Since the beginning of the Iraq War (and, by extension, the Iraqi conflict) in 2003, Iraqi insurgents have targeted public figures and important individuals whom they believe to be working for the Coalition or its allied Iraqi forces.

Foreigners

* Sergio Vieira de Mello, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights and Special Representative for Iraq, killed in the 2003 Canal Hotel bombing by Jama'at al-Tawhid wal-Jihad.

Governing Council

Aqila al-Hashimi Aqila al-Hashimi (Arabic عقيلة الهاشمي ''cAqīla al-Hāshimī''; 1953 - September 25, 2005) was an Iraqi politician who served on the Iraqi Governing Council. Aqila al-Hashimi was born in 1953 into a prominent Shi'ite religious family ...

, member of the Governing Council, assassinated by

Ba'athists Ba'athism, also stylized as Baathism, (; ar, البعثية ' , from ' , meaning "renaissance" or "resurrection" Hans Wehr''Dictionary of Modern Written Arabic'' (4th ed.), page 80) is an Arab nationalist ideology which promotes the creation ...

in western Baghdad. * Izzedine Salim, head of the Iraqi Governing Council, assassinated in JTJ car bombing in the Green Zone.

Journalists

Atwar Bahjat Atwar Bahjat ( ar, أطوار بهجت‎; 7 June 1976 – 22 February 2006) was an Iraqi journalist. Initially a reporter for Iraq's state-controlled television under Saddam Hussein, Bahjat became a popular television correspondent for al-Ja ...

, shot while covering the 2006 al-Askari mosque bombing for Al Arabiya.

Lawyers

Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi Saadoun Antar al-Janabi (died 20 October 2005) was an Iraqi defence attorney during the Saddam Hussein Trials, and was one of two lawyers representing Awad Hamed al-Bandar. He was the head of defense team in the trial. Career He published his ...

, shot in his home by masked gunmen in

Iraqi Police The Iraqi Police (IP) is the uniformed police force responsible for the enforcement of civil law in Iraq. Its organisation, structure and recruitment were guided by the Coalition Provisional Authority after the 2003 invasion of Iraq, and it is ...

uniforms. *

Adel al-Zubeidi Adel al-Zubeidi was a defense attorney during the Hussein Trials on the legal team representing Taha Yassin Ramadan. He was killed on November 8, 2005, by three gunmen driving in either an Opel or a "government vehicle" outside Adil, a Sunni nei ...

, shot while driving through a Sunni neighborhood of Baghdad. *

Khamis al-Obeidi Khamis al-Obeidi ( ar, خميس العبيدي; July 7, 1966 – June 21, 2006) was a lawyer defending Saddam Hussein and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, from the time the former leader's trial began in Baghdad on October 19, 2005, until his assassinat ...

, abducted and shot while defending Saddam Hussein at his trial.

Members of Parliament

* Dhari Ali al-Fayadh, assassinated by

al-Qaeda in Iraq 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 ...

car bombing. * Lamia Abed Khadouri Sakri, female MP, killed April 27, 2005 * Mohammed Awad, killed in the

2007 Iraqi Parliament bombing On 12 April 2007, the canteen of the Council of Representatives of Iraq building was attacked by a suicide bomber, killing one to eight people and wounding 23 others. The attack, in the heavily fortified Green Zone of Baghdad, occurred ten minute ...

. * Saleh al-Ogaili * Harith al-Obeidi, leader of

Iraqi Accord Front The Iraqi Accord Front or Iraqi Accordance Front (Arabic: جبهة التوافق العراقية ''Jabhet Al-Tawafuq Al-'Iraqiyah'') also known as Tawafuq is an Iraqi Sunni political coalition created on October 26, 2005 by the Iraqi Islamic Pa ...

