69 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks, Rocket Attacks on 3 US Bases, According to July 28, 2008 News Reports

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 (which is an opportunity for US forces command to sever relations with these fighters).

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."

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Yaqen.net reported the following news:

- Two bodies of unknown Iraqis, one of them was for a woman, was found in Babil.

- 22 people were killed, 150 were injured by a suicide bombing in Kirkuk.

- The US military bases were attacked by rockets and mortars by fighters from Jaishul Muslimeen.

- A US vehicle was attacked in Al-Rutba by the 1920s Brigades.

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News Summary

National - Voices of Iraq
Monday , 28 /07 /2008 Time 10:39:44
BAGHDAD, July 28 (VOI) –

Following is a summary of news reports posted until 10:00 p.m. Baghdad local time Monday:

* Politics & Security:

KIRKUK, Police forces on Monday imposed a curfew from 5:00 p.m. on Monday until 7:00 a.m. on Tuesday after the security incidents in the city, a security source said

ARBIL, The Iraq's Kurdistan's presidency condemned the suicide bombing that targeted a crowd of demonstrators earlier on Monday which left scores of civilians killed or injured and demanded to open an investigation into it.

BAGHDAD, Iraqi security forces arrested 50 wanted men and suspected gunmen, seized weapons and defused 20 bombs in separate areas in Baghdad over the last 24 hours, the official spokesman for the Baghdad's operations command said on Monday.

BAGHDAD, A police force arrested two wanted men who are responsible for killing a number of prominent figures in Diwaniya, the Interior Ministry said in a statement on Monday.

BAGHDAD, The U.S. army said on Monday that its forces arrested 30 al-Qaeda gunmen in Iraq and raided their hideouts during operations in central and northern Iraq.

DIALA, The Diala operations commander, Staff General Abdul-Kareem al-Rubaee, was dismissed, and replaced by the Iraqi army 5th division's commander, an authorized security source said on Monday.

DUHUK, Scores of citizens participated in the march organized by civilian organizations on Monday afternoon which started in central Duhuk to donate blood for the victims of the Kirkuk bombing.

NINEWA, A civilian was killed on Monday, while police forces found the body of an unknown female in two separate incidents in Mosul, a security source said.

KIRKUK, A cautious calm dominates Kirkuk after a curfew was imposed on the city starting from this afternoon, said a security source from the province on Monday, while a medical source said that number of injuries from the incidents the city witnessed today increased to 170 wounded people. Some of the wounded were admitted to hospitals in Arbil and Sulaimaniya provinces.

NINEWA, Police forces arrested on Monday one wanted man, believed to be one of perpetrators of the car bomb explosion in Talafar in mid July 2008, while weapons were confiscated in two separate incidents in Ninewa, the official spokesman for the Ninewa operations command said.

Ninewa, Two policemen were wounded in a bomb explosion in northern Mosul on Monday, a police source said.

NINEWA, Four Iraqi soldiers on Monday were killed in an operation conducted by Iraqi-U.S. forces, southwestern Mosul, which also resulted in killing three gunmen, said a release issued by Multi National Forces (MNF) in Mosul city.

BASRA, Policemen arrested five wanted men on Monday during crackdown operations launched in separate areas in Basra, an official police source said.

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News Summary

National - Voices of Iraq
Monday , 28 /07 /2008 Time 10:39:44
BAGHDAD, July 28 (VOI) –

Following is a summary of news reports posted until 4:00 p.m. Baghdad local time Monday:

* Politics & Security:

BABEL, A US-backed Sahwa tribal fighter was killed on Monday when unidentified gunmen attacked a checkpoint in the area of al-Latifiya, northern Babel, a security source said.

BAGHDAD, Casualties from the three suicide blasts that targeted Shi'i pilgrims commemorating the death of Imam Musa al-Kadhim in Baghdad earlier today have reached 62, Iraqi authorities said.

DIALA, Four civilians were killed on Monday in an explosive charge attack that ripped through Diala's Baladruz district, a local official source said.

KIRKUK, More than five thousand persons on Monday took to the streets in Kirkuk, condemning the passage of the provincial council elections law, which includes an article postponing the city's elections.

BAGHDAD, Baghdad's hospitals of Ibn al-Nafees and al-Kindy received 26 bodies and 117 wounded following the three suicide blasts that targeted Shi'i pilgrims earlier today, a local medic said on Monday.

KIRKUK, A total of 92 civilians were killed or wounded on Monday when a suicide bomber blew himself up among a crowd of demonstrators in downtown Kirkuk City, a local police source said.

DIALA, The Multi-National Force (MNF) on Monday arrested the deputy governor of Diala province, a local security source said.

KIRKUK, One civilian was killed and four others were wounded during clashes between security personnel and unknown gunmen, which erupted in light of a suicide blast that targeted demonstrators in downtown Kirkuk earlier today, a security official said.

