Laws
Article 2
The following acts shall be considered as terrorism acts:
1. Violence or threat that aims to casting terror among people, endangering their lives,
freedoms and security or exposing their money and properties to damage for whatever are
its motives or purposes in implementation of organized terrorist project by group or
individual.
2. Sabotaging, destroying or damaging, with violence and threat purposely, public buildings or
properties, governmental interests, facilities, governmental bodies, state offices and private
sector, public utilities and places intended for public use, public-frequented gathering places
or public assets or trying to seize, occupy, endanger or prevent them from using for their
intended purposes to destabilize the public security and stability.
3. Leading, organizing or heading a terrorist armed gang exercising and planning for
terrorism, as well as contributing and participating in this act.
4. Provoking, with violence and threat, the sectarian tumult, civil war or sectarian fighting by
arming citizens or getting them to arm each other by incitement or finance.
5. Assaulting by firearms on the departments of army or police, recruitment centres or security
services or the attack on the national military sectors or its supplies, communication lines or
their camps and bases for terrorist motives.
6. Assaulting by firearms, with terrorist motives, the embassies and diplomatic bodies all over
Iraq, as well as all Iraqi institutions and Arab and foreign institutions and companies and
intergovernmental and non- governmental organizations that operating in Iraq under valid
agreement.
Official Gazette of Iraqi Issue No. (4009)
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Date: 9/ 11/ 2005