14 September 2005 Baghdad bombings

14 September 2005 Baghdad bombing
14 September 2005 Baghdad bombing
Location	Baghdad, Iraq
Date	14 September 2005
Target	Labourers who gathered in Oruba Square
Attack type	Suicide bombings
Deaths	182
Injured	679
Perpetrators	Claimed by al-Qaeda in Iraq

The 14 September 2005 Baghdad bombings were a series of more than a dozen terrorist attacks in the Iraqi capital of Baghdad.

The most deadly bombing occurred when a suicide car bomber detonated his vehicle in a crowd of construction workers who had gathered in Baghdad's Oruba Square looking for jobs. The attack, which occurred in the mainly Shia district of Kadhimiya, killed 112 people, and injured 160.

The al-Qaeda in Iraq group claimed that the bombing was in retaliation for a recent offensive against the Iraqi insurgency, but the group's leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi released an audio tape on the same day declaring war against the Shiites in Iraq so a sectarian motive for the bombing is possible.

References[]

^ ^a ^b "Baghdad, Iraq--14 September 2005".
^ ^a ^b "Devastating blasts hit Sadr City". 23 November 2006.
^ ^a ^b "Iraq suicide attacks kill dozens". 18 November 2005.
^ ^a ^b Baum, Matthew A; Groeling, Tim J (2009). War Stories: The Causes and Consequences of Public Views of War. ISBN 978-1400832187.

External links[]

Scores killed in Baghdad attacks, BBC News, 14 September 2005
Another wave of bombings hit Iraq, International Herald Tribune, 15 September 2005

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[johnstonsarchive_20050914a-1] "Baghdad, Iraq--14 September 2005".

[bbc_6177356-2] "Devastating blasts hit Sadr City". 23 November 2006.

[bbc_4448798-3] "Iraq suicide attacks kill dozens". 18 November 2005.

[978-1400832187_p181-4] Baum, Matthew A; Groeling, Tim J (2009). War Stories: The Causes and Consequences of Public Views of War. ISBN 978-1400832187.

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