(RAMADAN Oct 16 – Nov 14)

Below is a list published recently by an Iraqi Christian web site www.ankawa.com and Zauaa magazine belonging to the local community of Assyrian Orthodox. http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0410/16_3314.html

January 2

(Arbil, Iraq)

Majed Bia Toma Haitham Sulaka Hanna

January 21

(Falluja)

Four women, names unknown

Four women were killed and the other five were injured. The victims, who were Armenian or Assyrian Christians, worked at a nearby U.S. military base in Habbaniyah. The women worked in the laundry. (Associated Press)
http://www.nineveh.com/Christian%20Assyrians%20face%20Oppression%20and%20Murder%20in%20Iraq%20with%20the%20Rise%20of%20Islamists%20and%20Kurdish%20Power.html

5 Christian girls

January 25

(Bassora, Iraq)

Dr. Sarmad Samee

March 15

(Baghdad, Iraq)

Eklas Qorial Yokana Narmin Yonan

March 17

(Baghdad, Iraq)

Aodisho Shamun Aodisho (father), Marta Eskhsria Warda (mother), Farid Aodisho (son), Zaia Audisho Shamun (son), Marta Zkaria Warda, Amijan Kona Eaziz and Jaudat KaKos

Assyrian family dead and others wounded after bomb attack. The older daughter, Shmoni, survived as she was in Dohuk. Her daughter severely wounded. Wife of Farid is also severely wounded. http://www.aina.org/bbs/index.cgi?read=21336

March 20

(Karkok, Iraq)

Romio Aisha Daud

(Bassora, Iraq)

Ednan Hanna Bia Al-Shaklaui

March 22

(Baghdad)

Ameejon and his wife Jewded Barama

Zinda Magazine reports that Assyrian Elderly couple, Ameejon Barama and his wife Jewded were brutally murdered in their own home by Militants in the town of Dora, near Baghdad, Iraq. The husband’s throat was slashed and the wife was struck repeatedly to the head. http://aina.org/releases/20040613151448.htm

March 26

(Kirkuk)

Lieutenant Romeo Esha David

A member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement, was killed in his home. www.zindamagazine.com issue 3/29/2004

April 4

(Miqdadiya)

Emad Mikha

Body of Chaldean Man Killed in Iraq Returned to Michigan

Courtesy of Detroit Free Press
13 April 2003

(ZNDA: Sterling Heights) The body of an Iraq native killed in his homeland was returned Tuesday to Michigan, his widow says.

Emad Mikha, 44, died while working with the U.S. Army as a civilian translator. He left his family in Sterling Heights and his job as a supermarket butcher last year to assist U.S. troops with prisoner interrogations.

Rita Mikha said she learned April 4 — their 16th wedding anniversary — that her husband died in the town of Muqdadiyah, about 70 miles northeast of Baghdad. She said Tuesday that she still had no information about how he died and was told autopsy results would not be available for four to six weeks.

Visitation was scheduled for 5-8 p.m. Wednesday at the Hopcroft Funeral Home in Madison Heights. A funeral Mass was to be held at 10 a.m. Thursday at Mother of God Chaldean Catholic Church, followed by a military service at Holy Sepulchre Catholic Cemetery, both in Southfield.

Rita Mikha said relatives, neighbors and friends were offering comfort to her and her three children, but having no income and no insurance left her anxious about the future.

“It’s very hard for me to deal with this situation,” she said. “I already lost my husband.”

A memorial fund for the children of Emad Mikha has been established at TCF Bank, 8202 Metropolitan Parkway, Sterling Heights MI 48312.

http://www.zindamagazine.com/html/archives/2004/4.12.04/index.php

http://www.iraqwarheroes.com/mikha.htm

April 27

(Baghdad, Iraq)

Wesam Yakob Asoffi

May 2

(Toba Tek Singh, Pakistan)

Javed Anjum

Pakistani Christian Dies of Torture at Hands of Islamic Extremists

Student, age 19, died of injuries caused by 5 days of torture for refusing to convert to Islam. Travelling to Pir Mahal to attend wedding, but went missing on April 16, 2004l 16, 2004
English: World English Bible - WEB


