6 Iraqis Killed, Including 2 Executed by Death Squads, According to December 10, 2008 News Reports

Editor's Note:

Scores of Iraqis are being arrested everyday by US-Iraqi government forces for mere suspicion. More Below.

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Yaqen.net reported the following Tuesday news:

- Two policemen were killed by a roadside bomb targeting their vehicle in Khaniqin, north of Ba'aqouba.

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Civilian killed, two others wounded in Jalawlaa

December 10, 2008 - 05:38:05

DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq:

One civilian was killed on Wednesday evening and two others were wounded when a roadside bomb went off in Jalawlaa, said the director of major crimes investigations office in the district.

“The incident took place in Kansor neighborhood of Jalawlaa, 30 km southwest of Khanaqin,” Ali Abdullah told Aswat al-Iraq. “The two injuries were admitted to hospital for treatment,” he said.

“Security forces were deployed in the area and cordoned it,” he added. Khanaqin suburb is 155 km northeast of Ba'aqouba, which is the capital city of Diala province, and lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.

MH (P)/SR

Chieftain’s house detonated in Wassit

December 10, 2008 - 03:38:27
WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq:

Unknown gunmen on Wednesday detonated the house of Sheikh Salih al-Igaidi, northern Wassit, without causing any casualties, said a source from the Iraqi police.
“The house is in Jwemesa area of al-Sowaira suburb, 135 km north of Kut city,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.

“The Sheikh’s family was not at home when the incident took place,” he said.
The source noted that Sheikh al-Igaidi was kidnapped by unidentified armed men more than a year ago, and no one knows anything about him since then.
MH (P)/SR

One killed, 18 suspects in custody – MNF
December 10, 2008 - 03:22:13
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

One Iraqi was killed and 18 suspects were detained during operations waged by Coalition force targeting al-Qaeda in Iraq (AQI) leadership and bombing networks in central Iraq, according to a release issued by the Multi National Forces (MNF) in Iraq on Wednesday

MH (S)/SR

2 bodies found, IED defused in Kirkuk

December 9, 2008 - 07:26:35
KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq:

Policemen in Kirkuk found two decomposed bodies in a farmland and defused an improvised explosive device without incident southwest of the city, a security source said.

“Two decayed bodies were found on Monday evening in a farmland near the village of Murata al-Kabir, al-Multaqa district, (30 km) southwest of Kirkuk,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq, adding the corpses were identified and buried by their relatives.

In al-Abbasi district, 80 km southwest of Kirkuk, Iraqi policemen and Multi-National Force (MNF) troops defused an IED without incident.

AmR (P)

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Editor's Note:

Only God knows how many Iraqis are killed everyday. The following represents part of the reporting but readers are advised that the actual number of deaths should very much exceed what's reported.

Concerning deaths of US soldiers, only those US citizens who die in Iraq are included in the statistics. There are no published statistics about US soldiers who die of their injuries after that. There are no published statistics about the deaths or injuries of the private army soldiers (security contractors), or about those without US citizenship.

It is noteworthy that May 20, 2008 news reports showed that death squads which execute Iraqis on daily basis are no longer hiding themselves. Previously, Sunni leaders pointed to Mahdi Army and Badr militiamen as the perpetrators. Now, death squads are composed of the US-recruited Sahwa fighters and policemen.

On September 6, 2008, news reports mentioned the killing of nine Iraqis who were arrested by Al-Muthanna Brigade of the Iraqi Army stationed in the city of Al-Falloujah. There corpses were found with bullets shot on their heads and chests. This incident is evidence that the sectarian-based Iraqi forces have been functioning also as death squads, which killed Iraqis for suspicion of belonging to resistance organizations, without any legal procedures or trials.

Despite the fact that there are scores of organizations involved in the Iraq war, the Iraqi government officials prefer to refer to them as Alqaeda gunmen for propaganda purposes, as mentioned in the June 4, 2008 news report. For accuracy purposes, the term "Alqaeda gunmen" may be replaced with "Iraqi fighters."

Finally, on daily basis, US-led forces arrest scores of Iraqis in an attempt to pre-empt them from resistance. Tens of thousands of Iraqis are still there in US detention camps and in the prisons of the US-backed Iraqi government. Daily records of these arrests can be obtained from the following three Iraqi sources of news: yaqen.net, amsi.org, and Voices of Iraq.

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