2 US Soldiers, 6 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks, US Base Attacked, Richard Pearle to Get Oil Contract, According to July 30, 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:

- Jund Al-Rahman fighters shot down a US unmanned planed south of Baghdad.

- US military base in Tikrit was attacked with two rockets by fighters of Jaish Al-Muslimeen.

- Iraqi newspapers have not been published for the third consecutive day, as a result of the curfew imposed by the Maliki government on Baghdad between 5:00 pm to 5:00 am.

- Richard Pearle, one of the major planners of the US invasion and occupation of Iraq has been trying to obtain Iraqi oil contracts, as his personal gain from the war, according to Wall Street Journal.

Amsi.org reported that two US soldiers were killed and their Hummer vehicle was destroyed by a roadside bomb near a Sahwa checkpoint in Al-Dhilou'iya.

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News Summary

National - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 30 /07 /2008 Time 10:27:35
BAGHDAD, July 30 (VOI) –

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

* Politics & Security:

BASRA, Police forces on Wednesday found four rockets and nine launchers in Basra's northern area of al-Maqal, a local police media source said.

NINEWA, A Sunni party official on Wednesday said unknown gunmen assassinated a key a member in his faction in the volatile northern city of Mosul.

NINEWA, An Iraqi army force on Wednesday killed one gunman while he was attempting to plant an explosive device, eastern Mosul, said the Ninewa operations command's official spokesperson.

NINEWA, Iraqi army forces on Wednesday closed an office of al-Hadbaa National Unified Gathering in Ninewa, and arrested the office's director, in the northern part of the province, said the gathering head.

KIRKUK, Police forces captured 3 operatives of a newly-founded armed group in Kirkuk, a security official said on Wednesday.

NINEWA, One of the attackers who attempted to assassinate a judge in Mosul on Wednesday was killed, after the judge's guards responded to the attacker's gunfire, said a source from Ninewa police.

DIALA, Iraqi army troops and police forces arrested 54 wanted suspects and seized quantities of weapons during a large-scale offensive launched in Diala on Wednesday, a military spokesman said.
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News Summary

National - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 30 /07 /2008 Time 10:27:35
BAGHDAD, July 30 (VOI) -

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

* Politics & Security:

SULAIMANIYA, Thousands of Sulaimaniya residents on Wednesday staged a demonstration protesting the passage of the provincial council elections law.

NINEWA, A judge and one of his bodyguards were injured on Wednesday by unknown gunmen in northern Mosul, a security source said.

BAGHDAD, Iraq was selected for the vice presidency of the 15th ministerial conference of the Non-Aligned Movement from the Asian Group.

BAGHDAD, The Iranian embassy in Baghdad on Wednesday condemned the three suicide bombing attacks in the capital that killed 26 civilians and injured 117.

DIALA, 24 persons were arrested on Wednesday in Ba'aqouba under the wide-scale security operation waged in Diala province, the director of the national command center in the Iraqi ministry said.

BAGHDAD, An Iraqi soldier was killed and 10 more were wounded in a roadside bomb blast in eastern Baghdad, a police source said on Wednesday.

DIALA, A total of 35 wanted men were arrested, 12 large depots were detonated and 10 bombs were found within large-scale security operation in Diala, the official spokesman for the defense ministry said on Wednesday.

BAGHDAD, Deputy Chief of the Shi'i Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, Ammar al-Hakim, met on Wednesday in Damascus with Syrian President Bashar al-Assad and discussed with him security and political developments in Iraq.

SULAIMANIYA, Thousands of protestors in Sulaimaniya on Wednesday presented a warrant of protest to the governor expressing their rejection of the endorsement of the provincial council elections by the Iraqi Parliament.

BAGHDAD, Two people were killed and 12 others were wounded in acts of violence that took place in Iraq since 9:00 p.m. on Tuesday until Wednesday afternoon, security sources said.

* Sport:

BAGHDAD, The International Olympic Committee agreed Tuesday to allow Iraq to participate in the Beijing games, reversing itself after Baghdad pledged to ensure the independence of its national Olympics panel.

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Iraq War Report for events of Tuesday, 29 July 2008.

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,

member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.

Tuesday, 29 July 2008.

·        US, Iraqi regime forces arrest 20 people in first hours of offensive against al-Qa‘idah in Diyala Province Tuesday.

·        Iraqi government troops deploy in Kirkuk, one day after deadly al-Qa‘idah suicide attack.

·        Female chief of management committee for consumer cooperatives gunned down in al-Mawsil Monday.

Diyala Province.
Ba‘qubah.

US, Iraqi regime forces arrest 20 people in first hours of offensive against al-Qa‘idah in Diyala Province Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 8:40pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi government forces in Diyala Province arrested 20 people in various parts of Diyala province in the first hours of their offensive against the Sunni sectarian fundamentalist organization al-Qa‘idah there.

Yaqen reported a source in the Iraqi Defense Ministry as saying that army and police forces together with US occupation forces carried out raids and searches, arresting 20 people on Tuesday.

At-Ta’mim/Kirkuk Province.
Kirkuk.

Iraqi government troops deploy in Kirkuk, one day after deadly al-Qa‘idah suicide attack.

In a dispatch posted at 1:25pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi army troops deployed in the city of Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad. The move was apparently designed to forestall attempts by Kurdish separatists to take advantage of an al-Qa‘idah suicide attack on Monday that targeted a Kurdish demonstration in the city. Oil-rich Kirkuk is at the center of a dispute between Kurdish separatists in northern Iraq seeking to annex the city to the northern Iraqi Kurdish enclave and the Iraqi government and the majority population of the city that is made up of Arabs and Turkomans and is opposed to annexation by the Kurds.

Yaqen reported the troops deployed in ‘Arafah in the central part of the city “in order to prevent acts of violence.”

On Monday, a woman believed to be a member of the Sunni-sectarian al-Qa‘idah Organization blew herself up in the midst of a Kurdish separatist demonstration in Kirkuk. The blast killed 22 people and wounded another 150.

Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.

Bomb wounds three soldiers, one civilian in western al-Mawsil Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 10:10pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of Iraqi army troops in western al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a source in the city police as saying that a captain and two Iraqi army troops were wounded in the blast, which took place on BaDush street in western al-Mawsil. A civilian who happened to be on the scene was also wounded in the explosion and later taken to hospital for treatment.

Three civilians wounded in bomb blast in al-Mawsil Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 5:35pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by an Iraqi police patrol in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad on Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that the blast took place in the at-Ta’mim Neighborhood in eastern al-Mawsil and that three people who happened to be in the area were wounded.

Female chief of management committee for consumer cooperatives gunned down in al-Mawsil Monday.

In a dispatch posted at 11:08am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that gunmen assassinated the Chairwoman of the Management Committee of the Federation of Cooperatives in eastern al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Monday.

The AMSI reported a high-ranking source in the province as saying that gunmen in a late-model car opened fire on Taghrid Ahmad al-Ma‘adidi in the al-Qadisiyah ath-Thaniyah district of eastern al-Mawsil. She had just left her home on her way to work at the time of the shooting. She died on the spot.

The Management Committee of the Federation of Cooperatives is a government-backed cooperative association for the distribution of consumer goods.

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