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href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/2007/06/01/scenes-from-an-iraki-childhood-june-1st-2007-wasna-abdullah//#content" title="Scenes From An Iraki Childhood June 1st 2007 - Fathers And Children">Scenes From An Iraki Childhood June 1st 2007 - Fathers And Children</a></h2> <p class="meta">  <span class="author"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/author/nur-hussein-ghazali/" title="Posts by Nur Hussein Ghazali">Nur Hussein Ghazali</a> » </span> <span class="date">01 June 2007 » </span> <span class="category">In <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/category/children/" title="View all posts in Children" rel="category tag">Children</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in Iraq" rel="category tag">Iraq</a>, <a 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I find myself looking back to Saddam’s time as a golden time. </p> <h3>Father And Daughter</h3> <p>This is Wasna Abdullah. <span class="capr"><img alt="7-year-old Wasna Abdullah Imam Ali hospital father shot by Americans" src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035im_/http://gorillasguides.com/wp-content/20070601_7-year-old_wasnaa_abdullah_american_led_force_raided_sadr_city_early_friday_opened_fire_on_a_house_killing_khalid_abdullah_and_wounding_wasnaa.jpg"/> <br/>1) Wasna is brought into Imam Ali hospital<br/>by a relative after being shot.<br/>2) Wasna weeps for her father who was shot<br/>dead in the same “incident” by the Americans<br/></span>She is seven years old she was photographed today at Imam Ali Hospital in Sadr City. Her name means that she is named after a narrator of Hadith who had this name.</p> <p>An American led force conducted a raid early this morning , June 1, 2007 on the Kibr and Ghizlan areas on the outskirts of north eastern Sadr City. </p> <p>During the raid the Americans opened fire. They fired their rifles into the air killing Wasna’s father Khalid Abdullah and wounding her. </p> <p>Residents described the shootings as accidental. </p> <p>Some ”accident”. </p> <p>Shoot a seven year old child. Shoot her father dead and condemn her to a life of abject poverty. Wasna Abdullah’s family were <em>already</em> poor. Sadr city is where the very poor people live and unemployment runs at more than 70% for men and higher even for that for widowed women. </p> <p>In my work I meet families like Wasna’s every day. The people in Sadr city are already in dire straits economically and desperate for money to eat and buy water. For most, even if they can find work it is as badly paid day labourers. To get such work they must gather before dawn at recognised meeting places and as markfromireland wrote on June 28, 2006 in “<em>Looking For Work Is A Dangerous Business</em>” they risk their lives doing so.<br/> <blockquote> <p>So you ask around, by now every town in Iraq has a spot, a particular marketplace, a square, a street corner, where people gather early each morning making themselves available for casual labour. </p> <p>Perfect!!!!! </p> <p>That’s the perfect place for a bomb.</p> </blockquote> <p>Source: “<a title="Previous posting" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/2006/06/28/looking-for-work-is-a-dangerous-business/" target="_blank">Looking For Work Is A Dangerous Business</a>” </p> <p>But it’s not just dangerous when they get up to go to work. It’s dangerous to sleep too. In Baghdad at present there isn’t any electricity. Supply is limited to one hour a day and in summer the city gets very hot. </p> <p>Today the temperature was <b>43°Celsius</b> - that is <strong>109.4° Fahrenheit</strong> and the humidity level was 16<strong>.</strong> At night the ground and the buildings release the fierce heat from the sun and it can be very difficult to sleep. It is nearly midnight in Baghdad as I write this. There is shooting outside - as there is every night - and it is <b>29°</b><b>Celsius</b> - or <strong>84.2°Fahrenheit</strong>. Tonight when the shooting dies down - if it dies down. I will creep on to the roof of my house with my husband and my children. We will try to sleep and hope not to be hit be a stray bullet when, not if, <em>when</em>, the shooting breaks out again. We will hope not to be hit like Wasna and her father Khalid Abdullah were. </p> <p>We wouldn’t be the first to die in that way this summer any more than Wasna and her father Khalid. Abdullah were. In that “famous” American raid the other day, the one we wrote about and posted photographs of the other day, the one that the Americans say didn’t take place, two elderly people sleeping on their roof were died because an American helicopter fired missiles and radio Annas has reported others. There will be many more such deaths this summer as there have been every summer since the Americans came and introduced us sand niggers to force. </p> <p>Wasna and her family may or may not get some compensation. Probably not. Because killing Wasna’s father and shooting here would be classified combat related. If they were to compensated