attack. May 7 – Two suicide car bombs explode in a central Baghdad square killing 22 people. May 11 – At least 71 people are killed and more than 160 wounded as suicide bombers rip through a crowded market and a line of security force recruits in a wave of explosions and gunfire across Iraq. May 12 – Police General Iyad Imad Mehdi was shot by unidentified gunmen as he was driving to work. June June 12 – French journalist Florence Aubenas and her Iraqi interpreter Hussein Hanoun al-Saadi were freed after five months of captivity in Iraq. 28 bodies, believed to mainly be Sunni Arabs, have been found in Baghdad sidestreets. Four US Soldiers die from two roadside bombs in Baghdad, bringing the total death toll of US troops to over 1,700. Kurdish parliament in Northern Iraq elects Masoud Barzani as a president of the region June 14 – 22 people died following a suicide bombing in Kirkuk, northern Iraq. June 15 – Douglas Wood, an Australian hostage residing in California is released in Iraq after 47 days in captivity, and is now being moved to a secret location. June 16 – Five U.S. Marines die from a roadside bomb in Ramadi, Western Iraq. June 20 – A Suicide bomber in Iraq kills 13 policemen, and injured more than 100 people, in the city of Irbil, northern Iraq. July July 3 – Ihab al-Sherif, Egypt's most senior envoy to Iraq is kidnapped by gunmen while buying a newspaper. He was to be promoted to ambassador, representing the first Arab nation to recognize the new Iraqi government. July 8 – Egyptian ambassador-designate Ihab al-Sharif is killed in Baghdad. A group related to Abu Musab al-Zarqawi has claimed responsibility. July 13 – A suicide bomber kills 34 Iraqi boys and one US soldier in Baghdad. The boys were scooping up candy thrown from an American Humvee. July 16 – A suicide bomber detonates explosives near an LPG (propane) fuel tanker parked near a gas station south of Baghdad, sparking a massive explosion that kills more than 60 people and wounds as many as 100 in one of the worst insurgent attacks to hit the area since the US occupation of Iraq. July 17 – A fuel truck bomb kills 98 people south of Baghdad as three more suicide car bombers strike the Iraqi capital. July 21 – Algeria's two most senior