NINEWA, Unknown gunmen on Monday killed the board's chairman of the Cooperation Union in eastern Mosul city, a local police source said.

DIALA, The deputy governor of Diala province was released shortly after his arrest by a joint U.S.-Iraqi force, a local security source said.

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Iraq War Report for events of Sunday, 27 July 2008.

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,

member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.

Sunday, 27 July 2008.

· Tension expected between US, Iraqi regime over exercise of authority at new an-Najaf airport.

· Two rockets land near British base in al-Basrah.

Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Fallujah.

Local chief of pro-American Sunni-sectarian party wounded in bomb blast.

In a dispatch posted at 4:25pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded in the house of Dr. Zaki ‘Ubayd, an official in the al-Fallujah branch of the Sunni sectarian Islamic Party of Iraq, who is concurrently a member of the al-Anbar Provincial Assembly. The attack took place in al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a statement by the Islamic Party, a pro-American Sunni sectarian party formed on the basis of the fundamentalist Muslim Brotherhood in 2003, as saying that the blast wounded ‘Ubayd and his son and killed two of ‘Ubayd’s bodyguards. The statement said that police reinforcements backed by US troops rushed to the scene, where they shut down traffic.

Baghdad.

Sunday afternoon gun battle between tribal “Awakening” and Iraqi regime police leaves civilian killed three more wounded.

In a dispatch posted at 7:45pm Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that one civilian was killed and three more wounded when members of the “Awakening” tribal police fought a gun battle with regular Iraqi regime police in the Baghdad district of al-Fadl after noon on Sunday.

Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that the firefight broke out on Sunday afternoon, and confirmed that all the dead and wounded in the melee were civilians. The cause of the outbreak of gunfire between the two US-backed security services was not disclosed.

Iraqi police colonel badly wounded in Sunday afternoon attack.

In a dispatch posted at 6:45pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men shot and wounded a colonel in the Iraqi government police, a man in a commanding position in Operation Impose the Law in Baghdad, as he drove his car down Muhammad al-Qasim road in eastern Baghdad Sunday afternoon.

Yaqen reported a source in the government police as saying that the Colonel ‘Abd al-Hadi al-Jaza’iri was shot in the head and had been taken to hospital in extremely grave condition with three bullet wounds to the head following the shooting incident in eastern Baghdad.

Resistance group claims attack on US camp in north Baghdad suburb.

In a dispatch posted at 4:15pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi resistance group known as the Army of the Rashidin, a constituent organization in the Jihad and Change Front, had issued a communiqué.

Yaqen reported the communiqué as saying that fighters for the Rashidin Army had fired three 82mm mortar rounds at the US base in the northern Baghdad suburb of at-Taji. The statement did not specify when the alleged attack had taken place.

Iraqi authorities arrest man with Iranian weapons in Baghdad.

In a dispatch posted at 12:45pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi regime security forces had arrested a man in Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a source in the Interior Ministry announced that the arrest took place during raids and searches in the ash-Shu‘lah district of Baghdad. The man was found in possession of two Iranian-made bombs and hand grenades. The source added that large caches of arms and materiel were sound in ash-Shu‘lah and al-Ghazaliyah.

Salah ad-Din Province.
Tuz Khurmatu.

Blast kills targets Iraqi army patrol near Tuz Khurmatu Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 11:22am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by an Iraqi army patrol in the Tuz Khurmatu area, 185km north of Baghdad, on Sunday.

Yaqen reported a source in the Kirkuk police as saying that the explosion occurred on the road between Tuz Khurmatu and Sulayman Bak a few kilometers to the southeast. The blast killed an Iraqi army captain and an Iraqi army soldier and damaged a patrol vehicle.

Diyala Province.
Al-Mada’in.

Report of attack on Shi‘i pilgrims denied.

Conflicting claims were made regarding an alleged attack on Shi‘i pilgrims heading to the Baghdad district of al-Kazimiyah on Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 7:12pm Baghdad time Sunday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported a police source as saying that gunmen had opened fire on Shi‘i pilgrims on their way to visit the tomb of the Shi‘i Imam Musa al-Kazim in Baghdad’s al-Kazimiyah district. According to a source in the government police, gunmen killed seven of the pilgrims.

Yaqen reported the source as saying that the pilgrims had been on foot, having evidently walked from the cities south of Baghdad to take part in religious visitation rites to the shrine of the Shi‘i Imam.

But in a dispatch posted at 10:09pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a spokesman for the Operations Command of Baghdad had denied the report of the killing.

The AMSI reported Qasim ‘Ata, press spokesman for the Operations Command as denying reports carried by the media that a procession of pilgrims had come under fire in the area of al-Mada’in, 35km southeast of Baghdad.

