Terrorist incidents in Iraq in 2004
2004 was most notably marked by a series of battles in Fallujah. See Fallujah during the Iraq War. January January 14: A suicide bomber detonated a bomb outside an Iraqi police station in Baquba. At least three Iraqis are killed and 29 wounded. January 18: 18 January 2004 Baghdad bombing - A suicide bomber blew up a Toyota pickup truck packed with 1,000 pounds of explosives outside the headquarters of the US-led coalition, killing 24-31 people, including two American soldiers, and injuring more than 60. January 31: A suicide car bombing at the Shahine Hotel in Baghdad killed three people, including a South African security contractor. January 31: A suicide car bomber killed nine and wounds 44 at a police station in Mosul. February February 1: 2004 Erbil bombings - At least 105 people are killed and nearly 250 wounded in Erbil when twin suicide bombers blew themselves up at the headquarters of the two leading Kurdish political parties - the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan & the Kurdish Democratic Party. A former government minister, the deputy governor of Erbil Province, and the city's police chief are among those killed. February 9: A suicide bomber blew himself up in front of the Ramadi home of Majid and Amer Ali Suleiman, two tribal leaders who had cooperated with US forces. Three of their bodyguards were seriously injured by the blast, but the leaders were unhurt. February 10: At least 55 people were killed in a car bombing outside a police station in Iskandariyah, south of Baghdad. February 11: Forty-seven Iraqis are killed in a suicide attack outside an army recruitment centre in Baghdad. Ansar al-Islam is blamed. February 18: Two suicide bombers attack a Polish military barracks in Hillah, killing 11 Iraqis. February 23: Shortly before a visit by US Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, at least ten people were killed by a suicide car bomber targeting a police station in Kirkuk. March March 2: 2004 Ashura massacre - In the deadliest coordinated attacks since the fall of President Saddam Hussein, a series of explosions killed 181 Shiites celebrating the Ashura festival in Baghdad and Karbala. 49 Iranian pilgrims were among the victims of the bombings, at least four of which were suicide attacks. March 17: A suicide bomber detonated a car bomb near the Hotel Lebanon in Baghdad, killing 16, including one Briton. March 30: A suicide car bomber detonated outside the house of a police chief in Hillah, wounding seven people. March 31: 2004 Fallujah ambush April April 21: 21 April 2004 Basra bombings - five suicide car bombers target police stations in and around Basra, killing 74 people including 18 schoolchildren and wounding 160 others. April 24: In one of the most extravagant insurgent attacks to date, three suicide boats targeted the al-Basra oil terminal, seven miles off the southern coast of Iraq. Three US sailors were killed after they attempted to board one of the insurgent dhows, and oil exports from al-Basra were shut down for at least one