what they can expect is a <a title="GAO Report PDF" href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://www.gao.gov/new.items/d07699.pdf" target="_blank">solatia payment [PDF]</a> <div> <dl> <dt>Solatia Payment <dd>Token or nominal payment for death, injury, or property damage caused by coalition or U.S. forces during combat. Payment is made in accordance with local custom as an expression of remorse or sympathy toward a victim or his/her family. Payment is not an admission of legal liability or fault. <dt>Payment Levels In Iraq <dd>Up to $2,500 for death; up to $1,500 for serious injury; and $200 or more for minor injury. </dd> </dt> </dd> </dt> </dl> </div> <div> <p>Wasna’s injury isn’t very serious - she hasn’t lost a limb or an internal organ so at most Wasna’s family could expect to get $2,700 for having their lives wrecked. At most they could expect $2,700 for having even the remotest chance that they could climb out of poverty destroyed by some trigger happy American oaf.</p> <h3>Father And Son</h3> <p>I don’t know very much about <strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://thumbsnap.com/images/0yffZBtl.jpg" target="_blank">this boy</a></strong>. <span class="capr"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035im_/http://gorillasguides.com/wp-content//20070531_boy_and_father_wounded_mortar_attack_mahmudiya_irak.jpg" alt="boy and his father in Ambulance wounded in mortar attack Mahmudiya Iraq May 31 2007"/><br/>Father and son, inside an ambulance<br/> in Al-Mahmudiya both were wounded<br/> in a mortar attack, May 31st, 2007.</span> He’s from Al-Mahmudiya. It’s a bit south of Baghdad — call it 30 Kilometres and we used to call it the “Gateway to Baghdad.” </p> <p> These day’s of course it’s better known as the place where private Stephen D. Green and four other fine examples of American “civilization” ganged up to rape Abeer Qasim Hamza, after first murdering her mother, her father, and her sister, in her hearing so that they could commit their crime. Then they set fire to the bodies to try cover up their barbarity. Charming people the Americans send over here to keep us sand niggers in our rightful place under the American <del>jack</del>combat boot. No?</p> <p> Because it’s so close to Baghdad it’s hotly contested territory between the American invaders the ones with the <del>jack</del>combat boots and those sandniggers determined to resist the American rape of Irak and expel them. It gets a lot of bombings, ambushes, and mortar attacks. </p> <p>Yesterday there was a mortar attack. One person was killed. Twenty one people were wounded. They were wounded so badly that they had to be brought to hospital. This boy <strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://thumbsnap.com/images/O0AG04FE.jpg" target="_blank">and his father</a></strong> were among the twenty one people wounded.</p> <p>Night and day, fathers and daughters, fathers and sons, bombs, bullets, helicopter missiles, not enough food, not enough water, death squads, truly compared to the Americans the time of Saddam was a golden age. As I once heard my Irish friend say to a squad of American soldiers <cite>“Well done I hope you’re fucking proud of yourselves.</cite></p> <p>Nur<br/>Baghdad<br/>Irak</p> </div> </div> <p class="more alignr"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/2007/06/01/scenes-from-an-iraki-childhood-june-1st-2007-wasna-abdullah//#content" title="Read the rest of Scenes From An Iraki Childhood June 1st 2007 - Fathers And Children">Continue reading...</a></p> <p class="tags">Tags: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baghdad/" rel="tag">Baghdad</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/baghdad-hospitals/" rel="tag">Baghdad Hospitals</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/child-poverty/" rel="tag">Child Poverty</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/children/" rel="tag">Children</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/imam-ali-hospital/" rel="tag">Imam Ali Hospital</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/poverty/" rel="tag">Poverty</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/sadr-city/" rel="tag">Sadr City</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/scenes-from-an-iraki-childhood/" rel="tag">Scenes From An Iraki Childhood</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/tag/women-and-children/" rel="tag">Women and Children</a><br/></p> </div> <div class="post" id="post-1231"> <h2 class="title"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/2007/06/01/incidents-reports-from-irak-may-31st-2007-summarised-from-arabic//#content" title="Incidents Reports From Irak May 31st 2007 Summarised From Arabic">Incidents Reports From Irak May 31st 2007 Summarised From Arabic</a></h2> <p class="meta">  <span class="author"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/author/khaled/" title="Posts by Khaled">Khaled</a> » </span> <span class="date">01 June 2007 » </span> <span class="category">In <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/category/analysis-briefings-commentary/" title="View