12 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks, Including Two Executed by Death Squads, According to July 21, 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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News Summary

National - Voices of Iraq
Monday , 21 /07 /2008 Time 10:36:29

BAGHDAD, July 21 (VOI) –

Following is a summary of news reports posted until 10:00 p.m. Baghdad local time Monday:

* Politics & Security:

NINEWA, Two civilians were killed by unknown gunmen in eastern Mosul, while police forces found an unidentified body in the western section of the city, a police source said on Monday.

WASSIT, Security forces on Monday found two unknown corpses, one of them belonging to a military personnel, in al-Sewayra suburb, northern Wassit, said a security source from the province.

BAGHDAD, Parliament's session held today was adjourned until Tuesday without voting on the provincial councils elections draft law, a lawmaker from the Iraqi Accordance Front (IAF) said.

NINEWA, Policemen on Monday freed a kidnapped man and arrested five wanted men during two separate operations in the city of Mosul, the chief of the Ninewa police said.

NINEWA, Two Iraqi soldiers were killed by al-Qaeda gunmen in the city of Mosul, the Multi-National Force-Iraq said in a statement on Monday.

KIRKUK, A senior police officer was killed and four of his bodyguards were wounded in a bomb explosion in central Kirkuk, the city's districts police chief said on Monday.

MH/SR

News Summary

National - Voices of Iraq
Monday , 21 /07 /2008 Time 10:36:29

BAGHDAD, July 21 (VOI) –

Following is a summary of news reports posted until 04:00 p.m. Baghdad local time Monday.

* Politics & Security:

WASSIT, A civilian man was killed by unidentified gunmen near his house in western Kut city on
Monday, a police source in the province of Wassit said.

BAGHDAD, Unknown gunmen blew up the house of the mother of an independent parliamentarian in a western Baghdad neighborhood, a police source said.

DIALA, Gunmen kidnapped four brothers after raiding their house south of Baaquba city on Monday, an official security source in Diala said.

DIALA, Unidentified gunmen shot down a tribal chief of al-Ubayd clan in Ba'aqouba on Monday, an official security source in Diala said.

BAGHDAD, Iraqi policemen captured five wanted men in eastern Baghdad on Monday while an Iraqi army force seized a cache containing a large amount of explosives in the western part of the city, according to the Baghdad Operations Command.

BAGHDAD, U.S. forces captured a suspected (media) specialist of the Hizbullah Brigades early Monday morning in the New Baghdad district, southeastern the capital, the U.S. army said.

NINEWA, Three policemen were killed and two others wounded on Monday when clashes erupted between two Turkmen clans in the district of Talafar, western Ninewa, an official source from the Iraqi army in the provinces said.

BAGHDAD, The leader of the Iraqi Umma Party Mathal al-Alousi on Monday accused whom he described as "sectarianists and murderers" of detonating his Baghdad-based family house earlier today.

DIALA, The Kurdish intelligence agency, also known as Asayesh, seized a cache of arms and explosives in a village in the district of Khanaqin, a senior Kurdish security official said on Monday.

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Iraq War Report for events of Sunday, 20 July 2008.

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,

member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.

Sunday, 20 July 2008.

· US troops kill son of provincial governor in Bayji raid Sunday morning.

· Car bomber blasts into shipment of construction materials on its way to US forces in al-Mawsil.

Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Fallujah.

US troops arrest 15 people for interrogation in al-Fallujah Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at 12:15pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US troops had carried out raids and arrests to the east of al-Fallujah, a city located 60km west of Baghdad, on Saturday.

Yaqen reported Colonel Faysal Isma‘il Husayn of the Emergency forces in al-Anbar Province as saying that the arrests took place in the Industrial Zone and ash-Shuhada’ districts of eastern al-Fallujah and that 15 people were arrested in the raids. All the captives were being detained pending interrogation.

The colonel said that in all the al-Fallujah Police Administration is holding 400 prisoners in accordance with an order issued by the al-Fallujah court for the purpose of investigation. The police released 225 prisoners during April under provisions of a general amnesty declared by the parliament in February this year.

Al-Habbaniyah.

Group claims to fire rocket at US-occupied al-Habbaniyah airbase.

In a dispatch posted at 11:56am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Army of the Muslims resistance group, a constituent member of the Jihad and Change Front, had issued a communiqué on Sunday.

