38 Iraqis, 6 US Soldiers Killed in an Initial June 29, 2007 Report, Including 19 Executed by Death Squads

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

- 5 US soldiers were killed and 7 were injured south of Baghdad on Thursday.

- 6 Iraqi soldiers and two civilians were killed by a suicide truck bombing in the city of Al-Mushahada.

- 19 bodies of Iraqis executed by death squads were found in Baghdad, balad, and Kut.

- Seven mortar rockets exploded in the Green Zone in Baghdad, where the US Embassy and the Iraqi government offices are located.

- US forces killed 11 Iraqi security guards by a mistake north of Baghdad yesterday, thinking that they were members of the Iraqi resistance.

The (US) Associated Press news agency (AP) reported that 9 Iraqis were killed on Friday, and 5 US soldiers were killed on Thursday, June 28, 2007, in addition to another soldier was reported killed yesterday. The AP reported the following news.

A huge bomb exploded near an American patrol and five U.S. soldiers died in the blast and the hail of gunfire and grenades that followed, the U.S. military said Friday. The attack came as the Pentagon tallied up the deadliest three-month period for Americans since the war began.

Seven soldiers were wounded in the attack Thursday in the Rasheed district, an area of southern Baghdad.

Those deaths brought to 99 the number of U.S. troops killed this month, according to an Associated Press count. The toll for the past three months - 329 - made it the deadliest quarter for U.S. troops in Iraq since the March 2003 invasion. That surpasses the 316 soldiers killed during November 2004 to January 2005.

U.S. casualties have been rising since President Bush ordered nearly 30,000 more troops to Iraq in a major push to pacify Baghdad and surrounding areas.

Elsewhere Friday, a suicide truck bomber attacked an Iraqi army post 20 miles north of the capital Friday, killing six soldiers and wounding five others, police said. Two civilians were also killed in a barrage of gunfire that followed, they said.

The blast occurred at a railway station in Mishada, an officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release the information.

Iraqi police said a bomb exploded under a pipeline south of Baghdad, spilling crude oil and sparking a huge fire. The pipeline carries oil from Iraq's southern oil fields to the Dora refinery in the capital.

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