US Soldier, 37 Iraqis Killed, Including 16 Executed by Death Squads, According to a November 4 News Report

The Iraq News Agency, INA, reported the deaths of 7 Beshmerga Kurdish soldiers, and the injury of 13 of them in an attack in Habhab.

Bodies of a senior police officer and two of his guards were found in Tikrit.

A school headmistress in Al-Sidiyah, Baghdad, was killed and her assistant was injured in an attack.

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IED leaves 7 casualties in Baghdad

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq Sunday , 04 /11 /2007 Time 7:28:56

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One policeman was killed and six others wounded when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near their patrol in the area of al-Harithiya, western Baghdad, on Sunday, the Iraqi police said. "The roadside bomb, planted at the entrance of al-Harithiya, went off when an Iraqi police patrol was passing by," a security source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "The wounded were rushed to a hospital and their condition is unstable," he added.

4 unidentified bodies found in Baghdad

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq Sunday , 04 /11 /2007 Time 7:28:56

Baghdad, Nov 4, (VOI) –

Four unidentified bodies were found in different areas in the Iraqi capital Baghdad on Sunday, police said. "The bodies were blindfolded and had their hands tied and showed signs of having been shot, mostly in the head," an Iraqi interior ministry source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "One of the bodies was in the area of al-Mansour, the second in al-Jihad neighborhood, the third in al-Aamil neighborhood and the fourth in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad," the source added.

Car bomb kills 3, wounds 13 in Tikrit

Salah al-Din - Voices of Iraq Sunday , 04 /11 /2007 Time 7:28:56

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Three civilians, including a child, were killed and 13 others wounded in a car bomb attack in a busy commercial area in central Tikrit on Sunday evening, police said.

"The explosive vehicle was parked near the central post department in central Tikrit, where the commercial area is crowded during evening time," an official source in Salah al-Din province told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) on condition of anonymity. "The attack left three civilians, including one child, killed and 13 others, including four policemen who happened to be passing by in the area, wounded," he said. The source added that the blast also set eight civilian vehicles ablaze and caused severe damage to stores and property. Tikrit, the capital of Salah al-Din, lies 175 km north of Baghdad.

3 killed, wounded in attacks in Diala

Diala - Voices of Iraq Sunday , 04 /11 /2007 Time 7:28:56

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One civilian was killed and another wounded when an explosive charge went off northeast of Ba'aquba while unidentified gunmen shot down a woman in the area of Seif Sa'ad, Ba'aquba, an official security source said on Sunday. "An explosive device went off near a house in the village of Zaghniyeh, in the district of Abi Sayda, (25 km northeast of Ba'aquba), killing one civilian and injuring another," the source, who did not want his name mentioned, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

Meanwhile, the same source said "unidentified gunmen opened fire at a woman in Seif Sa'ad, killing her instantly before escaping to an unknown place." The source did not give further details. Policemen in Diala also found an unidentified body inside al-Tahrir neighborhood in Ba'aquba, the source said, adding the body "showed signs of having been shot in the head." Ba'aquba, the capital of Diala, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.

2 car bombs leave 17 wounded in Mosul

Ninewa - Voices of Iraq Sunday , 04 /11 /2007 Time 7:28:56

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Seventeen people, including seven civilians, were wounded when two car bombs went off consecutively in western Mosul on Sunday, police said.

"The first explosive vehicle, a small one, targeted guards off a building adjacent to a police station in Bab Sinjar area, western Mosul, followed five minutes later by a truck bomb attack that targeted the same position," Maj. General Wathiq al-Hamadani, the Ninewa police director, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "Suspecting policemen in the place opened fire at the truck while it was dashing forward but it blew up, leaving 10 policemen and seven civilians wounded," said Hamadani. Mosul, the capital of Ninewa province, lies 402 km north of Baghdad.

30 gunmen arrested, 3 unknown bodies found in Anbar

Anbar - Voices of Iraq Sunday , 04 /11 /2007 Time 7:28:56

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The Anbar Awakening Force arrested 30 gunmen in a security operation northeast of Falluja city, an official security source in the Falluja police said. "A force of 70 men from the Anbar Awakening Force detained 30 gunmen belonging to al-Qaeda Organization in Iraq and seized arms and CDs containing information and names of al-Qaeda members in the area of al-Karma, Falluja," the source, who declined to have his name mentioned, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

"The operation occurred after gathering all the information about the presence of gunmen of al-Qaeda and the weapons they have inside the city," the source added. The Anbar Awakening Force is a group composed of clans that fight members of al-Qaeda Organization in the predominantly Sunni province. Meanwhile, the same source said, policemen in the city "found three decayed unidentified bodies dumped in a river near a hideout of al-Qaeda gunmen," adding "they were among the bodies of people kidnapped by al-Qaeda members in the area." Falluja, the largest city in Anbar province, lies 45 km west of Baghdad.