all posts in Analysis Briefings Commentary" rel="category tag">Analysis Briefings Commentary</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/category/children/" title="View all posts in Children" rel="category tag">Children</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/category/health-crisis-iraq/" title="View all posts in Health" rel="category tag">Health</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/category/iraq/" title="View all posts in Iraq" rel="category tag">Iraq</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/category/middle-east/" title="View all posts in Middle East" rel="category tag">Middle East</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/category/photos/" title="View all posts in Photos" rel="category tag">Photos</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/category/politics-security/" title="View all posts in Politics and Security" rel="category tag">Politics and Security</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/category/society-and-economy/" title="View all posts in Society And Economy" rel="category tag">Society And Economy</a>, <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/category/women/" title="View all posts in Women and Children" rel="category tag">Women and Children</a> » </span> <span class="comments"><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://gorillasguides.com/2007/06/01/incidents-reports-from-irak-may-31st-2007-summarised-from-arabic/#comments" title="Comment on Incidents Reports From Irak May 31st 2007 Summarised From Arabic">2 Comments</a></span> </p> <div class="entry"> <p><strong>Summary: </strong> </p> <p>The fierce inter-factional fighting in west Baghdad appears to have died down for the moment. 29 bodies were discovered in Baghdad. The Americans deny having fired from the air in Sadr city despite clear photograph evidence of their having done and the fact that funerals of the victims took place on Thursday. 122 American soldiers were killed during May. The new security plan for Fallujah got off to a shaky start when a suicide bomber killed 30 police volunteers and wounded 20 others. 14 unidentified bodies were found North of the city of Kirkuk. In Basrah Major General Rashid Flaya outlined findings of rampant forms of financial and administrative corruption in the security services set up with much fanfare by the British he said that several unauthorised units were discovered and that it was possible that the “new” services  would have to be disbanded. 20 civilians were wounded in clashes near al-Mafriq. 7 people were killed at a fake checkpoint in Al Khalis. </p> <p>Khaled<br/>Ali Ibn Hussayn<br/>Saba Ali </p> <h3>Baghdad</h3> <p>On Thursday in Baghdad 29 bodies of unidentified people killed in mysterious circumstances were found in different areas. 21 bodies were found in various areas of Karkh and the remaining 8 in Rasafa.</p> <h4>Bodies found in Karkh:</h4> <ul> <li>4 in Amil </li> <li>4 in Bayaa </li> <li>3 in Dora </li> <li>2 in Jihad </li> <li>2 in Saidiya </li> <li>2 in Hurriyah </li> <li> 1 in Jamiyah </li> <li>1 in Yarmouk</li> </ul> <h4>Bodies found in Rasafa :</h4> <ul> <li>4 in Al-Fadhil </li> <li>2 in Sadr city </li> <li>2 in Ur</li> </ul> <p> (Source:<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47283&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>العثور على 29 جثة مجهولة الهوية في بغداد </strong></a>)</p> <div style="margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 10px; font-weight: normal; float: right; padding-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; border-left: rgb(203,202,202) 1px solid; width: 310px; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-align: left"> <h4>Comment and Analysis:</h4> <p>Al-Ameriya has long been under the control of several armed groups believed to be active in  the al-Ashreen (1920) Revolution Brigades and the Islamic army (the so-called Islamic State of Irak) and elements of loyal to al-Qaeda. These groups have dominated the area and cleared it of any presence of greenzone government forces ( Source:<strong> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47267&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - توقف القتال في العامرية وتزايد التحشيدات الأمريكية</strong></a> ). </p> <p>American occupation forces move around with difficulty and only in strength. </p> <p>The fighting is further confirmation of the many reports and analyses indicating a rancorous split amongst these groups. (Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://alghad.dot.jo/index.php?article=6187" target="_blank"><strong>جريدة الغد</strong></a> ) (Source:<strong> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://www.alfirdaws.org/vb/showthread.php?t=31235" target="_blank"><strong>كلمة أمير المؤمنين أبي عمر البغدادي ( حصــاد السنين بدولة الموحدين ) ::مفرّغة:: - منتديات الـــفردوس الجهاديــــــــة</strong></a>) (Source<strong>: </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://www.daralhayat.com/arab_news/levant_news/04-2007/Item-20070410-dcd5cedd-c0a8-10ed-01a2-d11530054731/story.html" target="_blank"><strong>دار الحياة</strong></a>)</p> <p><em>It has taken the Americans two days to cordon and enter the district in force and get the fighting under control.