51 Iraqis Killed, Including 15 Executed by Death Squads, According to Initial September 4, 2007 Reports

ccun.org, September 4, 2007

The Iraq News Agency, INA, reported the deaths of 38 people on September 4, 2007. This included the following:

- Ali Al-Rashidi, a photographer working for Al-Iraqiya TV, in Mosul.

- 8 engineers working for the Ministry of Electricity, were killed in Al-Waziriya, north of Baghdad.

- One person was killed, five were injured east of Baghdad.

- One person was also killed and five were injured south of Baghdad, in Al-Za'afarainyah.

- 2 soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Kirkuk.

- 10 Iraqi fighters were killed, 57 were arrested by the police and army.

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

The Iraqi news paper Sotaliraq reported the following different stories also today:

- 5 civilians and one fighter killed in Al-Dawaood village clashes.

- 2 Iraqi civilians were killed, three were injured in Al-Doura south of Baghdad, by US helicopter bombs.

- Five civilians were injured by a mortar attack in Kirkuk.

- An Iraqi man was killed by police in Mosul, claiming that he was a suicide bomber.

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AP Headline: U.S. General: Next Few Months Crucial

By ROBERT H. REID Associated Press Writer

Sep 4, 2007, 2:58 PM EDT

BAGHDAD (AP) --

The No. 2 U.S. commander in Iraq said Tuesday that the next three to four months will be crucial in determining whether the United States can start to withdraw troops from Iraq without sacrificing security gains since the troop buildup began early this year.

The Electricity Ministry announced Tuesday that eight of its engineers and technicians were kidnapped and murdered the day before by unknown gunmen in east Baghdad.

The eight were traveling to a training session out of town when they were abducted. Relatives identified their bullet-riddled bodies in a hospital, ministry spokesman Aziz al-Shamari said.

In Mosul, 225 miles northwest of Baghdad, gunmen ambushed a car in the city center Tuesday, killing three men and a woman, police Brig. Gen. Abdul-Karim al-Jubouri said.

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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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