2 attacks in Diala leave 6 casualties

Diala - Voices of Iraq Sunday , 04 /11 /2007 Time 7:28:56

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One Iraqi soldier was killed and three others wounded in an armed attack north of Ba'aquba while a child was killed and a woman injured in a mortar attack on a village in al-Khalis district on Sunday, police said. "Unidentified gunmen suspected of belonging to al-Qaeda Organization in Iraq opened fire at a checkpoint of the Iraqi army's 5th Division near Habhab district, (25 km) north of Ba'aquba, killing a solider and wounding three others," an official source in the Diala Operations Room told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "In the village of al-Kubat, al-Khalis district, (15 km) north of Ba'aquba, four mortar shells fell on a house, killing a child and wounding a woman and causing severe damage to the building," the same source said. Ba'aquba, the capital of Diala province, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.

Two finance ministry employees gunned down in Baghdad

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq Sunday , 04 /11 /2007 Time 7:28:56

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Two employees from the Iraqi Ministry of Finance, including one who holds a senior post, were killed by unknown gunmen in western Baghdad, medic and police sources said on Sunday.

"A counselor in the Ministry of Finance, Qutayba Badr al-Din Mahmoud, and Usama Kadhem Muhammad, a ministry employee, were found dead in a car in al-Jamea neighborhood in western Baghdad," a security source, who preferred to remain unnamed, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI).

"The two bodies were taken by an army patrol vehicle to the nearby Yarmuk Hospital," the source claimed. A medic from the hospital told VOI that Mahmoud's body bore several gun shot wounds to the head while Muhammad had been shot in the chest and face. Despite the relative improvement in the security situation in Baghdad, government employees remain a prime target for gunmen.

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Nine unidentified bodies found in Khalis

Diala - Voices of Iraq Sunday , 04 /11 /2007 Time 7:28:56

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Iraqi police patrols found on Sunday morning nine unidentified bodies dumped in different parts of Khalis district, 55 km north east of Baghdad, a police source said. "Police patrols found nine unidentified bodies, this morning, dumped in different parts of Khalis," the source, who requested anonymity, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The source added that the bodies had gunshot wounds to different parts of the bodies. Khalis is a scene of conflict between the government backed tribesmen and security forces on the one hand and Qaeda militants on the other. Khalis is a district within Diala province in central Iraq. SK

U.S. soldier killed, wounded in Salah al-Din- army

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq Sunday , 04 /11 /2007 Time 7:28:56

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A U.S. serviceman was killed and another wounded in an explosion in the central province of Salah al-Din, the U.S. army said on Sunday. "A Multi-National Division – North Soldier died in an explosion in Salah ad Din province, Nov. 3," read a U.S. army statement received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "Additionally, one soldier was wounded and taken to a CF medical facility," the statement indicated.

The death brings the number of U.S. troops killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 to 3,849, including four in November 2007. 39 U.S. soldiers were killed last month, the lowest number of U.S. fatalities since March 2006. November 2004, which witnessed fierce battles between U.S. forces and armed groups in Fallouja city, Anbar province, remains the month that saw the highest U.S. death toll with 137. April 2004 comes second with 135, followed by May 2007 during which 126 U.S. soldiers were killed.

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AP Headline: Iraqi Finance Ministry Aide Killed With Driver; 13 Others Killed or Found Dead Across Country

By SINAN SALAHEDDIN Associated Press Writer

Nov 4, 5:30 PM EST

BAGHDAD (AP) --

Two carloads of gunmen ambushed a top aide to Iraq's Finance Ministry on Sunday in Baghdad, killing him and his driver, police said. The two were among 15 people killed or found dead in Iraq.

The Finance Ministry had no immediate comment about the attack on Qutaiba Badir al-Din Mohammed, adviser to Iraq's finance minister.

Attacks claimed the lives of 10 Iraqis in Diyala, the troubled province northeast of Baghdad. Police said the victims included an Iraqi soldier, a policeman and an 8-year-old child, all killed separately.

The soldier died when gunmen attacked his patrol in Khalis, a mostly Shiite town 50 miles north of the capital, police said. Three other soldiers were wounded in the attack, they said.

The child died after seven mortar rounds landed on a residential area in the same town at sunrise, police said. A woman was also wounded by the barrage. And the policeman was killed in a drive-by shooting in nearby Muqdadiyah, 60 miles north of Baghdad, police said.

Meanwhile, police said clashes broke out in Buhriz, a suburb of Diyala's provincial capital, Baqouba. Policemen backed by members of the 1920s Revolution Brigades, a Sunni former insurgent group, battled gunmen and seized weapons and ammunition, they said. Four people were killed, including a 1920s member, police said.

Later, a civilian was killed by a roadside bomb north of Baqouba, and a severed head was found dumped at a farm nearby, police said.

Another body was found floating in a drainage ditch in the Tahrir area, in a southern part of the city, they said.

Farther west, a parked car bomb exploded in a commercial area in central Tikrit, killing three people including a 6-year-old boy, police said.

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