6 US Soldiers, 16 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks, According to Initial July 6, 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 that 3 policemen were killed, 12 were injured in a car bomb in Al-Sha'ab area, north of Baghdad.

- Seven people were killed, four were injured when a bomb attaches to a car exploded. The car belonged to a leader in the National Kurdish Union Party, Muhammed Ramadan.

- Five US soldiers were killed, six were injured in a suicide car bomb attack on a joint checkpoint in Rawa, in Al-Anbar Province. Five Iraqi policemen were also killed, 18 were injured in the same attack. Several vehicles were destroyed as a result of the explosion. US helicopters carries the casualties to the US military base in Ain Al-Assad.

- An Iraqi army officer was killed, four soldiers were injured in a roadside bomb in Al-Suwais area in Mosul.

- An Iraqi soldier was killed, four were injured in a roadside bomb explosion in Ba'aqouba.

- An Iraqi man was killed, eight were arrested by Iraqi soldiers in Mosul.

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4 killed, 12 wounded in Iraq violence until Sunday afternoon

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 06 /07 /2008 Time 6:58:16
BAGHDAD, July 6 (VOI) –

Four people, including a U.S. soldier, were killed and 12 others wounded in acts of violence in different areas of Iraq during the period between Saturday evening and Sunday afternoon, according to security sources.

In Baghdad, Maj. General Qassem Atta, the spokesman for the Baghdad Security Operations Command, said eight civilians sustained different wounds when a car bomb parked by unidentified persons on the main road in al-Shaab area, northeastern Baghdad, went off on Sunday.

The U.S. army in Iraq said a Multi-National Force (MNF) soldier was killed in non-combat incident in Baghdad on Saturday, the first U.S. death in July 2008, upping to 4115 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq since the 2003 invasion.

In Diala province, 57 km northeast of Baghdad, a local police source said an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near an Iraqi army patrol in Kana'an district, Ba'aqouba city, killing an Iraqi soldier and wounding four others.

In Babel province, 100 km south of Baghdad, a security source said policemen on Sunday morning found an unidentified body of a woman in a neighborhood in central Hilla city.

In Wassit, 180 km south of Baghdad, unidentified gunmen opened fire at Samir Muhammad Ja'afar Khalati after storming his house in al-Hora area, central Kut city, killing him instantly.

In Ninewa, 405 km north of Baghdad, a security source said unidentified gunmen in a civilian vehicle kidnapped two preparatory school girls in the predominantly Christian district of Talkif, northern Mosul, supposedly considered one of the safest areas in Ninewa.

AE

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Iraq War Report for events of Saturday, 5 July 2008.

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,

member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.

Saturday, 5 July 2008.

·        Iraqi regime troops raid, shut down office of Sadr Movement in Baghdad’s ash-Shu‘lah neighborhood in continued preparations for US attack on Iran.

·        Fifty-five Zionist companies said to be operating in Iraq under assumed names.

·        In continued preparations for American attack on Iran, Iraqi regime police arrest six anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen in raids, searches in al-Basrah.

Al-Anbar Province.
Ar-Ramadi.

Five al-Qa ‘idah commanders escape from ar-Ramadi prison. Inside help seen as likely.

In a dispatch posted at 8:50pm Baghdad time Saturday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that five commanders of the al-Qa‘idah Organization managed to escape from a prison in ar-Ramadi, 110km west of Baghdad, on Friday evening.

Yaqen reported an officer in the ar-Ramadi police who refused to be identified as saying that five al-Qa ‘idah commanders who had been prisoners, escaped from al-Jazirah Prison located to the north of ar-Ramadi. How they escaped remained unknown to the media and there was no indication that they had been recaptured as of the time of reporting. The source speculated that the prisoners had received help in escaping from officials in the prison.

Al-Fallujah.

