127 Killed Between 6/19/08 - 6/25/08
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As McCain, US Presidential hopeful professes how great things are going in Iraq, more and more innocent Iraqi citizens die every day. In the last week about 127 lives were taken. Please read the following, as provided by Iraq Body Count, for more detail.
Wednesday 25 June: 23 dead
Baghdad: car bomb kills 3, Karrada; US forces shoot and kill 3 bank employees in their car, after coming under fire; 5 bodies.
Diyala
Khan Bani Saad: 1 Sahwa member killed in clashes.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill municipal director and his driver.
Karbala
Karbala: bomb kills 2 (inc. 1 child) in minibus.
Tameem
Kirkuk: roadside bomb kills 1.
Salahuddin
Tikrit: US air strike kills family of 6 (parents and 4 children).
Tuesday 24 June: 20 dead
Baghdad: bomb at municipal building kills 6, Sadr City; 4 bodies.
Tameem
Rashad: gunmen kill mayor.
Ninewa
Mosul: suicide car bomber kills policeman and child; roadside bomb kills interpreter working with US troops; 3 family members are killed by US forces raiding their house; gunmen kill policeman/student at Mosul university.
Salahuddin
Balad: roadside bomb kills 2 Sahwa members.
Monday 23 June: 8 dead
Baghdad: 2 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 3 policemen, 1 woman and 1 university student in separate incidents.
Diyala
Buhriz: roadside bomb kills 2 Sahwa.
Sunday 22 June: 37 dead
Baghdad: 3 bodies.
Diyala
Baquba: suicide bomber kills 17 (1 of them a child) outside restaurant.
Khalis: mortars kill 10.
Tameem
Kirkuk: roadside bomb kills 3.
Fashka: roadside bomb kills 4.
Saturday 21 June: 7 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill taxi driver, Bayaa; 2 bodies.
Diyala
Baquba: bodies of 2 brothers are found.
Anbar
Kilo: roadside bomb strikes police patrol, kills policeman.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill policeman in drive-by shooting.
Friday 20 June: 13 dead
Baghdad: car bomb kills 3, Harthiya; 1 body is found bound and tortured.
Diyala
Buhriz: gunmen kill university student.
Ninewa
Zanjeyali: 2 bodies -mother and child- found.
Babil
Iskandariya: 2 bodies found inside mosque.
Wassit
Aziziya: woman's body found.
Kut: gunmen kill 3 policemen in drive-by shooting.
Thursday 19 June: 13 dead
Baghdad: bomb stuck on car kills 1, Bayaa; 2 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: woman dies in drive-by shooting; gunmen kill policeman; another civilian killed in separate incident.
Diyala
Jalawla: body is found.
Babil
Hashemiya: US mil. convoy collides with civilian car, kills 6 members of a family, including a child.
The convoy drives on.
Have a nice day.
June 17, 50 + Killed 75+ Injured In Car bombing
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BAGHDAD - A car bomb tore through a market area in a mainly Shiite neighborhood in Baghdad on Tuesday, killing more than 50 people and wounding dozens, officials said, the deadliest such attack in more than three months.
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The attack occurred just before 6 p.m. as the market in the northwestern Hurriyah neighborhood was packed with shoppers preparing for their evening meals.
Nobody claimed responsibility for the attack, but it bore the hallmarks of al-Qaida in Iraq, which is known to use car bombs and suicide attacks.
A soft drink vendor who witnessed the blast, Kamil Jassim, said the car that exploded was parked near a two-story building with shops on the bottom floor and apartments on top. He said a nearby generator caught on fire, partially collapsing the building and burning several other houses.
The casualty toll spiked to at least 51 people killed and 75 people wounded after rescue crews extinguished the blaze and found the bodies of dozens of victims who had been trapped inside or buried in the rubble, a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to release the information.
Most of those killed were burned to death or suffocated, he added.
The blast shattered the relative calm in the capital amid stepped up security measures. American commanders have consistently said they have al-Qaida in Iraq on the run but warned that the insurgents retain the ability to stage high-profile attacks.
Haider Fadhil, a 25-year-old metal worker, said he was shopping with his two friends when the force of the blast tossed him through the air and knocked him out.
"When I regained consciousness, I found that my left hand and leg were broken," he said from his hospital bed. "Thanks be to God for saving me and thanks to those who carried me in their pickup truck to the hospital."
Tuesday's attack was the deadliest car bombing since March 6, when a twin bombing killed 68 people in a crowded shopping district in the central Baghdad district of Karradah.
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44 Iraqis Killed from 6/13 - 6/16
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Monday 16 June: 17 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 2, Adhamiya; mortars kill 2, Khadraa; 2 bodies.
Wassit
Suwayra: 3 bodies pulled out of river.
Ninewa
Mosul: roadside bomb kills 2; Iraqi security forces shoot dead 2 students at the University of Mosul resisting arrest.
Diyala
Buhriz: roadside bomb kills 3 Sahwa members.
Salahuddin
Samarra: police open fire trying to control crowd, kill 1.
Sunday 15 June: 13 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill former army officer and 2 family members, Adil; 3 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill academic; gunmen kill lawyer; gunmen kill 2 policemen.
Tal Keif: suicide car bomber kills policeman.
Kirkuk
Kirkuk: roadside bomb kills 1.
Babil
Iskandariya: roadside bomb kills 1.
Saturday 14 June: 10 dead
Baghdad: bomb in bus kills 2, Fadheliya; 2 bodies.
