Summary Of Recent Iraq Deaths - This isnt in the US Headline News Read on:
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Although the US military is boasting that the "Surge" is working in Iraq, Iraqi civilians die in great numbers every day. Here is a summary from Iraq Body Count of the recent deaths in Iraq:
Saturday 24 November: 16 dead
Baghdad: 4 bodies.
Falluja: 2 bodies.
Mosul: roadside bomb kills policeman; 2 bodies -a university student and her mother.
Samarra: car bomb kills 3 policemen.
Hilla: 2 worshippers shot dead outisde mosque.
Tuz Khurmato: body found.
Wajihia: body found.
Friday 23 November: 74 dead
Baghdad: bomb in pet market kills 15; 6 bodies.
Mosul: car bombs hits police patrols, kill 21; 7 bodies.
Jalawla: school guard and wife beheaded in front of their children by relatives critical of their 'western' ways.
Kut: 2 killed in separate attacks; 8 bodies.
Dhuluiya: 3 bodies.
Najaf: body of 17-year-old is found.
Thursday 22 November: 48 dead
Baghdad: 4 bodies.
Hawr Rijab: up to 18 'Awakening' Council guards reported killed in attack by gunmen.
Baquba: 3 village residents killed in attacks by gunmen on two villages.
Abu Saida: 8 residents killed during clashes with militants.
Mosul: car bomb kills 2; roadside bomb kills policeman; decapitated body of University lecturer from Tikrit is found.
Kirkuk: member of municipal council is shot dead; decapitated body found.
Basra: 2 shot dead.
Wednesday 21 November: 67 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill interior ministry secretary; 9 bodies found, 6 in mass grave in back garden in Saidiya.
Ramadi: suicide car bomb kills 6; mass grave is found, containing 40 bodies.
Hawija: US forces raid house, kill 4 peasants from the same family.
Baquba: 3 bodies.
Mosul: 2 bodies.
Tuesday 20 November: 31 dead
Baghdad: 6 killed in separate incidents, Mansour, Atifiya, Bayaa; 6 bodies.
Zighania: gunmen attack home, kill 3 brothers.
Dhuluiya: 3 bodies.
Basra: 4 bodies.
Monday 19 November: 40 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 1, Baladiyat; 3 bodies.
Basra: mother and 5 children are killed when a rocket hits their house; body found.
Baquba: gunmen attack police station, kill 3 policemen; 3 bodies.
Falluja: 3 killed by car bomb.
Samarra: 4 bodies.
Tikrit: 5 bodies of policemen found.
Sunday 18 November: 31 dead
Baghdad: car bomb kills 10, Karrada; taxi driver shot dead by US forces; 4 bodies.
Mosul: suicide car bomber attacks police checkpoint, kills 4.
Baquba: roadside bomb kills 3 children as they flock around US patrol handing out gifts.
Samarra: US forces open fire on cars, kill 3.
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8 Bags Of Body Parts Unearthed In Mass Grave in Baghdad
BAGHDAD - A mass grave filled with badly decomposed bodies was unearthed Saturday in southern Baghdad, where relatives of people missing in the neighborhood gathered at a mosque in hopes of learning the fate of their loved ones.
It was the third mass grave found in Iraq this month.
The remains were found in Baghdad's mostly Sunni Dora neighborhood, placed in black plastic bags and transferred to a Shiite mosque nearby, according to a police officer at the mosque. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to release information.
An Associated Press photographer at the al-Kazimain mosque counted 33 plastic bags, and police said each bag held the remains of one victim. But the condition of the remains — severely decomposed — meant that it was impossible to verify the number of bodies.
Some of the bags were opened, revealing body parts, bones and scraps of clothing. One of the bags contained a prosthetic leg.
Relatives of people who had been missing in the area crowded into a courtyard outside the mosque, where the remains were laid out. A woman in a black Muslim abaya cried as the bags were opened.
At one point, eight bags of remains were placed into a single plain wooden coffin, for burial.
Earlier this month, U.S. and Iraqi officials said they found 29 bodies in the Lake Tharthar area of the once restive western Anbar province. And another 17 victims were discovered in a brushy area near a school in Hashimiyat, northeast of Baghdad.
Meanwhile, an Iraqi TV station said Saturday that one of its reporters was kidnapped a day earlier on his way to work in central Baghdad. The station has already lost two reporters to the violence here that often targets the media.
Muntadhar al-Zaidi, a 28-year-old reporter for the Iraqi satellite channel al-Baghdadiyah, disappeared Friday, according to an editor at the channel. The editor who spoke on condition of anonymity because of safety concerns.
A colleague phoned al-Zaidi around noon Friday, and a stranger answered his cell phone. "Forget Muntadhar," the stranger said, according to the editor.
"This is the act of gangs, because all of Muntadhar's reports are moderate and unbiased," the editor told The Associated Press in a phone interview.
Al-Baghdadiyah TV broadcasts from Cairo, Egypt, and is often critical of the Iraqi government and the U.S. military presence here. It is perceived as pro-Sunni.
Iraqi journalists working for local or international media frequently come under threats from insurgents because of their reporting or their affiliation with foreign organizations.
The New York-based Committee to Protect Journalists says at least 123 journalists and 42 media support workers — translators, drivers, fixers and guards — have been killed in Iraq since the war began in 2003. About 85 percent of those deaths were Iraqis, the group said.
In addition, the organization says at least 51 journalists have been kidnapped in Iraq since 2004.
Neither CPJ count includes al-Zaidi, whose whereabouts were unknown.
