Car bombing at Najaf shrine kills 85
Attack| Event Details | |||
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 | Primary Organization | Al-Qaeda in Iraq | |
 | Means of Attack | Two car bombs1 | |
| Location | Imam Ali shrine, Najaf, Iraq | |
| Time | Aug. 28, 2003 | |
| Victim Deaths | 85 | ||
| Participants | Abu Musab al-Zarqawi (Organizer) | |
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| Narrative and Notes | |||
| Reliable | The Imam Ali shrine is where the son-in-law of the prophet Muhammed is buried. Shia cleric Muhammed Baqr Hakim was among those killed. At least 19 people, many of them from outside Iraq, were arrested in the bombing, which Iraqis said was connected to al-Qaeda. The bomb was of the same materials used in the earlier bombings at the U.N. headquarters and Jordanian embassy in Iraq.1 | |
| Possible | The attack killed scores of Shia worshippers and was likely an attempt by the Zarqawi network to foment Shia-Sunni violence in Iraq. | |
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| 1"19 arrested in Najaf shrine blast." The Associated Press: Aug. 31, 2003. | |||
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