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Timeline of attacks
08/06/2006 12:15 - (SA)
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| This undated image from video, released by the US military command purportedly shows Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi. (Defence Department, AP) |
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Major attacks, killings claimed By Jordanian terror suspect Abu Musab Al-Zarqawi and his followers:
Dec 27, 2005: Firing of a volley of rockets from southern Lebanon into Israel.
Nov 9, 2005: Triple suicide bombing against hotels in Amman, Jordan, that killed 60 people.
Aug 19, 2005: Rocket attack in the Jordanian port city of Aqaba that killed a Jordanian soldier. In the attack, three Katyusha rockets were fired, including one that landed in neighbouring Israel - causing no casualties - and another that missed a US Navy ship docked in Aqaba's port.
May 7, 2005: Two explosives-laden cars plow into an American security company convoy in Baghdad, killing at least 22 people - including two Americans.
Feb 28, 2005: A suicide car bomber strikes a crowd of police and Iraqi National Guard recruits in the southern city of Hillah, killing 125 people.
Dec 19, 2004: Car bombs tear through a funeral procession in Najaf and the main bus station in nearby Karbala, killing at least 60 people in the Shiite Muslim holy cities.
Oct 30, 2004: The body of hostage Shosei Koda, 24, of Japan, is found decapitated in Baghdad, his body wrapped in an American flag.
Sept 30, 2004: Bombings in Baghdad kill 35 children and seven adults as US troops hand out candy at the inauguration of a sewage treatment plant. Al-Zarqawi's group claims responsibility for attacks that day, but it is unclear if these include the explosions that killed the children.
Sept 16, 2004: British engineer Kenneth Bigley, and US engineers Jack Hensley and Eugene "Jack" Armstrong are kidnapped in Baghdad. By Oct 10, 2004, all three men have been confirmed beheaded.
Sept 14, 2004: A car bomb rips through a busy market near a Baghdad police headquarters where Iraqis are waiting to apply for jobs, killing 47.
Sept 13, 2004: A video purportedly from al-Qaeda in Iraq shows Durmus Kumdereli, a Turkish truck driver, being beheaded.
Aug 2, 2004: A video from followers of al-Zarqawi showing shooting death of hostage Murat Yuce of Turkey.
June 29, 2004: Georgi Lazov, 30, and Ivaylo Kepov, 32, Bulgarian truck drivers are kidnapped. Al-Zarqawi's followers suspected of decapitating both men.
June 22, 2004: Kidnappers behead South Korean hostage Kim Sun-il; Al-Jazeera television says the killing was carried out by al-Zarqawi's group.
June 14, 2004: A car bomb attack on a vehicle convoy in Baghdad kills 13 people, including three General Electric employees.
May 18, 2004: A car bomb assassinates Iraqi Governing Council president Abdel-Zahraa Othman.
May 11, 2004: Kidnapped American businessman Nicholas Berg is beheaded while being videotaped, and the voice of the knife-wielder is identified as al-Zarqawi's.
March 2, 2004: Coordinated blasts from suicide bombers, mortars and planted explosives strike Shiite Muslim shrines in Karbala and Baghdad, killing at least 181. US and Iraqi officials link the attacks to al-Zarqawi.
Aug 29, 2003: A car bomb in Najaf kills more than 85 people, including Ayatollah Mohammad Baqr al-Hakim, leader of the Supreme Council of the Islamic Revolution in Iraq.
Aug 19, 2003: A truck bombing of UN headquarters in Baghdad kills 23, including top UN envoy Sergio Vieira de Mello.
Oct 28, 2002: Laurence Foley, a diplomat and administrator of U.S. aid programs in Jordan, is gunned down outside his home in Amman.
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