Source: Yahoo! News
Wire Service: AP
http://news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&u=/ap/20040801/ap_on_re_mi_ea/iraq_baghdad_blast_13
On August 1, 2004 the Associated Press reported, "A series of coordinated explosions rocked five churches across Baghdad and the northern city of Mosul on Sunday, killing at least two people and injuring 38 others in the first attacks targeting the country's Christian minority in a violent 15-month insurgency. Two explosions just minutes apart shook separate Baghdad churches in a largely Christian neighborhood during Sunday evening services, followed shortly by two more explosions at churches in other areas of the capital. A car bomb and grenade attack hit a church in Mosul at roughly the same time, Iraqi officials said. Many of the country's Christians had become increasingly concerned about the rising Islamic fundamentalism here and some had fled to neighboring [countries] to wait until the security and political situation became more calm...The explosions in Baghdad killed one person and wounded 27 others, according to the Health Ministry. The blasts in Mosul killed one and wounded 11, said police Maj. Fawaz Fanaan...Interior Ministry spokesman Sabah Kadhim said a total of four churches were hit in Baghdad, two in Karada, one in the Dora neighborhood and one in New Baghdad."