US Soldier, 9 Iraqi Policemen Killed, Mithal Al-Aloussi Ripped of Parliamentary Immunity for Visiting and Collaborating with Israel, 3 Attacks on US Forces, September 14, 2008

US Soldier, 9 Iraqi Policemen Killed, Mithal Al-Aloussi Ripped of Parliamentary Immunity for Visiting and Collaborating with Israel, 3 Attacks on US Forces

September 14, 2008

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."

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Yaqen.net reported that the Iraqi parliament voted unanimously to end immunity from the member of parliament, Mithal Al-Aloussi, for visiting Israel last week.

Al-Aloussi visited Israel before when he was a member of the US-installed "Governance Council." In both visits, Al-Aloussi called for establishing Iraqi-Israeli relations.

Members of parliament said they passed this bill against Al-Aloussi because Israel is still the enemy of Iraq. They lifted hi immunity so he can be investigated and interrogated for visiting and collaborating with an enemy country.

- US forces announced the death of a US soldier in non-combat conditions without details. This is the fifth death among American soldiers, increasing the number of US soldiers who are officially announced dead to 4,156, since the 2003 US invasion of Iraq.

- Seven policemen were killed, six were injured in a three-bomb attack on their patrol, in Al-Sa'adiya, northeast of Al-Falloujah.

- Two policemen were killed, a third was injured in an attack west of Mosul.

- A US patrol was attacked in Mosul leading to damaging one of the vehicle, a convoy was attacked in Al-Ridhwaniya, and Al-Bakr air base was rocketed by Jaish Al-Rashideen.

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