25 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks, 30 Bodies Found in Ba'aqouba Mass Grave, According to November 28-29, 2008 News Reports

Editor's Note (Below)

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Yaqen.net reported the following Tuesday news:

- US forces killed 2 and arrested three of Hizbullah members in Karradah.

- 3 people, including a police officer, were killed, 18 were injured in a Mosul attack on policemen.

- One person was killed, six were injured in two attacks in north and middle of Baghdad.

- A body of a shepherd was found in Al-Anbar several days after his disappearance.

- A US soldier, Andrea Shepherd (31), applied for a political asylum in Frankfort, Germany on Wednesday, November 26. He is the second US soldier to do so. Shepherd served in US forces in Iraq from September 2004 to February 2005. He said he consider the war in Iraq illegal and disapproved of the killing of civilians there.

- All Iraqi resistance organizations and groups announced rejection of the US-Iraqi security pact which allows US forces to stay in Iraq for three more years, until the end of 2011.

amsi.org and INA reported on Iraqi protests against the US-Iraqi security pact in Baghdad and Karbala.

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2 jewelers, police officer killed separately in Mosul

November 29, 2008 - 03:51:47
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq:

Two jewelers and a police officer were killed and 18 others wounded in two separate attacks by unidentified gunmen in central Mosul city on Saturday, a security source in Ninewa said.

“Unidentified gunmen killed two brothers inside their gold shop in central Mosul without apparent reason,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.

“The gunmen emplaced an improvised explosive device (IED) before the police arrived for investigations. The explosion left one police officer in the rank of lieutenant and 18 others, including 11 policemen, wounded,” the source added.
AmR (P)/SR

4 cops wounded in Baghdad explosion

November 29, 2008 - 10:43:39
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

Four members of the Iraqi police on Saturday were wounded in an explosion that ripped through western the capital Baghdad, according to a security source.

“Today, an improvised explosive device (IED) targeted a police patrol vehicle in al-Ghazaliya area near Badr al-Kobra School, wounding four patrolmen,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
The source did not provide further details.
SS (P)

Mass grave unearthed in Diala village

November 29, 2008 - 08:53:03
DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq:

A mass grave containing the remains of dozens of bodies was found in the northeast of Ba'aqouba city, a local security source said on Saturday.

“During the early hours of this morning, police forces found a mass grave in Albo Tema village, al-Salam district (15 km northeast of Ba'aqouba), containing 30 decayed bodies belonging to civilians, including women and children,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.

Two mass graves have been found in the village throughout the past few months.

Diala province, a mix of Sunnis and Shiites, extends to the northeast of Baghdad as far as the Iranian border. Its capital is Baaquba, 57 km northeast of Baghdad. It covers an area of 17,685 square kilometers (6,828 sq mi).
A large portion of the province is drained by the Diala River, a major tributary of the Tigris.
SS (P)

4 policemen wounded in Diala blast

November 29, 2008 - 08:19:54
DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq:

Four police personnel were wounded in an explosive charge attack that occurred in a Diala district, the head of the district said on Saturday.

“On Friday evening, an improvised explosive device (IED) targeted a police patrol vehicle on the main road leading to Tabbah neighborhood in Diala’s Saadiya district (55 km northeast of Baaquba), wounding four patrolmen,” Ahmed al-Zarkoushi told Aswat al-Iraq.
SS (P)

17 killed, wounded in UNAMI’s HQ attack

November 29, 2008 - 07:52:27
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

Seventeen persons were killed or wounded in a rocket attack that targeted the Baghdad headquarters of the United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) earlier this morning, a spokesperson for the mission said.

“Two persons were killed and 15 others were wounded in a mortar attack on the UNAMI building in Baghdad’s fortified Green Zone,” the spokesperson told Aswat al-Iraq.

The spokesperson refused to reveal the nationalities of the casualties.

The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) was established on August 14, 2003. Its mandate operates through a Special Representative of the United Nations Secretary-General in Iraq. The current mandate has been extended to August 2009. One of its tasks is to implement the International Compact with Iraq.
SS (P)

Child killed as rocket hits his home in Kut

November 28, 2008 - 07:06:48
WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq:

A nine-year-old boy child was killed when a rocket fell on the house of his family in northern al-Kut city on Friday, a security source in Wassit said.

“A Katyusha rocket fell on a man’s house in al-Khajiya, northern Kut, on Friday evening, leaving a child killed and two other family members wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.

The source did not say where the rocket was fired or any other details about the incident.
Kut, the capital city of Wassit, lies 180 km southeast of Baghdad.
AmR (P)

12 killed, 16 wounded in Babel explosion

November 28, 2008 - 10:32:27
BABEL / Aswat al-Iraq:

The explosion that took place in al-Musayab district in Babel earlier on Friday killed 12 persons and injured 16 others, a security source said.

“The preliminary reports assert that the blast was implemented by a suicide bomber carrying Afghan nationality,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.

“The casualties rose to 12 deaths and 16 wounded,” he added.
A security source had said earlier that the explosion that took place in a Shiite mosque in al-Musayab district before the Friday prayer killed eight, including a woman, and injured 18.
SH (P)

Explosion near U.S. base in Sadr City – security source

November 28, 2008 - 10:01:15
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

An explosion occurred on Friday morning near a U.S. base in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, with no word on casualties, a security source said.

“The blast took place near Sahet Hamza in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
“U.S. forces sealed off the roads that lead to the area and prevented civilians from approaching it, while U.S. choppers were seen hovering over the region,” he added.

He did not give more details.

Sadr City is the stronghold of followers of the Shi'i cleric Muqtada al-Sadr, who opposes the security agreement with Washington, approved by the parliament on Thursday.

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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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