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{{Short description|2007 series of car bombings throughout Baghdad, Iraq}}
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{{Infobox terrorist attack
| title = 18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings
| partof = the [[Iraqi civil war (2006–2008)|Iraqi civil war]]
| image =
| location = Baghdad, Iraq
| target = Sadriya, Sadr City, Karrada, al-Shurja
| date = 18 April 2007
| time-
| time-end =
| timezone = [[UTC]]+3
| type = [[Car bomb]]s
| fatalities = 198<ref name="arrest">CNN, [http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/18/iraq.main/index.html Iraq orders arrest of top Army officer after deadly attacks] {{Webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20160324190730/http://www.cnn.com/2007/WORLD/meast/04/18/iraq.main/index.html |date=24 March 2016 }}</ref>
| injuries = 251<ref name="arrest" />
| perps = Unknown
| motive = [[Anti-Shi'ism]]
}}
{{Campaignbox Iraq War bombings}}
The '''18 April 2007 Baghdad bombings''' were a series of attacks that occurred when five [[car bomb]]s exploded across [[Baghdad]], the capital city of [[Iraq]], on 18 April 2007, killing nearly 200 people.<ref>
The attacks targeted mainly [[Shia]] locations and civilians. The [[Sadriya]] market had already been struck by a [[3 February 2007 Baghdad market bombing|massive truck bombing]] on 3 February 2007 and was in the process of being rebuilt when the attack took place.<ref>{{cite web |url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/player/nol/newsid_6560000/newsid_6569000/6569065.stm?bw=bb&mp=rm |title=Player – Up to 200 die in Baghdad bombs |
The attacks came as Iraqi Prime Minister [[Nouri al-Maliki]] said that [[Iraqi Army|Iraqi forces]] would assume control of the country's security by the end of the year, and they also came as officials from more than 60 countries attended a UN conference in Geneva on the plight of [[Refugees of Iraq|Iraqi refugees]].
==Bombings==
The first attack occurred when a bomb detonated on a minibus in the [[Risafi]] neighborhood of Baghdad, killing four people and wounding six. A parked car in the Karrada neighborhood exploded afterward, killing 11 and wounding 13.
A suicide car bomber crashed his car into an Iraqi police checkpoint; the resulting explosion killed at least 41 people, including five Iraqi police officers, and wounded 76.
One hour later, the deadliest attack was in the al-Sadriya market in central Baghdad, where a powerful [[car bomb]] killed at least 140 people and wounded 148, according to an Iraqi hospital official. The bomb was reportedly left in a parked car and exploded at about
Later in the day another suicide bomber blew himself up at the entrance to the Sadriya district of Baghdad killing two police officers and wounding eight.
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*[[Sadriya]]: Car bomb killed at least 140 at a market
*[[Sadriya]]: Suicide car bomber killed at least 2 at a checkpoint
== Aftermath ==
No group claimed responsibility for the attacks. US defense secretary [[Robert Gates]], delivering remarks from Tel Aviv, claimed that [[Islamic State of Iraq]] might have perpetrated the attacks.<ref>{{cite news |last1=Yates |first1=Dean |last2=Villelabeiti |first2=Ibon |title=Suspected Qaeda bombs kill nearly 200 in Baghdad |url=https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq/suspected-qaeda-bombs-kill-nearly-200-in-baghdad-idUSPAR34073020070418 |access-date=21 August 2020 |work=Reuters |date=18 April 2007 |language=en |archive-date=8 November 2020 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20201108042215/https://www.reuters.com/article/us-iraq/suspected-qaeda-bombs-kill-nearly-200-in-baghdad-idUSPAR34073020070418 |url-status=live }}</ref>
==See also==
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==References==
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==External links==
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