70 Iraqis Killed, Including 29 Executed by Death Squads, According to a September 3, 2007 Report

The US news agency, Associated Press, did not report any war attacks or deaths until 10:00 am ET, today.

The Iraqi newspaper Sotaliraq reported the following on September 13, 2007.

- 5 alleged Iraqi fighters were killed by US forces in Al-Saqlawiyah, west of Falloujah.

- 2 policemen were killed, 13 were injured when a suicide car bomber targeted them in an Al-Ramadi police checkpoint, in Al-Anbar Province.

- A roadside bomb exploded targeting a joint US-Iraqi patrol in Mosul.

- The body of Lu-ai Qassem Taha was found in Mosul today, after five days of kidnapping him.

- Six people were injured when a police patrol was targeted by a roadside bomb in Kirkuk.

- 2 Iraqi civilians were killed, three were inured in a car bomb explosion in downtown Baghdad.

- 5 alleged Iraqi fighters and a child were killed in clashes in Al-Dujail.

- 11 people were kidnapped by 15 gunmen posing as a police checkpoint near Al-Hashemiyah village, in the road between Baghdad and Diayala.

- Five Iraqi belonging to the 1920s Resistance organization were arrested by government forces.

- 13 alleged Iraqi fighters were killed by a joint US-Iraqi force in Al-Miqdadiyah.

- 10 Shi'i fightgers from the Jund Al-Sama resistance organization in Al-Najaf were sentenced to death, 390 were sentenced to terms in prisons.

- 29 bodies of Iraqis executed by death squads were found in various areas.

- 14 people were killed in attacks in various areas.

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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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