223 Killed From 3/15/08 - 3/21/08
Good morning,
Bloodshed persists. By the way, what reasonable mind will believe that reconciliation and cooperation between the religious sects will be possible when concrete barriers have been constructed between their communities? I am willing to state right here and now, that as long as those barriers between the communities remain, that there will never be political reconcilation. Remove the physical barriers, and most importantly, remove the US and all troops.
Here are the current death statistics:
Friday 21 March: 10 dead
Baghdad: 2 bodies.
Salahuddin
Balad: gunmen kill policeman and 2 bodyguards.
Al-Hoori: gunmen raid house, kill 1.
Ninewa
Mosul: roadside bomb kills 3.
Wassit
Kut: gunmen kill 1.
Thursday 20 March: 20 dead
Baghdad: 5 bodies.
Sulaimaniya
Goezha mountain: 1 body found.
Ninewa
Mosul: roadside bomb kills policeman; gunmen kill 2 policemen; 2 bodies found (1 decapitated).
Salahuddin
Samarra: 6 killed by US fire.
Wassit
Kut: 2 policemen killed in clashes.
Diyala
Muqdadiya: civilian is shot dead.
Wednesday 19 March: 48 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill father and son, owners of currency exchange office, Karrada; car bomb kills policeman, Karrada; bomb kills taxi driver; 7 bodies.
Diyala
Balad Ruz: suicide bomber kills 6 in market.
Kirkuk
Hawija: 3 policemen killed by US forces.
Salahuddin
Tikrit: 1 neighbourhood watch shot dead.
Babil
Hilla: roadside bomb kills 2; another roadside bomb kills 2 policemen.
Basra
Basra: gunmen kill 17 border guards; gunmen kill policeman.
Karbala
Karbala: 2 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: 3 bodies
Tuesday 18 March: 28 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 2, Shaab; roadside bomb kills 3, Al-Binook; 5 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: car bomb kills 3; 2 bodies.
Diyala
Abu Saida: roadside bomb kills 3 policemen.
Salahuddin
Al-Athia: gunmen kill policeman.
Baiji: 2 Sahwa members shot dead; 2 bodies.
Basra
Basra: 2 fishermen shot dead by Iranian patrol while fishing; gunmen open fire on sheikh, kill his driver.
Babil
Iskandariya: roadside bomb kills member of neighbourhood watch; roadside bomb kills woman.
Monday 17 March: 92 dead
Baghdad: 3 are killed in minibus explosion, Karrada; roadside bomb kills policeman, Mansour; mortar attack kill 5 at soccer field (2 of them children), Ghadeer; mortars hit house, kill 6 children, Sawmar; 7 bodies.
Karbala
Karbala: suicide bomber kills 52 near shrine.
Basra
Basra: gunmen kill policeman; woman's body found.
Anbar
Haditha: gunmen attack checkpoint, kill policeman.
Diyala
Abu Saida: roadside bomb kills 1.
Ninewa
Mosul: roadside bomb kills 1; 10 bodies.
Kirkuk
Udhaim: 3 bodies of neighbourhood patrol found.
Sunday 16 March: 26 dead
Baghdad: car bomb kills 1, Mansour; 5 bodies.
Diyala
Hwedir: 5 policemen die in clashes.
Khanaqeen: roadside bomb kills Kurd.
Muqdadiya: 2 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 2 policemen; roadside bomb kills 1; 3 bodies -one beloning to 11-year-old boy.
Basra
Basra: 4 bodies.
Wassit
Kut: 2 bodies.
Saturday 15 March: 19 dead
Baghdad: 2 bodies.
Diyala
Al-Huwayder: gunmen kill civilian.
3 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: truck bomb kills 1 at checkpoint; bodies of 3 brothers found.
Wassit
Kut: 6 die in clashes; gunmen kill 1 during house raid.
Numaniya: body found.
Babil
Iskandariya: gunmen kill civilian.
Have a nice day.
