European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 6, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Pages stars and strip june 2007 Nabil civilians walk behind a Crater tuesday after a Roadside bomb exploded on monday targeting a British patrol in Barad Haya District in Central Iraq second largest there were no reports of a Basra police official bomber kills at least 15 at tribal chiefs gathering by Sinan Salaheddin the associated press Baghdad a suicide bomber struck a gathering of anti Alzaida tribal leaders in Trou bled Anbar province on blowing up his car As they met and killing at least 15 police and Hospital officials the elders belonged to the Albu Issa a majority of whom have joined in an the Anbar salvation against the group Al Aida in police said the car bomb exploded in their midst As they sought to solve a tribal dispute in a Market in 40 Miles West of As Many As 18 people were killed and 15 according to police and Ahmed Hussein of fal Lujah a Mili tary spokesman in the Marine Jeff put the num Ber of dead at 15 and the wounded at As the mourners later buried the dead in the cemetery of the town that is near four mortar shells landed in the Ceme but there were no police the top commander in Iraq acknowledged sectarian violence was on the among the Days gun men assassinated a local Leader of Muntada Alsa drs Radical shiite Muslim faction South of and to the North insurgents am bushed an iraqi army kill ing an undetermined number of in an interview with lbs Televik David the top commander in noted that the number of sectarian kill Ings had fallen off after the surge of an additional troops began in an Effort to restore order in Baghdad and nearby but the number Rose in he what All of the commanders on the ground have said repeatedly is that this is going to get harder before it gets he said in the interview figures compiled by the associated press showed that at least iraqis were killed last making it the third deadly est month for iraqis since the a began tracking civilian casualties in april ministry spokesman Abdulkarim Khalaf insisted tuesday those figures were exam he said civilian casual ties actually were Down 34 per cent in compared with although he refused to pro vide the iraqi government has not released its own casualty figures for citing concerns they would be used to portray the Secu Rity situation Alert guards gunned Down a Blac Clad woman tuesday at a police recruiting station in a Sui cide bomber who then exploded before their suicide bombings continue to regularly claim scores of victims in Iraq principally aimed at shiite targets and blamed on sunni extremists of the group Al Aida in but female bombers remain relatively Khalaf said a woman Clad in a Black the traditional islamic approached a group of police recruits in East Baghdad about 10 she didst obey the guards or Ders to Stop and they shot her and she immediately blew Khalaf she was dead at the a police officer who asked anonymity As he was not authorized to talk to the said three police recruits were lightly in Anbar a Marine disputed a report say ing a suicide bomber blew up his car at a police checkpoint in the Sofiah area of Eastern ramada 70 Miles West of killing six policemen and wound ing three that report came from an of fice of the Anbar salvation coun a sunni tribal Alliance in Anbar province opposed to the extremist group Al Aida in Pool said there was no such at tack tuesday in an area touted by the command As a Model for because Vio Lence has been on the in other a shiite mus Lim cleric affiliated with the ant american shiite Leader Muntada a Sadr was shot and killed As his drove his automobile in a town 40 Miles South of police a police officer identified the victim As Sheik Abdulrahim Mohammed in charge of the a Sadr office in deaths in Iraq Al the associated press 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 Mili Tarys the a count is 19 higher than the defense departments last updated monday at 10 the latest deaths reported by the military no deaths the latest identifications re ported by the military army William killed saturday in Hadid when his vehicle struck an explosive As signed to the 2nd 1st cavalry 4th 2nd infantry fort army staff Travis killed Friday in Yusuf Yah when his vehicle struck an explosive assigned to the 2nd 14th infantry 2nd Bri Gade combat 10th Moun Tain division Light fort army sgt Bruce Newport killed Friday in Baghdad by Small arms fire assigned to the 127th military police 709th military police 18th military police 21st theater support com army Doonewey died May 29 in Balad of wounds suffered when his vehicle struck an explosive May 28 assigned to the 2nd 5th cavalry 1st brigade combat 1st cavalry fort army Jonathan Texas killed May 29 in Abu Sayda when his vehicle struck an explosive assigned to the 6th 9th cavalry regi 3rd brigade combat 1st cavalry fort army Rymel los Angeles killed saturday in Amariyah when his vehicle struck an explosive assigned to the 1st 23rd infantry 3rd 2nd in Fantry division Stryker Bri Gade combat fort Pakistan says it has arrested 2 wanted in journalists murder by Zara Khan the associated press Pakistan police said tuesday they have arrested two suspected militants wanted in the 2002 kidnapping and murder of journalist Daniel Attar Rehman and Faisal Bhatti were arrested monday in a town about 300 Miles Northeast of said Saghir an area police a lawyer for the mens families said they were picked up by Security agencies in 2003 and held secretly since Mugherin said both Pearl men were members of lash a militant organization linked to a senior detective on the team investigating pearls Case said re Man is suspected of leading the gang that kidnapped Pearl in Karachi on also known As Nairn supervised the report ers detention in a Shack for sever Al Days before he was said the who spoke on Condi Tion of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the the detective said both suspects also were involved in the 1998 murder of two iranian Engi neers in the killing of two shiite Muslim lawyers in and an unsuccessful at tempt to release a fellow militant from a prison Van in 1998 that left two guards Mugherin said police seized the pair in a car travelling toward Baluchistan province and that weapons and explosives were found in the he said they would be transferred to Karachi for fur ther May Bolour a human rights lawyer who is not related to Attar claimed the two suspects had been in custody since being seized from Karachi Nazim Abad neighbourhood in he dismissed the announce ment of their arrest As an attempt to conceal their Long confinement without trial or Contact with their who has asked the provincial High court in Karachi to probe the claimed a re cent outcry Over allegations that Security agencies have secretly held terror suspects for years is compelling the police and other Law enforcement agencies to bring out the persons they were a Wall Street journal re was abducted while re searching a Story on islamic Mili his remains were later found in a shallow grave in Karachi Eastern several men have been convicted of having links to pearls kill