In one of the deadliest sectarian attacks in Iraq, Sunni insurgents bomb Sadr City, a heavily Shia neighborhood of Baghdad, killing over 200 Iraqi civilians. Al-Qaeda in Iraq, a primary suspect for the mortar attacks and car bombs, staged during the Shi'a remembrance of Grand Ayatollah Mohammad Mohammad Sadeq al-Sadr, killed in 1999.
Year
2006
Date of Event
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