sunday.[68]
- A civil engineer was shot to death Wednesday in front of a barber shop in west Baghdad, police said.[69]
- A motorist was also killed as he drove past a US military convoy and a man found blindfolded and shot on Wednesday in Iskandiriyah, 50 km south of Baghdad.[70]
- Three civilians were killed and five wounded when a car bomb exploded at an army checkpoint in eastern Baghdad, police said.[71]
- A civilian was killed and two others wounded when a roadside bomb went off near U.S. forces in Kirkuk, police said.[72]
- A policeman was killed by gunmen while he was heading to work in Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.[73]
- Three civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a joint U.S. and Iraqi police patrol in the oil city of Kirkuk.[74]
- A translator with Polish troops was killed and his nephew wounded on Monday by gunmen wearing police commando uniforms in Diwaniya.[75]
- Unknown gunmen in military uniforms killed 2 Iraqi workers in the Egypt-owned mobile phone company of Iraqna in western Baghdad and kidnapped two others on Wednesday.[76]
- 2 bodies found in Baghdad, 1 in Iskandiriyah.[77]
- Basra police found the body of a Sunni ambulance driver, handcuffed and shot in execution-style.[78]
- Lecturer, two other Sunnis killed in Basra.[79]
- Two Sunni Arabs were slain in the majority Shiite city of Basra and the body of a Sunni lecturer in the Basra Technical Institution, was found by police early Wednesday.[80]
- A car bomb went off on Wednesday in a Shiite neighbourhood of north Baghdad, injuring 13 people, police said. The car bombing occurred in the Shulah district and was the second car bomb in a Shiite part of Baghdad in as many days.[81]
- Iraq's interim Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari has rejected growing pressure on him to resign, saying Iraqis must be left to choose their leader democratically.[82]
- Cameraman for U.S. network CBS freed after a year in detention without charge when an Iraqi court ruled there was no evidence to support charges of terrorism against him.[83]
- Video posted on internet claims to show Iraqi insurgents dragging the burning body of a U.S. pilot on the ground after the crash of an Apache helicopter.[84]
- Polish President Lech Kaczyński paid a surprise visit to Iraq on Thursday, his press office said.[85]

April 6
- A prominent Iraqi Sunni politician said that some 40,000 Iraqi Sunni Muslims had been killed in sectarian fighting in Iraq since Ibrahim Jaafari took office as Prime Minister.[86]
- A suicide car bomb exploded near a joint patrol of Iraqi army and U.S. troops west of Baghdad killing seven, one of them an Iraqi policeman, the Iraqi army said.[87]
- 15 people were killed when a car bomb exploded near a sacred Shi'ite shrine in the southern Iraqi city of Najaf on Thursday afternoon.[88]
- Iraqi forces have captured the prime suspect in last year's kidnapping of Italian journalist Giuliana Sgrena, the U.S. military said Thursday. Mohammed Hila Hammad Obeidi, also known as Abu Ayman, was arrested in southern Baghdad on the 7th March.[89]
- Saddam-era judge insists 148 Shiites sentenced to death all confessed.[90]
- Iraq's religious leaders to meet in Amman.[91]
- Two roadside bombs in Western Baghdad kill one policeman, wounds seven.[92]
- Iraq oil exports fall to 1.34 million barrels per day (bpd) from 1.37 million bpd in February.[93]
- South of Baghdad, gunmen in three cars ambushed five Shiite truck drivers on their way to the capital from the town of Mahawil, killing all of them and stealing their trucks.[94]
- Roadside bomb explodes in Baqubah damaging shops but causing no injuries.[95]
- 5 civilians were killed and another 2 wounded when gunmen shot at their cars near a police station in Haswa, south of Baghdad.[96]
- A U.S. patrol was struck by a roadside bomb south of Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. There were no reports on the number of casualties.[97]
- Gunmen seriously wounded a Kurdish captain in the Iraqi army in the eastern part of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.[98]
- Fleeing Baghdad’s sectarian violence, Shia families find shelter in the southern city of Kut.[99]
- A US soldier was killed Thursday when an explosive detonated near his vehicle in Beiji.[100]
- The bodies of 6 unidentified corpses were found in the western Baghdad district of al-Ghasaliya on Thursday discovered the bodies of six unidentified corpses believed to have been shot dead by insurgents.[101]
- In Basra Thursday a tutor at an art school was shot dead by unidentified armed men. The body of art teacher Salah Abdel Aziz, who was abducted from his home Wednesday was found on a street in the city.[102]
- Saddam co-accused defends actions.[103]
- Former French Interior Minister Charles Pasqua says legal proceedings against him have begun in connection with the Iraqi oil-for-food scandal.[104]
- Anti-U.S. forces have spread their control over the city of Samarra, according to a Shiite cleric in charge of Shiite shrines in the city. "Samarra is still in the hands of terror … It is outside the jurisdiction and control of the state,"[105]

