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28 Iraqis, 2 US Soldiers Killed on July 4, US Helicopter Downed in Mosul, 2007, Fatwa Prohibiting Privatization of the Oil Industry Iraq News Agency (INA): The Iraq News Agency (INA) reported that Iraqis and a US soldier were killed on July , 2007. - 2 Iraqi policemen were killed, seven were injured in a suicide car bombing targeting them in Al-Seediyah neighborhood, southwest of Baghdad. - Another car bombing targeting Iraqi policemen took place in Biji, killing 5 policemen and injuring ten of them. - A US helicopter went down in Mosul, killing one soldier and injuring another. - 4 policemen were killed, two were injured in an attack in Samarra. - 3 policemen were killed, 22 civilians were injured in a Biji bombing. - One soldier was killed, three were injured in the University neighborhood bombing. - 2 Iraqi journalists working for the Islamic Party TV were killed in Baghdad, after two months of kidnapping. - One Iraqi soldier was killed at a fake checkpoint. - In Kirkuk, five policemen were either killed or injured. - An Iraqi soldier was killed, three were injured in a Salman Bek bombing. - 2 bodies were found in Falloujah belonging to members of the pro-government Anbar Council. - Iraqi security forces killed 3 Iraqi fighters in the Diyalli province. - The body of an Iraqi interpreter was found in Basra and five Iraqi girls were freed from their kidnappers. - 3 policemen were killed and ten were injured in bombing northeast of Baghdad. Associated Press (AP): The (US) Associated Press news agency (AP) reported the death of 27 Iraqis and 2 US soldiers in Iraq today July 4, 2007. New Disputes Among Sunnis, Shi'is and Kurds Delay Iraqi Oil Bill Backed by U.S. By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press Writer Jul 4, 2007, 2:48 PM EDT BAGHDAD (AP) -- Attempts to pass a key oil law sought by the U.S. were snarled once more Wednesday by deep differences among Iraq's Sunni, Shi'i and Kurdish leaders, delaying parliament debate despite the prime minister's claims of a breakthrough. Al-Maliki said Tuesday that his Cabinet had unanimously approved a draft of the law, raising hopes that major progress had been made - President Bush phoned the prime minister to thank him for the step. But almost immediately Sunni and Kurdish members of his coalition said they were not yet on board. The influential Sunni organization, the Association of Muslim Scholars, issued a fatwa, or religious edict, blasting the bill as "religiously forbidden" and warned that those who back it "anger God for usurping public money." As U.S. troops in some bases marked the July 4 holiday, two U.S. soldiers were killed during separate incidents, including one who died when a helicopter "went down" in Ninevah province north of Baghdad, the U.S. military reported. The second fatality occurred during combat operations in south Baghdad, the military said without giving further details. A brief statement by Multinational Corps-Iraq said another soldier was wounded in the helicopter incident and was transported to a U.S. military hospital. The statement did not explain why the helicopter went down or whether it was involved in combat operations. U.S. forces killed 10 Iraqis in a raid Wednesday in western Anbar province, the military said in a statement. In a separate battle earlier this week, U.S. troops killed 25 insurgents outside the city of Ba'aqouba, northeast of Baghdad, the military said. Three suicide car bombers hit police checkpoints in Baghdad and the western cities of Ramadi and Habbaniyah, killing eight policemen and two civilians. A car bomb hit a popular restaurant outside the northern town of Beiji on the highway to Baghdad, killing three civilians and wounding 12 people. In northern Iraq, police found the bodies of two
members of the minority Yazidi religious sect who had been reported
kidnapped three days earlier in the city of Mosul, police said. The
bullet-riddled body of an abducted police colonel, a Sunni Kurd, was
found in Baghdad. U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq at 3,584 Tuesday, According to Count by the Associated Press Jul 3, 2007, 8:05 PM EDT As of Tuesday, July 3, 2007, at least 3,584 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count. The figure includes seven military civilians. At least 2,947 died as a result of hostile action, according to the military's numbers. The AP count is one higher than the Defense Department's tally, last updated Tuesday at 10 a.m. EDT. The British military has reported 156 deaths; Italy, 33; Ukraine, 18; Poland, 20; Bulgaria, 13; Spain, 11; Denmark, seven; El Salvador, five; Slovakia, four; Latvia, three; Estonia, Netherlands, Thailand, two each; and Australia, Hungary, Kazakhstan, Romania, South Korea, one death each
A Religious edict, a fatwa, by the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq concerning the proposed "Oil Law." The fatwa prohibits privatization of the oil industry because this contradicts with the Islamic Law (Shari'ah), which considers oil and other minerals as a collective property of the nation as a whole. The fatwa also urged the Parliament not to attempt even to vote on the proposed law. بسم الله الرحمن الرحيم
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