Dr. Uday Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti (June 18, 1964 Baghdad - July 22, 2003 Mosul), was the eldest son of Saddam Hussein and his first wife, Sajida Talfah. He was for several years seen as the heir apparent of his father. He produced the newspaper "Babel" as well as the youth radio station Voice of Iraq (which ran American pop songs).

Abeer Qassim Hamza al-Janabi was a 14-year-old Iraqi girl who lived in the village of Mahmoudiyah southeast of Baghdad who was gang-raped, killed and burned, by American troops. Hamza, her parents and her younger sister were shot and killed in their home in Mahmoudiyah on or around March 12, 2006. A discharged U.S. serviceman, Pfc. Steven D. Green, was arrested and charged on July 3, 2006 with raping and killing Hamza and killing her father Qassim Hamza Raheem, 45, …

Terence Ellis Lloyd (November 21, 1952 - March 22, 2003) was a British television journalist well-known for his reporting from the Middle East. He was killed by U.S. troops in Iraq, while he was covering the 2003 invasion of Iraq for ITN. An inquest jury in the United Kingdom before Assistant Deputy Coroner Andrew Walker returned a verdict of unlawful killing on 13 October, 2006 following an eight-day hearing.

Qusay Saddam Hussein al-Tikriti (or Qusai was the second son of former Iraqi president Saddam Hussein. He was appointed as his father's heir in 2000.

Mazen Dana (1962-August 17, 2003) was a Palestinian journalist who worked as a Reuters cameraman and was shot by United States soldiers in Baghdad, Iraq on August 17, 2003. The soldiers mistook his camera for a rocket launcher. Mazen Dana was filming outside Abu Ghraib Prison after obtaining permission from US authorities. Days before his death, Dana had filmed a mass grave constructed by U.S. soldiers to bury other U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq.

Hussein Kamel Hassan al-Majid was the son-in-law and second cousin of Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein. He defected to Jordan and took to helping the United Nations Special Commission (UNSCOM) and the International Atomic Energy Agency IAEA inspection teams assigned to look for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Kamel rose through the army ranks to become Iraq's minister of military industries, …

Abu Nidal (May 1937 Jaffa, British mandate - August 16, 2002 Bagdad, Iraq by assasination), born Sabri Khalil al-Banna, (Arabic: صبري خليل البنا) was a Palestinian leader, a militant mercenary, and the founder of "Fatah - the Revolutionary Council" ("Fatah al-Majles al-Thawry"), more commonly known as the Abu Nidal Organization (ANO). At the height of his power in the 1970s and 1980s, Abu Nidal, …

Faisal II was Iraq's last king. He reigned from 4 April, 1939 until he was killed during a coup d'état.

Fabrizio Quattrocchi (May 9 1968 - April 14, 2004) was an Italian security guard taken hostage by Islamist militants in Iraq, notable for his defiance of captors shortly before being killed. He was taken hostage together with Umberto Cupertino, Maurizio Agliana and Salvatore Stefio. They worked in Iraq as security contractors. Quattrocchi's kidnappers forced him to dig his own grave and kneel beside it wearing a hood as they prepared to film his death, …

Mustapha Qusay Hussein al-Tikriti (January 3, 1989 - July 22, 2003) was the son of Qusay Hussein, and grandson of former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein. On July 22 2003, 14-year old Mustapha was killed, along with his father Qusay and uncle Uday Hussein, during a raid by U.S. troops on a home in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul. He was the last one to die. When U.S. forces entered the compound he was hiding beneath the bed (probably seriously wounded).

Patrick Daniel Tillman (November 6 1976 - April 22 2004) was an American football player who left his professional sports career and enlisted in the United States Army in May 2002, along with his brother Kevin Tillman. Tillman was the first professional football player to be killed in combat since the death of Bob Kalsu of the Buffalo Bills, who died in the Vietnam War in 1970. Tillman was posthumously promoted from Specialist to Corporal.

Vatche Arslanian (1955 - April 8, 2003) was a member of the Canadian Red Cross and head of logistics for the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) in Iraq. He was one of the six ICRC delegates who chose to stay in the country during the 2003 Iraq war and continue helping local relief workers. He was killed by gunfire in Baghdad while travelling with two local Red Cross workers, who were able to escape. Five other civilian vehicles were caught in crossfire, …

'Abd al-Ilah stepped down in 1953, when Faisal came of age, but he continued to be a close adviser of the young king, and an advocate of a pro-Western foreign policy. He was killed, along with most of the royal family, on July 14, 1958, in a coup d'état led by Colonel Abdul Karim Qassim that brought an end to the Iraqi monarchy.

Known as a defence attorney during the Hussein Trials, Saadoun Sughaiyer al-Janabi was one of two lawyers representing Awad Hamed al-Bandar. Ten masked gunmen wearing Iraqi Police uniforms abducted al-Janabi, who was reportedly cooperative, from the office in his Baghdad home on October 20th 2005, one day after the trial began. His body was recovered outside an Ur mosque the following day with two gunshots to the head.