77 More Iraqis Die In Last 3-12 thru 3-14-2008
Good morning,
Americans read a snip here and a snip there about how, because of the surge, there has been virtually no violence, and now violence is beginning to re-emerge. If you have taken the time to read Iraq Body Count, you would see that *every day* Iraqi's have been killed. More and MORE and NOW.. they are approaching the same levels as before the so called surge. Here are the death counts of the last few days. At least 77 more Iraqis have been killed:
Friday 14 March: 14 dead
Baghdad: football coach is shot dead, Al-Yarmuk; 2 bodies.
Wassit
Kut: 2 policemen are killed in clashes; motorcycle bomb kills 1; chieftain's son is killed in clashes; bomb strikes minibus, kills 2.
Babil
Hilla: rockets kill 4.
Ninewa
Rabiya: suicide bomber kills interpreter at Syrian border.
Thursday 13 March: 39 dead
Baghdad: car bomb kills 18, Bab al-Sharki; gunmen kill journalist; 3 bodies.
Diyala
Baquba: civilian killed by gunman.
Salahuddin
Al-Hajaj: 3 Sahwa killed by gunmen.
Tikrit: gunmen kill policeman.
Baiji: gunmen kill 2 at checkpoint.
Samarra: 15-year-old girl is shot dead by police who open fire on family car at checkpoint.
Najaf
Najaf: policeman killed in drive-by shooting.
Kirkuk
Al Zab: suicide bomber kills 3.
Kirkuk-Rashad highway: car bomb kills 1.
Wassit
Kut: 2 killed by rockets during clashes.
Ninewa
Daybaka: 1 body found.
Mosul: abducted Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho is found dead.
Wednesday 12 March: 24 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 2, Amin; 4 bodies.
Diyala
Bazaiz Buhrz: US forces fire warning shot and kill 10-year-old girl.
Benizad: 5 Sahwa shot and beheaded at checkpoint.
Dali Abass: 1 body.
Kanaan-Balad Ruz: 1 body.
Imam Habash: 2 bodies.
Muqdadiya: 2 bodies.
Salahuddin
Baiji: policeman is shot dead.
Samarra: 3 fuel truck drivers killed by roadside bomb.
Basra
Basra: gunmen kill ex-Baath member; gunmen kill Sadrist.
Have a nice day.
US Kills 10 yr old girl
Good afternoon,
BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers fired a warning shot near a woman who "appeared to be signaling to someone" along a dangerous stretch of road north of Baghdad, but the bullet killed a young Iraqi girl, a military official said early Thursday.
The shooting took place Wednesday where several roadside bombs had recently been found in the volatile Diyala province. An exact location was not given in a military statement.
The girl appeared to be "around 10 years old," said Maj. Brad Leighton, a military spokesman.
There has been an increase in the use of women as suicide bombers in Iraq. But Leighton said preliminary reports indicated that soldiers didn't believe the woman posed a threat of being a bomber. Rather "they were afraid she was signaling to someone that the convoy was going by."
In its statement, the military said that "coalition forces fired a warning shot into a berm near a suspicious woman who appeared to be signaling to someone while the soldiers were in the area. A young girl was found behind the berm suffering from a gunshot wound."
Roadside bombs have been the biggest killer of American troops in Iraq.
Soldiers gave the girl medical attention and called for an evacuation. The girl died on the way to a medical facility, the statement said.
"Coalition forces take the loss of any innocent civilian life seriously and the incident will be thoroughly investigated," military spokesman Maj. Dan Meyers said in the statement.
Have a nice day.
Hundreds of Iraqis killed in the last week
Good afternoon,
Murder continues in Iraq, as Mr. Bush, begins to bring surge troops back to the US. Was the surge nothing but a band aid? Did the surge give the Iraqi government the "breathing room" it needed in order to achieve the key goal of cutting deals that would bring the minority Arabs into the government and thereby weaken or end the insurgency. But Iraqi politicians are STILL gridlocked over sharing power and Iraqi citizens appear to have little hope that Iraqi forces can control Al-Qaida in Iraq and renegade Shiite malitias on their own. All that remain are a maze of concrete barriers which divide Shiite and Sunni's neighborhoods.
So, the new surge in violence has begun. In just this last week, hundreds of Iraqis have been killed, and this, in my opinion is just a small taste of increased violence to come.
