In Iraq, “August 2003 was the month during which the actual dimensions of the insurgency, and its potential for derailing the plans for the occupation, began to emerge. On 7 August, a powerful car bomb tore into the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad, killing eighteen people. It was the worst attack on a non-military target since the end of formal hostilities.”
– Ali A. Allawi, The Occupation of Iraq, Page 170