Gorilla’s Guides

This is part 1 we’re still working on part 2.

Zeynab and Omar.

Reports From Baghdad

A police captain was shot dead in Dora as he prepared to go on leave with his family his name has not been released to the media. Source: اصوات العراق - مسلحون يقتلون ضابطا في الشرطة العراقية جنوبي بغداد

Fatah Basha Mosque Destroyed In Second Bombing Attack:

Bombers demolished the Fatah Basha Mosque in Central Bai’aa (west Baghdad). It was the second bombing attack on the Mosque in recent weeks - it was partially destroyed in a bombing attack using exactly the same methods last month. Eyewitnesses among local residents said that groups of armed men entered the Mosque at two in the afternoon having first posted guards outhside, they left after two hours. The bombs then detonated destroying the Mosque. One eyewitness described the explosions that occurred inside the Mosque as very powerful. 

The bombing has provoked a strong political reaction. The Iraki Peoples Party (one of the components of the Iraqi Accord Front) charged in a statement that armed militias stood behind the bombing and called on the Iraki government to fulfill its obligations to protect Mosques. They pointed out that their had been calls yesterday to protect Fatah Pasha Mosque and the other mosques in Bai’aa. And that they were “surprised” to find that this afternoon by “terrorist militias” were able to bomb Fattah Pasha Mosque causing a swathe of destruction ”amounting to fifty meters long.” The statement said that the bombers carried out their operation within “the sight and hearing of Interior commando forces … who cause terror and fear in the hearts of the region’s population.” The Iraqi Islamic Party is headed by Tariq Al-Hashmi, Vice President of the greenzone government. Source: اصوات العراق - مسلحون ينسفون مسجدا غربي بغداد

Other Baghdad Violence:

In the nightly mortar attacks in Baghad this evening shells fell in Al Amil, Mahmudiyah, and Bai’aa, without causing human casualties, the shell that landed in Salhia wounded one civilian. Source: اصوات العراق - سقوط اربع قذائف هاون في مناطق متفرقة من بغداد

The American army attempting to subjugate Irak announced on Thursday that four of its soldiers were killed while four others were injured over the past two days.

The killing of the four soldiers brings the total deaths in the American forces in Irak since the invasion led by the United States in March 2003 and until to 3498 dead … According to official data of the American army.

Out of this number 20 were killed  in the first three days of the month of June 2007.

The killing of 127 soldiers last month made May 2007 the third most fatal month for American soldiers in Irak since the Amercan invasion. 

The month of November 2004 saw the highest number of American soldiers attempting to subjugate Irak killed with 137 fatalaties. That was the month of the massacres of civilians in Fallujah by American soldiers. April of the same year (2004) came in second for the killing of American forces with 135 of their soldiers killed by people resisting the subjugation of Irak.

Source: اصوات العراق - مقتل وإصابة ثمانية جنود امريكيين في العراق

Reports From The Governorates

Again there are more reports we are working on.

At-Ta’mim (Kirkuk) Governorate

A child injured in the double suicide bombing 
of Mosques and Husseiniyah in Duquk is seen
here being carried after treatment in hospital
in Kirkuk. Most of the dead and wounded were
women and children.

The bombing toll of the double bombing of the mosques and Husseiniyah in  Kirkuk has risen to five dead and 26 wounded  45 casualties. 19 people are dead 26 wounded (Earlier reports gave lower casualties.) The bombings both targeted worshippers at Shiite mosques south of Kirkuk.

(Tameem village) was a coordinated attack. First a suicide bomber detonated his payload amongst worshippers followed by second bomb explosion 5 minutes later.

Sources:

1.  اصوات العراق - 45 قتيلا وجريحا الحصيلة النهائية لتفجيرات داقوق بكركوك
2. اصوات العراق - ارتفاع حصيلة انفجار داقوق الى خمسة قتلى و26 جريحا
3. اصوات العراق - مقتل وإصابة 18 مدنيا على الاقل في تفجير وسط حشود مصلين جنوبى كركوك 

Babil Governorate

The governor of Babil Salem al-Maslamawi survived an assassination attempt on Friday.Gunmen ambushed his car as he travelled the Baghdad highway for a meeting. The ambush took place near near Bridge 19 in Al-Mahawil bridge 19, about 60 km north of Al-Hilla. The gunmen fled under return fire from the governor’s bodyguards. Aswat Al Iraq say that residents said that two of the ambushers were wounded. Source: اصوات العراق - نجاة محافظ بابل من محاولة إغتيال فاشلة

Basra Governorate

Qurnah Market Bombing:

12 people were killed and 25 others were wounded today

 
Firemen putting out the burning cars
Qurnah market after the bombing. Friday in a bombing of Qurnah market north of Basrah.

(Earlier reports said 29 were wounded - Zeynab) Initial reports were very confused speaking of two bombings but from later reports it now appears that the second explosion was from a car about 70 metres from the first explosion that was one of 4 cars that caught fire and fuel exploded. Source: اصوات العراق - مقتل 12 وجرح 25 فى إنفجار مفخختين شمالى البصرة

(The report we have linked to says that most of the dead and were shopkeepers and craftsmen it looks from the reports that the bombers miscalculated the time for the bomb to go off it was early in the morning and the coutomers of market had not yet arrived. Omar) 

Dahuk Governorate

Eyewitness reports say that villages around Zakho in Dohuk governorate were subjected to shelling from the Turkish side of the botrder on Thursday evening, were accompanied by heavy automatic gunfire, there is also a report that Cobra helicopters overflew the area. There are no reports of any casualties. Local peshmerga confirmed the shelling attacks but refused to comment further. Source: اصوات العراق - شهود : المناطق الحدوية تتعرض لقصف مدفعي تركي

Diyala Governorate

Two police commanders killed a third wounded

A police motorcade on its way to Baqubah bringing police commanders in Diyalah governorate was bombed. Two police commanders were killed a third was seriously wounded.

The bombing in the Mohammed Sakran district (south of Baqubah) killed Khan Bani Saad chief of police Brig. Saed al-Aamri and one of his commanders - Lt. Colonel Mohsen al-Rifaei.

Col. Hashim al-Maamouri, police commander for the district in which the bombing took place was severely wounded.

Source: اصوات العراق - مقتل ضابطين وإصابة ثالث جراء انفجار عبوة جنوب بعقوبة

Police commander’s family abducted

Earlier in the day in Kanaan (40 Km South of Baqubah) armed men apparently fighters from the “Islamic State of Iraq” attacked the home of Col. Ali Ahmad 14 people mostly from his bodyguard and his wife were killed. Once the attackers overcame the bodyguards’ resistance they stormed the house and abducted 3 family member of the colonel including his daughter. Sources: اصوات العراق - مقتل ضابطين وإصابة ثالث جراء انفجار عبوة جنوب بعقوبة and: اصوات العراق - مقتل 14 في هجوم مسلح على منزل قائد شرطة ديالى

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Editor of the day: Zeynab.

Helper of the day: Omar.