Also Saturday, the U.S. military said its troops killed seven suspects and detained 10 in raids across central and northern Iraq.
In one operation northeast of Samarra, U.S. troops discovered that three of the suspects killed were wearing suicide vests, the military said. A weapons cache and bomb-making materials were also found, it said.
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Recent Daily Iraqi Deaths - An Accounting
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Here is a summary of Iraqi deaths over the past several days. This information comes from Iraqi Body Count:
Recent Events
Wednesday 14 November: 56 deadBaghdad: roadside bomb kills 2, Salhiya; 3 oil ministry employees shot dead in their vehicle; car bomb kills civilian in the north/east; 5 bodies.
Iskandariya: suicide car bomber attacks gathering of anti al-Qaeda Sheikhs, kills 3.
Mosul: gunmen kill 4 in separate incidents; Iraqi soldiers kill 2 during clashes; 4 bodies found, one beheaded.
Tarmiya: up to 24 Sunni Awakening Council members reported mistakenly killed in US air and ground attack.
22 unidentified bodies are buried in Kirkuk.
Tuesday 13 November: 24 deadBaghdad: 6 bodies.
Mosul: US forces kill suspected insurgent in his house, along with his wife and baby; gunmen kill policeman; gunmen kill medic; body found.
Baquba: 2 die in explosions.
Abu Saida: 3 bodies.
Kirkuk: policeman killed by gunmen; body found.
280 teachers have been killed since the 2003 invasion, according to UN report.
60,000 people are currently detained in Iraq (International Committee of the Red Cross).
Monday 12 November: 31 deadBaghdad: gunmen kill 2 policemen, Abu Ghraib; 5 bodies.
Baquba: gunmen kill academic, Dr Haitham Abdel-Salam, and passenger in his car.
Mosul: 4 killed in separate incidents.
Jurf al-Sakhar: roadside bomb kills 2.
Hawija: headless corpse is found.
Qadir Kam: family of 5 is found murdered.
Adwaniya: 5 citizens fighting against al-Qaeda are killed during battle.
Sunday 11 November: 17 deadBaghdad: roadside bomb targeting US patrol kills 12-year-old child, Baladiyat; civilian killed in bomb explosion outside policeman's house, Bayaa; 4 bodies.
Baquba: gunmen kill student.
Mosul: man killed by gunmen; body found.
Qasim: body found.
Diwaniya: 3 killed in violent attacks.
Saturday 10 November: 42 deadBaghdad: roadside bomb kills 2, Baladiyat; man is shot dead in his car, Adil; 3 'Awakening' members are mistakenly killed in US airstrike, Yathrib; another civilian is killed in the same airstrike; 6 bodies.
Diwaniya: US plane bombs two homes, kills father of 10.
Baquba: 2 killed by gunmen; 4 bodies.
Mosul: 4 killed by roadside bomb; gunmen kill policeman.
Balad Ruz: roadside bomb kills 2 policemen.
Friday 9 November: 23 deadBaghdad: 2 killed by roadside bomb, Kadhimiya; 3 bodies.
Khanaqeen: 3 policemen killed in explosions.
Balad Ruz: 3 children killed in mortar attacks.
Baquba: a bomb in a field kills child.
Hawija: policeman killed by roadside bomb.
Albu Ajeel: gunmen attack on village leaves 3 residents dead.
Khalis: suicide bomber blows himself up inside Sheikh's house during meeting, kills 5 Sunni Sheikhs and 2 others.
Thursday 8 November: 40 deadBaghdad: policeman killed in ambush; 4 bodies.
Falluja: roadside bomb targeting police patrol kills 6 policemen.
Mandali: gunmen kill 3 policemen; 9 bodies.
Baquba: 2 members of Awakening Council killed by gunmen; policeman killed during clashes.
That Thar: 7 bodies.
Mahaweel: 2 bodies.
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At Least 15 Killed Today So far inc. Top Aid to Iraq's Finance Ministry
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BAGHDAD - Two carloads of gunman ambushed a top aide to Iraq's Finance Ministry on Sunday in Baghdad, killing him and his driver, police said. The two were among 15 people killed or found dead in Iraq.
The Finance Ministry had no immediate comment about the attack on Qutaiba Badir al-Din Mohammed, a Sunni adviser to Iraq's finance minister.
Violence claimed the lives of 10 Iraqis in Diyala, the troubled province northeast of Baghdad. Police said the victims included an Iraqi soldier, a policeman and an 8-year-old child, all killed separately.
The soldier died when gunmen attacked his patrol in Khalis, a mostly Shiite town 50 miles north of the capital, police said. Three other soldiers were wounded in the attack, they said.
The child died after seven mortar rounds landed on a residential area in the same town at sunrise, police said. A woman was also wounded by the barrage. And the policeman was killed in a drive-by shooting in nearby Muqdadiyah, 60 miles north of Baghdad, police said.
Meanwhile, police said clashes broke out in Buhriz, a suburb of Diyala's provincial capital, Baqouba. Policemen backed by members of the 1920s Revolution Brigades, a Sunni former insurgent group, battled gunmen and seized weapons and ammunition, they said. Four people were killed, including a 1920s member, police said.
Later, a civilian was killed by a roadside bomb north of Baqouba, and a severed head was found dumped at a farm nearby, police said.
Another body was found floating in a drainage ditch in the Tahrir area, in a southern part of the city, they said.
Farther west, a parked car bomb exploded in a commercial area in central Tikrit, killing three people including a 6-year-old boy, police said.
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