3/10/2005: At least 47 people have been killed and more than 90 wounded in an explosion at a Shia funeral service in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, witnesses and hospital officials said. Gunmen have shot dead the chief of a central Baghdad police station and at least two other policemen during an ambush.
2/28/2005: "A suicide bomber steered a sedan full of explosives into a thick crowd of Iraqi police and army recruits here on Monday morning, killing at least 122, Iraqi officials said, in the deadliest single bombing since the American invasion nearly two years ago." Read More
2/18/2005: Blasts hit a Shiite mosque in the Iraqi capital Friday killing dozens. February 19th 2005 is Ashurah, the holiest day of the year for Shiites. Many Shiites make pilgrimages on Ashurah to the the shrine of Husayn in Karbala, Iraq. During last year's Ashurah pilgrimages, twin blasts ripped through crowds of worshipers at Shiite Muslim shrines in Baghdad and Karbala, killing at least 181 people.
Despite a brief lull right after the Iraqi elections, assassinations, bombings, mass killing of Iraqi troops and kidnappings have continued and things look likely to get worse as the Sunni minority becomes increasingly marginalized from power and Kurds start to demand independence.
Anger at the US occupation is intensifying as more reports of US atrocities in Falluja surface and US army reports are released detailing the murder of Iraqi prisoners in US custody. The disrespect of Iraqis by US troops extends to US soldiers who have returned home and posted pictures of mutilated Iraqi bodies with dehumanizing captions.