3 US Soldiers, 21 Iraqis Killed, According to June 25, 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."

Yaqen.net reported that 2 people were killed, 92 were injured in a Mosul blast targeting a police headquarters.

- 3 bodies of Iraqis belonging to the US-recruited Sahwa fighters were found in Rommana area, in western Al-Anbar, near the Syrian border.

- Five members of Afar Ahmed Matar's family were killed, four were injured, in a US air raid on their house in the village of Al-Samrah, south of Tikrit today.

Iraq News Agency (INA) reported that the initial reports from the Karbala blast indicate four deaths and 13 injuries.

- One person was killed, seven were injured in a car bomb explosion, in Al-Karada, Baghdad.

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3 U.S. soldiers killed in Ninewa

Ninewa - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 25 /06 /2008 Time 9:10:38
Baghdad, Jun 25, (VOI)-

The U.S. army said on Wednesday that three U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were killed in a bomb blast in Ninewa on Tuesday night.

"Three Multi-National Division - North Soldiers and an interpreter were killed in an improvised explosive device attack in Ninewa Province at 10:45 p.m., June 24," the army said in a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).

The attack brings the number of U.S. soldiers who have been killed this month in Iraq to 25, exceeding last month's death toll, 19.

The deaths bring the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq since the U.S.-invasion of Iraq in March 2003 to 4109.
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Huge blast rocks Karbala-eyewitnesses

Karbala - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 25 /06 /2008 Time 9:10:38
Karbala, June25, (VOI) -

A huge bombing was heard near famous Shi'i shrines in central Karbala on Wednesday, eyewitnesses said.

“An explosive charge placed inside Kia microbus went off in the street linking two Shi'i shrines”, eyewitnesses reported to Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq(VOI).

An eyewitness who preferred to be on condition of anonymity said “he saw ambulances rushed a number of killed and wounded persons to the city hospital”.

Iraqi Gov’t integrates 9,000 awakening council members into Baghdad police-spokesman

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 25 /06 /2008 Time 9:10:38
Baghdad, June24, (VOI)-

A spokesman for Baghdad security plan on Wednesday said around 9,000 US-recruited awakening council members were appointed as Baghdad police personnel.

“The number of awakening council members appointed as policemen has come to 9,000,” Brig, Gen. Qassem Atta, spokesman for Baghdad security plan, told Aswat al-Iraq-Voices of Iraq(VOI).

The spokesman noted “integrating (them) into police personnel is ongoing”, but he did not elaborate on the whole number of awakening council members across Baghdad areas.

Awakening councils are mostly Sunni groups that have helped US-Iraq forces to wrestle power from (anti-US Iraqi fighters) in many western and central Iraqi areas.
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Booby-trapped house kills, injures 4 soldiers in Diala

Diala - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 25 /06 /2008 Time 9:10:38
Ba'aqouba, Jun 25, (VOI)-

One Iraqi soldier was killed and three more were wounded on Wednesday in a booby-trapped house explosion in south of Ba'aqouba, a security source said.

"A force from the 5th division waged a crackdown operation in a house in al-Mulla Eid village in Bahraz district, south of Ba'aqouba," the source told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq (VOI) on condition of anonymity.

"The house was booby-trapped and the explosion killed an Iraqi soldier and injured three," he explained.

Ba'aqouba, the capital of Diala, lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.

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Gunmen kill municipality director in northern Mosul

Ninewa - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 25 /06 /2008 Time 9:10:38

Mosul, Jun 25, (VOI)- The director of the Mosul municipality and his driver were killed on Wednesday morning by unknown gunmen in northern Mosul, a security source said.

"Unidentified armed men showered Engineer Khaled Mahmoud and his driver with bullets in al-Baladiyat region in northern Mosul, killing them instantly," the source, who asked not to be named, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq (VOI).

Suicide truck bomb kills 2, injures 70 in Mosul

Ninewa - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 25 /06 /2008 Time 9:10:38
Mosul, Jun 25, (VOI)-

Two persons, including a child, were killed and 70 more were wounded in a suicide truck bomb attack in the city of Mosul on Tuesday night, a police source said.

"A suicide bomber blew up a booby-trapped truck targeting the Khazrag police station in Bab al-Hadied region in central Mosul at 8.30pm on Tuesday, killing two people, including a child and a policeman, and injuring 70, most of them are civilians," the source told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq (VOI).

"Eight policemen, including two officers, 12 children and 16 women were injured in the blast and rushed to al-Jumhouriya and Mosul public hospitals for treatment," the source added.

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Iraq War Report for events of Tuesday, 24 June 2008.

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,

member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.

Tuesday, 24 June 2008.

·        Two American civilian officials – one with the State Department, the other a US Defense Department official – were killed alongside two US troops in Municipal Council bombing in Madinat as-Sadr Tuesday.

