April 3: A female suicide bomber killed three coalition soldiers at a checkpoint north-west of Baghdad. Her apparent accomplice, a pregnant woman who was also killed in the attack, exited the vehicle prior to the explosion and began screaming in fear. It is unclear if she was attempting to flee, or trying to draw the coalition troops towards her vehicle.[4]
April 10: A suicide bomber walked up to a military checkpoint in central Baghdad and blew himself up, wounding four U.S. Marines.[5]
September 9: A suicide car bomber targeted the US intelligenceheadquarters in the northern city of Irbil, killing three people and injuring 41.[10]
September 22: A suicide car bomber blew himself up near the UN HQ in Baghdad, killing a security guard and wounding 19 people.[11]
October
October 9: In the first attack on an Iraqi police station, a suicide car bomb exploded outside a station in Sadr City, killing at least eight people.[7][12]
October 12: One or two suicide car bombs near the Baghdad Hotel killed six Iraqis and wounded more than 30 others, including three US soldiers.[13][14][15]
October 14: A suicide car bomb exploded outside the Turkish embassy in Baghdad, wounding two security guards.[7]
October 16: A would-be suicide vehicle bomber was killed by security services before he could attack the Interior Ministry building in Irbil.[16]
October 27: 2003 Baghdad bombings: Four or five suicide car bombings rocked Baghdad, killing 30-40 people including, two US soldiers. The deadliest attack was on the HQ of the International Committee of the Red Cross, where a suicide bomber driving an ambulance killed 12 people and wounded 20. The other attacks targeted Iraqi police stations.[7][17]
October 28: A suicide car bomber blew himself up 100 yards from a police station in Fallujah, killing four people.[18][19]
November 22: Two suicide car bombers struck police stations in the towns of Khan Bani Saad and Baquba almost simultaneously, killing at least 18 people and leaving over 30 wounded.[22]
December 9: Suicide bombers, one in a car and another on foot, blew themselves up at the gates of two US military bases, wounding 61 American soldiers.[7]
December 10: Three suicide bombers attacked the HQ of the 82nd Airborne Division in Ramadi. One US soldier died and 14 others were wounded.[7]
December 14: Hours before the US military announced that they capturedSaddam Hussein, a suspected suicide car bomber killed 16 police officers and two civilians outside a police station in Khaldiya, 60 miles west of Baghdad.[24][25]
December 15: On the northern outskirts of the Iraqi capital, a suicide bomber driving a four-wheel-drive taxi killed eight policemen at their station in Husainiyah. Just hours before, in the Ameriyah neighbourhood of the city, eight policemen were injured by another suicide car bomber.[26]
December 17: A suicide truck bomber, who was trying to attack a police station in the al-Bayaa district of Baghdad, collided with a bus at an intersection killing at least ten people and wounding 20.[27]
December 18: A VBIED attacked a civilian convoy on MSR Hershey at approximately 0700 hours as they were leaving their encampment to go to work near Bayji. A South Africanarmored personnel carrier was destroyed in the process. Several injuries, but no US personnel - military or civilian - were killed.[citation needed]
December 24: A suicide bombing killed four and wounds over 100 at the Interior Ministry offices in Arbil.[25]
December 31: Five Iraqis are killed and at least 21 people were injured by a car bomb which targeted a restaurant popular with Westerners in Baghdad. At least three buildings were destroyed by the explosion.[29]
