9 September Iraq attacks | |
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Part of Iraqi insurgency | |
Location | across Iraq |
Date | 9 September 2012 (UTC+3) |
Target | Iraqi security forces, Shi'ite civilians |
Attack type | Car bombings, roadside bombings, shootings |
Weapons | Car bombs, IEDs, automatic weapons |
Deaths | at least 108 [1] |
Injured | at least 371 [2] |
Perpetrators | Islamic State of Iraq |
The 9 September 2012 Iraq attacks were a series of coordinated bombings and shootings across the capital Baghdad and several major cities in the north and south of the country. At least 108 people were killed and 371 injured in the first major insurgent action since a similar wave of violence almost a month earlier. [1] [2] [3]
The attacks occurred about nine months following the withdrawal of the United States military forces from the area, leaving the security of the country in the hands of the Iraqi security forces. Several major attacks took place in the months of June, July and August, following a statement released by Islamic State of Iraq to announce the start of a new "offensive".
During the afternoon hours, fugitive Iraqi Vice President Tariq al-Hashimi and his son-in-law were sentenced to death in absentia [4] based on the verdict of the Central Criminal Court of Iraq that found him guilty of two murders. [5] [6] Abdul Sattar al-Berqdar, a spokesman for Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, said that Hashimi was sentenced to hang "because he was involved directly in killing a female lawyer and a general with the Iraqi army." [7] A third charge against Hashimi was dismissed for lack of evidence. [5] The death sentences are not final, and can be appealed within 30 days. [5] [7]
A political ally of Hashimi criticized the ruling, saying that the trial was not fair because Hashimi was not in Baghdad to defend himself. A lawmaker in Iraqiya, Nada al-Jbouri, criticized the timing of the sentence, which occurred as "Iraq is preparing for a big national reconciliation in the near future in order to achieve stability in this country." [7]
Soon after the verdict was made public, a series of at least five car bombings shook mostly Shi'ite areas of the capital Baghdad, killing 32 and injuring 102 others. [3] Iraqi sources later revised the death toll to at least 51. [8]
Numerous attacks were conducted within hours of each other on 9 September 2012 across Baghdad and several provinces in Iraq. [1] [2] [3] [9] [10]
In total, at least 108 were killed and 371 injured across the country.
The Islamic State of Iraq claimed responsibility for the attacks in a statement posted online, saying they were in response to the "campaign of extermination and torture of Sunni Muslim detainees in Safavid prisons". The Iraqi government executed at least 26 people in August, many of them on terrorism charges. [11]
Events in the year 2005 in Iraq.
Tariq al-Hashimi is an Iraqi politician who served as the general secretary of the Iraqi Islamic Party (IIP) until May 2009. He served as the Vice President of Iraq from 2006 to 2012. As a Sunni, he took the place of fellow Sunni politician Ghazi al-Yawar.
Events in the year 2009 in Iraq.
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Events in the year 2010 in Iraq.
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Events in the year 2011 in Iraq.
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The following lists events in 2012 in Iraq.
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A series of bombings and shootings occurred in Iraq on 16 August 2012, in one of the most violent attacks since post-US withdrawal insurgency has begun. At least 128 people were killed and more than 400 wounded in coordinated attacks across Iraq, making them the deadliest attacks in the country since October 2009, when 155 were killed in twin bombings near the Justice Ministry in Baghdad.
From 15 to 21 May 2013, a series of deadly bombings and shootings struck the central and northern parts of Iraq, with a few incidents occurring in towns in the south and far west as well. The attacks killed at least 449 people and left 732 others injured in one of the deadliest outbreaks of violence in years.
On 27 May 2013, a series of coordinated attacks occurred in Baghdad, the capital of Iraq, killing 71 people and injuring more than 200 others.
On 21 September 2013, a series of car and suicide bombings struck the central and northern regions of Iraq, with the largest attack targeting a funeral in Sadr City, a predominantly Shi'ite neighborhood of Baghdad. The attacks left at least 115 dead and more than 200 others injured.