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August 8, 2003: Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad Car Bombed

2003-08-08

A car bomb explodes outside the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad killing 11 and wounding 65. It is the first major terrorist attack in Iraq after the fall of Saddam’s regime. [New York Times, 8/8/2003]