Another Deadly Day in Iraq

Last Friday Muslims in Pakistan burnt US and Israeli flags (see pic) outraged by the Newsweek story of Quranic desecration.

This Friday several Shia mosques in Baghdad and Najaf have heeded the call yesterday of Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr to paint US and Israeli flags at the entrance to mosques for worshippers to walk on, in protest against the alleged desecration of the Quran at the US detention camp in Guantanamo Bay.

Another straw in the wind as the rebel cleric starts to fan the flames, aided by rising temperatures and non functioning air con due to extended electricity outages.

Aljazeera and other sources reported these fatalities Thursday 19th May

Fawwaz al-Jarba, elected to parliament a Shia-led alliance ticket only to leave the party a month ago, said seven people - including relatives and security guards - were killed in a firefight when armed men attacked his home in the northern city of Mosul.

The Pentagon said two Task Force Baghdad soldiers from enemy fire on Thursday evening

An earlier military statement said a US soldier was killed after his convoy struck a IED SE of Baghdad on Thursday morning dying on route to hospital.

A soldier assigned to the 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force (Forward), was killed 18 May during an indirect fire attack on Forward Operating Base Ramadi.

A bomber drove a car at an army checkpoint, killing an Iraqi soldier and wounding eight, an Interior Ministry official said.

An Iraqi soldier was killed and 3 wounded in a bomb explosion in the south of the capital, security officials said.

Oil Ministry employee Ali Hamid Alwan al-Dulaimy, 31, was leaving his house in Kazimiyah, northern Baghdad when three men firing pistols from a Kia minibus killed him, he was on his way to Baghdad University, where he was studying, his brother said.

In Baquba, north of Baghdad, two policemen were killed by a bomb.

A police officer Omar Majeed Shakir al-Dosh and his father were killed in a drive-by-shooting in Samarra, 125km north of Baghdad.

1 Iraqi commando killed and another wounded in clashes with fighters in eastern Samarra.

The body of a 40-year-old Iraqi contractor was found near Makhoul, 200km north of the capital.

A University of Baghdad faculty member was shot dead. Kassem Mohammed al-Azzaowi, a professor at Baghdad University's Nursing School, was killed by three armed gunmen.

Tikrit. The bodies of four Iraqis, executed by gunshot, were found south of the city.

Ali Hamid, an ex-Oil Ministry official was assassinated in Baghdad an ambush as he left his home.