Diyala
Bani Saad: roadside bomb kills 1.
Qara Taba: suicide bomber kills 2 during football celebrations.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill policeman and his brother.
Salahuddin
Samarra: roadside bomb kills policeman.
Friday 13 June: 14 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 1, Yusufiya; US forces kill 2 civilians during clashes; 4 bodies.
Kirkuk
Tuz Khurmato: gunmen kill Sahwa leader, his son and a guard.
Babil
Hilla: US forces kill 3 civilians in separate incidents.
Qadisiyya
Diwaniya: policeman is killed trying to free hostage.
Thursday 12 June: 8 dead
Baghdad: car bomb kills 2, al-Alawi; 4 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: 1 dies in bomb explosion.
Diyala
Muqdadiya: civilian killed by US forces during house raids.
Wednesday 11 June: 20 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills policeman, Karrada; roadside bomb kills 6, Kadhimiya; mortars kill 1; 4 bodies.
Wassit
Kut: roadside bombs kill 3 policemen.
Anbar
Falluja: 5 bodies found.
Tuesday 10 June: 14 dead
Baghdad: US forces shoot and kill suspicious man walking towards their patrol; 3 bodies.
Salahuddin
Awja: bomb kills tribal leader and his driver.
Tikrit-Baiji road: gunmen kill former army officer.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 2.
4 bodies found.
Wassit
Body found.
Have a nice day.
94 Killed June 4, 2008
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Mr. McCain, are things getting better in Iraq?
Wednesday 4 June: 95 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill Interior Ministry official, Ghadeer; suicide truck bombers kill 18, mortars kill 2, Shaab; car bomb outside restaurant kills 4, Karrada; car bomb kills 4, Al-Niba'ee; 4 bodies; mass grave containing up to 55 bodies found in Latifiya.
Anbar
Hamra: roadside bomb kills 3 policemen.
Basra
Zubair: gunmen kill father and son in their jewellery store.
Kirkuk
Kirkuk: civilian killed in explosion.
Diyala
Have a nice day.
752 Iraqi Civilians killed in May 2008
Good morning.
As bloodshed continues, this man named Mr. McCain, has declared that his "change" in us Strategy "Aka, the Surge", has been "successful" in quelling violence in Iraq. What Mr. McCain has not told people is that 752 CIVILIANS KILLED, INCLUDING 41 CHILDREN, 63 BY US FORCES.
Here is the Iraqi death tally to date:
Tuesday 3 June: 9 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill 1, Arasat al-Hindiyah; 3 bodies.
Kirkuk
Tuz Khurmato: gunmen kill 2 PUK members.
Diyala
Baquba: gunmen shoot dead child leaving school; body of 5-year-old boy (previously kidnapped) is found.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 1.
Monday 2 June: 24 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 1, Bab al-Muadham; 3 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: suicide car bomber kills 13 (inc. 2 children) outside police station; academic is blown up by bomb planted in his car; roadside bomb kills woman.
Kirkuk
Kirkuk: gunmen kill policeman.
Babil
Mahaweel: 2 bodies.
Diyala
Baquba: 2 policemen killed in clashes.
Sunday 1 June: 19 dead
Baghdad: car bomb kills 2, Salhiya; bomb under policeman's car kills his bodyguard; 3 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 1; car bomb kills 3; 2 bodies.
Diyala
Jalawla: roadside bomb kills woman and 2 children.
Al-Mafraq: child is killed during clashes.
Gatoon: roadside bomb kills woman.
Anbar
Falluja: gunmen kill policeman.
Kirkuk
Kirkuk: bomb kills 1.
Saturday 31 May: 23 dead
Baghdad: 2 bodies.
Anbar
Hit: suicide bomber kills 13.
Diyala
Al Sada: gunmen kill Head of Diyala morgue.
Baquba: roadside bomb kills 3 -one of them a child; mortars kill woman.
Ninewa
Mosul: roadside bomb kills 1; police find car bomb, detonate it, kill 1.
Basra
Basra: gunmen kill policeman.
MAY TOTAL: 752 CIVILIANS KILLED, INCLUDING 41 CHILDREN, 63 BY US FORCES
Friday 30 May: 15 dead
Baghdad: US forces kill 2, New Baghdad.
Diyala
Jalawla: mortars hit residential area, kill 3 women.
Buhriz: roadside bomb kills 1.
Hibhib: gunmen kill Sahwa member.
Baquba: child is killed by bomb; bomb kills another civilian in separate inident.
Khalis: roadside bomb kills 1.
Balad Ruz: woman is killed by mortar.
Salahuddin
Tarmiya: US forces shoot dead man walking towards their patrol.
Basra
Al-Deir: gunmen kill policeman.
Ninewa
Mosul: 2 bodies.
Thursday 29 May: 23 dead
Baghdad: 2 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: bomb explosion kills 1.
Ghabat: suicide car bomber kills 3 at police patrol.
Sinjar: suicide bomber kills 17 (2 of them policemen) as he detonates among crowd of men applying for police posts.
Wednesday 28 May: 78 dead
Baghdad: 3 die during clashes; 8 bodies.
Diyala
Qara Taba: roadside bomb blows up car, kills father and son.
Al Khwelis: roadside bomb kills 1.
Anbar
Garma: 1 Sahwa member stabbed to death.
Ninewa
Mosul: 3 killed during clashes.
Basra
Az Zubayr: 60 bodies found in mass grave.
