Category: Terrorism, from Wikidata’s class “terrorist attack”

2004 Ashura massacre

2 March 2004 · Iraq

Wikidata classes on our event-class list: terrorist attack (all its classes: Wikidata item)

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The Ashura massacre of March 2, 2004 in Iraq was a series of planned terrorist explosions that killed at least 80–100 and injured at least 200 Iraqi Shi'a Muslims commemorating the Day of Ashura. The bombings brought one of the deadliest days in the Iraq occupation after the Iraq War to topple Saddam Hussein.

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APA 7

2004 Ashura massacre. (2026, August 8). In Wikipedia. https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004_Ashura_massacre&oldid=1368395971

MLA 9

“2004 Ashura massacre.” Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia, Wikimedia Foundation, 8 Aug. 2026, en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004_Ashura_massacre&oldid=1368395971.

Chicago (note)

Wikipedia, “2004 Ashura massacre,” last modified August 8, 2026, 20:42 (UTC), https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=2004_Ashura_massacre&oldid=1368395971.

Chicago (shortened note)

Wikipedia, “2004 Ashura massacre.”

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This event on Middle East, 1900–present: https://middleeast.events/event/2004-ashura-massacre

If you use the map’s borders: CShapes 2.0 - historical country borders. Schvitz, G., et al. (2022). CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. https://icr.ethz.ch/data/cshapes/ (modified by middleeast.events); West Bank Areas A/B/C: UN OCHA / HDX "Oslo Agreement" Areas A/B/C (West Bank). Distributed under the legacy HumanitarianResponse.info terms: non-commercial use with credit to UN OCHA. https://data.humdata.org/dataset/state-of-palestine-other-0-0-0-0-0; some corrected border points: GeoNames - CC BY 4.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). https://www.geonames.org/

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Overall fairness Nothing found

Our judgement of the summary’s overall fairness: emphasis, balance, what it leaves out, and contested claims stated as fact.

No one-sided framing found.

Wording check 1 wording point

Checks the wording against Wikipedia’s own neutrality and wording guidelines.

Contentious labels: planned terrorist explosions. Uses "terrorist" for the bombings, in the defining sentence, in Wikipedia's own voice, without saying who uses the label.

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