April 7
- 85 people were killed and at least 158 wounded when three suicide bombers, dressed as women, struck a Shi'ite Buratha mosque affiliated with a major Shiite political party, the Iraqi Health Ministry said.[106]
- Gunmen kill 4 in Iraq. 2 men were killed and 1 person wounded when gunmen opened fire on them near Baquba early Friday. 2 others were also shot dead by gunmen in Baquba's northwestern al-Yarmuk neighbourhood.[107]
- Eight mass graves containing around 1,000 bodies have been found near Iraq's northern oil hub of Kirkuk, the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK) announced on Thursday.[108]
- Iraq's interior ministry cautioned people in Baghdad to avoid crowds near mosques and markets due to a car bomb threat.[109]
- British defense chief warns of Iraq power vacuum.[110]
- Baghdad on Alert After Car Bomb Threat.[111]
- Three explosions at Shi'ite mosque in Baghdad.[112]
- Iraqi civilian kidnapped by unknown gunmen in Kirkuk.[113]
- Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr has blamed US-led coalition forces for the rampant violence across Iraq, including the deadly car bombing in the holy city of Najaf a day before.[114]
- Three mortar shells are fired at a Shia mosque in the Kazimiya area of northern Baghdad. Police say the mortars missed their target. There are reports of casualties.[115]
- The controller-general of the Iraqi Islamic Virtue (Fadilah) Party Sheikh Muhammad al-Ya'qubi has decided to dissolve all the party's leading committees and has set up a special caretaker committee to pave the way for disbanding the party.[116]
- Reuters news agency quotes Dennis McNamara of the UN's Office for Co-ordination of Humanitarian Affairs as saying that more than a million people remain internally displaced in Iraq - mainly marsh Arabs and Kurds who fled after uprisings against Saddam Hussein.[117]
- US ambassador to Iraq has said he believes that talks between US officials and groups linked to the insurgency have led to a fall in the number of attacks on American troops. But in the interview with the BBC, Zalmay Khalilzad warns that civil war in Iraq remains a real risk.[118]
- The decapitated body of man wearing a man in an military uniform was found in the town of al-Shahaimiya, 120 kilometres south of Baghdad.[119]
- In the town of al-Suwaira south of Baghdad, police discovered the bodies of three members of the security forces, including an Iraqi soldier and a lieutenant-colonel. The bodies were found with their hands cut off.[120]
- US soldiers on Friday arrested a tribal leader and four members of his clan near the northern Iraqi city of Tikrit, witnesses reported.[121]
- U.S. Aid in Iraq Now Equal to Assistance in Germany after World War II.[122]
- A Shi'ite tailor was shot dead by gunmen inside his shop in the al-Zab area about 70 km (40 miles) southwest of the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police said.[123]
- German parliament votes to set up a committee to examine claims that German intelligence agents helped the US during the 2003 war in Iraq.[124]
- 19 US troops have died so far this month.[125]

