30 Iraqis Killed on June 17, 2007, Megan O'Sullivan, an Iraq King-Maker

Aljazeera.net reported that US forces killed 10 Iraqi fighters. It also reported that Iraqi government forces killed 10 more Iraqi fighters.

The Iraq News Agency (INA) reported that Iraqis and a US soldier were killed on June , 2007.

- US General Raymond Odairno said that only 40% of Baghdad is under US-Iraqi government control.

- Six police recruits were killed, 14 were injured in a suicide bombing in a Falloujah recruitment center today.

- The British newspaper, the Independent, published testimonies of Iraqis who were tortured by British soldiers in a Basra prison. Among them Baha Moussa, whose father intends to sue the British government soon.

- The body of Flaih Waddai, manager of Al-Sabah newspaper, was found today. He was kidnapped few days ago.

- The Association of Muslim Scholars announced the death of Shaikh Jamal Al-Dabban, Mufti of Iraq (60).

- A car bomb exploded near the headquarters of Kurdish forces, Beshmerga, in Kirkuk, killing three and injuring four people.

- The Washington Post reported that private security contracting companies, like Black Water USA of North Carolina, have no official permission to operate in Iraq. However, they have been increasingly involved in military actions and hundreds of security contractors have been injured.

- Megan O'Sullivan, the Bush Envoy to Iraq, reminded Iraqis with Ms. Bill, the British woman who came to Iraq at the beginning of the British occupation in the 1920s. Ms. Bill could arrange for Faisal to be the first King of Iraq, leading to stability until the 1958 revolution. But Iraq is now really different from the 1920s.

The (US) Associated Press news agency (AP) reported that six Iraqis were killed on June , 2007. The AP reported the following news.

U.S. attack helicopters killed four Iraqis and wounded three in operations south of Baghdad, the military said Sunday.

The aircraft were operating in support of Iraqi army soldiers on the ground, who were engaged by Iraqi fighters, the U.S. military said in a statement. The incident took place Friday, it said.

Gunmen fired on the helicopters as they swooped in, then ran into a nearby structure, the statement said. One of the helicopters fired on the building, destroying it.

Afterward, Iraqi soldiers found three sniper rifles, multiple hand grenades and black masks scattered amid the ruins of the building, the military said.

Elsewhere, a car bomb killed two Kurdish security agents Sunday morning in Iraq's oil-rich northern city of Kirkuk, police said.

The men were traveling in a civilian car through downtown Kirkuk when a parked car bomb exploded next to their vehicle, said police Brig. Sarhat Qadir. Three pedestrians were injured, he said.

South of the capital, a roadside bomb went off next to an Iraqi police patrol in Nasiriyah, wounding two policemen, authorities said.

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