September 2004 in Iraq |
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September 4th 17 people were killed in a suicide attack in Kirkuk in northern Iraq. The attack took place outside a police academy. There were a number of other attacks during the day. |
September 6th 12 American soldiers died . The majority of them when a improvised explosive device went off near Fallujah. |
September 7th A car bomb killed seven marines and three Iraqis who were in a convoy near Falluja. It was the deadliest attack on American troops in four months. |
September 12th A total of 59 people were killed in a series of action throughout Iraq. Four suicide attacks took place tow in Baghdad and two at Abu Ghraib. Before those attacks a suicide bomber attacked a US Bradely fighting vehicle as it was on the way to support other soldiers who were under fire. Those in the Bradely were wounded but successfully evacuated. After Iraqis fired on a helicopter sent to support the Bradley it fired on the crowd surrounding the Bradely killing 13. |
September 14th Forty Seven people were killed and another 114 were wounded when a suicide car bomb filled with artillery shells exploded outside a police station in downtown Baghdad. The attack took place as hundreds of men were waiting to obtain jobs. Later in the day 12 people were killed in Baquaba . In addition there was another car bombing that resulted in the death of only the suicide bomber. |
September 18th Nineteen people were killed when a suicide bomber plowed into a crowd waiting for jobs with the Iraqi National Guard in Kirkuk. 67 others were wounded in the attack. |
September 25th Seven Iraqi men who were applying for jobs with the Iraqi National Guard were killed by insurgents. The Iraqi recruits were attacked while traveling in a mini-van in the Jamiya neighborhood when it was hit with rockets and machine gun fire. |
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