April 11
- Three civilians were killed in clashes between Interior Ministry forces and insurgents on the main road of the former rebel stronghold of Falluja west of Baghdad on Monday (April 10) Interior Ministry sources said.[126]
- Bomb attack on bus kills three people in Baghdad.[127]
- The bodies of four Iraqi soldiers who had been beheaded were found in Jurf al-Sahkar, 80 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.[128]
- In Baghdad a mortar round hit a home in northern Baghdad, killing a man and wounding four members of his family, and gunmen killed a metal worker in the southwest Shurta neighborhood, police said.[129]
- In the southern city of Basra, gunmen shot dead a Sunni professor as he was leaving his house Tuesday morning.[130]
- In the outskirts of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, gunmen killed a policeman on his way to work.[131]
- Five more bodies found in Iraq Musayyib, about 40 miles south of Baghdad, plus the body of a woman with an Iranian passport was found in a gutter in the city of Baqouba, with bruises to her head, police said.[132]
- Roadside bomb wounds two near Baghdad.[133]
- Roadside bomb wounds four Iraqi police near Baqubah.[134]
- Political turmoil leaves Iraq adrift.[135]
- Mannequins, fake funerals, booby-trapped bodies in Ramadi.[136]
- Doctors, NGOs warn of infant mortality 'higher than under Saddam's rule' in Basra.[137]
- Busy Iraqi firefighters get shot at by all sides.[138]
- 16 bodies found in Al Masayyib village, 60 miles south of Baghdad.[139]
- Three Iraqi army recruits were killed Tuesday after coming under fire in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. The bodies of two Iraqi civilians were also found in the city, police reports said.[140]
- Two assailants on board two cars without license plates kidnapped an Iraqi civilian called Imad Omar Hassan in the middle of Kirkuk.[**Roadside bomb reported hit a US patrol near Kirkuk.[141]
- Three Iraqi soldiers died Tuesday during a firefight with insurgents in Ramadi that ended when US troops stepped in and imposed a curfew on the western Iraqi city.[142]
- A car bomb that exploded near a Baghdad restaurant frequented by police killed at least five people on Tuesday, including three policemen. The blast also wounded 13 people.[143]
- 3 U.S. soldiers killed north of Baghdad, 4th near Balad.[144]

April 12
- Car bomb kills 26 outside a Shi'ite mosque north of Baghdad, some 70 people were wounded in the explosion. Hospital officials said casualty tolls were expected to rise as ambulances were still rushing in with victims.[145]
- Iraq's interior minister has acknowledged the existence of so-called death squads within certain security forces but denied any link with his own ministry.[146]
- 3 civilians, including a photographer, were also killed by gunmen on Baghdad streets, and an attack at a barber shop in the southern Dora district left the owner and a customer wounded, police said.[147]
- A roadside bomb killed two policemen in the town of Sulayman Beg, about 90 north of Baghdad.[148]
- Iraq’s oil production has shrunk to 1.8 million barrels a day, way below average output rates prior to the 2003 U.S.-led invasion of the country. The northern oil fields of Kirkuk now produce (only) about 300,000 barrels a day for local consumption.[149]
- Gunmen shot dead two Iraqi army soldiers and wounded another while they were traveling in a civilian car in central Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi military officials said.[150]
- Two trucks carrying goods for US military were destroyed near Ramadi and their drivers killed.[151]
- One hundred and fifty British soldiers, based in Dhekelia, Cyprus, have been ordered to deploy on operations to southern Iraq, Commanding Officer Lieutenant Colonel Peter Merriman announced.[152]
- A policeman was shot dead in Baghdad early Wednesday.[153]
- 2 civilians died when hit by a roadside bomb south of the northern oil hub of Kirkuk and four others were wounded.[154]
- Two US Soldiers were killed when their vehicle struck a roadside bomb south of Baghdad at approximately 9:20 a.m. 12th April.[155]
- Two rockets hit the British military base at the Basra airport complex about 3 a.m. local time, but there were no damages or casualties. In Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, mortar rounds struck a police station, wounding three policemen.[156]
- A roadside bomb in the city of Baqouba targeted a convoy carrying the deputy of the governor of Diyala province, wounding two of his guards.[157]
- An internal affairs officer at the Interior Ministry was killed by men in two cars while leaving his house in Amil in western Baghdad, and a Housing Ministry employee was killed as he drove to work in the same neighbourhood, police said.[158]
- Insurgent attacks have killed seven U.S. soldiers since Sunday.[159]
- Two people were killed and 20 wounded when a car bomb exploded near a market in the town of Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.[160]
- Police said they found the bodies of three men in different areas of the capital. The identities of the victims were not immediately clear.[161]
- Suicide car bomber kills 2 in Tal Afar and wound 7 others.[162]
- 4 Iraqis including one policeman and three civilians killed by bomb in Waziriya district in Baghdad early Wednesday morning.[163]
- Bitter rivalry between two powerful clans for leadership of Iraq's Shiite Muslims snarled efforts Tuesday to agree on the next prime minister, the key issue that is blocking a national unity government.[164]
- 150 British soldiers based in Cyprus to be deployed in Iraq.[165]
- [Baghdad] is seething with confusion. Murder, assassination and kidnapping are the words of the day. Blast walls rule all. Security is the growth industry in a city ravaged by bloodshed.[166]
- Gunmen shot dead three policemen just west of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. Gunmen also shot dead one policeman in the city.[167]

