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May 8, 2006: Two civilians are killed by a Jihadi bombing. Stats: 2 killed, 0 injured
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May 11, 2006: A female school teacher is murdered by Islamists, and her 14-year-old nephew and 12-year-old daughter are badly injured. Stats: 1 killed, 2 injured
May 10, 2006: Sunni gunmen kill eleven workers at an electrical plant in brutal fashion. Stats: 11 killed, 0 injured
Al Qaeda\'s leader in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, was killed in an American airstrike on an isolated safe house north of Baghdad at 6:15 p.m. local time on 6/7/2006.
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M1A1 tanks, and also some Humvees around. Allegedly, a street fight with shiite factions in Sadr City
A Fedayeen suicide bomber attacks a crowd of civilians waiting outside a courthouse, slaughtering at least ten. 10 killed, 52 injured.
May 6, 2006 - Two children, ages 5 and 6, are killed when Muslim insurgents lob a mortar shell at their family. Six other bodies are found tortured and executed elsewhere. Eight killed, three injured.
May 8, 2006: Three terrorist bombings leave at least fifteen civilians dead. Another six bodies are found elsewhere. Stats: 16 Killed, 35 injured.
Fourteen bodies, victims of sectarian violence are discovered, some with signs of torture, as a bomb injures seventeen others.
Islamic terrorists pull four college students off a bus and shoot them in the head.
May 7, 2006: The bodies of forty-two victims of Muslim sectarian violence are discovered in several locations. Stats: 42 killed, 0 injured
May 7, 2006: Ten people in a residential neighborhood are blown to bits by a suicidal religious fanatic. Stats: 10 killed, 15 injured
May 6, 2006: Islamic terrorists target an electrical plant, killing two civilians. Stats: 2 killed, 5 injured.
May 11, 2006: Jihadis kill four street sweepers with a planted bomb. Stats: 4 killed, 1 injured