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Voluntarily translated from the Arabic and edited by Michael M. Mahdi. Notes by the translator are in square brackets [].
Saturday, 28/5/2005
http://qudspress.com/data/aspx/d39/12819.aspx
- The US military discloses the death of one of its members in Haditha in western Iraq, during operations being carried out by American forces in pursuit of Iraqi resistance fighters.
- 5 killed, 50 wounded in 3 car-bomb explosions targetting a [puppet] Iraqi army base in Sinjar, west of Mousil in northern Iraq.
- Explosion targets US checkpoint in Mousil. US forces respond with indiscriminate firing which leaves 3 Iraqis dead and 9 others wounded.
- US military vehicle destroyed, several injuries reported, in a car-bomb attack against a US checkpoint on Baghdad International Airport highway.
- 4 US soldiers killed in an attack last night which was carried out by armed men on an American patrol in Falluja, west of Baghdad.
- American warplanes bomb a house in Falluja, killing 3 Iraqis and wounding several others.
- An explosion in Ba`quba targetting an American patrol results in the disabling of a "Hummer" and in wounding several of its occupants.
- Iraqi [puppet] ministry of the interior fires a number of its high officials after being shown to have received bribes.
- US military vehicle destroyed, several crew members wounded, in an IED attack against a patrol south of Baghdad.
- US forces 'arrest' 8 of the family of the Iraqi [puppet] minister of industry, Usama al-Najafi, after overrunning his farm in Mousil.
- Sheikh Nayef Sabhaan Al-Jbouri, of the Al-Jbour [Arab] clans is assasinated in Karkuk in front of his residence by unknown assasins.
- 3 Iraqi collaborators killed, unknown number of American casualties, in a car bomb attack on a joint patrol last night in Takreet.
- The group "Jaysh Ansar Al-Sunna" announces on its website the execution of a Japanese hostage, and posts pictures of the body.
- American fuel tanker is destroyed in Tarmiyya, north of Baghdad, in an explosive device attack.
- US military vehicle destroyed, several occupants wounded, in an explosive charge attack in Falluja.
- US forces claim to have killed around 100 armed Iraqis in an attack launched friday evening against the city of Samarra, north of Baghdad.
- American army says two of its members wounded in the operation launched against Samarra last night.
- American and Iraqi [puppet] forces overrun a village in Tarmiyya, north of Baghdad, on the pretext that there was a tip that 'al-Zarqawi' had entered the village.
- A large-scale search operation is carried out by US and [puppet] Iraqi forces in Ba`quba, which had witnessed the shooting-down of a US helicopter and the death of two of its crew, two days ago.
End of Iraq Daily News Reel.
Additional Headlines from QP:
- At least 337 hepatitis cases in Misan (southern Iraq) reported by Iraqi health officials.
- US forces continue campaign in Haditha and kidnap a member of the Association of Muslim Scholars.
- US military vehicle destroyed, one possibly dead and several wounded, in Taji.
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