There have been 76 suicide bombings in Iraq throughout 2009.
The attack followed five suicide bombings in less than a week.
But just a few months later, there were more suicide bombings.
"You had never before heard of suicide bombings taking place in Israel?"
Israel took back those areas last year after a series of suicide bombings.
Between 1995 and 1998, when I worked here last, there were nine suicide bombings.
In 2009, the market was the target of a suicide bombing which killed over 50 people.
On May 29, a double suicide bombing hit the north of the country.
Before they arrived where were the suicide bombings in Iraq?
But every act of suicide bombing has its own social and political context.