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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.  

Yaqen.net reported the following news:

- A US Hummer was destroyed in Baghdad.

- A body was found and a policeman was injured in Mosul.

7 killed, 19 injured in Sadr City clashes  

Baghdad - Voices of Iraq

Thursday , 08 /05 /2008  Time 6:07:13

Baghdad, May 8, (VOI) – The main hospitals in the troubled eastern Baghdad district of Sadr City received 7 corpses and 19 wounded people in casualties from clashes between gunmen and Iraqi security forces during the past 24 hours, a medical source said on Thursday.

"The Imam Ali Hospital received 4 corpses and 12 wounded individuals while al-Sadr Hospital received 3 corpses and 7 wounded as a result of clashes that have been flaring up in Sadr City since March 2008," the source, who declined to have his name revealed, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).

Al-Sadr and Imam Ali hospitals admit people killed and wounded in the clashes occurring nearly on a daily basis. Sadr City, a stronghold of Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi Army militias, has been witnessing armed clashes since Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki announced last month the commencement of a security operation codenamed Saulat al-Forsan (Knights' Assault) in the port city of Basra, Iraq's second largest province and an oil-hub, 590 km south of Baghdad, which he said targeted "outlaws." Hundreds of Sadr supporters were killed or wounded in intense fighting, which still continues.

SH/SR

Sahwa leader, 3 cops wounded in Dalouiya  

Salah al-Din - Voices of Iraq

Thursday , 08 /05 /2008  Time 9:32:46

Dalouiya, May 8, (VOI) -

The leader of the Dalouiya Awakening Council (Sahwa) was injured along with three policemen in a suicide bombing attack near his motorcade with the police chief in central Dalouiya, a police source said on Thursday.

“A suicide bomber blew up an explosive belt strapped to his body targeting the motorcade of Colonel Mohamed Khaled Abdul Hamid, the police chief, who was accompanied by Mulla Nazem al-Juburi, the leader of the Sahwa council in Dalouiya, slightly injuring the Sahwa leader and three policemen,” Colonel Mohammed Jasem al-Juburi, from the local police, told Aswat al-Iraq – Voices of Iraq – (VOI).

 Al-Juburi, the imam of al-Khulafaa mosque, was a senior leader of the al-Qaeda group for the past four years, but he differed with them and announced war on the group. He formed the Awakening Council in Dalouiya to fight them. Al-Juburi has survived four attempts on his life. Dalouiya, Salah al-Din province, lies 90 km north of Baghdad.

SH/SR

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Iraqi Resistance Report for events of Wednesday, 7 May 2008.

Translated and/or compiled by Muhammad Abu Nasr,

member, editorial board, the Free Arab Voice. 
 

·        US soldier killed in al-Anbar Province Tuesday.
 
·        US air strike on Sadr Office sparks battle in al-Kut.
 
Baghdad.
 
Iraqi regime troops attack Jaysh al-Mahdi in raids in southeastern Baghdad.
 
In a dispatch posted at 9:15pm Baghdad time Wednesday evening, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi government troops attempted to launch raids and searches in the al-Amin neighborhood of southeastern Baghdad on Wednesday, sparking a battle with the defending anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia.
 
Yaqen reported a source in the Baghdad Operations Command as saying that eight Jaysh al-Mahdi militiamen and one Iraqi army soldier were killed in the fighting and another 10 soldiers were wounded in the battle.  The government spokesman claimed that regime forces also disarmed seven bombs and recovered 55 Kalashnikov assault rifles during their raid.  The source said that the wounded were taken to a nearby hospital for treatment.
 
Health situation in Madinat as-Sadr dire as US continues blockade, offensive.
 
In a dispatch posted at 12:25pm Baghdad time midday Wednesday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a member of the Health and Environment Committee of the Iraqi Parliament reported that the health situation in besieged Madinat as-Sadr was worrisome after weeks suffering from a US blockade and offensive.
 
Yaqen reported Azad ‘Umar Bamarani as saying that the health situation in the district was complex and worrisome and noted that the hospitals and clinics in the blockaded area lack the most basic medical supplies for dealing with a critical situation.  There is a severe shortage of medicines, he said, as a result of the continuing US offensive against the district since late March.
 
Bamarani said that he would be holding a meeting with the Iraqi regime’s Minister of Health, Salih al-Hasnawi to discuss the crisis in Madinat as-Sadr.  “I was a part of a parliamentary delegation that visited Madinat as-Sadr,” Bamarani said, “and saw with my own eyes the critical nature of the conditions suffered by the district as a result of the military operations there.”
 
Bamarani called on the regime to intervene urgently to save the deteriorating health situation in the area.
 
Since late March, the US has been carrying out an offensive against Madinat as-Sadr, an impoverished Baghdad district, a stronghold of support for anti-occupation Shi‘i religious leader Muqtada as-Sadr.  The attack is regarded as a part of US preparations for an eventual American attack on Iran.
 
US soldier killed in al-Anbar Province Tuesday.
 
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 8:49pm Wednesday evening Beijing time (4:49pm in Baghdad), the Xinhua News Agency reported that the US had announced the death of an American soldier during military operations somewhere in al-Anbar Province in western Iraq.
 
Diyala Province.
Ba‘qubah.
 
University professor, publicists arrested by US troops in Ba‘qubah.
 
In a dispatch posted at 12:40pm Baghdad time midday Wednesday, the Yaqen News Agency reported that US forces raided the al-Mu‘allimin neighborhood of Ba‘qubah, 65km northeast of Baghdad, on Wednesday.
 
Yaqen reported ‘Umar ad-Dulaymi, the Chairman of the Administrative Board of the United League of Publicists in Ba‘qubah as saying that four Iraqi publicists were arrested in the raid, one of them a university professor.
 
Al-Miqdadiyah.
 
Bomb kills “Awakening” tribal policeman near al-Miqdadiyah.
 
In a dispatch posted at 10am Baghdad time Wednesday morning, the Yaqen News Agency reported that a bomb exploded by a patrol of tribal “Awakening” police in the al-Miqdadiyah area, 85km northeast of Baghdad.
 
Ninwa Province.
Al-Mawsil.
 
Four Iraqi army troops killed in clash in al-Mawsil Wednesday.
 
In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 11:55am Wednesday morning Beijing time, the Xinhua News Agency reported that  armed men battled Iraqi government troops in the at-Tanak neighborhood of al-Mawsil, 420km northwest of Baghdad.
 
Wasit Province.
Al-Kut.
 
US air strike on Sadr Office sparks battle in al-Kut.
 
In a dispatch posted at 1:15pm Baghdad time Wednesday afternoon, the Yaqen News Agency reported that Iraqi regime forces imposed a curfew on Baldat al-Hayy in the city of al-Kut, 180km southeast of Baghdad, following battles with the anti-occupation Jaysh al-Mahdi militia.
 

 
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