April 13
- At least 65,000 Iraqis have fled their homes as a result of sectarian violence and intimidation, according to new figures from the Iraqi government. And the rate at which Iraqis are being displaced is increasing.[168]
- Gunmen on Thursday fired rockets and mortar rounds at a U.S. military base near the city of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, witnesses said. local police in Fallujah said they found five bodies in a desert area south of the city.[169]
- An Iraqi businessman linked to Saddam Hussein told a US television network the kidnapping of US journalist Jill Carroll was a mistake and a ransom was paid for her release.[170]
- A source at the Yarmouk hospital said it had received the bodies of two truck drivers, who were shot dead by gunmen in Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad.[171]
- Two civilians were killed during clashes between insurgents and U.S. military forces in central Ramadi.[172]
- A New Hampshire soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in Iraq Tuesday. Pvt. George Roehl, 21, of Manchester, was riding in a convoy south of Baghdad when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle, relatives said.[173]
- In Kirkuk gunmen kidnapped the young daughter of an oil company employee. South of the city, a doctor who heads the health center in Daqouq was also abducted.[174]
- Two Iraqi contractors who supply the army with food were killed by gunmen who stopped their car about 30 miles south of the city of Kirkuk.[175]
- In Mosul, gunmen killed a policeman who was driving his sons to school. One of the sons was also killed and the other seriously wounded, police said. In southern Iraq, the body of a barber kidnapped four days earlier was found in the city of Basra.[176]
- A Foreign Ministry worker was kidnapped and a Health Ministry laborer wounded in a shooting that killed her driver. A Housing Ministry employee was also wounded in a drive-by shooting, police said.[177]

April 25
- US troops still haven't removed detainees from Iraqi ministries where abuse occurred.[178]
- Turkish military action in Iraq will take place if needed.[179]
- Shiite Militias Move Into Oil-Rich Kirkuk, as Kurds Dig In.[180]
- British paratroopers secretly operating in support of the SAS in Iraq are using American uniforms, weapons and vehicles as part of their cover.[181]
- British troops in Iraq could hand over the Maysan province to local security forces within a matter of weeks.[182]
- Inspectors Find More Torture at Iraqi Jails - Top General's Pledge To Protect Prisoners 'Not Being Followed'.[183]

April 26
- One man was killed on Wednesday night while his son escaped death when gunmen in a car shot at them in a southern Baghdad area, neighbours said.[184]
- It doesn't cost a lot to set up your own death squad in Iraq. Military uniforms, guns and even police vehicles are easily available to all comers in the markets of Baghdad.[185]
- Iraq expresses dismay at Turkish incursion into northern Iraq.[186]
- Conflicting Accounts Obscure Even Identity of Combatants in 2 Days of Street Fighting.[187]
- US ambassador: America is facing long stay in Iraq.[188]

