2004 жылғы Ирак оқиғалары

Events in the year 2004 in Iraq.

January 10 – Protests in the city of Amarah because of an unemployment crisis. Police officers and soldiers open fire on demonstrators. January 15 – The United Nations call direct elections in advance of July impractical, due to continuing disorder and other factors. January 18 – A suicide bomber detonates a pickup truck packed with 1,000 pounds of explosives outside the headquarters of the US led coalition killing about 20 people and injuring more than 60 – most of them Iraqis.

February 1 – During the Muslim eid, two suicide bombers kill 117 and wound 235 at two Kurdish buildings in the northern Iraqi city of Erbil. The bombers targeted the two offices for Iraq's main secular Kurdish parties packed with well wishers. Sunni militant group Ansar al Sunna claimed the attack. February 3 – The CIA admits that there was no imminent threat from weapons of mass destruction before the 2003 invasion of Iraq. February 7 – The Prince of Wales (now Charles III) begins a tour of the Middle East, visiting troops in Iraq. February 10 – At least 50 people killed in a car bomb attack on a police recruitment centre south of Baghdad. February 11 – Up to 47 people killed in a car bomb attack on an army recruiting centre in Baghdad. February 21 – The U. S. permits the Red Cross to visit Saddam Hussein for first time since his capture in December.

May 17 – A suicide car bomb in Baghdad kills the head of Iraq's Governing Council Abdul Zahra Othman Mohammad, a prominent Shi'ite politician from Basra also known as Izzedin Salim. More than a dozen others were also killed in the blast at the gates of the fortified Green Zone in Baghdad. May 28 – Iyad Allawi is chosen as the prime minister for the interim Iraqi government. The handover is scheduled to take place on June 30.

June 28 – Two days ahead of schedule, control and sovereignty of Iraq is handed over from the United States to an interim Iraqi government. Allawi becomes the prime minister, and Paul Bremer leaves the country. A slightly modified form of the flag is used.

July 1 – Saddam Hussein goes on trial for war crimes, arraigned before an Iraqi judge on seven preliminary charges. July 12 – At a press conference, Prime Minister Allawi announces the creation of the General Security Directorate, a domestic intelligence agency. July 19 FOB Chosin mortar attack, casualties listed in Stars and Stripes.

August 5 – Marines from 1st Battalion 4th Marines begin battle in Najaf, Iraq. A new flag is created for the country. August 8 – United States Marine Jonathan Collins of Crystal Lake, Illinois was KIA in Al Ramadi, located in the Al Anbar Province.

September 14 – A car bomb near a crowded market and police station in a Shi'ite area of Baghdad kills at least 47 people and wounds 114. September 30 – Insurgents detonate three car bombs killing 41 people (34 of them children) in the Shi'ite Amil area of southern Baghdad. The blasts, which wounded 139, occurred shortly after U. S. troops had celebrated opening a new sewage system and distributed sweets to children.

November 7 – The United States Marine Corps and the United States Army (1st Infantry Division) launched the bloodiest offensive of the Iraq War on November 7, 2004, Operation Phantom Fury against the insurgency in the city of Fallujah. November 10 – The Battle of Mosul (2004) officially begins even though intense fighting had already spread throughout the streets and city days before.

December 19 – A suicide car bomb blast in Najaf, 300 metres from the Imam Ali shrine, near crowds of people, kills 52 and wounds at least 140. On the same day, a car bomb exploded in Kerbala, killing 14 and injuring at least 52. December 21 a huge explosion rocked a US base in the northern city of Mosul killing 22 people (14 U. S. soldiers, 4 U. S. contractors and 4 Iraqi National guards) and wounding more than 70 people. At first, there were reports of a rocket attack but later it was said to be a suicide bomber. The Ansar al Sunnah army in Iraq claimed responsibility. It was the deadliest single attack on Americans (soldiers and civilians) in Iraq since the war ended on May 1, 2003. December 21, the French hostages Georges Malbrunot and Christian Chesnot were released, after having been taken hostage in August. December 27 – A suicide car bomber kills at least 13 people outside the offices of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq (SCIRI), one of the largest Shi'ite parties in Iraq in the upscale Jadiriya area of Baghdad. Its leader Abdel Aziz al Hakim said it was a failed attempt on his life and blamed the bombing on Sunni militants.