2007 Bombing
The 16 January 2007 Baghdad Mustansiriya University bombing was a series of attacks on students and teachers at the largely Mustansiriya University on January 16, 2007. Some 70 people were killed and 169 were wounded.
In early December 2006, the insurgent group Ansar al-Sunna distributed statements at mosques in western Baghdad and on websites calling on students and professors to cancel classes in preparation for a purge of Shiite militias from campuses. A December 3, 2006 statement named Al-Mustansiriya University as one of the schools that should be closed.
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