Adel al-Zubeidi was a defense attorney during the Hussein Trials on the legal team representing Taha Yassin Ramadan. He was killed on November 8, 2005, by three gunmen driving in either an Opel or a "government vehicle" outside Adil, a Sunni neighbourhood of Baghdad. He was traveling with Thamer Hamoud al-Khuzaie, another lawyer associated with the trials who was wounded in the attack. The day before, he had predicted he would be murdered.

Sgt Steven Roberts was the first UK soldier to die in the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He was killed while trying to quell a riot in Al Zubayr, near Basra. Sgt Roberts had been serving with the 2nd Royal Tank Regiment, Cyclops Squadron.

Murat Yuce was a Turkish engineer who worked for the Turkish company "Bilintur" on a U.S. army base in Iraq. He was kidnapped in Iraq in early August 2004 along with his colleague Aytullah Gezmen, during the U.S. occupation of Iraq. A video of Yuce's execution by shooting at the hand of Iraqi militants was distributed on the Internet. Aytullah Gezmen was released a month later after he "repented" working for the Americans.

Khamis al-Obeidi (July 7, 1966 - June 21, 2006) was a lawyer defending Saddam Hussein and Barzan Ibrahim al-Tikriti, from the time the former leader's trial began in Baghdad on October 19, 2005 until his assassination. He was a Sunni Muslim, was married and had six children.

Hatem Kamil Abdul Fatah (died November 1, 2004) was the deputy governor of Iraq's Baghdad Governorate. Hatem Kamil was assassinated by gunmen in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, in the southern district of Dura, while on his way to work. Two of his bodyguards were wounded in the attack. Hatem Kamil served as the Iraqi government's negotiator in Fallujah and had challenged claims that terrorist mastermind Abu Musab al-Zarqawi was actually in the region.

Khalil al-Zahawi (1946 - 25 May, 2007) was one of Iraq's most prominent Arabic calligraphers. An ethnic Kurd and a native of Diyala Governorate, he began studying calligraphy in 1959, and moved to Baghdad in 1963, where he gave his first exhibition in 1965. He later graduated from the Fine Arts Institute of Baghdad, and proceeded to work for the State Directorate for the Plastic Arts in the 1980s. Eventually, he found work as a lecturer at Baghdad University.

Walid Hassan (born c. 1959 - d. 20 November 2006) was a Shia Muslim Iraqi comedian. At the time of his death he was one of five actors on "Caricature," a 45-minute comedy satire on Al-Sharqiyah TV, that did not hesitate to make fun of U.S. forces, Shiite militias, Sunni-Arab insurgent groups, and the chaotic governments that have tried to rule Iraq since Saddam Hussein was overthrown in the 2003 invasion.

Fakhriya Taha Muhasen was a 34-year-old Iraqi woman who lived in the village of Mahmoudiyah, southeast of Baghdad. On March 12, 2006, during the U.S. occupation of Iraq an alleged war crime took place when five soldiers of the 502d Infantry Regiment, including Steven D. Green are alleged to have murdered her, her husband (Qasim Hamza Raheem, 45), and her younger daughter (Hadeel Qassim Hamza, 7), then raped, killed, and burned her 14-year-old daughter Abeer Qassim Hamza.

Ali al-Haidari was the governor of the Baghdad Governorate in Iraq. He was assassinated by armed gunmen in Baghdad. Al-Haidari had narrowly escaped being killed in another assassination attempt in early September 2004 in Baghdad.

Sheikh Raad Mutar Saleh (died 11 October 2006) led the tiny Mandaean community in Iraq until being shot dead by unknown assassins in Suweira, 65kms southeast of Baghdad in the Tigris river valley. The Mandaean community has complained of targeted assassinations, rapes and enforced conversion of its followers to Islam since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein.

Prof. Dr. Abdul-Latif al-Mayah (1949/1950 - January 19, 2004) was a humanities professor born in Basra, who became chairman of the Arab World Research and Studies Centre at Mustansiriya University, head of the Baghdad Centre for Human Rights, and was an outspoken critic of the Iraq Interim Governing Council, which was the provisional government of Iraq from 2003 to 2004, established by the US-led multinational coalition occupying Iraq, following the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

Lamiya Abed Khadawi was an Iraqi Member of Parliament. A member of former Iraqi Prime Minister Iyad Allawi's coalition, she was killed on her doorstep on April 27, 2005. She was the first MP killed since the January elections.

Maysoon al-Hashemi, 60, headed the Iraqi Islamic Party's women's department until she was murdered in 2006.

Jacob (Jake) Bruce Kovco (born 25 September 1980, Melbourne; died 21 April 2006, Baghdad) was a private in the Australian Defence Forces who died while deployed to Baghdad as a result of an accident which occurred while mishandling his pistol. Private Kovco was the first Australian soldier to die while deployed to Iraq. He is survived by his wife Shelley, son Tyrie and daughter Alana.

Ali Jaafar was a sports anchorman for Iraqi state television Al Iraqiya who was gunned down in Baghdad on May 31 2006. He was killed by masked gunmen as he left his home. He and other journalists from the government-funded station have been targeted by insurgents.