European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 1, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              April stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 3 denies Sadr City airstrike by Joseph Giordono stars and stripes american military officials have rejected Media reports that the military was involved in an airstrike in Sadr City Early Fri the airstrike was reported to have killed a number of in a tersely worded statement released saturday the military command in Bagh dad despite reports from individuals and some Media Orga coalition forces were not involved in airstrikes Over Sadr City on initial reports of the supposed strike apparently came from the iraqi ministry of the Interior and iraqi television news according to the states on sorted iraqi a the airstrike allegedly killed 16 civilians in a Vil Lage in the Sadr City area of Bagh the the reports took place around 2 other news including can reported that officials in the Interior ministry con firmed the saying that those killed were local civilian guards who provide Security in the the military has embarked on a wide ranging Campaign in the districts of Baghdad to increase their Security pres ence and establish More posts in downtown they have teamed with iraqi police and sol Diers to create dozens of new combat outposts in areas where there previously was a limited military the surge of troops involves bringing More than additional troops into email Joseph Giordono at  series of attacks kill at least 32 in Iraq by Bushra Juki the associated press Baghdad at least 32 peo ple were killed in series of bomb Ings and around the coun including nine construction workers who died when gunmen opened fire on their bus South of the violence capped a week in which More than 500 peo ple have died in sectarian Vio a parked car exploded near a Hospital in Baghdad main shiite District on a Soldier died of a noncom Bat cause in the military said the multinational division Baghdad Soldier died the military said in a Brief it gave no other the blast in Sadr City occurred about and was target ing Street vendors and pedestrians just outside the Entrance to the a Sadr general police said at least five people were killed and 15 the attack came two Days after a double suicide attack struck a Market in the nearby shiite Shaab killing at least 82 people on one of the dead Liest Days since the War started four years another parked car bomb struck a Gas station about in the shiite City of Hillah killing at least two people and wounding provincial police the 60 Miles South of has been the site of some of the deadliest blasts since Alaa people stand by a car bomb wreck on saturday in the City of about 60 Miles South off car bomb struck a Gas killing at least two people and wounding provincial police the War started four years including a double suicide bombing against a crowd of shiite pilgrims that killed 120 people on March gunmen later set fire to four stores owned by a sunni business Man in the nearby mainly shiite town of police the stores were closed and no casual ties were but the at tacks appeared to be part of a trend of increasing retaliatory Sec tarian violence outside Baghdad in Northern a car exploded about 7 after the Driver parked it near iraqis looking for work in the Center of Tuz Khorma 130 Miles North of the Driver and two workers were killed and 11 others wounded in the police Abbas Mohammed Amin he said the Driver intended to wait until More workers had gathered be fore detonating the explosives but they went off pre venting a higher casualty gunmen also opened fire on a minibus carrying construction workers Home from work at an iraqi army Camp South of 180 Miles North of kill ing nine of them and wounding police the attacks raised to at least 526 the number of people killed in the past seven Days As suicide bombers and militiamen fought Back ferociously despite a Security sweep that is in its seventh in army John the assistant division commander in the Northern Region of said Friday coalition forces were nearby during the spree of re Venge killings in Tal afar by of duty iraqi police after a bomb ing that killed 80 people earlier this he said that while Mem Bers of coalition military and police training teams were in the we were not aware of the reprisal killings until the follow ing Bednarek told Pentagon report ers that an additional Stryker battalion was sent to the Region to reinforce coalition forces about three weeks a battalion is generally about 800 he said any need for additional forces would hopefully be met by iraqi just a year Tal 260 Miles Northwest of was heralded by president Bush As a relatively stable and Model but in the face of recent Bednarek said tribal leaders have been working to Calm the he said officials in Tal afar have expressed the desire to try and solve the problems he said he did not know How the escalation in violence would affect efforts to put the province under provincial iraqi control next general tried to warn Bush about How Tillman was killed by Scott Lindlaw the associated press san for weeks after his the Pentagon maintained that Pat Tillman was killed in an enemy even after a top general tried to warn president Bush that the nil  Likely died by Friendly according to a memo obtained by the associated in the memo sent to a Superior officer seven Days after Tillmans Stanley Mcchrystal warned that the evidence strongly pointed to Friendly fire and the nations leaders risked embarrassing themselves if they publicly said i Felt that it was essential that you received this information As soon As we detected it in order to preclude any unknowing state ments by our country leaders which might cause Public embarrassment if the circumstances of Tillmans death become pub Mcchrystal the april was addressed to John head of Central and was intended As a warning to Bush and acting army Secretary Les it is not Clear whether Bush or Brownlee received the but it raises new questions on How High up the Chain of com Mand the misinformation Campaign in speeches Fol lowing the Bush avoided any reference to the circumstances of Tillmans the family was not told until May what really Hap in the intervening the military continued to say Tillman died under enemy and even awarded him the Silver which is Given for heroic Battlefield White House spokesman Blain Rethmeier said Friday that a re View of records turned up no Indi cation that the president had received Mcchrystal Tillmans said saturday the newly disclosed document demonstrates Bush was complicit in deceiving her he knew it was Friendly fire in the very and he never intervened to and he essentially has covered up a crime in order to promote the Mary Tillman said in a Telephone inter All of this was done for or the memo was provided to the a by a government official who requested anonymity because the document was not released As part of the pentagons official re port into the Way the army brass withheld the Mcchrystal was the highest ranking officer accused of wrongdoing in the re issued last deaths Iraq As of at least members of the military have died since the beginning of the Iraq War in March according to an associated press the figure includes seven military at least died As a result of hostile according to the military the a count is two higher than the defense depart ments last updated Fri Day at 10 the latest deaths reported by the military a Soldier was killed thurs Day from an explosive in South Ern Afghanistan and other areas As of at least 308 members of the military have died in Paki Stan and Uzbekistan As a result of the invasion of Afghani Stan in late according to the defense the defense department last up dated its figures March of the military re ports 194 were killed by hos tile outside the afghan the defense department re ports 61 More members of the military died in support of operation enduring of two were the result of hostile the military lists these other locations As Guantanamo Bay naval Cuba Djibouti Eritrea Jordan Kenya Kyrgyzstan Philippines Seychelles Sudan Tajikistan tur key and there were also four Cia officer deaths and one military civilian the latest deaths reported by the military no deaths the latest identifications re ported by the military no identifications report from the associated press time to change in Iraq a Day later than planned Baghdad Iraq found itself temporarily split into two time zones on saturday when the military set its clocks ahead an hour while the iraqi government decided to wait a Day to Spring for the confusion apparently stemmed from too much Advance the iraqi government issued a statement two weeks ago saying that Daylight saving time would begin on March 31 by going for Ward one hour so that Friday becomes Satur the american military set its clocks but the iraqi Cabi net apparently changed its the clock on state run iraqi a to stayed set at Winter three hours ahead of Greenwich mean the station later announced that the government had decided to change the time As of april so iraqis will lose an hour of sleep on sunday from the associated press