3 US Soldiers, 13 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks, According to December 24, 2008 News Reports

Editor's Note (Below)

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Yaqen.net reported the following Tuesday news:

- Three Iraqis, including a policeman, were killed in a gunmen attack on a police station in Amiriyat Al-Falloujah.

- Six policemen were injured in an attack south of Baghdad.

- Three policemen were injured in an attack, in northwest of Ba'aqouba.

- A body of a many was found hung from a tree, east of Al-Kut.

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3 U.S. soldiers die in accident in southern Iraq

December 24, 2008 - 03:35:10
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

Three U.S. servicemen were killed in a road accident in southern Iraq, pushing up the number of U.S. troops killed in the country in December to nine, the U.S. army said on Wednesday.

“The names of the deceased are being withheld pending notification of next of kin and official release by the Department of Defense,” according to a U.S. army statement received by Aswat al-Iraq.

The deaths bring the number of U.S. soldiers who have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 to 4,216.

Seventeen U.S. troops died in November, 10 of them of non-combat causes, while 14 soldiers died in October, including seven of non-combat related causes.
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Falluja blast kills, wounds 7

December 24, 2008 - 02:51:20
ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq:

Three children were killed and four persons were wounded in an explosive charge attack that ripped through Falluja city on Wednesday.

“An improvised explosive device (IED) planted by unknown men in front of the house of Sheikh Ahmed Rashed, a leader in Falluja’s Albo Issa tribes, killed three children and wounded four persons, including a woman,” a security source told Aswat al-Iraq.

The wounded were taken to nearby hospitals and a police cordon was set up around the location, the source added.
The source did not provide further details of the motivations behind the attack.

Ramadi, the capital of Anbar province, lies 110 km west of Baghdad.
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Civilian body found in Kirkuk

December 23, 2008 - 02:49:15
KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq:

Policemen on Tuesday found a civilian body, stabbed with a knife, in central Kirkuk, a police source said.
“Police forces found this morning a body of a 50-year-old civilian left behind al-Watan school near al-Hussein neighborhood in central Kirkuk,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.

“The body bore signs of knife stabbing and was sent to the forensic medicine department in Azadi public hospital,” he noted.Kirkuk is located 250 km northeast of Baghdad.
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5 policemen killed in Baghdad blast

December 23, 2008 - 11:27:29
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

Five Iraqi policemen on Tuesday were killed in a blast that tore through their patrol vehicle in northern Baghdad, according to a security source.

“An improvised explosive device (IED) planted by unknown men on the main road in Baghdad’s northern area of al-Mushahada detonated while the motorcade of Lt. Col. Ismail Faysal, a local police chief, was passing the location, killing him along with four of his security guards,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
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2 cops wounded in Baghdad gunfire

December 23, 2008 - 09:20:50
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

Two policemen on Tuesday were wounded by gunfire from unknown gunmen in eastern Baghdad, a local media source said.

“Today, unidentified gunmen opened fire on a police patrol vehicle near al-Rashid mosque in Bob al-Sham area, eastern Baghdad, wounding two patrolmen,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.

The gunmen have fled to an unknown destination, the source added, providing no further details.
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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.

On September 6, 2008, news reports mentioned the killing of nine Iraqis who were arrested by Al-Muthanna Brigade of the Iraqi Army stationed in the city of Al-Falloujah. There corpses were found with bullets shot on their heads and chests. This incident is evidence that the sectarian-based Iraqi forces have been functioning also as death squads, which killed Iraqis for suspicion of belonging to resistance organizations, without any legal procedures or trials.

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."

Finally, on daily basis, US-led forces arrest scores of Iraqis in an attempt to pre-empt them from resistance. Tens of thousands of Iraqis are still there in US detention camps and in the prisons of the US-backed Iraqi government. Daily records of these arrests can be obtained from the following three Iraqi sources of news: yaqen.net, amsi.org, and Voices of Iraq.

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