The 2004 Karbala and Najaf bombings were car bombings that tore through a funeral procession in

Najaf Najaf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف) or An-Najaf al-Ashraf ( ar, ٱلنَّجَف ٱلْأَشْرَف), also known as Baniqia ( ar, بَانِيقِيَا), is a city in central Iraq about 160 km (100 mi) south of Baghdad. Its estimated popula ...

and through the main bus station in nearby Karbala—two

Shia Shīʿa Islam or Shīʿīsm is the second-largest branch of Islam. It holds that the Islamic prophet Muhammad designated ʿAlī ibn Abī Ṭālib as his successor (''khalīfa'') and the Imam (spiritual and political leader) after him, mo ...

holy cities - on 19 December 2004. 66 people were killed and 191 wounded.

Perpetrators

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi's group

Tanzim Qaidat al-Jihad fi Bilad al-Rafidayn Al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI; ar, القاعدة في العراق, al-Qā'idah fī al-ʿIrāq) or Al-Qaeda in Mesopotamia ( ar, القاعدة في بلاد الرافدين, al-Qā'idah fī Bilād ar-Rāfidayn), officially known as ''Tanzim Qaidat a ...

('al-Qaeda in Iraq') said that the group was not responsible for these attacks.

References

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