April 27
- Some 25,000 people have fled their homes in the past three weeks alone, in fear of becoming the next victims of escalating sectarian violence, a government official said on Tuesday.[189]
- More than 90 women become widows each day due to continuing violence countrywide. Since not all the dead are heads-of-households, this would mean that well over 100 a day are dying in Iraq, or over 36,000 a year, by official figures.[190]
- Iraqi Strife Seeping Into Saudi Arabia.[191]
- Turkey shells Kurdish rebel targets along border with Iraq.[192]
- After Year of Gov't, Killings Up in Iraq.[193]
- Italian soldier gravely injured in Nassiriya attack.[194]
- 6 Iraqi army soldiers killed in checkpoint attack.[195]
- Iraqi soldier killed in Ramadi.[196]
- US forces kill eight insurgents in Ramadi.[197]
- Insurgents kill sister and brother of new Iraqi leader.[198]
- 73-year-old Khatab al-Ani shot dead on his way to prayers.[199]
- US military sees Iraq edging away from civil war.[200]
- The grieving relatives of an Australian soldier killed in Iraq were distressed to learn that the wrong body accidentally was sent home, the defense minister said Thursday.[201]
- Iraqi PM visits Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani in Najaf.[202]
- 7 killed in raids on Iraqi checkpoints.[203]
- Gunmen kill senior Baghdad judge.[204]
- Bullet-riddled bodies surface as Iraq political crisis deepens.[205]
- Brain injuries common for Iraq war vets - Thanks to body armor, thousands survive combat but face lengthy rehab.[206]
- Abuse Charge Set for a US Colonel.[207]
- U.S. forces killed four Iraqi police commandos by mistake on Wednesday in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, a joint U.S. and Iraqi military centre said.[208]
- Militias could spark Iraq civil war - PM-designate.[209]
- Ayatollah Ali Sistani, one of Iraq's most senior Shia clerics, has called for the next government to dismantle militias operating in the country.[210]

April 28
- The bodies of 16 Iraqis who had been kidnapped and tortured were found Thursday in Baghdad and other cities.[211]
- Iraq War Costs US taxpayers £180bn ($320bn US).[212]
- U.S. Forces Kill a Key Insurgent in Iraq.[213]
- The death toll in two days of fighting in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, climbed to 58, including seven Iraqi soldiers.[214]
- Two mortars or rockets were fired at downtown Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone, where Iraq's government meets and the U.S. Embassy is located.[215]
- American soldier was killed by a roadside bomb that hit a military vehicle north of Baghdad.[216]
- A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol exploded in southwestern Baghdad at 8:20 a.m., killing one policeman and wounding two.[217]
- Police found the corpses of two middle-aged Iraqi men in a mostly Sunni Arab neighborhood of western Baghdad.[218]
- Iraqi forces perched on rooftops in Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, exchanged sporadic fire with insurgents in a residential district where guerrillas have been active. One Iraqi soldier was killed.[219]
- The U.S. military's lack of understanding about Iraqi culture helped create the conditions for the insurgency that U.S. forces face there, according to a military adviser.[220]
- The State Department's annual terrorism report finds that Iraq is becoming a safe haven for terrorists and has attracted a "foreign fighter pipeline" linked to terrorist plots, cells and attacks throughout the world, a senior State Department.[221]
- Iraqi forces kill 3 insurgents in raid.[222]
- In the former rebel bastion of Fallujah, two policemen were killed by a roadside bomb against their patrol.[223]
- 21 rebels killed,another 43 captured in the last 24 hours.[224]
- Kurdistan buzzes as other parts of Iraq burn.[225]
- Iraqis Building Makeshift Roadblocks.[226]
- Young Iraqi couples court danger from militia.[227]
- Iraqis faking their IDs to hide religious affiliations.[228]
- Danish reporters charged after publishing leaked intelligence reports on Iraq.[229]
- According to a very rough tally of newspaper reports collated by iCasualties website 972 Iraqis, both police and civilians, have died in the days from the 1st April to the 27th April.[230] —Preceding unsigned comment added by HanzoHattori (talk • contribs) 12:09, 5 December 2007 (UTC)[reply]

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