The Al Hillah bombing killed 127 people, chiefly men lining up to join the Iraqi police forces, at the recruiting centre on February 28, 2005 in

Al Hillah Hillah ( ar, ٱلْحِلَّة ''al-Ḥillah''), also spelled Hilla, is a city in central Iraq on the Hilla branch of the Euphrates River, south of Baghdad. The population is estimated at 364,700 in 1998. It is the capital of Babylon Province a ...

Iraq Iraq,; ku, عێراق, translit=Êraq officially the Republic of Iraq, '; ku, کۆماری عێراق, translit=Komarî Êraq is a country in Western Asia. It is bordered by Turkey to Iraq–Turkey border, the north, Iran to Iran–Iraq ...

. The bombing caused a worsening of Iraqi-Jordanian diplomatic relations after it was learned that suicide bomber,

Raed Mansour al-Banna Raed (; Arabic language, Arabic: , ') is an Arabic male name, meaning ''leader or pioneer''. People

* Raed Arafat (born 1964), Syrian-born physician of Palestinian descent and Romanian citizenship * Raed Elhamali, Libyan-American basketball pla ...

, had come from

Jordan Jordan ( ar, الأردن; tr. ' ), officially the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan,; tr. ' is a country in Western Asia. It is situated at the crossroads of Asia, Africa, and Europe, within the Levant region, on the East Bank of the Jordan Rive ...

. Banna's family in Jordan gave him a heroic funeral, angering many

Iraqi Shia Shia Islam in Iraq ( ar, الشيعة في العراق) has a history going back to the times of Ali, Ali ibn Abi Talib, the first Imamate in Shia doctrine, imam of Shia Islam and fourth caliph of Sunni Islam who moved the capital of the Rashidun ...

. Thousands protested outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad and demanded it close, and the dispute led to both countries recalling their respective ambassadors.Iraq-Jordan Dispute Deepens; Diplomats Recalled in Aftermath of Suicide Bombing
/ref> Al-Banna had earlier tried to enter the United States in July 2003, although he was turned away at

O'Hare Airport Chicago O'Hare International Airport , sometimes referred to as, Chicago O'Hare, or simply O'Hare, is the main international airport serving Chicago, Illinois, located on the city's Northwest Side, approximately northwest of the Loop busines ...

as he possessed "multiple terrorist risk factors".Temple-Raston, Dina. ''The Jihad Next Door: The Lackawanna Six and Rough Justice in the Age of Terror'', 2007

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Bio of the bomber
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