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7 US Soldiers Kidnapped in Mosul on Friday, US Soldier, 8 Iraqis Killed in War Attacks

February 27, 2009


Yaqen.net reported the following news:

- Seven US soldiers were kidnapped by Iraqi gunmen driving cars today, Friday, in Al-Islah area in Mosul. US forces patrol was about to start a house search in the area, when the gunmen kidnapped them.

US forces surrounded and cordoned the area, then started calling the area residents with speakers threatening them to release the kidnapped US soldiers or the whole area would be destroyed by air strikes tonight.

This news was not reported in any other Iraqi website. So, it could not be independently verified.

Here it is in Arabic:

مسلحون يخطفون سبعة من جنود الاحتلال الامريكي في مدينة الموصل وجيش الاحتلال يتهدد بالمدنيين   التاريخ : 2009 /02/27 .*. 10:03 pm تمكن مسلحون مجهولون يستقلون عدة سيارات من اختطاف سبعة جنود تابعين لقوات الاحتلال الامريكي في منطقة الاصلاح الزراعي في الموصل من دورية راجلة لقوات الاحتلال كانت تروم شن حملة دهم وتفتيش في المنطقة. وقال شهود عيان لمراسل وكالة يقين للانباء: ان قوة مهاجمة من مسلحين مجهولين يستقلون عدة سيارات تمكنوا مساء اليوم (الجمعة) من خطف سبعة من جنود قوات الاحتلال الامريكي عندما ارادات تلك القوات شن حملة دهم وتفتيش واعتقال في منطقة الاصلاح الزراعي في الجانب الايسر لمدينة الموصل. واضاف الشهود: ان قوات الاحتلال الامريكي طوقت المنطقة واستعملت مكبرات الصوت وابلغت انه اذا لم يتم الافراج عنهم سيتم قصف المنطقة بالطائرات هذه الليلة بالكامل وابادة كل من فيها. يقين http://www.yaqen.net/?p=15103

- Ansar Al-Sunnah fighters rocketed the US Al-Bakr airbase with mortars, north of Baghdad. They also destroyed a US armored personnel carrier vehicle, in Al-Dour, Salahuddin Province.

- A roadside bomb was detonated against a US tank convoy in Al-Amarah.

- A British armored vehicle was damaged by a roadside bomb targeting a British convoy in Basra.

- The 1920s Brigades fighters announced attacks on US forces in Baghdad airport with a missile, in the Air Forces College in Tikrit with a missile, destroying a Hummer in Tikrit.

- The former Iraqi Army General Command announced attacks on two US military vehicles and destroying them, as well as rocketing the US air base in Mosul with a missile.


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4 sahwa fighters killed, wounded near Kirkuk

February 27, 2009 - 07:08:05

KIRKUK / Aswat al-Iraq:

Two US-recruited sahwa fighters were killed and two others wounded by unidentified gunmen fire in al-Huwaija district on Friday, a senior security source said.

“Unidentified gunmen opened fire at a checkpoint of the sahwa forces in al-Askari neighborhood, al-Huweija district, (65 km) southwest of Kirkuk, leaving two fighters killed and two others wounded,” Brig. Sarhad Qader, the Kirkuk Districts’ Police Department chief, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The gunmen managed to escape to an unknown place,” the source added.

Kirkuk is 250 km northeast of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

AmR (P)

IED damages U.S. Hummer in Missan

February 27, 2009 - 04:59:19

MISSAN / Aswat al-Iraq:

A Hummer vehicle was damaged when an improvised explosive device (IED) went off near a U.S. convoy north of the city of al-Amara but left no casualties, a source from the Missan police department said on Friday.

“The IED went off as the U.S. convoy was passing by al-Batira road, near the Missan international stadium, (5 km) north of Amara, damaging a Hummer vehicle,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The explosion did not leave any casualties,” the source added, not revealing further details about the incident.

Amara, the capital city of Missan province, lies 390 km south of Baghdad.

AmR (P)

Wassit morgue receives civilian body

February 27, 2009 - 05:54:07

WASSIT / Aswat al-Iraq: The al-Zahraa hospital morgue on Friday received the body of an unidentified civilian man after being salvaged from a river in the northern part of the province, a morgue medic said.

“The body, which was salvaged from a river in the district of al-Suwayra, (135 km) north of al-Kut, showed signs of having been tortured,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

Kut, the capital city of Wassit province, lies 180 km southeast of Baghdad.

AmR (P)

MNF armored vehicle damaged as bomb goes off in Basra

February 27, 2009 - 10:24:05

BASRA / Aswat al-Iraq:

The Multinational forces in southern Iraq said on Friday that a convoy came under a roadside bomb explosion in central Basra, damaging an armored vehicle.

“An explosive charge went off targeting a convoy of the Multinational forces near al-Fayhaa hospital in central Basra, damaging one of the convoy’s vehicles,” the media spokesman for the MNF, Bill Young, told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The blast left no casualties,” he noted.

