US Soldier, 2 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks, According to Initial May 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.

It is noteworthy that May 20, 2008 news reports showed that death squads which execute Iraqis on daily basis are no longer hiding themselves. They are composed of the US-recruited Sahwa fighters and policemen.

Yaqen.net and amsi.org reported the following news today:

- A US soldier was killed, two were injured in Al-Nabi market in Mosul. The soldier himself caused his hand grenade to explode, killing himself and injuring two other US soldiers. A nearby Iraqi civilian was killed and a child was injured in the explosion.

- Two people were injured today in a gunmen attack on an Iraqi army checkpoint east of Mosul.

- A US Hummer vehicle was destroyed by a roadside bomb at the Kirkuk juncture by the 1920s Brigades. US soldiers in it were killed.

- A US Hummer was destroyed by a roadside bomb in Al-Diwaniya Sunday afternoon.

- A vehicle of the convoy of the Babil governor was destroyed by a roadside bomb in Al-Yarmouk area in Baghdad. Four of the governor's body guards were injured.

- The Maliki government threatens to arrest youngmen of the Al-Hadid and Al-Saba'awi tribes if they do not participate in the US-recruited Sahwa militia.

- Five people were injured in a bomb explosion near the Turkish embassy.

- Ali Hashem, a senior official of the Ministry of Health, was assassinated today by gunmen shooting at him inside his car, in east Baghdad.

- Four policemen were injured in a roadside explosion in Mosul.

- Qaem Maqam (governor of) Samarra survived an assassination attempt.

- Five policemen were injured in an attack on their checkpoint in kirkuk.

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Iraq War Report for events of Saturday, 24 May 2008.

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,

member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice.

· Sadr Movement denounces outrages committed by Iraqi government troops in impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district, following ceas-fire accord.

· Governor of al-Mawsil survives fourth assassination attempt in 10 days.

Al-Anbar Province.
Al-Fallujah.

Government police capture al-Qa‘idah operative in al-Fallujah.

In a dispatch posted at 9pm Baghdad time Saturday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi regime police in al-Fallujah, 60km west of Baghdad, arrested a man at 12 noon Saturday who was found to have leaflets issued by al-Qa‘idah in his possession.

Baghdad.

Bomb on minibus kills three civilians in west Baghdad’s al-Mansur district.

In a dispatch posted at 8pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb that had been stuck on a passenger minibus exploded in al-Liqa’ Square in the upscale west Baghdad district of al-Mansur.

Sadr Movement denounces outrages committed by Iraqi government troops in impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district, following cease fire accord.

In a dispatch posted at 12:23pm Baghdad time midday Saturday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Muhannad al-Ghazzawi, a prominent member of the movement in support of anti-occupation Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr, declared on Friday that units of the American-backed Iraqi government army had committed barbaric acts in the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district in Baghdad – a stronghold of support for the Sadr movement.

Yaqen reported al-Ghazzawi as saying that the atrocities threatened to bring down the cease-fire agreements that had been reached through Iranian mediation between the Sadr forces and the US-backed regime.

In a Friday sermon, al-Ghazzawi told worshippers that the Sadr Movement is committed to carrying out orders from its command as regards the fulfillment of the ceasefires. But there have been attacks, outrages, and transgressions by some army units in violation of the law, he said.

Al-Ghazzawi told hundreds of worshippers that units of the 11th Iraqi regime division were guilty of such outrages and that the Sadr Movement had complained to the division’s commanders who had simply asserted that no such acts had taken place.

The Sadr Movement announced on 10 May that it had reached a cease-fire agreement with the Iraqi regime, providing for the withdrawal of militias and permission for the Iraqi regime troops to enter Madinat as-Sadr. The US had been pressing an offensive there in an effort to wipe out the Sadr Movement’s Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in order to prepare for an eventual American assault on Iran.

Al-Ghazzawi declared in his sermon that the Sadr Movement condemns the brutalities committed by the Iraqi government units and asks citizens who have grievances against the troops to report them to the Independent Parliamentary Commission at the Madinat as-Sadr Municipal Council. There they may go and report any violations or outrages committed by the government troops.

