14 September 2005 Baghdad bombings
- 14 September 2005 Baghdad bombings
Infobox terrorist attack
title=14 September 2005 Baghdad bombing
location=Baghdad, Iraq
target=Labourers who gathered in Oruba Square
date=September 14, 2005
type=Suicide bombings
fatalities=160
injuries=570
perps=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 groups 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.
External links
* [http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/middle_east/4244068.stm Scores killed in Baghdad attacks] , BBC News, 14 September 2005
* [http://www.iht.com/articles/2005/09/15/africa/web.0915iraq.php Another wave of bombings hit Iraq] , "International Herald Tribune", September 15, 2005
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