56 Iraqis Killed, Including 15 in a Sadr City Car Bomb, According to a September 8, 2007 Report

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

- A suicide car bomber tried to detonate his bomb at a police checkpoint in Sard City but the police shot at him. Then, he detonated his explosives-packed Mercedes near a row of stores on Saturday, Sept. 8, 2007. The blast killed at least 15 people and injured forty others.

- 5 Iraqis were killed, eight were injured in a bomb explosion in Kufa.

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AP Headline: Bomber in Baghdad's Sadr City Kills 15

By KIM GAMEL Associated Press Writer

Sep 8, 2007, 3:26 PM EDT

BAGHDAD (AP) --

A suicide car bomber detonated his explosives-packed Mercedes near a row of stores in the Sadr City on Saturday, killing at least 15 people, police and hospital officials said.

The attack in the eastern Baghdad enclave came as at least 36 other people were killed or found dead in Iraq, including four who died in a bombing of an outdoor market in the city of Kufa.

Violence has been unrelenting in Iraq and the suicide bombing in Baghdad was among a series of attacks tempering U.S. claims of success in taming the capital just days before a pivotal progress report is due to be delivered to Congress by the top commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, and U.S. Ambassador Ryan Crocker.

Petraeus acknowledged the difficulties in a letter to U.S. forces on Friday summarizing the results of the troop increase President Bush ordered last winter.

"It has not worked out as we had hoped," he wrote, offering a preview of what he planned to tell Congress in hearings that begin Monday amid a fierce debate over whether Bush should begin withdrawing troops from Iraq.

The British military, meanwhile, said 500 troops would be withdrawn from Iraq in coming months as part of its planned reduction in forces as Iraqis assume control of their own security in southern Iraq. The withdrawals will reduce the British force in Iraq to 5,000, based around Basra, Iraq's second-largest city, 340 miles southeast of Baghdad.

Basra has been largely calm since the British soldiers pulled back from the city center to the airport last Sunday, ceding responsibility to Iraqi security forces.

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Associated Press writers Bassem Mroue and David Rising contributed to this report.

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10 Iraqis Killed on Saturday, in an Initial September 8, 2007 Report

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

- 5 Iraqis were killed, eight were injured in a bomb explosion in Kufa.

Sotaliraq newspaper reported the following news:

- An Iraqi fighter was killed in clashes with police, in Baladrose.

- Tha-er Salem Dawood, minister of finance in the umbrella organization called the Islamic State of Iraq, was killed in fighting with Iraqi police in the Hashemiyat village, in Dayalala.

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

AP Headline: Sunni Bloc Returns to Iraqi Parliament, Ending Last in a String of Boycotts

By BASSEM MROUE Associated Press Writer

Sep 8, 2007, 8:37 AM EDT

BAGHDAD (AP) --

A small Sunni Arab bloc ended its parliamentary boycott Saturday, returning to the legislature as it considers key benchmark legislation demanded by Washington amid increasing pressure to end the political deadlock.

The return of the Iraqi Front for National Dialogue ends the last boycott of parliament, which had contributed to the political paralysis.

In violence Saturday, a bomb went off midday at a crowded market in the city of Kufa, 100 miles south of Baghdad, killing four and injuring five, said Khalil al-Yasiri, a health official in the neighboring city of Najaf.

Gunmen in Najaf also killed Mohammed al-Qarawi, director of tribal affairs in cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's office. The local police commander Maj. Gen Abdul-Karim al-Mayahi said the attack occurred Friday on the road between Kufa and Najaf.

A mortar shell hit a house in the neighborhood of Baladiyat in eastern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding three, police 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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