Iraq war logs: one hellish day of conflict
Images from 17 October 2006, a typical 24 hours in one of the bloodiest years since the invasion
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Iraqi women mourn over the coffin of their relative during his funeral in the holy city of Najaf where more than 60 Iraqis were killed in an outburst of sectarian violence
Photograph: Qassem Zein/AFP
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Two Iraqi Christian women walk through al-Wathiq square in Baghdad after a mortar attack
Photograph: Sabah Arar/AFP
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A car riddled with shrapnel at the al-Wathiq square in Baghdad after a mortar attack
Photograph: Sabah Arar/AFP
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Blindfolded terrorist suspects are brought to the Iraqi army base in Baquba
Photograph: AP
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An Iraqi army soldier guards blindfolded suspects held at a military base in Baquba
Photograph: AFP
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Iraqis gather around the site where two overnight car bombs killed 20 people and wounded 17 in a mainly Shia district of north-east Baghdad
Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP
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Iraqis carry a body out of a morgue in Baghdad after two car bombs killed 20 people and wounded 17
Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP
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Iraqis collect the body of their relative in front of the morgue of al-Yarmouk hospital, Baghdad
Photograph: Wathiq Khuzaie/Getty
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Ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein addresses the court during his trial in Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone
Photograph: David Furst/AFP
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Iraqi women weep as they look at a destroyed popular market in a mainly Shia district of north-east Baghdad
Photograph: Ahmad Al-Rubaye/AFP
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A man cries outside a hospital in the restive city of Baquba as sectarian bloodletting rages across the country
Photograph: Ali Yussef/AFP
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A wounded man is brought into hospital in Baquba
Photograph: Ali Yussef/AFP
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A man walks past the scene of a mortar attack in Baghdad in which two residents were killed and three policemen were wounded
Photograph: Namir Noor-Eldeen/Reuters