·        Belt bomber kills two American troops, four Iraqi civilians in Baghdad’s Madinat as-Sadr district Tuesday.

·        US announces two soldiers killed in Salman Bak attack Monday.

·        Child killed in car bomb attack on police headquarters in al-Mawsil Tuesday evening.

·        US troops raid home in al-Mawsil, killing three, arresting three Tuesday morning.

·        In continued preparation for US attack on Iran, Iraqi regime troops arrest 15 members of Jaysh al-Mahdi in raids, searches in al-Basrah Tuesday.

Baghdad.

Municipal council chairman gunned down in south Baghdad suburb.

In a dispatch posted at 2:37pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen shot and killed the Chairman of the Municipal Council of the Abu Dushayr district of southern Baghdad on Tuesday.

Yaqen reported eyewitnesses as saying that Mahdi ‘Atwan, the Chairman of the Council, was gunned down outside his home as he was returning to the Abu Dushayr neighborhood in the south Baghdad suburb of ad-Durah.

Witnesses said that the authorities imposed a security cordon around thea rea and began searches for the attackers, but as of the time of reporting, no arrests were known to have been made.

It was the third attack by gunmen on an Iraqi municipal council chairman, following killings in the Madinat as-Sadr and Salman Bak areas earlier Tuesday and on Monday.

Two American civilian officials – one with the State Department, the other a US Defense Department official – were killed alongside two US troops in Municipal Council bombing in Madinat as-Sadr Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 3:29pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that four Americans, one of them a high-ranking official with the US State Department were killed in a bomb explosion in the Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad on Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a source in the US embassy as saying that two American civilian officials were killed in the attack that also left two US soldiers dead in the Municipal Council building in Madinat as-Sadr. One of the slain American civilians was an employee of the US State Department and the other was a civilian employee of the US Department of Defense. (See related story immediately below.)

Belt bomber kills two American troops, four Iraqi civilians in Baghdad’s Madinat as-Sadr district Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:28pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (2:28pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a man wearing an explosive belt blew himself up at a gathering of US troops and Iraqi civilians in the northeastern Baghdad district of Madinat as-Sadr on Tuesday.

Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi government police as saying that the blast took place as Americans presided over an election meeting for the chairman of the municipal council for the Madinat as-Sadr district.

The source said that the explosion killed two US troops and four Iraqis. Five more American soldiers were wounded, as were five Iraqi civilians.

The attack came one day after an assault on a similar municipal meeting in Salman Bak, 35km southeast of Baghdad, left two American troops dead.

US announces two soldiers killed in Salman Bak attack Monday.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:18pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (12:18pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the US military had announced that two of its troops had been killed and three more of them and their translator wounded in a light arms attack near Salman Bak shortly before 1pm on Monday, 23 June.

Xinhua reported the US communiqué as saying that the attack took place as the Americans were leaving the building that houses the Salman Bak Municipal Council. The US statement said that the American troops returned fire at the armed attacker. No further details were released. A report on Monday had indicated that one US solider had been killed in an attack in Salman Bak.

Salah ad-Din Province.
Bayji.

Government employee killed by guard at Bayji oil refinery Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 6:30pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a member of the Oil Facility Protection Police shot and killed an Iraqi government employee during an inspection in the Bayji Refinery midday Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a source in the government police as saying that the victim was not searched as he left the refinery and therefore a guard shot and killed him at the gate of the refinery.

Tikrit.

Doyen of local journalists arrested in Tikrit.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:42pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (1:42pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that US and Iraqi troops had jointly arrested the doyen of journalists in Salah ad-Din Province.

Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi government security forces as saying that US and Iraqi regime troops raided the home of Hasan Ma‘jun, the doyen of journalists in Salah ad-Din Province late Monday night. Ma‘jun and one of his sons was arrested.

Diyala Province.
Mandali.

Police chief in Mandali survives bomb attack Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 7:40pm Baghdad time Tuesday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the chief of police of the Mandali area, 100km northeast of Baghdad, survived a bomb attack on Tuesday.

Yaqen reported a source in the Mandali police as saying that Colonel Ahmad Safar survived the bomb that exploded by his motorcade near Karkush, 15km south of Mandali. The blast wounded seven of the police chief’s guards, some of them extremely severely. Safar himself was unhurt.

Babil Province.
Al-Yusufiyah.

Resistance group claims rocket attack on US base.

In a dispatch posted at 10:45pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi Resistance organization known as the General Command of the Armed Forces – Iraqi Army had issued a communiqué dated Monday, 23 June 2008, in which it reported firing an unspecified number of rockets at the US base in the area of al-Yusufiyah, 30km southwest of Baghdad.

At-Ta’mim/Kirkuk Province.
Kirkuk.