</em></p> <p>The last phase of a failed occupation is of repeated battles for control of the capital and fighting amongst disparate resistance groups as they concentrate on ensuring their strategic position after the invader withdraws by attacking their rivals.</p> </div> <h4>Fierce fighting in al-Ameriya district </h4> <p>The widespread fighting between armed groups in al-Ameriya district of western Baghdad seems to be dieing down after the deployment of American occupation troops and tanks in the district. ( Source:<strong> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47267&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - توقف القتال في العامرية وتزايد التحشيدات الأمريكية</strong></a> ) Fighting erupted on Wednesday and continued today. </p> <p>Residents reported by telephone today Thursday that markets and shops were closed and the streets were empty of cars completely </p> <p>The fighting was particularly fierce on the main streets, (al-Amal al-Shaabi, al-Munathama, and al-Markaz). An eyewitness said that the preparatory school was being used as a redoubt by one group and came under both gun attack and mortar bombardment. ( Source:<strong> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47267&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - توقف القتال في العامرية وتزايد التحشيدات الأمريكية</strong></a> ) and Source:( <strong></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47243&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - شهود: معارك عنيفة ومستمرة بين الجماعات المسلحة في العامرية</strong></a> ) Eyewitnesses’ reports spoke of seeing many dead bodies lying in the street near the police station and of appeals from loudspeakers in mosques calling for the cessation of hostilities. Source:( <strong></strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47243&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - شهود: معارك عنيفة ومستمرة بين الجماعات المسلحة في العامرية</strong></a> ) Further eyewitness reports spoke of seeing masked gunmen arrive in force over a two day period to back up their comrades despite attempts at cordoning off the area. Source: (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47243&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - شهود: معارك عنيفة ومستمرة بين الجماعات المسلحة في العامرية</strong></a><strong> </strong>) </p> <div class="clear"></div> <div style="margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 10px; font-weight: normal; float: right; padding-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; border-left: rgb(203,202,202) 1px solid; width: 310px; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-align: left"> <h4>Scenes From An Iraki Childhood</h4> <p><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035im_/http://gorillasguides.com/wp-content/20070531_10-yo_ibtisan_abdullah__stands_in_front_of_her_uncle_who_collapsed_after_her_fathers_funeral_sadr_city_father_was_killed__early_morning_american_airstrike_300x205.jpg"/></p> <p>10-year-old Ibtisan Abdullah’s father was killed, by a missile fired from an American helicopter during  an early morning U.S. airstrike, on Sadr city Thursday, May 31, 2007. </p> <p>According to local police the U.S. military helicopter hit both a house and car  killing two elderly people sleeping on the roof of their home.</p> <p>The elderly man who is being helped after collapsing in sorrow, after her fathers funeral is her uncle. </p> </div> <h3>Sadr City:</h3> <p>Troops from the American invader army in Irak raided Sheikh Abdel Zahra al-Suidi’s home in Sadr city at dawn today. Sheikh al-Suidi heads Moqtada al-Sadr’s office in Sadr city. During the raid the Americans took away some furniture and computers from the house which was empty at the time. </p> <p>Sadr city residents say that there is intense American activity in Sadr City since five Britons were kidnapped from the Finance Ministry on Tuesday. According to eyewitnesses American military forces have increased their search and inspection activities at the entrances to Sadr City, and have greatly increased both their military patrols of most neighbourhoods in the city, and air activity over the city.( Source:<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47274&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - القوات الامريكية تقتحم منزل مدير مكتب الصدر في بغداد</strong></a><strong> </strong>)</p> <p>The Americans and the greenzone government say that they suspect the Sadrists of being involved in the abduction of the 5 Britons which was carried out on Tuesday by gunmen clad in Iraki police uniform and using “police-like” vehicles, badges, and paperwork. The gunmen entered the Iraqi Finance Ministry building on Tuesday and took a computer expert and his four bodyguards.The abducted Britons were in Irak under contract with the U.S. government.</p> <p>The Sadrists angrily deny involvement in the abduction.