U.S. Serviceman killed in Anbar-military
 
Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 07 /05 /2008  Time 8:20:54  
Baghdad, May 7, (VOI) -

One U.S. soldier was killed in killed in clashes in Al-Anbar, U.S. military troops in Iraq said on Wednesday.
“A Multi-National Force – West Soldier was killed in action against an enemy force while on patrol in Anbar Province May 6,” read a U.S. military statement received by Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI)
The announcement did not provide further details about the killing.

The death brings the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq since the beginning of military operations in March 2003 to 4073 .AM/SR

Police forces kill 8 gunmen during raid operations in Baghdad
 
Baghdad - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 07 /05 /2008  Time 8:20:54 
Baghdad, May 7, (VOI) -

Police forces on Wednesday killed ten gunmen and defused a number of roadside bombs during raid operation conducted in Baghdad, a security spokesman said.

“A force of Iraqi police killed eight gunmen during raid-and-search operations conducted in al-Ameen neighborhood, south-east Baghdad,” Brig. Gen. Qassem Atta, spokesman for Baghdad security plan, told Aswat al-Iraq - Voices of Iraq - (VOI).

“The police force defused seven roadside bombs and seized 55 Ak-47 Klashinkov in the operations,” he added.

The spokesman noted “the force came under fire from outlaw armed groups, leaving one soldier killed and ten others wounded.”

The security spokesman did not reveal the identity or the affiliation of the armed groups.
AM/SR

4 Iraqi soldiers killed in Mosul
 
Ninewa - Voices of Iraq
Wednesday , 07 /05 /2008  Time 8:42:02 
Mosul, May 7, (VOI)-

Four Iraqi army soldiers were killed on Wednesday in clashes with an armed group in western Mosul, an Iraqi army source said.

“The four soldiers were killed in the clashes that flared up in Tank neighborhood in western Mosul,” the source, who asked for anonymity, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq (VOI).

He did not give more details.
Mosul, the capital of Ninewa, is 405 km north of Baghdad.

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Iraq War Report for events of Tuesday, 6 May 2008.

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,

member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. 
 

·        US announces death of American soldier in Ninwa Province on Tuesday.
 
·        Madinat as-Sadr hospitals report two dead, 11 wounded in last 24 hours of US offensive against impoverished district.
 
·        Three dead, nine wounded in US attacks on Jaysh al-Mahdi in southern Baghdad, as American offensive against Jaysh al-Mahdi continues and dozens of families flee their homes.
 
Baghdad.
 
Rocket slams into Baghdad Utilities Department, wounding five.
 
In a dispatch posted at pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a Katyusha rocket of unknown origins had blasted into the offices of the Baghdad Utilities department (Amanat Baghdad).
 
US announces death of American soldier in Ninwa Province on Tuesday.
 
In a dispatch posted at 7:25pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the US military announced that one of its troops had been killed and another wounded in an attack on their patrol somewhere in Ninwa Province, northwest of Baghdad.
 
Madinat as-Sadr hospitals report two dead, 11 wounded in last 24 hours of US offensive against impoverished district.
 
In a dispatch posted at 6:30pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Imam ‘Ali Hospital and as-Sadr Hospital in the Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad had received two bodies and admitted 11 wounded people in the previous 24 hours of the continued American offensive against the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of Baghdad.
 
Yaqen reported a source in the al-Imam ‘Ali Hospital as saying that his institution had received two bodies and seven people wounded in the American offensive, while the as-Sadr Hospital had admitted four individuals wounded in the fighting in Madinat as-Sadr.
 
For more than a month US forces have been waging an offensive against the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia and the Sadr Movement of which it is a part in what is widely seen as preparation for an eventual US attack on Iran.
 
College building hit by rocket in Baghdad Tuesday.
 
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:32pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (3:32pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that a Katyusha rocket landed on the building housing the University College of al-Mansur on al-Andalus Square in Baghdad.
 
Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi government police as saying that five people, one of them a female student, were wounded in the unexplained attack, which also damaged the building.
 
Mortar shell targets police checkpoint.
 
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:32pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (3:32pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that two mortar shell blasted into the area near a checkpoint manned by the Iraqi regime police in the ash-Shalijiyah area of northern Baghdad.
 
Mortar shells kill three in central Baghdad.
 
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 7:32pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (3:32pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that two mortar shells of unknown origin landed on a building in the as-Sanak district of central Baghdad at midday Tuesday.
 
