US Soldier, 14 Iraqis Killed According to an Initial September 1, 2007 Report, Iraqi Political Prisoners Reached 56,000, Including 24,000 in US Prisons

Sotaliraq newspaper reported the following news on September 1, 2007. Neither the Iraq News Agency nor Associated Press reported any war news by 8:00 am ET.

- A US Soldier was killed, three were injured when their Hummer was destroyed by a roadside bomb in Al-Saqlawiyah, north of Falloujah, Saturday afternoon.

- 29 Iraqis were arrested by Iraqi police in the Babil Province, as suspected resistance fighters.

- 40 Iraqis were arrested by Iraqi police in the Miqdadiyah district, as suspected resistance fighters.

- 5 Iraqi soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb north of Mosul.

- A suicide car bomb exploded in an Iraqi army patrol west of Mosul, injuring six people, including two soldiers.

- The body of Khairuddin Al-Hamadani, member of the Mosul District Council, in the Ninawa Province was found under a bridge west of Mosul.

- Musalam Al-Batat. imam of Al-Urwah mosque and a representative of Sistani, was assassinated in Basra.

- US forces arrested two Mahdi Army militiamen in Sadr City, as a test of the militia reaction. Following orders of Muqtada Al-Sadr, the militia did not resist or react to the US forces actions.

- US forces arrested seven Iraqi security guards working for Al-Sabah newspaper in Baghdad, then searched the building.

- 3 Iraqis in a car were killed and a fourth was kidnapped by gunmen in Kirkuk.

- 3 Iraqis were injured in an attack also in Kirkuk.

- An Iraqi civilian was killed in Al-Huwaijah.

- Clashes broke out between Iraqi soldiers and gunmen at a checkpoint in Khaniqin.

- A Taliban leader announced that South Korea paid $20 million in return for the release of south Korean Christian missionaries.

- There are 56,000 Iraqis in US and Iraqi prisons, according to Human Rights Committee in the Iraqi Parliament. However, the Maliki government disputed the figure saying that they are 47,000. Iraqi prisons have 23,000 prisoners and US prisons have 24,000 prisoners.

The vast majority of prisoners are Iraqi Sunni Arabs but Al-Mahdi Army militia says there are 17,000 of their members among these prisoners.

- US led forces arrested Muhammed Abdul Karim claiming he was a local leader of Iraqi fighters in Hit.

- USl-led forces arrest many Iraqis belonging to Jund Al-Sama organization in Al-Najaf.

- US-led forces killed three Iraqi fighters in Al-Miqdadiyah district.

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Note to Translators:

The Arabic definite article, Al (or its variant, El) should be written with a hyphen separating it from the noun it is associated with, for example Al-Aqsa. If a hyphen is not used, as in Al Aqsa, it confuses non-Arabic readers. They may think that it is an abbreviation of the name Albert, as many Americans do.

The Arabic definite article Al (or El) should be written as such, whether it is Shamsiyah or Qamariyah in pronunciation, simply because we are dealing with the written form of the language, not the spoken one. Using the Shamsiyah so many forms in writing is inaccurate and confusing to non-Arabic readers, to say the least.

Only standard (fasih) pronunciation of Arabic names should be used. Non-standard ('ammi) should be avoided avoided. Example: Names like Abu Sunainah, Abu Rudainah, and Abu Shebak are written by some translators in the non-standard forms of Abu Snainah, Abu Rdainah, and Abu Shbak.

The standard pronunciation of the vowel at the end of names is (a), not (e), particularly if it is followed by (h), like in the cases of Haniyah and Rudainah, not Haniyeh and Rudaineh.

The standard pronunciation of vowels in the following names is (ai), not (ei) as written by some translators: Hussain, not Hussein and Hassanain, not Hassanein.

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