Village chief killed in drive-by shooting near Kirkuk Tuesday afternoon.

In a dispatch posted at 1:35am Baghdad time shortly after midnight Wednesday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the mayor of a village near ar-Rashad, to the southwest of Kirkuk (which is 250km north of Baghdad) had been killed by gunmen.

The AMSI reported Brigadier General Sarhad Qadir, the Police Administrator for the outlying areas of Kirkuk Province, as saying that armed men in a car opened fire on Ibrahim Hassan ‘Ali, the mayor of Karhat Qazan village near ar-Rashad, at 4:45pm local time Tuesday afternoon. The attackers fled the scene.

Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.

Child killed in car bomb attack on police headquarters in al-Mawsil Tuesday evening.

In a dispatch posted at 12:59am Baghdad time just after midnight Wednesday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a car bomber had attacked the Khazraj police headquarters in the center of the city of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad, on Tuesday evening.

The AMSI reported a source in the Ninwa Province police as saying that one child was killed in the blast, at the police headquarters in the Bab al-Jadid area of the city. Another 57 people were wounded in the attack, most of them civilians, AMSI reported. A small number of the victims were policemen.

The car bomb explosion also inflicted heavy damage on the commercial building where the attack took place. Civil Defense vehicle raced to the scene to extinguish the fire that erupted in several nearby shops following the attack.

A source in the security services said that the road to the police headquarters had been closed off with concrete barriers for more than two years, but with the start of the operations against al-Qa‘idah in al-Mawsil on 10 May, the road was reopened to facilitate the movement of military vehicles.

Gunmen abduct four college students on their way to take final exams in al-Mawsil University.

In a dispatch posted at 2:07pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen abducted four students at al-Mawsil University, 420km northwest of Baghdad, as they were on their way to take their final exams in the western part of the city.

Yaqen reported a source in the local police as saying that the gunmen were riding in two private cars. They kidnapped the four students, all of them natives of al-Anbar Province, from in front of the Interior Departments in the ash-Shifa’ neighborhood of western al-Mawsil as they headed to their final exams.

A short while later, two of the students were set free. The source said that an investigation and search continued for the two abducted students.

US troops raid home, killing three, arresting three in al-Mawsil, Tuesday morning.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 5:35pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (1:35pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that three members of one family were killed when US troops opened fire on them during a raid on their home to the west of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad. Three other members of the family were arrested.

Xinhua reported a source in the city police as saying that a US patrol raided a home in the al-‘Uraybi neighborhood of al-Mawsil on Monday morning, during searches in the neighborhood. The US troops shot and killed three people and arrested three more in the course of the raid, the source said.

Since 10 May, US and Iraqi regime troops have been carrying out operations against the al-Qa‘idah organization in al-Mawsil.

Maysan Province.
Al-‘Amarah.

Iraqi regime forces arrest Iraqi local official in al-‘Amarah in continued sweep targeting supporters of anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia.

In a dispatch posted at 6:55pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi police and army forces arrested ‘Ali Mahawi, the Chairman of the Municipal Council for al-Majidiyah, to the east of al-‘Amarah, 290km southeast of Baghdad.

Yaqen reported a source in the police command for Maysan Province as saying that al-Majidiyah was an area where there was a strong organization of the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia and the official was arrested in connection with the wave of raids and arrests targeting that organization.

Since March, the US-backed Iraqi regime has been actively engaged in an offensive against the anti-occupation Sadr Movement and its armed wing, the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, in Iraq, in what is believed to be preparation for an American attack on Iran.

Three officers in Iraqi police arrested for cooperation with anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia.

In a dispatch posted at 1:42pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that three officers in the Maysan Province police force were arrested by the Iraqi regime for cooperating with the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia.

Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that military forces arrested the three officers – a colonel, a major and a first lieutenant in the police – late on Monday might.

Since March, the US-backed Iraqi regime has been actively engaged in an offensive against the anti-occupation Sadr Movement and its armed wing, the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, in Iraq, in what is believed to be preparation for an American attack on Iran.

Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.

In continued preparation for US attack on Iran, Iraqi regime troops arrest 15 members of Jaysh al-Mahdi in raids, searches in al-Basrah Tuesday.

In a dispatch posted at 10:30pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Iraqi police arrested 15 members of the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in its continued security sweep through the southern Iraqi province of al-Basrah.

Yaqen reported a source in the local police as saying that Iraqi Interior Ministry troops carried out raids and searches in various parts of the city Tuesday, arresting 15 members of the anti-occupation militia. The police added that one Glock pistol and an RPG-7 rocket-propelled grenade were also seized.

Since March, the US-backed Iraqi regime has been actively engaged in an offensive against the anti-occupation Sadr Movement and its armed wing, the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia, in Iraq, in what is believed to be preparation for an American attack on Iran.

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