WP-Bible plugin. On April 22, Maulvis (mullahs) from the madrassa, the Jamia Hassan Bin Ali-ul-Murtaza, in Chak (village) 323 JB Tarandi, Toba Tek Singh district handed Javed to police, after torturing him 5 days and nights. Police refused to take him because he was badly injured, & called his father instead. Torture included electric shocks & burns from warm iron rods, & he suffered 26 injuries for Christ. After 11 days, he died in the Allied Hospital in Faisalabad at 2.12am on May 2. His kidneys failed & he had undergone dialysis 4 times. Right arm fractured, & electric shocks to ears affected his hearing. His bladder stopped working. Instead of urine, passing blood or puss. In his statement to the police before he died, Javed said: “I was searching for water near the Islamic madrassa when the Maulvis (mullahs) took me inside & told me that I was a thief & was trying to steal their water pump. I told the Islamic leaders that I am a Christian youth and a student. I had come here to attend a marriage. As soon as the Islamic extremists came to know that I am Christian they asked me to convert to Islam. I refused and they started torturing me. They would continue the torture from night till morning. They tortured me badly and during the torture they continuously asked me to accept Islam.” The police registered a case against Moulana Ghulam Rasool, & several companions under 337/F6 of the Pakistan Penal Code.

http://www.exorthodoxforchrist.com/moslems_torture_-_pakistan.htm

May 15

(Baghdad, Iraq)

Samir Shlemon

May 26

(Baghdad, Iraq)

Ashur Korial Yalda

May 28

(Baghdad)

Ashor Goriel Yalda

Killed in his car with a grenade while on his way to work.

(Lahore, Pakistan)

Samuel Masih

FAITH UNDER FIRE

Christian beaten to death

in hospital by Muslim cop

Policeman: ‘I have offered my religious duty … I’m spiritually satisfied’

© 2004 WorldNetDaily.com
Samuel Masih was buried in Lahore, Pakistan, yesterday following injuries he received from a Muslim policeman who beat the 27-year-old Christian with a hammer as he lay in his hospital bed recovering from a bout of tuberculosis.
Masih had been in jail since Aug. 23, 2003g. 23, 2003
English: World English Bible - WEB
Izbrano poglavje ne obstaja!

WP-Bible plugin, awaiting trial on charges of blasphemy under Pakistan’s strict “Law 295″ – which forbids desecrating the Quran and “defiling” the name of Islam’s prophet, Muhammad. On the day of his arrest, Masih was collecting garden rubbish, which he heaped temporarily against the wall of a mosque in Lahore’s Lawrence Gardens section while collecting more that he planned to burn later. This action brought the blasphemy charge, which carries a maximum two-year prison sentence.
ttp://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=38716

June 4

(Baghdad, Iraq)

Faraj Moshe Markhai

Kidnapped 6/2/2004 and then killed on 6/4/2004. http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=1090

June 7

(Dora, Baghdad)

Esho Nisan Marqos, Ramziya Enwiya Youkhanna, Duraid Sabri Hanna, Alice Aramayis, Aaida Bedros Boughos and Munah Jalal Karim

Drive-by shooting results in the death of the above four Assyrian and two Armenians. www.zindamagazine.com issue 14 June 2004 http://www.aina.org/news/20040614200324.htm

(Iraq)

June 7

Aisho Nissan, Markos Ramzia, Nuia Youkana Duraid Sabri, Hanna Alis, Ara Maiss, Aida Bedros Bogos Muna, Jalal Karim, Sami and Rami Saeed

http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0410/16_3314.html

June 10

(Baghdad, Iraq)

Janan Joseph

Janan Joseph, an Assyrian Christian, shot and killed inside his home in al-Mansour quarters along with ten more Christians in the quarter. http://www.sotaliraq.com/newiraq/article_2004_07_19_4004.html

June 11

(Baghdad, Iraq)

Raneed and Raphid Raad

Two Assyrian Christian children have been killed in Baghdad. Raneed Raad, 16 and her sister Raphid, 6 were slaughtered in their home. http://www.Assyrianchristians.com/commentary_massacre_july_11_04.htm

June 19

(Mosul, Iraq)

Hanni Yuohanna Naeum

June 20

(Bassora, Iraq)

Shatha and Janet Sadah Odisho (Audishow)