Yaqen reported the group as saying in the communiqué that its fighters had fired a rocket at the US base in al-Habbaniyah, 70km west of Baghdad. The announcement said that after firing the rocket, the group’s fighters left the scene. The communiqué did not say when the attack was supposed to have taken place.

Al-Khalidiyah.

Group claims destruction of US Marine vehicle near al-Khalidiyah.

In a dispatch posted at 11:56am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Brigades of the Da‘wah wa-ar-Ribat, a constituent member of the Jihad and Change Front, had issued a communiqué on Sunday.

Yaqen reported the communiqué as claiming that its fighters had ambushed a US Marine patrol in al-Khalidiyah, 80km west of Baghdad, setting off a bomb by a US amphibious vehicle. The group claimed that the explosion disabled the vehicle killing all the American troops aboard it. The statement did not specify when the alleged attack had taken place.

Baghdad.

Car bomb kills one, injures seven in Baghdad Sunday evening.

In a dispatch posted at 10:15pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a car bomb exploded by the side of a road in the al-‘Allawi area of central Baghdad on Sunday evening.

Yaqen reported a source in the government police as saying that the explosion of the car, which had been parked at the Damascus Intersection in the al-‘Allawi area, killed one person and wounded seven more. Some of the injured are policemen. The blast also inflicted damage on two cars that were on the scene at the time.

Bomb wounds police colonel in Baghdad’s al-Waziriyah Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 2:03pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb had exploded by a patrol of the Iraqi government police in the al-Waziriyah area of Baghdad, near the al-Maghrib Street Intersection in the northern part of the city.

Yaqen reported a source in the police who asked not to be identified as saying that the blast wounded a police colonel and two other policemen. It was the third bomb reported to have gone off in the Iraqi capital on Sunday following one each in the al-Karradah and al-A‘zamiyah areas (see reports below).

Resistance group takes credit for clash with US troops south of Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted at 1:45pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Army of the Rashidin resistance group, a constituent member of the Jihad and Change Front, had issued a communiqué on Sunday.

Yaqen reported the communiqué as announcing that on orders of the commander of the Army of the Rashidin, the group had clashed with US troops using light and medium weapons somewhere to the south of Baghdad. The statement did not specify where or when exactly the attack was supposed to have taken place.

Group claims bomb attack on American column in western Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted at 11:56am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the resistance group, the Army of the Jihad, a new member of the Jihad and Change Front, had issued a communiqué on Sunday announcing that its fighters had detonated a bomb by a US column in the al-Ghazzaliyah area of western Baghdad.

Yaqen reported the communiqué as claiming that the blast totally destroyed a Humvee, killing all aboard.

One civilian killed three others wounded in bomb explosion in Baghdad’s al-Karradah district Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 10:42am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded in the al-Karradah district of central Baghdad on Sunday.

Yaqen reported a source in the Ministry of the Interior as saying that the bomb, planted at the entrance to al-Karradah, killed one civilian and wounded three more.

Bomb kills civilian, wounds two in Baghdad’s al-A‘zamiyah district Saturday evening.

In a dispatch posted at 10:42am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded near the Shaykh Jalal Mosque in the Raghibah Khatun Sunni district of al-A‘zamiyah in northern Baghdad Saturday evening.

Yaqen reported a source in the Interior Ministry as saying that the blast killed one person and wounded two more in addition to severely damaging two cars that had been parked in the area.

Resistance group joins Jihad and Change Front.

In a dispatch posted at 10am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi resistance coalition known as the Jihad and Change Front issued a communiqué announcing that an Iraqi resistance organization calling itself the Army of the Jihad had joined the coalition.

Yaqen reported the statement issued by the Front on Sunday, as saying that the Army of the Jihad had formerly been a part of the Jihad and Resistance Front

Salah ad-Din Province.
Bayji.

US troops kill son of provincial governor in Bayji raid Sunday morning.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:17pm Sunday afternoon Beijing time (12:17pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that US troops shot and killed a son of the American-backed governor of Salah ad-Din Province in an incident in Bayji, 200km north of Baghdad, on Sunday morning.

Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi government police as saying that as US troops were carrying out raids and searches in Bayji, the Americans shot and killed a man named Husam, the son of Hamad Hammud al-Qaysi, the governor of the province. Husam al-Qaysi was killed on the spot along with one of his relatives.