Military figures

* Sheikh Sittar,

Awakening Council The Sons of Iraq ( ar, أبناء العراق ''Abnāʼ al-ʻIrāq'') were coalitions between tribal sheikhs in the Al Anbar province in Iraq as well as former Saddam Hussein's Iraqi military officers that united in 2005 to maintain stability ...

leader, killed with an improvised explosive device planted by AQI. *

Fasal al Gaood Sheikh Faisal Raikan al-Gut al-Nimrawi ( ar, فصال القعود; died 25 June 2007), also known as Fasal al Gaood ( ar, فصال القعود), was a Governor of Anbar, Iraq and an important Iraqi Sunni Muslim ally of the United States. He se ...

, killed in

suicide bombing A suicide attack is any violent attack, usually entailing the attacker detonating an explosive, where the attacker has accepted their own death as a direct result of the attacking method used. Suicide attacks have occurred throughout histor ...

at the

Al Mansour Hotel The Al Mansour Hotel (Arabic, فندق المنصور) is situated on the bank of the Tigris river in the center of Baghdad Baghdad (; ar, بَغْدَاد , ) is the capital of Iraq and the second-largest city in the Arab world after Cai ...

. *

Hussein Ali al-Shaalan Sheikh Hussein Ali al-Shaalan is an Iraqi politician and tribal leader. A Shia Arab from Diwaniya, he was elected to the Council of Representatives of Iraq in the Iraqi legislative election of December 2005 from the Iraqi National List coalition. ...

Police chiefs

* Khedeir Mekhalef Ali, Khaldiya police chief; September 15, 2003 * Amer Ali Nayef, Baghdad deputy police chief; January 10, 2005 *

Khalid Hassan Khalid W. Hassan ( ar, خالد حسان) (died July 13, 2007) was an interpreter and reporter in the Baghdad bureau of ''The New York Times''. Hassan was shot and killed on the way to work in the Saidiya district of south central Baghdad. He had c ...

, Diwaniya police chief; August 11, 2007 * Ali al-Deylan, Baquba police chief; September 24, 2007 * Saleh Mohammed Hassan, Mosul Provincial Police Chief; January 24, 2008

Professors

Abdul-Latif Ali al-Mayah Abdul-Latif Ali al-Mayah (1949 or 1950 – January 19, 2004) was a humanities professor born in Basra, who became chairman of the Arab World Research and Studies Centre at Mustansiriya University and head of the Baghdad Centre for Human Rights. He ...

, assassinated under suspicious circumstances during a period of violence against Iraqi intellectuals and academics.

Provincial governors

* Ali Al-Haidri, Baghdad Governorate, assassinated by a group led by

Abu Musab al-Zarqawi Abu Musab al-Zarqawi ( ar, أَبُو مُصْعَبٍ ٱلزَّرْقَاوِيُّ, ', ''Father of Musab, from Zarqa''; ; October 30, 1966 – June 7, 2006), born Ahmad Fadeel al-Nazal al-Khalayleh (, '), was a Jordanian jihadist who ran a t ...

. *

Raja Nawaf Farhan al-Mahalawi Raja Nawaf Farhan al-Mahalawi ( ar, رجا نواف فرحان المحلاوي) was the Governor of Iraq's Al Anbar province, serving from January 2005 until his death in May 2005. Early life and pre-war career Mahalawi was originally from Qaim ...

, Anbar Governorate, kidnapped during the Battle of al-Qa'im and killed May 2005 * Osama Youssef Kashmoula, Ninawa Governorate, killed July 14, 2005 *

Khalil Jalil Hamza Khalil Jalil Hamza (died August 11, 2007) was the governor of Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate, Al-Qādisiyyah Governorates of Iraq, province, Iraq. He was assassinated on August 11, 2007, along with the province's Iraqi Police, police chief Major General ...

, Al-Qādisiyyah Governorate

References

{{Terrorist incidents in Iraq during the Second Iraq War and Iraqi insurgency (2011–present) Iraq Tactics of the Iraqi insurgency (2003–2011) assassinations * Terrorism deaths in Iraq