Azerbaijani Soldier, 14 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks, According to June 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 that an Azerbaijani soldier was on attack near the Hadeethah Dam. Azerbaijan is a former Soviet republic and the only Muslim country which participate in the occupation of Iraq, in an attempt by its dictator Haider Alieve to be closer to the NATO countries.

- Two people were killed, seven were injured as a result of a mortar attack on a Sahwa checkpoint in Al-'Adheem neighborhood, in Al-Khalis.

- Two policemen were injured as a result of an attack on a police patrol in Mosul.

- Three employees of Al-Rafidain Bank were killed inside their car by US security contractors guarding Baghdad airport. The victims were a man and two women were killed and burned inside their car, which was completely burned.

- Air borne US forces landed in the village of Tuwairij, the village of the US-backed prime minister Al-Maliki, near Karbala, killed a man and arrested another.

Amsi.org reported that seven bodies of Iraqis were found in Samarra.

- A body was found in the area of Al-Nahrawan, south of Baghdad.

Note:

The Voices of Iraq news agency did not report any attacks or deaths today, as of 4:00 pm ET.

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Iraq War Report for events of Friday, 27 June 2008.

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,

member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.

Friday, 27 June 2008.

· US announces death of three American soldiers, two translators at Thursday afternoon bombing in al-Karmah.

· Iraqi regime forces stage arrests of anti-occupation Sadr Movement members in Karbala’.

Baghdad.

US transport plane makes forced landing north of Baghdad Airport Friday afternoon.

In a dispatch posted at 8:15pm Baghdad time Friday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that one of its massive C-130H transport airplanes had to make a forced landing in Baghdad Airport on Friday.

Yaqen reported the US as announcing that the crew executed the forced landing on a dry field to the north of the airport at about 1:45pm local time Friday afternoon. The American announcement said that the landing was the result of a technical malfunction and not combat activity. The crew was taken to an infirmary for checkups following the landing, however.

US announces death of three American soldiers, two translators at Thursday afternoon bombing in al-Karmah.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 1:03pm Friday afternoon Beijing time (9:03am in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the US military had announced that three of its Marines and two translators working with the Americans had been killed in a suicide bomb attack on a meeting with tribal representatives in the al-Karmah area, 53km west of Baghdad on Thursday afternoon.

Xinhua reported that the American announcement offered no other details.

A man wearing an explosive belt blew himself up at a meeting of US and Iraqi-regime officials with Bedouin tribal chiefs on Thursday. The last available reports indicated that 10 people had been killed in that attack including Kamal ‘Abd as-Salam, the Administrator of the al-Karmah area and Shaykh Muzhir Shawwah al-Jumayli, the chairman of the Tribal Council. Twenty other people were wounded in the bombing, some of them severely.

Salah ad-Din Province.
Ash-Sharuqat.

Bomb kills three tribal policemen in ash-Sharuqat Friday morning.

In a dispatch posted at 3:16pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of tribal “Awakening” police in the area of ash-Sharuqat, 250km north of Baghdad on Friday morning.

Yaqen reported Captain Muhammad Jamil of the ash-Sharuqat police as saying that the homemade bomb went off by an “Awakening” tribal police patrol, killing two of the policemen and wounding three more.

Babil Province.
Jurf as-Sakhr.

Armed men spray police road block with automatic weapons fire south of Baghdad Friday.

In a dispatch posted at 3:48pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men in a private caropened fire on a checkpoint manned by Iraqi regime police in Jurf as-Sakhr, 40km south of Baghdad, on Friday.

Yaqen reported witnesses as saying that the attack left dead and wounded among the police, but no specific information on the nature or extent of casualties was available. The witnesses said that the attackers made good their escape after carrying out their assault.

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 Baghdad and southern Iraq, in what is believed to be preparation for an American attack on Iran.

Karbala’ Province.
Karbala’.

Iraqi regime forces stage arrests of anti-occupation Sadr Movement members in Karbala’.

In a dispatch posted at 5:45pm Baghdad time Friday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Karbala’ Province police had carried out arrests of 30 to 40 worshippers following Friday weekly congregational prayers in the Shi‘i holy city of Karbala’.

Yaqen reported the head of the office of the anti-occupation Sadr Movement in the city, Husayn al-Karbala’i, as saying that the police arrested the men, members of the anti-occupation Sadr Movement, as they were coming out of the al-Mukhayyim Mosque, the mosque that also houses the local office of the Sadr Movement.

Al-Karbala’i said that the arrests were random and came as a surprise. He demanded that the prisoners be released and called for calm and for avoiding acts that could render the situation more critical.

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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