Al-Ghazzawi, who heads a commission set up by Muqtada as-Sadr to oversee the implementation of the cease-fire agreements, emphasized that his commission would indeed supervise the cease-fire implementation and carry out the instructions of Muqtada as-Sadr.

About 1,000 people were killed and thousands more wounded in the US-led offensive against the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad during March, April, and early May. Al-Ghazzawi said that the Sadr Movement would continue to cooperate with the Iraqi government forces in implementing the cease-fire, but warned that the behavior of some of the regime troops were implementing the political agendas of certain political organizations rather than fulfilling their peace-keeping duties as provided by the cease-fire.

Diyala Province.
Ba‘qubah.

Tribal policeman killed in armed attack.

In a dispatch posted at 11:40am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that gunmen attacked a headquarters of the tribal “Awakening” police in the village of Hadd Mukassar near Ba‘qubah, 65km northeast of Baghdad.

Buhriz.

Two tribal policemen wounded in armed attack.

In a dispatch posted at11:40am Baghdad time Saturday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men attacked an outpost of the tribal “Awakening” police in the Buhriz area, 60km northeast of Baghdad.

Jalawla’.

Rocket slams into house in Jalawla’, wounding three Friday.

In a dispatch posted at 6:14pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that three members of one family were wounded when a Katyusha rocket landed on their house in the Jalawla’ area, 120km northeast of Baghdad on Friday.

At-Ta’mim/Kirkuk Province.
Kirkuk.

Motorcycle bomb damages bank in Kirkuk Saturday.

In a dispatch posted at 10:12pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that an explosives-packed motorcycle blew up near a bank in the Dumiz area to the south of the center of Kirkuk, 250km north of Baghdad, on Saturday.

Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.

Governor of al-Mawsil survives fourth assassination attempt in 10 days.

In a dispatch posted at 9:41pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by the motorcade in which the governor of the city of al-Mawsil was riding. It was the fourth such assassination attempt on that official in 10 days and came as the Iraqi regime and its US backers were continuing their offensive against al-Qa‘idah in al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad.

Bomb destroys Iraqi army vehicle in al-Mawsil.

In a dispatch posted at 7:38pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by an Iraqi government army patrol in the Sumar neighborhood of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad.

Hand grenade thrown at US patrol kills two Iraqi civilians in al-Mawsil midday Saturday.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:58pm Saturday afternoon Beijing time (2:58pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a fighter hurled a hand grenade at a US foot patrol in the ash-Suq ash-Sha‘bi area of the an-Nabi Yunus area to the east of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad at midday Saturday.

Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi government police as saying that the grenade explosion killed two Iraqi civilians who happened to be in the area at the time. US forces closed off the scene, restricting information on the incident.

Meanwhile, the Office of Operations for Ninwa Province announced that the government police had released 180 people who had been arrested in the recent “security sweep” known as Umm ar-Rabi‘ayn launched against al-Qa‘idah on 10 May. Earlier, 150 people had been released. The several hundred individuals arrested by US and Iraqi regime forces were all subject to interrogation before being set free.

A different version of the story appeared in a dispatch posted at 2:42pm Baghdad time Saturday afternoon by the Yaqen News Agency. Yaqen quoted an unnamed source in the Iraqi government police as saying that a bomb exploded by a US patrol in the an-Nabi Yunus area to the east of al-Mawsil.

Yaqen reported its source as claiming that, following the blast, the American troops opened fire indiscriminately around themselves, killing two Iraqi civilians and wounding a child.

Al-Basrah Province.
Al-Basrah.

Regime security men arrest 17 people in al-Basrah.

In a dispatch posted at 11:17pm Baghdad time Saturday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported a source in the al-Basrah Operations Bureau as saying that Iraqi government army and police rounded up and arrested 17 people, including one woman, and seized a quantity of arms and ammunition in raids and searches in various parts of al-Basrah in southern Iraq.

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