The Shi‘i Imam Musa al-Kazim was reportedly poisoned on orders of the Sunni Caliph Harun ar-Rashid in the year 799 C.E. Festivities in honor of the medieval Shi‘i cleric are to reach their climax on Tuesday, 29 July.

Buhriz.

Bomb kills two Oil Protection Policemen in Buhriz Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 3pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a motorcycle on which two Oil Protection Policemen were riding on the main street in the al-‘Ibarah area to the south of Buhriz, 60km northeast of Baghdad, on Sunday.

Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that the blast killed the two policemen on the spot.

Rocket kills child in Buhriz Saturday afternoon.

In a dispatch posted at 10:27am Baghdad time Sunday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a Katyusha rocket had killed a child in the Buhriz area, 60km northeast of Baghdad on Saturday afternoon.

Yaqen reported a source in the tribal “Awakening” police as saying that the child found the rocket in some trash and began playing with it. The rocket exploded, killing the child on the spot, the source said.

An-Najaf Province.
An-Najaf.

Tension expected between US, Iraqi regime over exercise of authority at new an-Najaf airport.

In a dispatch posted at 5:30pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the airport in an-Najaf, recently opened by Iraq’s American-backed Shi‘i fundamentalist Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki, has grown into a security problem and bone of contention between the Iraqi regime and the US occupation authorities that control the country.

Yaqen reported a source in the Iraqi regime as saying Sunday that the Americans want to put the airport in an-Najaf, 160km south of Baghdad, under tight supervision to prevent infiltration of agents of “neighboring countries” into US-occupied Iraq. An-Najaf is a holy city and pilgrimage center for Shi‘i Muslim believers and the Shi‘i fundamentalist regime in Iran is suspected of using the Shi‘i pilgrimage as a cover for smuggling Iranian agents into Iraq.

The source told Yaqen that the Americans have told the Iraqi regime that Iraqi government army and police personnel still lack the expertise to handle security in an-Najaf. In addition, the Americans feel, the Iraqi regime forces are subject to political and partisan pressures and are therefore unable to provide adequate security at the airport.

The US-installed Iraqi regime is headed by Nuri al-Maliki who is himself the leader of the Shi‘i sectarian Da‘wah Party and has close ties to the Iranian clerical establishment. It is evident that US occupation officials are concerned that the Iraqi regime’s security personnel might cooperate with Iranian intelligence activities carried out via the airport at the Shi‘i pilgrimage center in an-Najaf.

The source told Yaqen that the US plans to install equipment for detecting any unauthorized aircraft in the air between Iran and an-Najaf. Such equipment would facilitate monitoring of any secret landings of Iranian military aircraft in an-Najaf. The source said that it was likely that the installation of that equipment and the issue of who would monitor it would prove to be a major bone of contention between the US occupation authorities and their Iraqi regime allies, whose ties to the Iranian clerical regime are well-known.

Ninwa Province.
Al-Qayyarah.

Gunmen battle Iraqi regime troops near al-Qayyarah Sunday evening.

In a dispatch posted at 8:45pm Baghdad time Sunday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a gun battle took place between Iraqi army troops and gunmen on the road between al-Qayyarah, in southeastern Ninwa Province and Makhmur in neighboring Irbil province in northern Iraq on Sunday evening.

Yaqen reported a source in the government army as saying that three gunmen and four government troops were killed in the engagement, one of them an officer. Another three were wounded.

The source said that the fighting took place near the village of Jadidah between the al-Qayyarah area and Makhmur, 68km southwest of Irbil city.

Al-Mawsil.

Mosque Imam assassinated in al-Mawsil Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 3:33pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen shot and killed the Imam of a mosque in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Sunday.

Yaqen reported a source in the al-Mawsil police as saying that armed men sprayed Shaykh Salih ‘Abd al-‘Aziz with bullets in the al-Faruq area of al-Mawsil, as he was returning home. The Shaykh died on the spot.

Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.

Two rockets land near British base in al-Basrah.

In a dispatch posted at 4:50pm Baghdad time Sunday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the British occupation forces base at al-Basrah International Airport had been the target of rocket attacks.

Yaqen reported a British spokesman as saying that one rocket landed near the airport but caused no damage. A second rocket landed near Karmat ‘Ali, a village in the al-Harithah area. The spokesman said that the rocket launcher and two more rockets were discovered and disabled by Iraqi regime troops.

Bomb wounds motorist in al-Basrah Sunday.

In a dispatch posted at 12:03pm Baghdad time midday Sunday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded on at-Ta’mim Street in the al-Husayn neighborhood to the west of al-Basrah on Sunday.

Yaqen reported a source in the al-Basrah police as saying that the blast wounded the driver of the car. Security forces surrounded the area and transported the victim to hospital for treatment.

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