Two Assyrian Christian sisters, 32 year old Janet and her sister Shatha, 25 were killed on the way to work in the city of Basra. Working for a British company as translators it is believed they were targeted by terrorists. To keep safe they were living in St. George’s Assyrian Orthodox Church. (Mosul) Raymond Farouq Shimun – Raymond Farouq Shimun (a 22 years old and son of Farouq and Juliet) was slain by the forces of evil in Mosul. His head was partially cut and his hands and legs were smashed. There were signs or effects of knife on his body, which suggest that he was terrified and suffered before he died. His body was thrown in a cemetery (a valley outside the city), after he was kidnapped on June 17 (about 8:30 pm by five armed men not far from his home).

http://www.christiansofiraq.com/update.html

July 10

(Baghdad, Iraq)

Janan Jossef

July 17

(Mosul)

Adeeb Aqrawi

An unidentified group using automatic weapons entered a pizza shop at the al-Zihoor quarters around 3:00 p.m., shot and killed Adeeb Aqrawi, an Assyrian young man, working at the shop. http://www.ado-world.org/en/news.php?id=336〈=ar

July 19

(Mosul)

Hani Yohanna Naoom

Sources stated that unidentified attackers equipped with automatic weapons attempted to kidnap an Assyrian man, Hani Yohanna Naoom (43) around 7:00 a.m. near his convenient shop on Dawasa Street, near the government building. The victim tried to escape from his kidnappers; he was shot and killed. http://www.ado-world.org/en/news.php?id=336〈=ar

August 1

(Baghdad, Mosul, Iraq)

12 Assyrians

The worst fears of Iraq’s beleaguered Christian minority were realized yesterday when an apparently coordinated wave of car bombs targeted worshippers at Sunday evening prayers in churches in Baghdad and in the northern city of Mosul. The attacks in Baghdad killed 11 people and injured more than 50, medical officials said. The blasts in Mosul killed one person and injured 11 others. The toll of dead and injured was expected to rise. A spokesman for the Interior Ministry, Sabah Kadhim, said four churches were hit in Baghdad, two in the central Karada district, one in the Dora neighborhood and one in New Baghdad. US army officials in Karada said another bomb had been discovered in front of a church but that it had failed to detonate. The attacks appeared to be the first deliberately aimed at Iraq’s approximately 750,000 minority Christians during the 15-month-old insurgency. The attacks also highlight the challenges faced by Iraq’s interim government as it tries to take on more responsibility for its own security ahead of national elections in six months’ time. Two of the blasts in Baghdad occurred in the central Karada district, home to many of the city’s Christians and many of its churches. The first was outside an Armenian church just 15 minutes into the evening service, witnesses said. One worshipper, who gave his name as Margahi, said: “I was in the mass. There was a big explosion, and there was screaming and we ran out of the church. I saw people bloodied by bits of flying glass and wood.” Shortly afterwards there was a blast at a second church, an Assyrian Catholic church, 500 metres away. Samir Behnam, 36, said: “I was praying. Then I heard a huge bang and I saw that one wall of the church just collapsed. And also the cemetery next to it was badly damaged. We rushed out of the church. I saw a driver of a minibus killed, and I saw a lot of injured. “Whoever did this has no religion and principle. No religion accepts such acts of sabotage and murder. They want to create civil strife between us and the Muslims.” He said that before the mass he had seen a car parked outside a side gate to the church. “I’m sure that was the bomb,” he said. Colonel Ahmed Abdul Gaffour of the Iraqi police said 25 people had been injured by the two car bombs and that some neighbouring houses had been damaged. US military official said at least one and possibly both of the blasts appeared to have come from booby-trapped cars. Taxi driver Omar Khadim, 23, was dropping off two passengers for the evening service at the Assyrian church. “I heard a bang, I saw fire and something flying in the air, and then the windows of my car shattered.” His passengers suffered leg wounds. Iraqi police and National Guards cordoned off the area as emergency services arrived. US helicopters circled overhead. http://www.guardian.co.uk/Iraq/Story/0,,1274107,00.html

Twelve Assyrian were killed and some 60 injured when 5 Assyrian (also known as Chaldeans and Suryan) and one Armenian Church was bombed simultaneously in Baghdad and Mosul. Here are the churches: Church Sayidat al-Najat (Our Lady of Salvation) – Karrada (Baghdad) – Syrian (Assyrian) Catholic Church Church Sayidat al-Zohour (Our Lady of the Flowers) – Karrada (Baghdad) – Armenian Catholic Church Sts. Peter & Paul – Doura, al-Meekanik quarters (Baghdad) ­ Chaldean Catholic Church Seminary St. Paul Church – Center of Mosul St. Elias – Ni’aayriyya oo Gayyara (New Baghdad) – Chaldean Catholic Church St. Mary’s Church in east Baghdad (car bomb disarmed by police)

http://www.aina.org/releases/20040613151448.htm

(Mosul, Iraq)

