2 US Soldiers, 19 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks, According to August 11, 2008 News Reports

Editor's Note:

Only God knows how many Iraqis are killed everyday. The following represents part of the reporting but readers are advised that the actual number of deaths should very much exceed what's reported.

Concerning deaths of US soldiers, only those US citizens who die in Iraq are included in the statistics. There are no published statistics about US soldiers who die of their injuries after that. There are no published statistics about the deaths or injuries of the private army soldiers (security contractors), or about those without US citizenship.

It is noteworthy that May 20, 2008 news reports showed that death squads which execute Iraqis on daily basis are no longer hiding themselves. Previously, Sunni leaders pointed to Mahdi Army and Badr militiamen as the perpetrators. Now, death squads are composed of the US-recruited Sahwa fighters and policemen (which is an opportunity for US forces command to sever relations with these fighters).

Despite the fact that there are scores of organizations involved in the Iraq war, the Iraqi government officials prefer to refer to them as Alqaeda gunmen for propaganda purposes, as mentioned in the June 4, 2008 news report. For accuracy purposes, the term "Alqaeda gunmen" may be replaced with "Iraqi fighters."

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Yaqen.net reported the following news:

- A US soldier was killed in the city of Rawa, in Al-Anbar Province, by a fire from a Jaish Al-Muslimeen sniper.

- A US convoy was attacked with a roadside bomb in Samarra.

- A US patrol was attacked with a roadside bomb in 'Amiriyat Al-Falloujah.

Amsi.org reported the following news:

- A US vehicle was damaged in an attack by Jaish Al-Rashideen, south of Baghdad.

- A US convoy was attacked with a roadside bomb near the city of Al-'Amarah.


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Cop, gunman killed in clashes in Mosul
 
Ninewa - Voices of Iraq
Monday , 11 /08 /2008  Time 7:57:43
NINEWA, Aug. 11 (VOI) -

A policeman and a gunman were killed on Monday during clashes erupted after an attack by gunmen on a policeman's house in eastern Mosul, a police source said.

"Four gunmen attacked a policeman's house in al-Karama neighborhood in eastern Mosul, where a shootout then flared up," the source told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI) on condition of anonymity.
"The cop killed one of the attackers before they injured him and later died as a result of his injures," he explained.

"The cop was on a vacation and the gunmen took the gunman's body before escaping to unknown place," he added.

Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.

The original city of Mosul stands on the west bank of the Tigris River, opposite the ancient biblical city of Nineveh on the east bank, but the metropolitan area has now grown to encompass substantial areas on both banks, with five bridges linking the two sides.

Despite having an amount of Kurdish population, it does not form part of the area controlled by the Kurdistan Regional Government (KRG).

The fabric Muslin, long manufactured here, is named for this city. Another historically important product of the area is Mosul marble.

The city is also a historic center for the Nestorian Christianity of the Assyrians, containing the tombs of several Old Testament prophets such as Jonah, Yunus in Arabic, and Nahum.

SH (S)/SR

News Summary
 
National - Voices of Iraq
Monday , 11 /08 /2008  Time 8:59:30
BAGHDAD, Aug. 11 (VOI) –

Following is a summary of news reports posted until 04:00 p.m. Baghdad local time Monday:
 
BAGHDAD, One U.S. soldier and four Iraqi civilians were killed 23 others, including two U.S. soldiers, wounded in a double suicide bombing attack in the northern Baghdad area of al-Tarmiyah, the U.S. army in Iraq said.
 
NINEWA, Two civilians were wounded on Monday when a car rigged with explosives went off near a fuel station in the eastern part of Mosul city, a security source in Ninewa police said.
 
BAGHDAD, Iraqi security forces captured 376 wanted men and seized large amounts of arms & munitions within Operation Bashaer al-Kheir (Promise of Good) in Diala province, the Iraqi interior ministry said in a statement on Monday.
 
NINEWA, A civilian man was killed and a child wounded when two improvised explosive devices went off in two separate incidents in northern and western Mosul, a security source from Ninewa police said on Monday. 
 
DIALA, Eight people were killed on Monday when a roadside improvised explosive device (IED) went off northeast of the city of Ba'aqouba, a security source in Diala province said.
 
DIALA, Security forces in the province of Diala arrested 29 wanted men and defused a house bomb on Monday, according to the Iraqi defense ministry's media adviser.
 
DIALA, A civilian man was killed and 17 others, including a number of policemen, wounded when a suicide female bomber blew up her explosive vest near the al-Sharqi police station in central Ba'aqouba city on Monday, according to a security source in Diala province.
 
BAGHDAD, Five persons, including a policeman, were wounded in an explosive charge attack that ripped through downtown Baghdad, an Iraqi police source said on Monday.

SS (R)/SR
 
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Iraq War Report for events of Sunday, 10 August 2008.

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,

member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. 
 Sunday, 10 August 2008.
 
·       Bomb explosion kills one US soldier, wounds two more in Baghdad on Friday night.
 
·       Bomb explosion by US column in al-‘Amarah causes no casualties.
 
Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Fallujah.
 
Bomb explodes by US patrol near al-Fallujah Sunday.
 
In a dispatch posted at 6:43pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb planted by the side of the main road in the ‘Amiriyat al-Fallujah area, 20km south of al-Fallujah (which is 60km west of Baghdad) blew up by a US patrol on Sunday.
 
