British Soldier, 20 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks, According to December 6, 2008 News Reports

Editor's Note (Below)

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Yaqen.net reported the following Tuesday news:

- One Iraqi was killed, five were injured in two attacks south and north of Baghdad.

- Several US soldiers were killed or injured in Al-Sudaira area, in Al-Shurqat, as a result of an attack on a US patrol.

- A US Hummer was damaged in an attack west of Baghdad.

- A US Hummer was destroyed west of Haditha.

- Five Iraqi policemen were killed during clashes between traffic police and emergency police forces, which stopped when US forces interfered between them.

- US forces killed Shakker, son of a pro-US tribal sheik called, Mahmoud Yousuf, in Abu Gharib area, inside his home.

- 2 policemen were killed, three were injured in an attack near Al-Is'haqi.

Amsi.org reported that Ibrahim Al-Jubouri and his son were killed by a joint Iraqi-US patrol in the village of Marata, in the Huaija distrct, on Wednesday.

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Armed attack kills, wounds 3 Sahwa fighters

December 6, 2008 - 09:25:57
DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq:

Six (US-recruited) Sahwa council fighters were killed or wounded in an armed attack near Ba'aqouba city, a local police source said on Saturday.

“Today, three Sahwa fighters were killed and three others were wounded in an attack launched by 15 gunmen believed to belong to al-Qaeda network on a checkpoint in al-Wajihiya district (45 km northeast of Baaquba),” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
SS (S)

2 policemen wounded in Mosul blast

December 6, 2008 - 03:36:10
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq:

Two policemen were wounded on Saturday when an improvised explosive device went off near their patrol in western Mosul, a security source in Ninewa said.

“An IED blew up near a National Police patrol on Saturday near the area of Qabr al-Bint, western Mosul, leaving two patrolmen injured,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.

“The two policemen were rushed to the al-Jumhuri hospital for treatment,” the source added, not giving more details on the incident.
AmR (P)/SR

Sticky IED wounds 2 in southern Kirkuk
December 6, 2008 - 10:26:13
KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq:

Two persons on Saturday were wounded in an explosive device blast that occurred in southern Kirkuk district, a local security source said.

“Two persons, including an Iraqi serviceman, were injured when an improvised explosive device (IED) stuck to a soldier’s vehicle went off in Touz Khormato district (80 km south of Kirkuk city),” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
“The soldier was seriously wounded,” the source noted.
SS (P)

Landmine kills 4 children in Babel
December 6, 2008 - 08:30:08
BABEL / Aswat al-Iraq:

Four children on Saturday were killed in a landmine explosion in northern Babel province, a local security source said.
“On Saturday, four children were killed in a landmine explosion while they were playing football near al-Iskandriya disitrct (50 km north of Hilla),” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.

The source did not provide further details.

Babel, a Shiite province that lies 100 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, has an area of 6,468 square kilometers (2,497.3 sq mi), with an estimated population of 1,385,783 people in 2003.
The provincial capital is the town of al-Hilla. The ancient ruins of Babylon (Babil, after which the region is named) are also in the province.
SS (P)

Gunman killed while planting IED in Khanaqin
December 6, 2008 - 08:06:56
DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq:

A gunman was killed while attempting to plant an explosive charge near a public road in Diala’s Khanaqin district, an official security source said on Saturday.

“The body was taken to the morgue in Klar district,” the deputy police chief in Khanaqin, Col. Mahmoud Mohammed, told Aswat al-Iraq.

SS (P)

Kirkuk suicide blast kills cop, wounds 10
December 6, 2008 - 07:28:23
KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq:

Eleven persons were killed or wounded in a suicide explosion that ripped through southwestern Kirkuk city, a local police chief said on Saturday.

“This morning, a suicide bomber blew himself up near Kirkuk Police Academy in southwestern Kirkuk, killing a policeman and wounding 10 persons, including two emergency police personnel,” Brig. Sarhad Qadir told Aswat al-Iraq.
SS (P)

Civilian wounded in Iranian shelling of border areas in Sulaimaniya
December 5, 2008 - 06:19:50
SULAIMANIYA / Aswat al-Iraq:

A shepherd was wounded in Iranian artillery shelling of villages in the district of Zarawa, northern Qalaat Daza area, non-stop for six days now, the district chief said on Friday.

“The shelling intensified on Friday afternoon on the villages of Razka, Mardo, Shanawa, and Sbeilka, leaving a shepherd in the area slightly wounded,” Azad Wasso told Aswat al-Iraq.

“The shelling is continuing in the area to create a state of panic and instability for the local residents there,” he added.
Iranian forces shell northern Iraqi areas under the pretext that they harbor the fighters of the PJAK, or the Partiya Jiyana Azad a Kurdistanê (Party of Free Life of Kurdistan), a militant Kurdish nationalist group based in northern Iraq that has been carrying out attacks in the Kurdistan Province of Iran and other Kurdish-inhabited areas.
AmR (S)

British soldier killed in southern Iraq
December 5, 2008 - 04:00:09
BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq:

A British soldier was found dead on Thursday, a spokesman for the British troops in southern Iraq said on Friday, adding investigations are underway to unravel his mysterious death.

“The soldier, from the British army’s 9th air division, was found dead of a gun shot,” Maj. Bill Young told Aswat al-Iraq.
He said there was noting indicating whether it was enemy or friendly fire.
Asked whether it was possible the soldier has committed a suicide, Young replied that the incident was being investigated.

Britain retains 4,100 troops, stationed in the British base at the Basra International Airport, 25 km in the northwestern part of the city, after they withdrew from the presidential palaces in September 2009.
The oil-rich port city of Basra lies 590 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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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