36 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks, British Base Mortared in Basra, According to February 10, 2008 News Reports

36 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks, British Base Mortared in Basra, According to February 10, 2008 News Reports

Yaqen.net reported the following today:

- A US Hummer military vehicle was destroyed north of Baghdad by Jaishul Rashidin, resulting in casualties.

- Iraqi official, Taher Ruhaimah, and his guard were killed in Baghdad.

- Interior Ministry special forces soldiers, Maghawir, tortured and killed three brothers from Sayer family. These were Shaker, Ala, and Farouq Sayer. They also detained two others from the same family in the village of Ruwaished, in Al-Is'haqi.

5 Sahwa casualties in blast south of Falluja
Anbar - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 10 /02 /2008 Time 7:22:33
Anbar, Feb 10, (VOI) –

Three (US-recruited) Sahwa (Awakening) tribal fighters were killed and two others wounded when a suicide bomber drove his explosive vehicle into a checkpoint in Falluja city, eastern Anbar province, police said on Sunday.

"The vehicle targeted a Sahwa checkpoint in the village of al-Ziwiya, Amiriyat al-Falluja district, (22 km) south of Falluja, killing two Sahwa men and wounding three others," a security source who spoke on condition of anonymity told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).

6 people killed in car bomb attack near Balad
Salah al-Din - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 10 /02 /2008 Time 7:53:46
Salah al-Din, Feb 10, (VOI) –

A car bomb attack killed six people and wounded an unidentified number others in Balad district, southern Salah al-Din, on Sunday afternoon, an official police source in the province said.

"An explosive vehicle driven by a suicide bomber blew up near an Iraqi police and Sahwa (Awakening) tribal fighters checkpoint in Yathrib area, killing six people and wounding a number others not counted yet, mostly civilians," the source, who did not prefer to have his name mentioned, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).

"The number of casualties will most likely rise as rescue teams were still removing the wounded," the source said, not giving more details.

Yathrib, which lies in the eastern part of Balad district, 100 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, is near an air base known formerly as al-Bakr base, which is under the control of the U.S. forces and is considered the largest U.S. air base in Iraq.
Salah al-Din province is 175 km north of Baghdad.

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Unidentified body of woman found in Arbil
Arbil - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 10 /02 /2008 Time 7:53:46
Arbil, Feb 10, (VOI) –

Security authorities in Arbil found an unidentified body of a woman in a village in the province, the director of anti-organized crime department in Arbil said on Sunday.
"Policemen in Arbil found the body of woman nearly 28 years of age in the village of Halja, Qushtaba district, (18 km) south of Arbil," Col. Hirsh Ahmed told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).

"The body, which showed signs of having been shot, was sent to the Emergency Hospital morgue for an autopsy," Ahmed said.
Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, lies 349 km northeast of Baghdad.

AE
Mortar attack leaves 22 casualties in Baladruz
Diala - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 10 /02 /2008 Time 7:53:46
Diala, Feb 10, (VOI) –

Three civilians were killed and 19 others wounded when mortar shells fell on a village in Baladruz district, 45 km southwest of Baaquba, an official security source in Diala said on Sunday.

"Gunmen fired several mortar shells on Sunday in the village of al-Dahalkiya at residential sections inside Baladruz," the source, who did not want to be named, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).

"The attacks left three civilians killed and 19 others wounded in addition to severe damage to a number of houses," the source said.
Baaquba, the capital of Diala, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.

AE/SR
Iraqi soldier kills civilian, wounds 3 in Makhmour
Arbil - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 10 /02 /2008 Time 8:00:26
Arbil, Feb 10, (VOI) –

An Iraqi soldier killed a civilian and wounded three others after an argument in the village of al-Hadj, Makhmour district, 75 km south of Arbil city, a police source said.
"An Iraqi soldier killed the owner of a fuel station and wounded three others on Sunday after a tough squabble over the distribution of benzene in al-Hadj village," the source, who declined to have his name mentioned, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).

The source did not give more details but said "policemen appeared at the scene hours later and arrested the soldiers and rushed the wounded to the Emergency Hospital in Arbil."
Arbil, the capital of the autonomous Iraqi Kurdistan region, lies 349 km northeast of Baghdad.

AE/SR
6 Sahwa fighters, 10 al-Qaeda fighters killed in Mosul
Ninewa - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 10 /02 /2008 Time 8:00:26
Ninewa, Feb 10, (VOI) –

Six (US-recruited) Sahwa (Awakening) tribal fighters and ten al-Qaeda (in Iraq fighters) were killed in clashes southwest of Mosul, the Ninewa Sahwa council chief said on Sunday.
"Members of al-Qaeda Organization in Iraq attacked the villages of Khams Taloul and al-Medina in the district of Tal Abta, southwest of Mosul, during the early hours of Sunday," Sheikh Fawzy al-Djerba told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).

AE/SR
Suicide bombing leaves three Sahwa wounded near Kirkuk
Kirkuk - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 10 /02 /2008 Time 8:00:26
Kirkuk, Feb 10, (VOI)-

At least three (US-recruited) Sahwa fighters were wounded on Sunday in a suicide bombing near Kirkuk city, northern Iraq, a police source said.

"A suicide bomber detonated a car rigged with explosives near a Sahwa fighter's vehicle patrol, this morning, on the highway near Kirkuk," the source, who spoke on the anonymity condition, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq- (VOI).

Sahwa fighters are tribesmen fighting on the side of the U.S. forces and government against Qaeda organization in the Sunni majority areas throughout Iraq.
Kirkuk is 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.
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British base rocketed in Basra
Basra - Voices of Iraq
Sunday , 10 /02 /2008 Time 8:00:26
Basra, Feb 10, (VOI)-

British base was rocketed on Sunday in the southern Iraqi city of Basra with no reports of casualties, MNF spokesman in southern Iraq said.

"An attack with indirect fire took place against the British base at Basra international airport, this morning, leaving no casualties and damage at the base," Captain Finn Aldrich told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq- (VOI).

The rockets fell outside the compound near a village located next to the airport, the spokesman added.

British soldiers are stationed in one base now - the Basra International Airport, 25 km northeast of Basra - after handing over the former presidential palaces, which they took as a military base, to the Iraqi forces.

The British forces in Basra, 590 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad, keep 5,250 troops within the MNF in Iraq after withdrawing 1,600 soldiers during the past few months.
Britain was the United States' prime ally in the March 2003 invasion of Iraq.
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