Iraq War timeline Mar. 6 - 12, 2006

Baghdad *A senior Iraq Army official is assassinated while traveling with his convoy. *Three policemen are killed and one is wounded by a car bomb. *Three civilians are wounded by a car bomb. *One civilian is killed and 10 are wounded by a car bomb. *Two policemen and four civilians are wounded by a car bomb. *Two civilians and two policemen are wounded by a suicide bomber who blows himself up near a bank. *One civilian is wounded by four mortar rounds fired into the predominantly Shiite Sadr city. Baquba *Seven people are killed, including five children, and more than a dozen others wounded by a car bomb in a busy market. Mahmudiya *Three people are killed, including two Iraqi soldiers, and five are wounded by two car bombs, one driven by a suicide bomber. *One civilian is killed and five people are wounded, including two policemen, by a car bomb. Tikrit *A Sunni shrine is destroyed by bombs. March 7 Baghdad *Eleven civilians are wounded by three separate car bombs. *Three mortar rounds land on the headquarters of the National Dialogue Front, a Sunni Arab party. *A civilian is killed and his wife is wounded by a car bomb targeting a US patrol. Baiji *Three policemen are killed and four are wounded when gunmen attack their patrol. Balad *A policeman is wounded when four mortar rounds land in and around a police station. Baquba *A civilian is killed and three police officers are wounded by a bomb when they arrive at the scene of a policeman who had just been killed by gunmen. *Three members of a Shiite cleric's office are killed and two others wounded by gunmen. Hawija *A policeman is killed and another wounded in a drive-by shooting. Hilla *Three traffic policemen and four civilians are wounded by a car bomb. Khalis *Three Iraqi soldiers are killed by a car bomb and another is wounded. Kirkuk *Three students and a soldier are wounded by a roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol near a university. Tal Afar *A US soldier is killed and four others wounded by a roadside bomb. March 8 Baghdad *Four civilians are wounded when a car bomb explodes near a US patrol. *About 50 employees from the offices of an Iraqi security company that relied heavily on Sunni ex-military men from the Saddam regime are kidnapped by gunmen wearing Iraqi police commando uniforms. *Two bodyguards of an interior minister advisor are killed and two others wounded by gunmen. *Two Interior Ministry personnel are killed and five wounded when a roadside bomb explodes near the minister of interior's convoy. *Two policemen are killed and six civilians and two policemen wounded when a roadside bomb goes off near a police patrol. Falluja *A US Marine is killed in combat. *Four civilians are killed and two wounded by a roadside bomb. Mosul *Hospital and police sources say they've received five bodies shot dead by US forces. March 9 Baghdad *The body of US hostage Tom Fox is found with gun shot wounds and his hands tied behind his back. *Three people are killed by a car bomb near a mosque and ten others are wounded. *Two civilians are killed and at least seven others wounded when a car bomb apparently targeting Iraqi soldiers explodes in front of a hospital. *Six civilians are killed and eight wounded by a roadside bomb that explodes near an Iraqi army patrol. *Gunmen kill two people employed in the Green Zone. March 10 Balad *A US military unit raids a house and kills a 25-year-old man. Samarra *Three people are killed by a car bomb. Tikrit *Two policemen are killed and three wounded by a roadside bomb. Yathrib *Two people are killed and one wounded by a roadside bomb near a mosque. March 11 Baghdad *A director of a state-owned television station is killed and his driver wounded when gunmen ambush his car. Falluja *Three civilians, one Iraqi soldier and a US soldier are killed by a suicide car bomber. March 12 Baghdad *At least 48 people are killed and 200 wounded by mortars and three car bombs that explode almost simultaneously in two markets in a Shiite district. *Six people are killed and 14 wounded, including policemen, when a roadside bomb explodes as a US convoy passes by. *Two police officers are killed by gunmen in separate incidents. *Two Iraqi soldiers are killed and four wounded when a roadside bomb goes off near their patrol. *Five Iraqi soldiers are wounded when a roadside bomb goes off near their patrol. Dhuluiya *Two Iraqi army officers are killed by gunmen. Falluja *A US Marine is killed by "enemy action."