9 US Soldiers, 64 Iraqis Killed, Including 12 Executed by Death Squads, According to a September 10, 2007 Report

ccun.org, September 10, 2007

The Iraq News Agency (INA) reported the following news in its September 10, 2007 war news report.

- 30 Iraqis were killed, 70 were injured in various attacks.

- 10 Mahdi Army militiamen were killed, 20 were injured in an attack on a neighborhood south of Baghdad.

- Iraqis in Al-Washash area in Baghdad demonstrated in protest against US air raids on Sadr city and Tikirit.

- 52 Iraqis were killed in attacks yesterday.

- 2 Iraqis were killed, 13 were injured in a Yousufiyah roadside bomb explosion.

- Juma'a Ibrahim, the financial inspector of the Basra province, was killed in his car by gunmen, who also burned him inside it afterwards.

Sotaliraq newspaper reported the following news:

- 10 bodies of Iraqis executed by death squads were found in Baghdad.

- 10 Iraqis were killed, 60 were injured in a village called Zamar, northwest of Mosul.

- 6 Iraqis were killed by US forces south of Baghdad.

- 2 bodies of Iraqis executed by death squads were found in Suwairah, south of Baghdad.

- 3 Iraqis were killed, 13 were injured in a roadside bomb explosion in Al-Yousufiyah.

- 4 Iraqis were killed in a suicide car attack on Al-Saqlawiyah police station.

- 12 Iraqis were killed by US forces in Balad, in Salahudding Province.

- An Iraqi was killed, five were injured in a US air raid on Sadr city.

- 2 Iraqis were killed, five were injured in an explosion in the Karkh area in Baghdad.

- 14 million Iraqis are living below poverty line.

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The US news agency, Associated Press, reported the deaths of nine US soldiers and sixteen Iraqis in the following news report.

AP Headline: 9 GIs die in Iraq, military reports

By ROBERT H. REID Associated Press Writer

Sep 10, 2007, 8:43 PM EDT

BAGHDAD (AP) --

The U.S. military reported the deaths of nine soldiers Monday - including seven killed in a vehicle accident.

In western Baghdad, seven U.S. soldiers were killed in a vehicle accident that also claimed the lives of two detainees, the military said. Eleven soldiers from Multinational Division-Baghdad and one detainee were also injured in the west Baghdad accident, the military said without giving further details. The U.S. statement made no mention of hostile fire and did not specify the neighborhood.

A U.S. spokesman, Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, said all the victims were traveling in the same vehicle.

Another U.S. soldier was killed and two were injured when their vehicle overturned east of the capital, the military said in a statement. The military also said a soldier died Sunday of wounds suffered in fighting near Kirkuk in northern Iraq.

In the north, a suicide car bomber killed eight people and injured 20 others in an attack near an Iraqi army headquarters near Tall Afar, 260 miles northwest of Baghdad, the local mayor Nam Abdullah said.

Also Monday, U.S. and Iraqi troops killed three civilians during a raid in Sadr City, police and residents said.

Bleichwehl, the military spokesman, said the raid targeted a suspect who eluded capture. He said there were no reports of civilian or military casualties.

But residents showed AP Television News the coffins of the people they said were killed in the raid - a woman and her two daughters. A police officer, speaking on condition of anonymity for security reasons, confirmed they were killed in the firefight.

In Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi troops killed 12 (Iraqi fighters) in a morning attack, the U.S. said. Three American soldiers were wounded.

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Associated Press writer Hamza Hendawi contributed to this report.

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