</p> <h4> Occupation casualties (1):</h4> </p> <p>The American occupation army in Irak announced today that 4 of their soldiers were killed. 2 soldiers and a marine were killed in combat operations and one was killed in what the Americans describe as a “non-combat” incident. The killing of the four soldiers announced today, brings the total killings of members of the American invasion forces since the invasion led by the United States in March in March 2003 until now to 3471 dead according to official American data.</p> <h5> Occupation casualties (2):</h5> <p>Of those 3471 American soldiers killed in Irak 120 were killed during the month of May 2007 and 104  were killed during the month of April 2007 ,  (Source:<strong> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47264&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - مقتل أربعة أمريكيين يرفع خسائر آيار إلى 120 جنديا</strong></a> )</p> <h6>Late Update:</h6> <p>The American army announced a further two deaths. Six soldiers were killed and ten others wounded during military operations in Iraq during the past few days, The total number of Americans killed in Iraq during May is now 122  rather than 120 dead. Source: ( <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47286&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - ارتفاع عدد القتلى الامريكيين في العراق خلال ايار إلى 122جنديا</strong></a> )</p> <h3>Refugees - Ministry of Migration and Displacement Offices to open in Iran, Syria,  Jordan, Egypt, and Lebanon</h3> <p>The green zone government ministry Ministry of Migration and displacement will open over the next two days a special office in Iran in order to coordinate with the Iranian government their help to the more than 45 thousand Iraki citizens who are refugees there.  Offices and/or coordination measures are also to planned in: <ul> <li>Syria, which is home to more than a million Iraqi citizens who have fled their homes. </li> <li>Jordan which has at least we have more than 650 thousand Iraki refugees. </li> <li>Egypt which has at least  80 thousand Iraki refugees. </li> <li>Lebanon which has at least 45 thousand Iraki refugees. </li> <li>Kuwait which has at least 30 thousand Iraki refugees. </li> <li>And Turkey which also has at least 30 thousand Iraki refugees.</li> </ul> <p>Source: ( <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47250&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - وزير المهجرين : افتتاح مكتب لشؤون العراقيين في ايران خلال اليومين المقبلين</strong></a> ) </p> <p><strong>[Readers: should note that these are green zone government figures - the real totals are generally held to be much higher - markfromireland]</strong><br/> <h3>Allawi’s Defense Minister Sentenced to 7 Years for Corruption</h3> </p> <p>Hazem Shaalan the London small businessman who was defense minister in Neo-con love object Iyad Allawi’s notoriously corrupt “interim government” was sentenced <em>in absentia</em> to 7 years imprisonment for …. corruption. </p> <p>During Shaalan’s tenure, the defense ministry is alleged to have spent about $1.3 billion on military equipment, most of which was inappropriate, out of date and bought  using middlemen. </p> <p>Source: ( <b><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47236&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank">المحكمة الجنائية تصدر حكما غيابيا بالسجن 7 سنوات على وزير الدفاع العراقي الاسبق </a></b> ) </p> <p><em>[ He also bought tanks from the Polish government the engines of which were either rusted solid missing and helicopters incapable of flying. - markfromireland]</em></p> <p><strong></strong> </p> <h3>Incident Reports From The Governorates </h3> <p>These are just the most significant incidents.  <br/> <h3>Al Anbar Governorate </h3> </p> <p>In Fallujah a new “security plan” is being implemented by green zone government police and soldiers from the American army who have invaded and are occupying Irak. </p> <p>The plan aims to undermine the movement of armed men in the city and allow the invaders to respond to attacks on American invader forces and their green zone government underlings by separating all the districts of Fallujah. They aim to achieve this by placing barriers between each district and using green zone government Iraqi police to control movement at the entrances of each neighbourhoods. </p> <p>Reports from residents say the streets of the city of Fallujah seem completely empty except for police patrols that most inhabitants of the town have stayed in homes and that government departments, shops, and markets are all closed. </p> <p>(Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47273&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - الشرطة العراقية تنفذ خطة امنية في مدينة الفلوجة</strong></a> )</p> <div style="margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 10px; font-weight: normal; float: right; padding-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; border-left: rgb(203,202,202) 1px solid; width: 310px; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-align: left"> <h4>Briefing: Al-Shurta police recruitment centre bombing </h4> <p>This district is a “hot” zone in Fallujah. The police have been attacked there repeatedly. </p> <p>As we have reported repeatedly the Americans and their green zone government allies have recently launched several recruitment drives in Fallujah and its outlying areas.