Railway workers in
are holding protests and strikes to demand that the green zone gone government honour its pay commitments, reactivate some services, roll back the “self financing” imposed by the American invaders, and provide protection.
The strike in the rubber industries plant in Diwaniyah continues.The workers have been protesting for the last two months including the damage done to their livelihood by the decrees of the American invader government run by the American “governor” of Irak - Bremer. There have been many strikes and protests at this plant for the last two months.
Scenes from An Iraki Childhood
The mortar attack on Sadr city today killed four people and wounded another 11. The photograph to the right was taken today outside Imam Ali hospital and shows relatives waiting to receive the body of one of the victims
The “green zone” in Baghdad used by the American invaders as the centre for their continued illegal occupation of Irak came under mortar attack again today. Columns of smoke were seen rising from the place where the missiles struck in the direction of the American “embassy” so far neither the American invaders or their green zone government underlings have made a statement. Four foreigners who came to make money out of Irak’s misery by working with the American army were killed in a similar mortar attack recently. (Later reports say that there were casualties from today’s attack but I have not been able to verify this - Suheila)
The green zone government army announced today that it had received the first batch American-made M-16s and M4 type rifles,as part of armament program initiated by their American overlords to “develop their abilities and skills.”
[According both to Saba Ali and markfromireland this is an extremely stupid move as these weapons although they are very good weapons are very high maintenance and poorly suited to Iraki conditions. I also asked somebody else who laughed very hard at the news and said they were prone to jamming. - Suhail ]
Three soldiers of the American invader army in were killed and eight others wounded in separate incidents in Baghdad, the U.S. said in several statements today. The three fatalities raises to 3396 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Irak since the U.S.-led invasion of Irak in March 2003. Of the 3396 U.S. soldiers killed in Irak since the U.S.-led invasion of Irak in March 2003, 45 were killed since the beginning of this month while 104 soldiers were killed in April 2007.
A cascaded bombing attack in Bab al-Sharqi (central Baghdad) where vendors gather to sell their produce every day killed 5 people and wounded anoter 15. The area has been attacked by bombers repeatedly. Green zone government police fired into the air to threaten reporters and photojournalists at the scene.
The body of Bassem Abdul Illah Institadidi who was the general manager in the Systems Company was found in Baghdad today along with the bodies of his two bodyguards. They were kidnapped on Sunday.
15 bodies many showing signs of torture were recovered in various parts Baghdad today.
Green zone government police colonel Mohamed Shihab was shot dead in front of his house West Baghdad today.
Two civilians were wounded in a mortar attack on Abu Nawas street in central Baghdad this eveinnig the wounded were transferred to Ibn Al Nafees.
A bomb placed inside a minibus exploded in Mahmudia south of Baghdad killing one civilian and wounding four others.
A bomb that exploded as a patrol of green zone government troops passed by it inAl-Huwaiyjahh (70 kilometers southwest of Kirkuk) killed one civilian and wounded another.
The Arabic text on the badges is:
“Department of security for religion and tourism.”
The women in this force are mostly widows or
are houseswives who have husbands so badly
wounded that they can no longer work to support
their familys. Nearly all of them have children
- Suheila.The 207 women police who help protect pilgrims to the holy places in Najaf continued their protest that they have not been paid in 18 months for a second day.
A further ninety-one unidentified bodies were buried today in al-Wadi al-Jadid cemetary, 5 km south of Karbala after being brought from a morgue in Baghdad. They have been numbered and photographed so that they could be identified in the future by their next of kin. The number of unknown bodies buried in al-Wadi al-Jadid since June 2006 is 2,440 .
Diala residents ended their sit-in the area between the two holy shrines in Karbala after 21 days of peaceful protest that yielded positive results, the head of the committee that organized the sit, Abdul Baqi al-Shamri, said. There are more than 820 families in Karbala officially registered as displaced from Diyala governorate and 40 unregistered.
Green zone government and the American invaders forces have started to deploy in Diyala for the largest operation in three against gunmen fighting the American invasion of Irak. Troops from the green zone government’s 2nd and 4th Divisions, under the control of 3000 U.S. troops have begun trying to defeat groups that have strongholds in the Hamrin mountains and spots adjacent to the area of al-Aazim.
Gunmen driving by killed two civilians as they walked down the street today in Hibhihb West of Baquba.
The bomb targeting a green zone government patrol in Muqdadiyah killed four troopers also civil defense headquarters was stormed by gunmen who planted and then detonated enough explosives throughout the builiding to blow it completely to pieces.
In Salah ad Din governorate a man who was originially from Kirkuk and was one of the transport operators catering to American forces was killed by gunmen. As was a cleryman who was driving in the Hamrin mountains. The gunmen then followed the police who had taken the victim’s car to the police station in Yathrib and engaged the police in a gun battle. They were able to storm the poice compound and set fire to the car. The morter attack last night on the headquarters of the Directorate of Police in Baiji wounded four people.
Also in Salah ad Din a civilian and a policeman were killed and a woman wounded in an armed attack on the green zone government army checkpoint at the al-Bu Ojail intersection in eastern Tikrit. Three civilians two of them brothers were kidnapped in al-Ishaqi at a fake checkpoint. Earlier in the day five civilians were kidnapped on the road linking the city of Tikrit to Tuz Khormatou. The kidnappers were wearing the uniforms of the green zone government army.
In al Anbar a bomb planted on the side of a road exploded today as an American patrol passed and destroyed an American tank in the village of Luz. There are casualties among the American invaders according to eyewitnesses but the number and severity is not yet known.
A suicide bomber crashed his vehicle into a green zone government army patrol that was about to enter their barracks in Fleifal in northern Ninewa, on the Dohuk road.The attack caused severe damage to the barracks and wounded four soldiers.
A green zone government army patrol was ambushed in the al-Ubaydat district to north of Al Hillah the capital of Babil governorate one of the troops were killed, two were wounded and two civilians were wounded in the crossfire also. The report says the patrol was “showered with bullets” the attackers escaped without casualties.
Suheila.