Here is a summary of the last several days of killings in Iraq:
Tuesday 11 March: 85 dead
Baghdad: gunman kills 1 riding on minibus; 5 bodies.
Salahuddin
Dhuluiya: suicide car bomber kills 8 at checkpoint.
Tikrit: 3 die in US airstrike.
Samarra: 20 bodies found in mass grave -5 of them children.
Wasit
Kut: 17 are killed in clashes, 5 of them children.
Diyala
Muqdadiya: 2 bodies.
Dhi Qar
Nassiriya: roadside bomb hits bus carrying mourners returning from a funeral, kills 16.
Babil
Yusufiya: bomb explodes in building, kills 1.
Iskandariya: gunmen kill 1.
Anbar
Thar Thar: suicide car bomber kills 2 Sahwa members.
Ninewa
Mosul: 5 are killed when gunmen attack police checkpoint; 3 die in a car when US helicopter opens fire.
Basra
Basra: gunmen kill 1.
Monday 10 March: 34 dead
Baghdad: car bomb kills 1, Sadr City; car bomb kills 1, Shaab; suicide bomber kills 2 during attack on US troops, Mansour; 3 bodies.
Diyala
Kanaan: 18-year-old female suicide bomber kills tribal chief, his 5-year-old niece and 2 others outside his house.
Muqdadiya: suicide bomber kills 3.
Interpreter killed in eastern Diyala during attack on US troops.
Salahuddin
Baiji: gunmen kill policeman.
Ninewa
Mosul: roadside bomb kills 1; gunmen kill mother and son in their car; gunmen kill 2 policemen; 2 bodies.
Basra
Basra: body of neurosurgeon is found.
Sulaimaniya: suicide bomber kills 10 outside hotel.
Sunday 9 March: 20 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 1, Zafaraniya; 2 bodies.
Salahuddin
Tikrit: car bomb kills policeman.
Diyala
Khalis: 6 bodies found in mass grave.
Ninewa
Mosul: car bomb kills 2; gunmen kill 1; 3 bodies.
Anbar
Haditha: roadside bomb kills 4.
Saturday 8 March: 129 dead
Baghdad: 15 bodies found, 11 of them decomposed.
Diyala
Baquba: roadside bomb kills mother (40), daughter (22) and son(10); roadside bomb kills another civilian following previous attack; gunmen kill 1; roadside bomb hits minibus, kills 2.
Khalis: mass grave is found, containing an estimated 100 bodies.
Babil
Haswa: gunmen kill 2 (father and son).
Mussayab: boy is killed by roadside bomb.
Kirkuk
Hawija: roadside bomb kills Sahwa member.
Anbar
Thar Thar: 3 bodies.
Friday 7 March: 16 dead
Baghdad: 3 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: suicide car bomber attacks police station, kills 4 policemen and a girl; 2 policemen are killed in clashes with gunmen; roadside bomb kills 1.
Diyala
Albu Taema: 3 bodies are found in mass grave.
Kirkuk
Tuz Khurmato: gunmen kill mother and son.
Thursday 6 March: 86 dead
Baghdad: two bomb attacks kill 68, Karrada; roadside bomb kills 1, Waziriya; 2 bodies.
Basra
Basra: gunmen kill policeman; 1 body found.
Diyala
Khanaqeen: roadside bomb kills policeman.
Ninewa
Mosul: prison guard dies in bomb explosion; 4 bodies of prison guards, abducted the day before, are found.
Babil
Iskandariya: 2 women are killed when roadside bomb strikes their car.
Hilla: body found.
Anbar
Heet: 3 shop owners are shot dead by Iraqi police, after coming under attack by unknown gunmen.
Arbil
Body found in the west of the province.
Tuesday 5 March: 21 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill lorry driver,Shaab; roadside bomb kills 1, Mahmoudiya; 4 bodies.
Salahuddin
Samarra: suicide car bomb kills 2 Sahwa members.
Balad: 2 villagers are killed by gunmen; roadside bomb kills 1.
Kirkuk
Kirkuk: gunmen kill academic; roadside bomb kills 1.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 4 policemen; 3 bodies found, one decapitated.
Diyala
Udhaim: 1 killed by roadside bomb.
Have a nice day.
