US Soldier, 11 Iraqis Killed, Attacks on US Forces, Protests in Falloujah Against US Searches and Arrests, According to October 25-26, 2008

Editor's Note (Below)

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Yaqen.net reported the following news:

- An Iraqi policeman was killed by a gunman fire in Mosul.

- 8 people were injured in two blasts in Baghdad.

- Two policemen were injured by a roadside bomb targeting their patrol in Mosul.

- An Iraqi army officer called Sa'ad Jabbar survived an assassination attempt on his life by a bomb blast targeting his car in kirkuk.

Saturday:

- Two Iraqi soldiers were killed, seven were injured in two blasts in Palestine street, in Baghdad.

- Iraqi residents of Al-Falloujah demonstrated in protest against US forces house searches and arrests of Iraqi residents of the city without any provocations.

- The 1920s Brigades announced attacks on US base in Baghdad airport, a US Hummer vehicle in Al-Qadisiya neighborhood, a US intelligence SUV in Salman Bek, a mine sweeper south of Mosul. Several US soldiers were killed or injured in the attacks.

- Two brother policemen were killed by gunmen fire east of Mosul.

- One person was killed, another was injured in a car blast in downtown Baghdad.

- US military base in Al-Wajihiya was attacked with mortars.

- A body of an unknown Iraqi was found west of Kirkuk.

- An Iraqi soldier and three Iraqi resistance fighters were killed in clashes between the two sides in Salahuddin Province, in which US forces backed Iraqi soldiers in the attack on Iraqi fighters opposing US forces and US-led Iraqi forces.

- US forces announced the death of a US soldier, who was killed in "non-combat" circumstances. He is the 12th to be killed this month and 4,188th since the US invasion of Iraq in March 2003. See the editor's note below concerning the announced numbers of casualties.

amsi.org reported that a tribal chief was killed in Al-Falloujah Sunday.

INA reported that MP Ahmed Al-Alwain survived an assassination attempt by gunmen on his life, in front of his home in Al-Ramadi. He sustained some inuries.

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Policeman killed in Mosul

October 26, 2008 - 02:21:02
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq:

A policeman was killed on Sunday when his patrol came under fire from unidentified gunmen in eastern Mosul city, a security source in Ninewa province said.

“An Emergency 4th Division policeman was killed today when his patrol came under attack by unidentified gunmen in the area of al-Darkazliya, eastern Mosul,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.

“The gunmen waged their attack from inside a vehicle,” the source added, not revealing more details.
Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.
AmR (P)/SR

2 policemen wounded in blast in Mosul

October 26, 2008 - 01:27:25
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq:

Two policemen were wounded when their patrol came under a roadside improvised explosive device (IED) attack in southern Mosul on Sunday, a source from the Ninewa police department said.

“The IED targeted a police patrol in al-Nift neighborhood, southern Mosul, leaving two patrolmen wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.

“The injured were rushed to a hospital for treatment,” the source said, not giving more details.
Mousl, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.
AmR (P)/SR

8 wounded in Baghdad blasts

October 26, 2008 - 09:40:54
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

Eight persons were wounded on Sunday in two separate blasts that rocked eastern and downtown Baghdad, a police source said.

“Today, an improvised explosive device (IED) detonated in al-Baladiyyat area, eastern Baghdad, near a police patrol vehicle, wounding four persons, including three patrolmen,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
“The explosion caused damage to the vehicle,” the source added.

Meanwhile, a sticky IED targeting a vehicle carrying health ministry employees went off today near the ministry’s headquarters in Bab al-Muazzam area, central Baghdad, wounding four persons and causing damage to the vehicle, according to the same source.
SS (P)/SR

3 gunmen killed in Kirkuk clashes

October 26, 2008 - 07:45:28

KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Three gunmen on Sunday were killed during armed clashes that erupted with security forces in the southwest of Kirkuk city, a local police chief said.

“Today, clashes erupted between security forces and gunmen in the area between the districts of Sarkon and al-Riyadh (40 southwest of Kirkuk), during which three gunmen, including a wanted person called Naseef Jassem Mohammed, were killed,” Brig. Sarhad Qader told Aswat al-Iraq.