The source said that Husam was visiting the home of his fiancée’s family when US troops raided the house and, in the process, killed him and one of his fiancée’s brothers. The source offered no further details.

In a dispatch posted at 4pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a spokesman for the US occupation forces in Iraq had announced that the Americans had killed the son of the Salah ad-Din Province governor in self defense, when they were pursuing a wanted member of the al-Qa‘idah organization in the Bayji area.

Yaqen reported the American spokesman as saying that US forces were following intelligence information when they raided a house in the Bayji area searching for a man wanted for security matters. In the home, the American spokesman said, the US troops found two gunmen, whom they killed in self-defense. One of those killed was suspected of being a finance official with al-Qa‘idah, the other a member in that organization.

Yaqen noted that ‘Abdallah Husayn Jabbarah, the Lieutenant Governor of Salah ad-Din Province, had announced earlier Sunday that Husam Hamad Hammud, the 17-year-old son of the governor, had been killed with his cousin in a house in the al-‘Asri neighborhood of Bayji.

Diyala Province.
Al-Miqdadiyah.

Three policemen killed in bomb attack in al-Miqdadiyah Sunday afternoon.

In a dispatch posted at 8:15pm Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a car carrying three members of the Iraqi police in al-Miqdadiyah, 85km northeast of Baghdad on Sunday afternoon.

Yaqen reported a source in the Diyala Province government as saying that the blast targeted a civilian car in which the three policemen were driving through the village of Bani Sa‘d, in the al-Wajihiyah area in the district of al-Miqdadiyah. The blast killed the three policemen on the spot.

At-Ta’mim/Kirkuk Province.
Kirkuk.

Bomb wounds policeman in Kirkuk.

In a dispatch posted at 10:23am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a foot patrol of Emergency Police in Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a source in the city police as saying that the blast wounded one policeman and damaged a private car that had been parked near the scene.

Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.

Three cousins gunned down in al-Mawsil Sunday evening.

In a dispatch posted at 9:35pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen in a car shot and killed three people outside their home in al-Mawsil, 420km north of Baghdad, on Sunday evening.

Yaqen reported a source in the Ninwa Province police as saying that the victims were cousins and were shot to death as they stood near their homes in the neighborhood.

Yaqen reported a source in the Ninwa Province police as saying that the gunmen killed a man in the home. The source offered no further details on the case.

Man shot to death in armed home invasion in al-Mawsil Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 9:10pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen attacked a home in the ‘Adan neighborhood of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Sunday.

Yaqen reported a source in the Ninwa Province police as saying that the gunmen killed a man in the home. The source offered no further details on the case.

Sniper kills policeman in al-Mawsil Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 9:10pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported a source in the Ninwa province police as saying that that a sniper had shot and killed an Iraqi policeman who was taking part in a patrol at the al-Masarif Intersection in northern al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Sunday.

Since 10 May, the US and its Iraqi regime allies have been waging an offensive against the al-Qa‘idah organization in al-Mawsil and surrounding Ninwa Province.

Car bomber blasts into shipment of construction materials on its way to US forces in al-Mawsil.

In a dispatch posted at 5:30pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a car bomber blasted into a column of commercial vehicles catering to US forces in the Karaj ash-Shamal area to the east of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a source in the Ninwa Province police as saying that the car bomb attacker slammed into a convoy of vehicles carrying construction equipment to US forces. It had an escort of civilian guards. The source said that the car bomb explosion killed two individuals who were involved with the convoy of building materials.

Since 10 May, the US and its Iraqi regime allies have been waging an offensive against the al-Qa‘idah organization in al-Mawsil and surrounding Ninwa Province.

Iraqi army forces discover Katyusha rocket set to fire.

In a dispatch posted at 5:30pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi regime forces discovered a Katyusha rocket that had been rigged to fire at an Iraqi army unit to the north of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad on Sunday.

Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.

Young woman found shot to death in al-Basrah Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 8:45pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that at dawn on Sunday, Iraqi police discovered the body of a young woman who had been murdered in the southern city of al-Basrah.

Yaqen reported a source in the local police as saying that the body of the 24-year-old woman was found in the al-Jaza’ir district of al-Basrah. Four gunshot wounds were found in the body. The source said that an investigation into the circumstances of the murder of the young woman was underway.

Yaqen noted that during 2007, more than 100 women were killed in the city of al-Basrah, according to official statistics.

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