Pro-American Islamic Party official severely wounded in bomb attack in al-Fallujah Saturday morning.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:35pm Saturday afternoon Beijing time (12:35pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by the car in which Khalid ‘Ubayd, an official of the Iraqi Islamic Party, was driving near his party’s headquarters in al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad on Saturday morning.

Xinhua reported a source in the city police as saying that the bomb severely wounded ‘Ubayd, his driver, and a civilian bystander. Al-‘Ubayd’s car was destroyed and the party headquarters damaged in the explosion.

The Iraqi Islamic Party, founded by the Iraqi Muslim Brotherhood fundamentalist organization after the US occupation of the country in 2003. It took part in the “Governing Council” chaired by US proconsul L. Paul Bremer in that same year and has been working with the US occupation authorities ever since. The Islamic Party in al-Anbar Province has been involved in rivalry with another Sunni collaborationist movement – the tribal-based “Awakening” committees. The Party has also been a target of attacks by the al-Qa‘idah Organization, the activity of which has been on the rise in al-Anbar Province in recent weeks.

Baghdad.

Iraqi regime troops raid, shut down office of Sadr Movement in Baghdad’s ash-Shu‘lah neighborhood in continued preparations for US attack on Iran.

In a dispatch posted at 7:33pm Baghdad time Saturday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi army forces stormed into the office of the anti-occupation Sadr Movement in northwestern Baghdad’s ash-Shu‘lah neighborhood on Saturday. Yaqen reported a spokesman for the Sadr Movement as saying that the regime forces shut down the office with out any legal justification.

Hamadallah ar-Rikabi, spokesman for the Sadr Office, said that Iraqi regime troops stormed the Sadr Office at midday Saturday and shut it down. The troops did not, however, arrest the personnel in the office or confiscate the office supplies.

Ar-Rikabi said that the office shut down on Saturday had only been opened for a bout a week. It was set up a week ago to replace a previous Sadr headquarters that the Iraqi regime shut down and turned into an Iraqi army facility. The new office was in a residential building and the Sadr Movement had rented the space from its Iraqi owner.

Ar-Rikabi said that the Iraqi regime’s purpose in closing the office was simply to target the Sadr Movement.

Since March, the US-backed Iraqi regime has been actively engaged in an offensive against the anti-occupation Sadr Movement and its armed wing, the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, in Iraq, in what is believed to be preparation for an American attack on Iran.

Fifty-five Zionist companies said to be operating in Iraq under assumed names.

In a dispatch posted at 6:55pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that 55 “Israeli” companies were now working in Iraq under assumed names.

Yaqen reported that the Zionist firms operate in a variety of fields, including infrastructure and marketing. The Zionist Mossad secret police agency had established the Kurdish Lending Bank with its headquarters in as-Sulaymaniyah in the US-founded Kurdish separatist enclave in northern Iraq.

The report indicated that the Kurdish Lending Bank had a secret mission of purchasing vast tracts of agricultural land, oil fields, and residential areas in the vicinity of the cities of al-Mawsil and Kirkuk, both oil-rich cities in northern Iraq. The massive land purchases facilitate the effort by the US-backed Kurdish separatist Peshmergah militia to expel Arab and Turkoman residents of northern Iraq so that the oil-rich area can be annexed to the Kurdish separatist state under US and Zionist hegemony.

Meanwhile the Zionist state exports more than $300 million in goods to Iraq annually. In addition Zionist companies obtain contracts for construction projects in Iraq, thanks to help from USAID, the American agency that oversees the allocation of building contracts in Iraq.

The report indicated that one of the chief beneficiaries of the Zionist presence in Iraq has been former “Israeli” Chief of Staff Amnon Lipkin-Shahak who also formerly served as “Israeli” Minister of Communications.

Bomb explodes by security patrol in al-Andalus Square Saturday morning.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:35pm Saturday morning Beijing time (12:35pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a passing patrol of the Iraqi Interior Ministry Shock Troops (Maghawir) in Baghdad on Saturday morning.

Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi police as saying that the bomb exploded in al-Andalus Square in central Baghdad, wounding one of the Shock Troops and one civilian. A patrol vehicle was damaged in the blast, which also shattered glass in the windows of several nearby shops.

Two civilians killed in bomb explosion in western Baghdad Friday evening.

In a dispatch posted at 9:50am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb stuck to a car blew up near a market in the al-Yarmuk district of western Baghdad on Friday evening.

Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying Saturday that the blast had killed two people and wounded eight more. The explosion also damaged several cars and storefronts in the area.

Salah ad-Din Province.
Ad-Dulu‘iyah.

Gunmen kill officer in Iraqi government army west of ad-Dulu‘iyah.

In a dispatch posted at 9:56pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen killed an officer in the Iraqi government army and wounded another in an attack to the west of ad-Dulu‘iyah, 97km north of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a source in the ad-Dulu‘iyah police as saying that the gunmen, armed with machine guns attacked a car carrying an Iraqi captain as he was returning hom in the village of al-Huwayjah al-Bahriyah to the west of ad-Dulu‘iyah. The captain was killed in the attack and one of his companions severely wounded.

The attack took place following a car bombing that targeted Iraqi security forces some days ago, in which seven policemen were killed and three policemn wounded.

Wasit Province.
Al-Kut.

Local Jaysh al-Mahdi commander arrested in al-Kut as preparations for US attack on Iran continue.

In a dispatch posted at 2:35pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi regime authorities in Wasit Province arrested a commander in the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in al-Kut, 180km southeast of Baghdad, on Saturday. Yaqen reported a source in the regime as saying that the man was arrested in local markets.

Since March, the US-backed Iraqi regime has been actively engaged in an offensive against the anti-occupation Sadr Movement and its armed wing, the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, in Iraq, in what is believed to be preparation for an American attack on Iran.

Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.

Two policemen reported killed in armed attack on patrol in northeastern al-Mawsil.

In a dispatch posted at 6:48pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen opened fire on a police patrol in the Karaj area of northeastern al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a source in the al-Mawsil police as saying that the attack left two members of the patrol dead.

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.

Attack on police patrol in eastern al-Mawsil leaves policeman dead.

In a dispatch posted at 6:48pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen opened fire on a police patrol in the al-Jaza’ir neighborhood of eastern al-Mawsil.

Yaqen reported a source in the al-Mawsil police as saying that one policeman was killed in the attack.

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.

Two policemen killed in attack on checkpoint in al-Mawsil.

In a dispatch posted at 4:17pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen in a car had attacked a police checkpoint in the city of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported the US military as announcing that two policemen were killed in the drive-by shooting.

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 bomb kills civilian in al-Mawsil, Saturday.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:37pm Saturday afternoon Beijing time, the Xinhua News Agency reported that a car bomb went off by a patrol of Iraqi policemen in the az-Zira‘ah neighborhood of northern al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Saturday.

Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi police as saying that the car bomb, which had been parked by the side of a road, killed one civilian bystander and wounded four other civilians and two policemen. The blast also heavily damaged one patrol vehicle and a number of nearby buildings.

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.

Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.

In continued preparations for American attack on Iran, Iraqi regime police arrest six anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen in raids, searches in al-Basrah.

In a dispatch posted at 3:35pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi government police arrested six members of the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in al-Basrah on Saturday.

Yaqen reported a source in the al-Basrah Province police as saying that the arrests were carried out in the course of raids in various parts of the soutnern city of al-Basrah.

The Yaqen news agency on Thursday and Xinhua on Friday had quoted Iraqi regime authorities as making the same claims about arresting six Jaysh al-Mahdi men and seizing 35 mortar shells in the course of raids on Thursday and again on Friday.

Since March, the US-backed Iraqi regime has been actively engaged in an offensive against the anti-occupation Sadr Movement and its armed wing, the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, in Iraq, in what is believed to be preparation for an American attack on Iran.

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