“Iraqi army forces sealed off the area after the explosion,” he also said.

Basra is 590 km south of Baghdad.

SH (P)

Unknown body found in Diala

February 27, 2009 - 10:10:04

DIALA / Aswat al-Iraq:

Security forces on Friday found an unknown body in Diala province, according to an official security source.

“Security forces on Friday found a body of a young man, between 25 and 30 years old, near Hamrien village in south of al-Saadiya district in Diala,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The body bore signs of gunshot wounds and was taken to the morgue,” he added.

Al-Sa'adiya district lies in Khaneqeen, 155 km northeast of Baaquba, the capital of Diala, which lies 57 km northeast of Baghdad.

SH (P)

U.S. soldier killed in Baghdad

February 27, 2009 - 09:06:54

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

The U.S. army said on Friday that one soldier was killed in an armed attack in Baghdad.

“A Multi-National Division–Baghdad soldier died Feb. 26 from combat related injuries while conducting a patrol in Baghdad.  The soldier’s name is being withheld pending notification of next of kin,” said a U.S. army statement received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The incident is currently under investigation,” it added.

The death raises the number of U.S. fatalities in February 2009 to 15, and brings the official number of U.S. soldiers who have been killed in Iraq since the US-led invasion in March 2003 to 4,252. (This figure does not include soldiers who died of wounds outside Iraq).

SH (S)

2 army personnel wounded in IED blast in Mosul

February 26, 2009 - 04:04:59

NINEWA / Aswat al-Iraq:

An Iraqi army officer and soldier were wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in western Mosul city on Thursday, a police source in Ninewa said.

“An IED went off near al-Siha tunnel, western Mosul, targeting an Iraqi army patrol. The blast left an officer in the rank of major and a patrolman wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

He did not give further details.

Mosul, the capital city of Ninewa province, lies 405 km north of Baghdad.

AmR (P)

2nd blast in Baghdad injures 3 civilians

February 26, 2009 - 10:01:34

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

Three civilians were wounded on Thursday afternoon in a bomb explosion, the second today in Baghdad, a police source said.

“An improvised explosive device, planted by unknown gunmen on al-Nedal street in central Baghdad, went off on Thursday (Feb. 26), injuring three civilians,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“Security forces sealed off the area and carried the wounded to the nearby Ibn al-Nafees hospital,” the source also said.

A security source had said earlier that an explosive charge, planted on the road in al-Jadiriya region in southern Baghdad, went off targeting a police vehicle patrol, killing an officer and injuring six policemen.

SH (P)/SR

IED kills officer, injures 6 in Baghdad

February 26, 2009 - 07:38:59

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

An officer was killed and six policemen were wounded in an improvised explosive device blast on Thursday in southern Baghdad, a security source said. “An explosive charge, planted on the road in al-Jadiriya region in southern Baghdad, went off targeting a police vehicle patrol, killing an officer and injuring six,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“The blast injured also a number of the Baghdad University students,” eyewitnesses said.

SH (P)

3 killed, 12 wounded in Iraq in 24 hours

February 25, 2009 - 11:36:42

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

Three people, including a U.S. soldier, were killed while 12 others, including three U.S. soldiers, were wounded in violent acts that took place throughout Iraq during the last 24 hours. The U.S. army in Iraq on Wednesday said that one serviceman and an Iraqi interpreter were killed in an attack on Iraqi police checkpoint in Mosul on Tuesday.

Three U.S. Soldiers and another Iraqi interpreter were also wounded in the attack. In western Mosul, an Iraqi army officer (Captain) was killed by gunmen’s fire on Tuesday evening, during a security raid at al-Islah al-Zeraee neighborhood. In Baghdad, two roadside bombs went off on Tuesday evening targeting a police patrol at Palestine Street, wounding eight persons including six of the patrol’s personnel.

MH (P)/SH

U.S. soldier, interpreter killed in Mosul attack - U.S. army

February 25, 2009 - 09:37:24

BAGHDAD / Aswat al-Iraq:

The U.S. army in Iraq on Wednesday said that one serviceman and an Iraqi interpreter were killed in an attack at an Iraqi police checkpoint in Mosul on Tuesday. “One U.S. Soldier and one Iraqi interpreter died as a result of an attack at an Iraqi Police station in Mosul, Iraq, Feb. 24,” said the U.S. army in a statement received by Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

“Three U.S. Soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were also wounded,” it added. “Injured personnel were taken to the Combat Support Hospital in Mosul, where the U.S. Soldier died of his wounds,” it said.

The cause and nature of the attack are under investigation. Al-Muqdad Jibreel, the adviser of the U.S. army, had said on Tuesday that Four U.S. soldiers were wounded in a shooting in western Mosul on Tuesday afternoon. The death raise the number of U.S. fatalities in February 2009 to 14, and bring the number of U.S. soldiers who have been killed in Iraq since the U.S.-led invasion in March 2003 to 4,251.

SH (S)

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