US Soldier, 40 Iraqis Killed, According to Initial September 9, 2007 Reports

ccun.org, September 9, 2007, 7 am ET

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

- 4 (7 according to Sotaliraq below) Iraqi policemen were killed and their police station was blown up by 23 gunmen in the village of Hajjaj, near Biji.

- 2 bodies of decapitated women were found in Basra.

- 2 Iraqis were killed and six were injured a car bomb explosion in Al-Mahmoudiyah, south of Baghdad.

- 3 women and a man from the same family were killed by gunmen in Mosul.

- 11 bodies of Iraqis executed by death squads were found in Baghdad (apparently on Saturday).

- An Iraqi man was killed when a roadside bomb exploded near a US military vehicle, near Al-Sha'ab stadium, in Baghdad.

- Four Iraqi traffic police officers and two civilians were injured in a mortar attack in Baghdad.

- 6 Iraqis, including a woman, were killed by US forces in Tarimiya and Mosul.

- US forces arrested 21 Iraqis in Mosul.

- Three Iraqi army soldiers and three civilians were wounded when a truck bomb exploded at their checkpoint in Balad.

Sotaliraq newspaper reported the following news, different from the above INA news:

- A US mine-sweeping armored vehicle was destroyed east of Tikrit.

- An Iraqi man was killed by gunmen in Samarra.

- 2 Iraqi fighters were killed during clashes with the police as they were planting a roadside bomb in Al-Miqdadiya, northeast of Ba'aqouba.

- An Iraqi civilian was killed in Basra by gunmen while driving his car.

- A policeman was killed by a sniper fire in Falloujah, then five Iraqis were arrested for investigation.

- 12 bodies of Iraqis executed by death squads were found in Baghdad on Sunday and 11 on Saturday.

- Shaikh Hassan Al-Asswad, a member of the Jund Al-Sama group, was assassinated while driving his car in Al-Diwaniyah.

- 7 policemen were killed and two were injured, when their station was attacked in the Hajjaj area, in Biji.

- 2,000 Iraqis seek refuge in Syria daily.

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The US news agency, Associated Press, reported the deaths of a US soldiers and 12 Iraqis in the following news report.

AP Headline: Iraq (foreign minister) warns neighboring countries that violence could spill over into their nations

By QASSIM ABDUL-ZAHRA Associated Press Writer

Sep 9, 2007, 10:30 AM EDT

BAGHDAD (AP) --

Iraq's foreign minister urged neighbors to prevent (fighters) from crossing into his country and warned Sunday that the violence in Iraq could spill across its borders.

In northern Iraq, a U.S. airstrike killed an (Iraqi fighter) suspected to be behind the quadruple suicide bombings in August against communities of Yazidis, a Kurdish-speaking religious minority, that killed 520 people, U.S. military spokesman Rear Admiral Mark Fox said.

Elsewhere, the U.S. command said a Marine died in Iraq's Anbar province. The non-combat death Friday of the Marine, with the Multinational Force-West, is under investigation, the military said.

In other violence Sunday, a coordinated attack on a police station in Hajaj, in northern Iraq, left five policemen and four civilians dead before the gunmen were driven off with the help of residents, police and eyewitnesses said. They spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns.

A mortar attack in a neighborhood in Baghdad killed one person, police said, and an explosion in a booby-trapped minibus south of the capital, in Mahmoudiya, also killed one.

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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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