A list of diplomats attacked in Iraq

Attacks on foreign diplomats in Iraq:

_ Oct. 3, 2007: Polish Ambassador Gen. Edward Pietrzyk was burned when his convoy was ambushed in Baghdad's Karradah neighborhood. The ambassador's bodyguard was killed, along with two Iraqi civilians, while 11 people, including four Polish security guards, were wounded.

_ January 2007: The Russian Embassy was sprayed with gunfire, drawing Russian demands that Iraqi authorities and U.S.-led coalition forces do more to protect Russian diplomatic staff and property in Iraq.

_ December 2006: A Turkish diplomat, Ozcan Sahin, was shot and wounded in the garden of the Turkish Embassy in Baghdad. He was airlifted home for surgery.

_ September 2006: A vehicle carrying Japan's acting ambassador to Iraq, Satoshi Ashiki, was hit by a bullet near the Japanese Embassy, but there were no injuries.

_ June 2006: Four Russian Embassy workers were abducted after an attack on their car in Baghdad's Mansour neighborhood. They were later killed, along with a fifth Russian.

_ May 2006: A diplomat from the United Arab Emirates was kidnapped and released after two weeks.

_ January 2006: A convoy carrying Turkey's ambassador to Iraq, Unal Cevikoz, was hit by machine gunfire as it sped through western Baghdad. No one was injured.

_ October 2005: Two Moroccan Embassy workers were abducted and later killed.

_ July 2005: The Egyptian envoy in Baghdad, Ihab al-Sherif, was kidnapped and killed in Baghdad. Al-Qaida in Iraq later said it killed him because Egypt intended to install a full ambassador in Iraq.

_ July 2005: Algerian Charge d'affaires Ali Belaroussi and another diplomat, Azzedine Belkadi, were kidnapped. Al-Qaida in Iraq said the next week they had been killed.

_ July 2005: A convoy carrying Pakistani Ambassador Mohammed Younis Khan was attacked by gunmen in the Mansour district of Baghdad, but he was not injured.

_ July 2005: Bahrain's top envoy in Iraq, Hassan Malallah al-Ansari, was wounded when attackers tried to abduct him on his way to work.

_ January 2005: A suicide bomber detonated a truck outside the Australian Embassy, injuring two Australian soldiers and killing two Iraqis.

_ November 2003: Two Japanese diplomats were shot and killed in an ambush near Tikrit.

_ August 2003: A truck bomb exploded outside the U.N. headquarters building in Baghdad, killing 22 people, including Sergio Viera de Mello, the U.N. special envoy to Iraq.

_ August 2003: A blast at the Jordanian Embassy was the first major car bombing in Baghdad after the fall of Saddam Hussein. Nineteen people were killed and al-Qaida in Iraq claimed responsibility for the attack.