Meanwhile, police forces defused an improvised explosive device (IED) planted near a checkpoint in Laylan district (10 km south of Kirkuk), without causing any casualties or damage, the brigadier added.

SS (S)

March near Falluja condemns civilian death by U.S. fire

October 25, 2008 - 05:16:43
ANBAR / Aswat al-Iraq:

Hundreds of Falluja people staged a peaceful demonstration on Saturday condemning the killing of a local resident by U.S. forces’ fire, demanding an investigation into the incident.

Some 900 locals of al-Nassaf village, Falluja city, took to the streets and gathered near Osama Ibn Zayd Mosque, chanting slogans against U.S. forces, which they blamed for the death of a local resident during the early hours of Friday.

A spokesman for the demonstrators said that the march denounced the killing of citizen Sajit al-Ulwani, who was killed in his bed by U.S. fire.

A security source in Falluja police told Aswat al-Iraq over the phone that an Iraqi civilian was killed and six others detained in a raid conducted by U.S. troops on Friday in an area inhabited by al-Bu Ulwan clans.
AmR (P)/SR

2 policemen killed in Mosul

October 25, 2008 - 04:21:30
NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq:

Two brothers, both policemen were killed by unidentified gunmen fire in eastern Mosul city on Saturday, a Ninewa police source said.

“Unknown gunmen opened fire on two policemen in al-Karama neighborhood, eastern Mosul, killing them instantly before escaping to an unknown place,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.

“One of the two policemen was working at the Ninewa provincial building while the other belonged to the 5th Emergency Police Corps,” the source said, adding the two brothers were on leave.
Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.
AmR (P)/SR

Baghdad blast leaves 3 casualties

October 25, 2008 - 01:00:56
BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

A civilian man was killed and two others wounded when a sticky explosive charge attached to their vehicle went off in central Baghdad on Saturday, an Iraqi police source said.

“The IED, which exploded in central Baghdad’s al-Andalus square, left a man killed and two others inside the vehicle injured,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq.
AmR (P)

Unidentified body found in Kirkuk

October 25, 2008 - 11:54:19

KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq: Policemen in Kirkuk found an unidentified body in the southwestern part of the province on Saturday, a senior security official said.

“Forces from the Kirkuk Districts’ Police Department today found a body of a 30-year-old young man in Tobzawa area, (25 km) southwestern Kirkuk,” Brig. Sarhad Qader, the department chief, told Aswat al-Iraq.

“The body, probably remained in its place for five days, showed signs of having been shot and was in a decomposed status,” he added.

Meanwhile, Qader said, policemen today also seized an amount of weapons buried under ground near the district of Daqquq, (35 km) south of Kirkuk.

The city of Kirkuk lies 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

AmR (P)

6 killed, injured in Salah al-Din clashes

October 25, 2008 - 08:47:09

SALAH AL-DIN / Aswat al-Iraq:

Three Iraqi servicemen were killed or wounded during armed clashes with al-Qaeda operatives that killed three of the group’s members, the Multi-National Force (MNF) said on Saturday.

“Iraqi army and U.S. forces, which assisted in the operation, last night raided a house of an al-Qaeda member in Salah al-Din province,” according to an MNF statement received by Aswat al-Iraq.

“Clashes erupted between the two sides and left one Iraqi soldier and three al-Qaeda members killed. Another gunman was arrested,” the statement noted, adding that two Iraqi servicemen were wounded in the operation.

SS (P)

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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.

On September 6, 2008, news reports mentioned the killing of nine Iraqis who were arrested by Al-Muthanna Brigade of the Iraqi Army stationed in the city of Al-Falloujah. There corpses were found with bullets shot on their heads and chests. This incident is evidence that the sectarian-based Iraqi forces have been functioning also as death squads, which killed Iraqis for suspicion of belonging to resistance organizations, without any legal procedures or trials.

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."

Finally, on daily basis, US-led forces arrest scores of Iraqis in an attempt to pre-empt them from resistance. Tens of thousands of Iraqis are still there in US detention camps and in the prisons of the US-backed Iraqi government. Daily records of these arrests can be obtained from the following three Iraqi sources of news: yaqen.net, amsi.org, and Voices of Iraq.

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