3 US Soldiers, 14 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks, According to Initial December 26, 2008 News Reports

Editor's Note (Below)

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Yaqen.net reported the following news:

- 2 US Soldiers were killed in an attack with light weapons on a US base by Al-Tamkeen Brigades fighters.

- Iraqi resistance fighters imprisoned in Al-Fursan prison in Al-Ramadi rose up against the prison guards, killed the commander Abudul Ghani Ma'arouf and ten other policemen. Then, they ran away.

Eight Iraqi police, three Qaida killed in W Iraq

2008-12-26 15:20:55

RAMADI, Iraq, Dec. 26 (Xinhua) --

Eight policemen and three Iraqi resistance fighers were killed and 10 policemen wounded when the Iraqi fighters attempted to escape from a police station in the city of Ramadi, the capital of Al-Anbar Province, a provincial police source said Friday.

"There was an attempt of escape from the prison of the Fursan police station in Ramadi after midnight, when 12 detainees escaped and traded fire with their guards," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

The prisoners first escaped from their cell and took over the station, killing two police officers and six policemen and wounding 10 others, including two in critical conditions, the source said.

Three prisoners were killed and nine others escaped, the source added.

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IED kills, injures 6 soldiers in Baladruz

December 26, 2008 - 11:51:30
DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq:

Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and three others were wounded on Friday when an improvised explosive device went off in Baladruz district, east of Ba'aqouba, a security source said.

“The bomb was detonated on the main street in Baladruz, east of Ba'aqouba, targeting a vehicle of the 5th brigade of the Iraqi army, killing three soldiers and injuring three, including two officers,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.Meanwhile, the same source said that “a bomb exploded in al-Katoun neighborhood in west of Ba'aqouba, causing sever material damage to three nearby stores.”“Iraqi forces sealed off the region,” he added.
SH (P)

U.S. soldier killed near Mosul

December 25, 2008 - 05:34:36
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

A U.S. soldier died of wounds as a result of an indirect fire attack near Mosul, Iraq Dec. 25, upping to 10 the number killed this month and to 4,217 that killed since the beginning of military operations in March 2003, according to a U.S. army statement on Thursday as received by Aswat al-Iraq.

The statement did not give further details.

Six of the 10 U.S. soldiers killed since the beginning of this month died of non-combat causes while another died of disease in a hospital in Germany.
AmR (S)

2 wounded in blast in Mosul

December 25, 2008 - 03:48:44
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq:

Two civilians were wounded when a car bomb went off near the Iraqi army’s 5th Brigade HQ in eastern Mosul city on Thursday, according to a military source.

“A car rigged with explosives went off near the 5th Brigade HQ in Kouk al-Khaleel area, eastern Mosul, wounding two civilians who happened to be close to the explosion scene,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.

“The blast also caused damage to the Brigade HQ building,” the source added, not giving more details about the incident.

Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.
AmR (P)

Baghdad police chief escapes attempt

December 25, 2008 - 03:42:11
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

Baghdad’s police chief survived an assassination attempt with an improvised explosive device that targeted his vehicle south of Baghdad on Thursday, a security source said.

“An IED planted on a main road went off near the vehicle of Maj. General Kadhem Hameed Farhan while his motorcade was passing by in the area of Jisr Diala, south of the Iraqi capital,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
“Five of Farhan’s bodyguards were wounded in the explosive attack,” the source added.
AmR (P)

7 wounded in bombing near Ba'aqouba

December 25, 2008 - 09:47:59
DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq:

Seven civilians on Thursday were wounded in a car bomb blast that targeted a U.S. patrol vehicle near Ba'aqouba city, a local police chief said.

“A car bomb driven by a suicide bomber detonated today in al-Muqdadiya district (45 km northeast of Ba'aqouba) near a U.S. army patrol vehicle,” Staff. Maj. Gen. Abdelhussein al-Shamri told Aswat al-Iraq.

“The bomber was killed and seven civilians, who were close to the scene of the blast, were wounded,” Shamri added.
Ba'aqouba, the capital city of Diala province, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.
SS (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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