43 Iraqis Killed, Including 19 Executed by Death Squads, 63 US Soldiers Killed in September, Parliament Replies to US Plans to Partition Iraq, an October 1, 2007 Report

The Iraq News Agency, INA, reported that 8 bodies of Iraqis executed by death squads were found in Baghdad and 11 were found in Mosul.

2 killed, wounded in Diala, state facility destroyed

Diala - Voices of Iraq Monday , 01 /10 /2007 Time 3:05:10

Diala, Oct 1, (VOI) –

One man was killed and a child wounded in two separate attacks on Monday in the province of Diala, where unidentified gunmen blew up a government building near Baaquba, police said. "Gunmen from al-Qaeda Organization in Iraq shot down a man from the district of al-Khalis, (55 km) northeast of Baghdad," an official security source in Diala told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). A child was wounded on Monday in the area of al-Jalali, al-Muqdadiya district, (45 km) northeast of Baaquba, in clashes between policemen and members of an armed group, the source said. Meanwhile, the same source said an armed group detonated a government building that was formerly used as a public library in Baaquba. Baaquba, the capital of Diala province, is 57 km northeast of Baghdad.

Mosul car bomb casualties up, second blast reported

Ninewa - Voices of Iraq Monday , 01 /10 /2007 Time 3:05:10

Ninewa, Oct 1, (VO) –

Casualties of Monday's earlier car bomb that targeted Mosul University rose to six wounded and still only one death, while a second car bomb attack reportedly caused no casualties, a police official in Ninewa said.

"Four from the six people wounded in the blast are university students. The suicide bomber inside the vehicle was killed too," said Muhammad al-Wakkaa, the Ninewa police deputy chief, in statements to the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The attack on Mosul University occurred in the beginning of a new academic year in Iraq and also in a time when the city is witnessing serious security escalations since the start of the holy fasting Muslim month of Ramadan. Wakkaa said the explosive vehicle was parked in a street in the area of al-Jamea, northern Mosul, with the bomber inside it. When a police patrol vehicle was passing by, the car bomb went off, he added, noting no casualties among Iraqi policemen were reported. Earlier on Monday Wakkaa said that a university professor was killed and five civilians, including four students, were wounded in an initial count of casualties from a car bomb attack near Mosul University. Mosul, the capital of Ninewa province, lies 402 km north of Baghdad. Ninewa Governor Dreid Kashmoula had warned that members of the al-Qaeda Organization have been taking positions in Mosul after security campaigns and operations flushed them out of the provinces of al-Anbar and Diala.

3 killed, 5 wounded in clashes in Diala

Diala - Voices of Iraq Monday , 01 /10 /2007 Time 3:05:10

Diala, Oct 1, (VOI) –

Three gunmen, including two members of al-Qaeda Organization in Iraq, were killed and five others wounded in clashes during the early hours of Monday between al-Qaeda operatives and local residents in Diala, an official security source said.

"Local residents of al-Naqib village, al-Khalist district, repulsed an armed attack waged by scores of al-Qaeda, in which an inhabitant of the village was killed and five others wounded. The resistance ended in the killing of two of the gunmen," the source, who declined to have his name mentioned, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "Three houses were destroyed and vast plots of farmland were set ablaze in the attack," the source said, adding experts managed to defuse 25 explosive charges planted by al-Qaeda members on the road leading al-Naqib village after carrying out their attack. Sheikh Moussa al-Abboud, a notable of al-Naqib, 15 km north of Ba'aquba, said the village "comes under frequent attacks waged from al-Qaeda's strongholds in al-Khalis." "In these strongholds there are fighters who were flushed out from Ba'aquba, capital of Diala province, by the battles of Operation Arrowhead Ripper," Sheikh Abboud told VOI. Diala is 57 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

U.S. fatality raises September toll to 63

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq Monday , 01 /10 /2007 Time 3:05:10

Baghdad, Oct 1, (VOI) –

A U.S. soldier was killed in an attack with small arms on his patrol in the eastern section of the capital Baghdad on Sunday, upping to 63 the U.S. death toll during September 2007, the U.S. army said on Monday.

