Iraq War timeline Oct. 17 - 23, 2005

Rutba * Two Marines and four militants are killed in a gun battle. Tikrit * Two Iraqi soldiers are killed and seven others wounded by a roadside bomb. October 18 Baghdad tAn adviser to a Sunni Industry Minister is killed by gunmen. Basra tA British soldier is killed and three other solders injured by a roadside bomb. Ramadi tA senior member of the Al Anbar provincial government and his bodyguard are shot dead by gunmen. Iskandariya tA US soldier is killed and two others wounded by a roadside bomb. October 19 Baghdad tAn eighth century statue of the founder of Baghdad, Abu Jaafr al-Mansour, is blown up by a bomb. tThree employees of Iraqi Airways are shot dead by gunmen. tA leading figure in Baghdad's Journalists' Union is shot dead. tAn Irish journalist with the Guardian (UK) is kidnapped and released the next day. tThree Iraqi police are killed and two injured in an ambush. tTwo Iraqi police are killed and three wounded in a clash with insurgents. tAn engineer working for a government ministry and his driver are shot dead. tThree election commission officials are shot dead. tThree elderly Sunni men are killed by gunmen as they leave a mosque. tFour policemen are killed and one wounded by insurgents who open fire on a police checkpoint. tInsurgents shoot and kill a municipal director and his driver. Balad tFour US soldiers are killed by a roadside blast. Baquba tA Marine and at least four civilians are killed and fourteen others wounded by a suicide car bomber. tA US soldier is wounded by a bomb exploding near a government building. Dujail tSaddam Hussein and seven senior members of his regime go on trial. He challenges the legitimacy of the court and pleads not guilty to all charges. Fallujah tTwo Iraqi soldiers are killed and two wounded by a roadside bomb. tThree people including a senior member of the Kurdish militia are wounded by a car bomb. Iskandariya tOne US soldier is killed and two wounded by an Improvised ExplosiveDevice (IED). tSix Shiite factory workers are killed and five others wounded by gunmen. Karbala tA lawyer, who worked for the intelligence service under Saddam's rule, is assassinated. tA suicide car bomber kills a Marine. Samarra tAn oil pipeline is bombed. tSix civilians are killed when mortar rounds hit their homes. Tikrit tA US soldier is killed and four wounded by a roadside bomb. October 20 Baghdad tA US Army soldier is killed by a "non-hostile gunshot wound." tOne student is killed and five others wounded when a rocket hits a public school. tAn Iraqi intelligence officer is killed and three of his guards wounded by gunmen. tMasked gunmen kidnap an attorney for the former chief judge of Hussein's Revolutionary Court. Baiji tAn Iraqi soldier is killed by gunmen. Balad tThree US soldiers are killed and one wounded by a roadside bomb. Baquba tA suicide car bomber kills four civilians and wounds 14 others. Diyala tFour people are killed and 13 wounded by a suicide car bomber. Hit tA US soldier dies of wounds sustained during a mortar attack. Iskandariya tA father and his sons are killed in their house by gunmen wearing army uniforms. Karbala tA US soldier is killed by a car bomb attack. Khalis tA policeman is killed and eight other people wounded by a suicide car bomber in a major intersection. Kirkuk tAn oil pipeline is bombed. Tikrit tA US soldier is killed and four wounded when their vehicle catches fire. tFour civilians are killed and 18 others wounded by mortar rounds. October 21 Al Amiriyah tTwo Marines are killed in action by an IED. Baghdad tThree Marines are killed by an IED. tFour Iraqi police commandos, an army captain and a mosque preacher are killed in drive-by shootings. tThe bodies of three policemen who had been blindfolded and shot in the head by insurgents elsewhere are delivered to Baghdad. Haqlaniyah tA Marine is killed by an explosion. October 22 Adhamiyah * Six mortar rounds are fired and one lands in a schoolyard damaging the building. Al-Madaan * A policeman is killed by a bomb blast. Baghdad * A bomb kills a policeman. * Two Iraqi soldiers are wounded by insurgents who throw grenades. * A policeman is wounded by mortar fire. Diwaniya * A daughter of a former Baath Party member is killed and two others are wounded in an assassination attempt on her father. * One civilian is killed and another wounded after Polish forces open fire. October 23 Amarah * A leader of a Shiite anti-Saddam group and his driver are killed by insurgents. Baghdad * A US soldier is killed and one wounded by a roadside bomb. * Four US soldiers are wounded by separate suicide car bomb attacks. * Two policemen and two civilians are killed and 13 wounded by a car bomb. Kirkuk * Two civilians are killed and 13 others are wounded by a suicide car bomber who rams into a US convoy. * One person is killed and three wounded by a roadside bomb. Najaf * A former member of the Baath Party is assassinated by gunmen. Ramadi * A Marine is killed by small arms fire. Taji * Three Iraqis driving a water truck to an Iraqi army base are killed by gunmen. Tikrit * A police colonel is killed and four children wounded, two of them his children, when a bomb explodes near his house. Editors' note: this timeline is only a sample and should by no means be interpreted as complete.