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Iraqi Murders Summary From 8/13 - 8/19/07

Good Morning,

Outlined below is a summary of Iraqi Deaths for August 13 - August 19 2007. This information is provided by "Iraqi Body Count".

Sunday 19 August: 34 dead
Baghdad: 12 killed by mortars, including 2 children, Obeidi; gunmen kill Education Ministry official and his brother; motorcycle bomb, roadside bombs, eastern Baghdad; 14 bodies.
Rashad: body found.
Kirkuk-Hawija road: policeman's body found.

Saturday 18 August: 42 dead
Baghdad: mortars, Dora, Saha; 18 bodies.
Khalis: 7 killed in mortar attack, including 4-month-old girl.
Ramadi: missiles kill 2.
Iskandariya: 3 bodies.
Falluja: 9 bodies.

Friday 17 August: 35 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb, Amin; 11 bodies.
Tarmiya: boy killed during US forces clashes with insurgents.
Kirkuk: roadside bomb kills 5.
Haditha: 3 bodies.
Falluja: 13 bodies.

Thursday 16 August: 32 dead
Baghdad: 9 killed by car bomb near al-Rusafi Square; 19 bodies.
Baquba: roadside bomb kills child.
Basra: 2 bodies.

Wednesday 15 August: 63 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill 3 in Madaen, Sheikh Omar; roadside bomb, Zaafaraniya; mortars, Madaen; 15 bodies.
Mosul: car bombs kill 10, including a child.
Kirkuk: car bombs kill 5.
Khalis: minibus is ambushed at fake checkpoint, 5 killed, including 5-year-old child.
Buhriz: al-Qaeda attack on 'Baquba Defenders' kills 6, including a child.
Khanaqin: mass grave found containing 33 bodies.


Tuesday 14 August: 480-565 dead
Baghdad: mortars, Ur; US air raid kills 3, including 3-year-old Zahra, while she is sleeping on the roof of her house with her family, Sadr City; 15 bodies.
Qahtania, Adnaniya: 415-500 reported dead in 4 suicide tanker bomb attacks. It is the bloodiest attack since the invasion of the country in 2003.
Suwayra: gunmen shoot dead policeman's pregnant wife, brother and 12-year-old son.
Taji: truck bomb kills 10 on a bridge.
Ghraia: gunmen shoot dead 4 people sleeping on the roof.
Khalis: 15 bodies.
Kirkuk: the bodies of 2 Yazidi men, stoned to death, turn up at the morgue six days after they were kidnapped on their way to sell olives. Akbar Hassan, 38, and Ayad Khadir, 50, were taken to the Sunni village of al-Saeeda, where residents were ordered to stone them. After the villagers refused, the kidnappers killed them themselves.


Monday 13 August: 42 dead
Baghdad: mortars, Zayouna; US raid kills 5, Sadr City; US raid kills 2, Shula; roadside bomb, Obeidi; US forces shoot dead 2 people after roadside bomb explosion; 18 bodies.
Khanaqin: bomb blast kills 5.
Shirqat: gunmen kill 15-year-old girl.
Hilla: US forces shoot dead driver of car approaching patrol; 2 bodies.

Have a nice day.

posted by Wink @ 8:17 AM