</p> <p>The drives are in the hope of attracting volunteers for the green zone government police and army and are predicated on the the moves against fighters from such groups as the so-called Islamic State of Irak by local tribes who see them as damaging to their control of the governorate and also hindering their chance at a getting a ”clear shot” at the American occupation forces.</p> <p>During such a drive the Americans or their green zone government allies enter a neighbourhood in force. They drive round announcing over loud speakers that a recruitment drive will be held at such-and-such a place, at at such-and-such a time, and hand out flyers, and paste notices on walls inviting residents to attend the drive.</p> <p>That such practices are an open invitation for the drive to be attacked should not need saying.</p> <p>Today’s massacre is hardly a good advertisement for the “security plan” reported immediately above.</p> <p>Saba Ali </p> </div> <h4>30 Police Volunteers Killed 20 wounded in Al-Shurta</h4> <p>A suicide bomber - reportedly a teenage boy, blew himself up in the middle of a crowd of volunteers for the green zone government police at the Al-Shurta police recruitment centre in Fallujah. Aswat Al Iraq’s report quotes an informant in the Fallujah police as saying:</p> <blockquote><p>“The bomber carrying a belt of explosives blew himself up amid a crowd of volunteers at half past one on Thursday afternoon at a center for recruiting Iraqi police forces in the Central police district Fallujah.” </p> </blockquote> <p>Their informant added that</p> <blockquote><p>“30 volunteers were killed while 20 others were wounded by the explosion.”</p> </blockquote> <p>and that the:</p> <blockquote><p>“recruitment center was severely damaged after the blast.”</p> </blockquote> <p>The death toll is likely to increase because many of the wounded are in a critical condition. Source:( <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47259&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - مقتل وإصابة 50 بهجوم إنتحاري على مركز تجنيد للشرطة في الفلوجة</strong></a> )</p> <p>The bodies of two brothers have been discovered in the Golan district of Fallujah. Both had been tortured and shot and their bodies dumped. </p> <p>(Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47273&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - الشرطة العراقية تنفذ خطة امنية في مدينة الفلوجة</strong></a> )</p> <h3>At-Ta’mim (Kirkuk) Governorate </h3> </p> <p>In Kirkuk: <ul> <li>Four people, including two green zone government soldiers were injured by an explosive device on a green zone government Army patrol near the Siiuf roundabout in Arafa in northern Kirkuk. </li> <li>Two civilians were were wounded in an armed attack by a group of armed men who fired on pedestrians in the downtown shopping district of Tisaeen. </li> <li>14 unidentified bodies north of the city of Kirkuk. The unidentified corpses of 12  males and two females were buried in the the cemetery  allocated for the burial of unidentified corpses. </li> </ul> <p>Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47270&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - إصابة ستة بينهم عنصران من الجيش ودفن 14 جثة في كركوك</strong></a></p> <h3>Basrah Governorate </h3> </p> <p>In Basrah an investigative commission under Major General Rashid Flaya outlined findings of rampant forms of financial and administrative corruption in the security services in Basrah. According to his statement today these corrupt operations were concentrated in: <ul> <li>The department of traffic. </li> <li>The river police </li> <li>The border police</li> </ul> <p>His investigation is still going on to uncover the scale of the corruption. He said that several unauthorised units were discovered and that it was possible that the “new” services<strong>*</strong>  would be abolished as they were ineffective and had not improved the security in the governorate.  Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47281&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - عمليات فساد اداري ومالي في الاجهزة الامنية في البصرة</strong></a><strong> *</strong>(set up by the British 8 months ago) </p> <p>Green zone government forces claimed today that they have successfully detained a gang consisting of 33 members responsible for kidnappings and sabotage.  