"A soldier of the Multi-National Force-Baghdad (MNF-B) was killed when his patrol was on a combat mission on Sunday," the U.S. army said in a statement received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The death brings to 3,408 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 as officially announced by the U.S. army. From this number eighty-four servicemen were killed in August 2007. However, September 2007 is the month with the lowest U.S. death toll since August 2006, in which 65 soldiers were killed. U.S. deaths started going up to reach their peak in May 2007, when 126 soldiers were killed, being the month with the third highest toll. February 2004 is still the month with the lowest number of U.S. deaths in Iraq since the 2003 war as only 20 soldiers were killed. November 2004, in which fierce battles erupted between the U.S. forces and the armed groups in restive Falluja, a city in the predominantly Sunni province of al-Anbar, is still the month with the highest U.S. death toll with 137 soldiers killed. April 2004 is the second highest with 135 U.S. fatalities.

18 Iraqi gunmen killed, 28 others arrested in al-Muqdadiya

Diala - Voices of Iraq Monday , 01 /10 /2007 Time 3:05:10

Diala, Oct 1, (VOI) –

A joint Iraqi-U.S. force killed 18 Iraqi fighters, including three Saudis, and arrested 28 others in a security operation in the district of al-Muqdadiya, 45 km northeast of Ba'aquba, during the early hours of Monday, an Iraqi army source said.

"The raid, conducted by an Iraqi army-police force backed by the Multi-National Force (MNF), also resulted in the seizure of an amount of arms and ammunition," the source, who refused to have his name mentioned, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The operation comprised the neighborhoods of al-Aaskari, al-Mualimeen, al-Aasri, al-Mijdad and Ballour. Baaquba, the capital of Diala province, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.

Three policemen wounded as charge explodes near Kirkuk

Kirkuk - Voices of Iraq Monday , 01 /10 /2007 Time 3:05:10

Kirkuk, Sept 30, (VOI)-

At least three policemen were wounded on Sunday as a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, a police source said. "A roadside bomb detonated, today afternoon, near a police patrol vehicle, on the main road in al-Hawija district, wounding three policemen," the source, who preferred to be unnamed, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The source added "the wounded were rushed to a nearby hospital for treatment." Kirkuk is 250 km northeast of Baghdad.

Iraqi parliament to debate reply to U.S. Congress resolution on Tuesday

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq Monday , 01 /10 /2007 Time 3:05:10

Baghdad, Oct 1, (VOI) –

The Iraqi parliament will debate in its ordinary session on Tuesday the reply to the U.S. Congress resolution on the division of Iraq into three Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni entities, parliamentary sources said on Monday.

"The debate about a reply to the U.S. Senate resolution on the division of Iraq will be of top priority in Tuesday's session," Dr. Hanin al-Qadou, a legislator from the Shiite Unified Iraqi Coalition (UIC), told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). He expected the reply to be in "the form of a statement by the Iraqi parliament on this issue in view of the fact that enacting a legislation could take a long time." He pointed out that the matter does not even require enacting a law because the content of the American resolution flagrantly interfered in Iraq's internal affairs, let alone its violation of the Iraqi constitution. Qadou noted that the Iraqi constitution guarantees the country's "territorial integrity and national sovereignty," adding the Congress' resolution "can never change Iraq's settled national principles." He said the U.S. resolution "only aimed to cause Iraq to slide into the pits of a civil war only God knows when it will end." "It is the duty of all the national powers (in Iraq) to reject such an insolent resolution and to quickly announce their positions in the face of this trivializing with the sovereignty of Iraq," he said. Meanwhile, a media source in the Iraqi parliament said the 11th session of the 2nd legislative term will start on Tuesday to have the first and second readings of a number of draft laws. Seven clerical and parliamentary powers that have the majority of the seats had called on Sunday for dedicating a session to debate a U.S. resolution that urged the division of Iraq. The Senate resolution, which won the majority of 75 votes against 23, provides that Iraq would be divided into three Shiite, Kurdish and Sunni entities with a federal government in Baghdad undertaking the responsibilities of border security and management of oil proceeds. The Senators who proposed the "non-binding" draft resolution considered that it was the "only solution" to grind to a halt acts of violence sweeping the war-scarred nation.

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