Foreign Security Contractor, 39 Iraqis Killed, Including 13 Executed by Death Squads, in a September 12, 2007 Report

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

- A university professor was killed a day after he was kidnapped in Basra.

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

- 6 policemen were killed in an attack on their checkpoint in Mosul.

- A Kurdish Beshmerga militia officer was killed in Baghdad.

- One security contractor who is neither an American or an Iraqi (mercenary) was killed, 11 US soldiers were injured in an attack on Camp Victory in Baghdad.

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Sotaliraq newspaper reported the following news:

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

- 3 Iraqis were killed and a fourth was injured in a car by Iraqi security soldiers in Khalis, Diyala Province.

- An Iraqi man was killed by gunmen in Basra, who left a paper saying he was killed because he was a member of the unification and Jihad group.

- A policeman was killed in Hillah.

- Four civilians were injured in Hillah due to a mortar attack.

- A body of an Iraqi civilian was found north of Hillah.

- 3 Iraqis were killed, several were injured in an Al-Adhamiyah car bomb explosion.

- Two displaced Iraqis from one family were killed in Al-Tahrir area in Ba'aqouba.

- An Iraqi was killed, five were injured in an attack on a foreign SUV convoy in Baghdad.

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The US news agency, Associated Press, reported the deaths of 13 Iraqis and a US-led coalition soldier, in the following news report.

AP Headline: Gunmen Kill 6 Iraqi Police in Ambush

By SAMEER N. YACOUB Associated Press Writer

Sep 12, 2007, 5:08 AM EDT

BAGHDAD (AP) --

Gunmen ambushed an Iraqi police checkpoint in northern Iraq before dawn Wednesday, killing six officers in a sophisticated attack on fledgling Iraqi security installations, police said.

Gunmen packed into four cars screeched up to the checkpoint south of Mosul at around 1:30 a.m., attacking it from both sides, said police Brig. Abdel-Karim al-Jubouri. Clashes lasted about 15 minutes, after which all the gunmen escaped, al-Jubouri said.

Six policemen were killed and the other four at the checkpoint were wounded - all men from the local area, he said. Al-Jubouri said it is believed that the assailants - suspected members of the al-Qaida front group the Islamic State of Iraq - sustained some casualties but nobody was left behind.

The attack occurred in the Gayara area south of Mosul, a mostly Sunni Muslim city that includes many ethnic Kurds, located about 225 miles northwest of Baghdad.

In Diyala's al Salam area, gunmen opened fire on a car at 9 a.m. killing two and wounding two others, while an hour later in another area, assailants shot into a crowd in central Muqdadiyah killing two and wounding two, police said.

Other (war attacks) left at least five other Iraqis dead, police said, including a civilian killed by a roadside bomb on Palestine Street, a popular shopping district in the Iraqi capital. The bomb targeted a passing convoy of SUVs, and left five other people wounded, police said.

The attacks came less than a day after insurgents fired rockets or mortars at the sprawling garrison that houses the headquarters of American forces in Iraq, killing one person and wounding 11 coalition soldiers, the U.S. command said.

The command said Tuesday the person killed was a "third country national," meaning someone who is not an American or Iraqi. Most troops stationed at Camp Victory are American, but other coalition soldiers are based at the complex near Baghdad International Airport and workers from other countries are also there.

No further details on the attack were immediately released.

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Note to Translators:

The Arabic definite article, Al (or its variant, El) should be written with a hyphen separating it from the noun it is associated with, for example Al-Aqsa. If a hyphen is not used, as in Al Aqsa, it confuses non-Arabic readers. They may think that it is an abbreviation of the name Albert, as many Americans do.

The Arabic definite article Al (or El) should be written as such, whether it is Shamsiyah or Qamariyah in pronunciation, simply because we are dealing with the written form of the language, not the spoken one. Using the Shamsiyah so many forms in writing is inaccurate and confusing to non-Arabic readers, to say the least.

Only standard (fasih) pronunciation of Arabic names should be used. Non-standard ('ammi) should be avoided avoided. Example: Names like Abu Sunainah, Abu Rudainah, and Abu Shebak are written by some translators in the non-standard forms of Abu Snainah, Abu Rdainah, and Abu Shbak.

The standard pronunciation of the vowel at the end of names is (a), not (e), particularly if it is followed by (h), like in the cases of Haniyah and Rudainah, not Haniyeh and Rudaineh.

The standard pronunciation of vowels in the following names is (ai), not (ei) as written by some translators: Hussain, not Hussein and Hassanain, not Hassanein. This is the same long vowel pronounced in the English words "rain" and "brain."

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