US Soldier, 28 Iraqis Killed, Including 13 Executed by Death Squads, Al-Sadr Suspends Al-Mahdi Army Activities for Six Months

The Iraq News Agency (INA) reported the following news on August 29, 2007.

- Missing Iraqis as a result of the war range between 375,000 and one million, according to a report by the International Committee of the Red Cross.

- 5 Iraqis were killed, 20 injured as a result of clashes during setting on fire a number of offices of the Hakim's Islamic Council, in east Baghdad.

- 8 police officers were killed in a roadside bomb which exploded under their convoy in Al-Miqdadiyah.

- A US soldier was killed in Kirkuk, leading to an arrest campaign among Iraqi Arabs in the city by the Kurdish militia, known as Beshmerga.

- An Iraqi was killed, three were injured in a car bomb explosion, in Al-Mansour, west of Baghdad.

- 13 bodies of Iraqis executed by death squads were found in Baghdad.

- Anwar Abbas, an Iraqi interpreter working for CBS news was killed today after a week of being kidnapped.

- Zalmai Khalil Zad told an Austrian newspaper that US forces will stay in Iraq for the next 20 years.

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AP Headline: Shi'i cleric Muqtada al-Sadr orders 6-month suspension of activities to reorganize militia in Iraq

By DAVID RISING Associated Press Writer

Aug 29, 2007

BAGHDAD (AP) --

Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr has ordered a six-month suspension of activities by his Mahdi Army militia in order to reorganize the force, and it will no longer attack U.S. and coalition troops, aides said Wednesday.

Elsewhere, an American soldier died Wednesday from wounds suffered the day before in fighting near the northern city of Kirkuk, the U.S. military announced.

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Associated Press reporters in Karbala contributed to this report but their names were withheld for their safety.

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