Source:(<strong> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47257&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - الجيش العراقي يلقي القبض على عصابة للخطف والتسليب في البصرة</strong></a>)  </p> <p>A British patrol was bombed North of Basrah - no casualties. Both British bases were shelled - again no casualties. </p> <p>Source:(<strong> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47234&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - إنفجار عبوة ناسفة على دورية بريطانية في لبصرة</strong></a> )</p> <h3>Diyala Governorate </h3> <p>In Baquba 20 civilians were wounded in clashes that took place took place this afternoon between gunmen resisting the American invasion of Irak and American forces. Fighting broke out when gunmen opened fire on American troops near al-Mafriq in the north of Baqubah. Source:<strong> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47269&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - إصابة 20 مدنيا في اشتباكات بين مسلحين وقوات امريكية في بعقوبة</strong></a><strong> </strong></p> <p>Gunmen killed seven civilians at a fake checkpoint in Al-Khalis and dumped their bodies on the street. Source: <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47278&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - مقتل سبعة مدنيين على أيدي مسلحين في الخالص</strong></a> </p> <p>The blindfolded, gagged, and bound bodies of 4 peasant farmers with multiple gunshot wounds and who had been tortured were discovered in Ulaybat village (a little north of Al Khalis. ) They had been shot and dumped some days before they were found  <cite>“because of the strong odor.”</cite> </p> <p>Also in the same report gunmen attacked shoppers in the main market of the town killing one civilian. </p> <p>The report points out that the severity of violence in Al Khalis and outlying villages Khalis District, has, in recent weeks,left dozens of civilians dead and wounded … Despite the heavy presence of security forces. Khalis is 55 km north of the capital Baghdad. Source:( <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47230&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - العثور على أربع جثث لفلاحين ومقتل مدني في الخالص</strong></a><strong> )</strong><br/> <h3>Ninawa Governorate </h3> </p> <p style="margin-top: 0px; padding-left: 10px; font-weight: normal; float: right; padding-bottom: 11px; margin-left: 20px; border-left: rgb(203,202,202) 1px solid; width: 305px; color: rgb(0,0,0); background-color: rgb(255,255,255); text-align: left"><img src="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035im_/http://gorillasguides.com/wp-content/20070531_6_year_old_boy_wounded_attack_policestation_baqubah_in_baqubah_hospital_300x212.jpg"/><br/>This 6-year-old boy at a hospital in Baqubah was once of four civilians wounded when gunmen in two cars attacked a police station Thursday May 31st 2007 one police officer was killed and and  three other police wounded. </p> <p>Four green zone government police officers were injured Thursday, when an explosive device exploded as their patrol passed by it in the north east of Mosul. Source: ( <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47255&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - إصابة أربعة من الشرطة بإنفجار عبوة في الموصل</strong></a> ) A zone government army captain was killed and a soldier was injured in a bomb explosion in Tal Afar. Source: (<strong> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47252&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - مقتل ضابط وجرح جندي بانفجار عبوة في تلعفر</strong></a> ) In Tal Afar another roadside bomb that exploded between Senjar and Talafar districts wounded 4 green zone government troops. Source:(<strong> </strong><a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47232&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - إصابة أربعة من الشرطة بإنفجار ناسفة في تلعفر</strong></a> )</p> <h6>Late News:</h6> <p>An attack by gunmen on police in Mosul left one policeman dead and another wounded. </p> <p>Source: (<a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47287&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - مقتل شرطي و جرح آخر في الموصل</strong></a>)</p> <h3>Wasit Governorate</h3> </p> <p>Three unidentified corpses were taken from the river in Suwayrah in Wasit governorate on Thursday morning. All were male all had been tortured and had multiple gunshot wounds. On Tuesday five bodies were recovered including two dead bodies without heads. The town now has a special graveyard set aside for burying such corpses. The town of Suwayrah is 135 km north-west of Kut, Wasit’s capital. </p> <p>Source:( <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47248&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اصوات العراق - إنتشال ثلاث جثث مجهولة من نهر المالح في واسط</strong></a><strong> </strong>)</p> <p>A joint green zone government army and U.S. force, supported by U.S. choppers, started a 2 hour security sweep this morning in al-Shuhadaa and Damouk (Kut city) ended in the detention of 25 suspected fighters and the seizure of some arms and ammunition. </p> <p>Source: ( <a href="https://web.archive.org/web/20080828183035/http://66.111.34.180/look/article.tpl?IdLanguage=17&IdPublication=4&NrArticle=47240&NrIssue=1&NrSection=1" target="_blank"><strong>اعتقال 25 مشتبها بهم في عملية عسكرية في واسط </strong></a>) <strong>[Note: the report’s informant did not specify the quantities of arms and ammunition seized or the target status of those detained. 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