Three dead, nine wounded in US attacks on Jaysh al-Mahdi in southern Baghdad, as American offensive against Jaysh al-Mahdi continues and dozens of families flee their homes.
 
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 6:31pm Tuesday afternoon Beijing time (2:31pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that three people were killed and nine more wounded in the continuing US offensive against the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia in southern Baghdad on Tuesday.
 
Xinhua reported a source in the Iraqi government police as saying that fierce fighting broke out between the US troops accompanied by their Iraqi regime allies on one side and the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia on the other side in the Abu Dushayr before noon Tuesday.  As of the time of reporting three people had been killed and nine more wounded in the combat.  Several houses and have also been damaged and personal property destroyed.
 
Meanwhile there was a mass evacuation of dozens of people from the impoverished Madinat as-Sadr district of northern Baghdad on Tuesday morning as a result of the continuing American ground offensive and daily air strikes against the district, a stronghold of support for the anti-occupation Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr.  The refugees from Madinat as-Sadr set up temporary tent camps near the International ash-Sha‘b Stadium and the Industrial Club Sports Center in eastern Baghdad, awaiting the return of relative security to their home area.
 
For more than a month US forces have been waging an offensive against the Jaysh al-Mahdi militia and the Sadr Movement of which it is a part in what is widely seen as preparation for an eventual US attack on Iran.
 
Salah ad-Din Province.
Tikrit.
 
Car bomb explodes near restaurant in Tikrit.
 
In a dispatch posted at 6:50pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a car bomb exploded in front of a restaurant in the city of Tikrit, 180km north of Baghdad, Tuesday.
 
Yathrib.
 
Resistance group claims destruction of supply truck and troop transport en route to US base.
 
In a dispatch posted at 1:15pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that the Brigades of the 1920 Revolution Iraqi resistance group announced that its fighters had set off a bomb near a US supply convoy on its way to the al-Bakr Air Base – a facility dubbed “Camp Anaconda” by the Americans – in the Yathrib area, about 80km north of Baghdad.
 
Yaqen reported the 1920 Brigades’ communiqué as saying that the blast disabled one supply truck, but did not specify when the attack had taken place.
 
In a separate communiqué, Yaqen reported at 1:30pm, the 1920 brigades claimed to have detonated a bomb by a troop transport vehicle also In a dispatch posted at pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that
 
Diyala Province.
Buhriz.
 
Tribal leader, members of family abducted near Buhriz.
 
In a dispatch posted at 5:15pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men kidnapped a tribal chief and three members of his family in the al-Buhriz area, 60km northeast of Baghdad Tuesday.
 
Ba‘qubah.
 
Ten Iraqi regime troops killed in Monday night assault near Ba‘qubah.
 
In a dispatch posted at 10:06am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint near western Ba‘quba, 65km northeast of Baghdad.
 
Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.
 
Bomb wounds two in attack in northern al-Mawsil in reported increase of al-Qa‘idah activity.
 
In a dispatch posted at 9:25pm Baghdad time Tuesday night, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded on the main street in the ash-Shurah district of southern al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad.  Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that two people were killed in the attack.
 
Bomb kills soldier in al-Mawsil Tuesday afternoon.
 
In a dispatch posted at 9:25pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of Iraqi army troops in the at-Tanak neighborhood of western al-Mawsil on Tuesday afternoon.  Yaqen reported a source in the police as saying that the blast killed one soldier and wounded two more of them.
 
Police officer gunned down in al-Mawsil.
 
In a dispatch posted at 2:30pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men opened fire on the private car in which an officer in the Installation Protection police force was traveling through the az-Zahra’ neighborhood of al-Mawsil.
 
Bomb wounds policeman in eastern al-Mawsil.
 
In a dispatch posted at 2:30pm Baghdad time Tuesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by an Iraqi government police patrol in the an-Nur neighborhood of eastern al-Mawsil.
 
Gunmen ambush police patrol in southern al-Mawsil.
 
In a dispatch posted at 11:29am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that an armed group ambushed an Iraqi government police patrol in the southern al-Mawsil neighborhood of al-Mansur.
 
Two armed men killed in attack on police in al-Mawsil Monday night.
 
In a dispatch posted at 11:29am Baghdad time Tuesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that armed men attacked a patrol of Iraqi government police in the an-Nur neighborhood of eastern al-Mawsil Monday evening.
 

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