Rimon Farok Shamun

August 4

(Mosul, Iraq)

Raed Eishoe Naem

August 8

(Mosul, Iraq)

Firas Moefak Hzdi Petros

August 29

(Baldia, Siekhupura, Pakistan)

Nasir Masih

On August 16, Nasir Masih, aged 26, a Christian missionary, was arrested on false charges of theft after being taken from his home in Baldia, Siekhupura, 45 kilometres from Lahore, by a group of Muslims. He was tortured by the police and died three days later, after sustaining 20 injuries. A case has been registered against ten people, including six policemen. Hundreds of Christians protested at his death, and several were arrested and beaten up by the police. Police have warned local Christians, and especially Haroon Fateh, a lawyer representing Nasir Masih’s family, not to pursue the case against the police. http://www.cswoz.org/index.php?page=content&idcon=1312 http://www.fides.org/eng/martirologio/martiri_2004.html

August 31

(Bartella)

Tara Majeed Betros Al-Hadaya, Taghrid Abdul-Massih Ishaq Betros and her sister, Hala Abdul-Massih Ishaq Betros

Three Assyrian girls were slaughtered in the Assyrian village of Bartella near Mosul while returing home from their work at a hospital in Mosul where they worked. Few days earlier, terrorists left CDs in the region filming the slaughter of two other Christians of the same town. The three women are Tara Majeed Betros Al-Hadaya, Taghrid Abdul-Massih Ishaq Betros and her sister Hala Abdul-Massih Ishaq Betros. The attack took place in the section between the Television area and the Kokajli area on the main road between Mosul and Bartilla. Also injured in the attack was another Assyrian woman, ‘Amera Nouh Sha’ana, who was also returning home to Bartilla and the Assyrian driver, Naji Betros Ishaq. The three female victims were in their twenties.

http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=1631

(Mosul, Iraq)

Takrid Abd Almasih Eshak and Hala Abd Almasih Eshak Petros

Tara Majid Petros Alhedaia

September 1

(Baghdad)

Gewargis Youaresh Nisan

In the district of Karrada (Arkhita), a terrorist bomb exploded killing Mr. Gewargis Youaresh Nisan. A timer in the aforementioned district that is heavily populated by Assyrian set the bomb.

http://f21.parsimony.net/forum37811/messages/32000.htm

(Mosul, Iraq)

Nisan Sliyo Shmoel

In a terrorist attack on the Governorate of Nineveh building, Mr. Nisan Sliyo Shmoel was injured. Mr. Shmoel was taken to hospital where he was treated. Mr. Shmoel was released from the hospital after his treatment; however, the terrorists were awaiting his release and targeted him with an unmarked car (not carrying plate numbers), which they used to drive him over in front of the hospital entrance. Mr. Shmoel died immediately. Martyr Nisan Sliyo Shmoel was 43 years old. Mr. Shmoel is survived by his wife and six children, five daughters and one son, with the oldest being 15 years. http://f21.parsimony.net/forum37811/messages/31999.htm

(Mosul, Iraq)

Khaled and Hani Boulos

In the al-Mayasa (al-Sa’aa) Christian district, Khaled Boulos (32) and his brother Hani Boulos (28), known also as the sons of Hasina, were murdered. The deceased Assyrian brothers were known for their patriotic stands in Mosul in defending and assisting other Assyrian. According to eyewitnesses, on September 2, at noon local time, a car carrying a group of armed terrorists pulled by the Boulos brothers, came out of the car, and began firing heavily at the two Assyrian, killing them instantly. http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=1631 http://f21.parsimony.net/forum37811/messages/31996.htm

September 2

(Baghdad, Iraq)

Korkis Yoaresh Nessan

September 10

(Bakhdeda, Iraq)

Mark Luis Shito

Following the celebration of the Holy Cross, in the Assyrian town of Bakhdeda in the Qaraqosh, Hamdaniya District, late at night while people slept homes were attacked by mortars. The priminary informaiton indicates that three of the mortar fell on top of a home killing Mark Louis Sheeto, a 13 year old boy, and seriously injured his mother, Bushra Toma Sheeto, and his 8 year old brother Bihnam Sheeto. http://www.aina.org/news/20040911181922.htm

September 16

(Baghdad)

Firas Petrous and Rimon Shimoun

Two Assyrians Beheaded by Iraq’s Terrorists

Holy Martyrs Firas and Rimon

Associated Press
BAGHDAD, Iraq 16/ Sep/2004

Villagers found three decapitated bodies north of Baghdad on Wednesday.
The bodies were found in nylon bags, the heads in bags alongside them, near Dujail, about 25 miles north of Baghdad, said Col.Adnan Abdul-Rahman of the Interior Ministry.