Yaqen reported witnesses as saying that the blast damaged an American amphibian vehicle that burned for 45 minutes.  The  sources said that American helicopters flew in to protect the area from attack until the flames in the amphibious vehicle could be extinguished.  No evidence that any casualties had resulted from the attack was reported.
 
Baghdad.
 
Grenade attack, bomb explosion wound six in Baghdad.
 
In a dispatch posted at 12:07pm Baghdad time midday Sunday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that six people were wounded, three of the Iraqi regime soldiers, in two attacks in northern and eastern Baghdad
 
Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that gunmen threw a hand grenade in front of the Hammurabi Company in the Camp Sarah area of eastern Baghdad, wounding three people.  Meanwhile, a bomb went off by  an Iraqi army patrol in the Jukuk area of the north Baghdad district of al-Kadhimiyah, wounding three troops.
 
Two mortar shells target “Green Zone” Sunday morning.
 
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:49pm Sunday afternoon Beijing time (11:49am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that two mortar shells were fired at the high-security zone around the Republican Palace in Baghdad – the area known to the Americans as “the Green Zone” before noon on Sunday.
 
Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi government police as saying that no information on the nature or extent of casualties as a result of the two explosions – if there were any – was unknown.
 
Bomb wounds Iraqi army troops in eastern Baghdad Sunday morning.
 
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:49pm Sunday afternoon Beijing time (11:49am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb had exploded by an Iraqi army patrol near the Passport Office in the east Baghdad district of Zuyunah at about 8am local time Sunday morning.
 
Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi government police as saying that the blast wounded two of the Iraqi troops on the patrol and damaged a patrol vehicle.  Xinhua reported that eyewitnesses, however, believed that the casualty toll in the attack had in fact been higher. The witnesses noted that security forces immediately closed off the area where clouds of smoke were rising and that ambulances raced to the area.
 
Three people killed in bomb explosion in eastern Baghdad Sunday morning.
 
In a dispatch posted at 11:40am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded in the eastern Baghdad district of al-Kamaliyah on Sunday morning.
 
Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that the blast killed three people and wounded 10 more in addition to inflicting damage on shops and cars parked in the area.
 
Bomb explosion kills one US soldier, wounds two more in Baghdad on Friday night.
 
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 3:56pm Sunday afternoon Beijing time (10:56am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the US military had announced the death of one of its troops and the wounding of two others in a bomb explosion in Baghdad.
 
Xinhua reported a US communiqué as saying that a bomb exploded by an American patrol in Baghdad at about 9:30pm on Friday, 8 August, killing one US soldier and wounding two more of them.  The wounded men were evacuated to a SU military hospital nearby.
 
With the death of this soldier on Friday, the death toll for US forces in Iraq in August came to three killed in combat and seven in non-combat accidents.
 
Diyala Province.
Buhriz.
 
Ten more arrested in continuing security operations in Diyala Province Sunday.
 
In a dispatch posted at 8:41pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Major General Muhammad al-‘Askari, the Information Councilor at the Ministry of Defense, had announced that security forces had arrested 10 more people in Buhriz, 60km northeast of Baghdad in Diyala Province on Sunday.
 
Yaqen reported al-‘Askari as saying that the arrests were part of the security operation against al-Qa‘idah launched in Diyala Province on Tuesday 29 July.
 
Al-Mada’in.
 
Car bomb explodes by Iraqi security column in al-Mada’in, killing soldier Sunday.
 
In a dispatch posted at 5pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a car bomb exploded by an Iraqi Interior Ministry military column on a street in al-Mada’in, 25km southeast of Baghdad on Sunday.
 
Yaqen reported a spokesman for the Baghdad Operations Command as saying that the blast killed on Iraqi soldier and wounded a second.
 
As-Sa‘diyah.
 
Gunmen kill policeman in as-Sa‘diyah Sunday.
 
In a dispatch posted at 1:48pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen shot and killed an Iraqi policeman in as-Sa‘adiyah, 115km northeast of Baghdad on Sunday.
 
Yaqen reported an official in Diyala Province as saying that gunmen shot the policeman as he was on his way to work in as-Sa‘adiyah, killing him on the spot.
 
Since Tuesday 29 July, the US-backed Iraqi regime has been carrying out an operation against al-Qa‘idah in Diyala Province.
 
Khanaqin.
 
Car bomber blasts Kurdish separatist police in Khanaqin Sunday morning.
 
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:45pm Sunday afternoon Beijing time (1:45pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a car bomber blasted into a checkpoint manned by Kurdish separatist Asayish police near a local administration building in Khanaqin, 120km northeast of Baghdad, before noon Sunday.
 
Xinhua reported a source in the police as saying that three members of the Kurdish-separatist Asayish police were killed in the blast and more than 20 other people were wounded, among them women and children, according to preliminary figures.
 
Since 10 May, the US and its Iraqi regime allies have been waging an offensive against the al-Qa‘idah organization, known for its suicide attacks, in al-Mawsil and surrounding Ninwa Province.
 
Maysan Province.
Al-‘Amarah.
 
Bomb explosion by US column in al-‘Amarah causes no casualties.
 
In a dispatch posted at 4:25pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a US column near a bridge in the middle of al-‘Amarah, 290km southeast of Baghdad.
 
Yaqen reported a source in the Maysan Provincial government as saying that the bomb exploded as the American column was crossing the Yugoslavian Bridge in al-‘Amarah but that the blast caused no casualties.

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