An Associated Press photographer saw the three corpses lined up with their heads by their sides on the floor at the guard compound before U.S. troops collected them and handed them over to police. Two wore jeans and shirts and the third wore sweat pants and a T-shirt. All appeared young.

Iraqi police said two of the bodies had tattoos written in the Roman alphabet – one saying “HECER”, and the other a letter “H”. The third body had tattoos in Arabic script but the words were not Arabic. There were no documents on the corpses.

A U.S. military official said the bodies appeared to be Iraqis and had their hands tied behind their backs. While Islamic Terrorists have often beheaded foreign hostages in their fight against the government and coalition forces, it is not a tactic usually used against Iraqis, who are more often abducted for money (-However it should be noted that these two men are Assyrian Christians and not Muslims).

Ankawa.com has obtained a movie from its sources in Iraq, which shows an Islamic Terrorist group named ‘The Brigades of Salaheddin Al-Eyobe the armed faction’. Committing a hideous and inhumane crime of beheading two Assyrian Christian men from Mosul, and the movie also shows the beheading of a third unidentified man. The criminals’ sons of Darkness filmed their unarmed captives stating their names and identifying themselves in terrified and shaky voices before decapitating them in a horrendous and savage scene.

The two victims are: Reemon Farouq Sham’aoun, which the movie didn’t show any of his identifications, except him stating his name before being beheaded and the second is Feeras Moufaq Potros born in Mosul 1978. The movie showed his identity card from the University of Mosul.

(note- Salaheddin Al-Eyoby which the group is named after: was a known Kurdish Islamist leader. I believe that the goals of such Islamic groups are to ethnically cleanse the Assyrian Christians from their native lands and replace them with Kurds by terrorizing them, which has been a systematic method adopted by all Assyrian neighbors since the Islamic invasion into Iraq.

May all our Martyrs rest in peace in paradise, and may God and our lord Jesus Christ protect and guard our nation and church against the sons of darkness, which their end is near.

http://www.christiansofiraq.com/beheaded.html

September 23

(Mosul, Iraq)

Bassam Sabri Sanne and Munir Toma

September 27

(Baghdad)

‘Aadel (32), Aamer Nissan (36), Amir Shabo, Rassm Elias Sliwa (20), Amer Khoshaba (39), Na’aeem Gewargis (26), Bassam Elias (22)

A bus carrying employees of the Baghdad Hunting Club (Nadi al-Sayd) after leaving work in the early hours of Monday morning was attacked by unidentified armed men, Fourteen people were killed and six injured. Among the dead were nine Chaldean Assyrians.

September 28

(Mosul, Iraq)

9 Young Christians

Muslim terrorists martyr nine young Christians. The International Catholic aid agency Aid to the Church in Need announced on Tuesday that Christians are increasingly becoming the target of terrorist attacks in Iraq. On Sunday, nine young Christians were murdered in Baghdad as they were returning home from their work at a leisure club. The information was given to the German organization based in Königstein, near Frankfurt by a “direct contact with Church circles in Baghdad.” The victims were three brothers of one family and two brothers of a second family, together with four of their friends. All nine are members of the Chaldean Catholic Church. Earlier last week a young man from Mosul was kidnapped by terrorists and beheaded. He too was a Chaldean Christian, in his thirties, who ran a small souvenir and gift shop close to the university. Priests of the Chaldean Catholic Church also frequently receive threats. In one instance the murder threats were so specific that the local bishop was forced to transfer the priest concerned to another town. Since the official end of the war a year and a half ago, over 80 Christians have been murdered by Islamic terrorists, 20 of them this September alone. Two of them were beheaded with swords. Their murder was filmed and copied onto CDs, which were then circulated in Mosul. Churches and priests have also been attacked.

October 5

(Mosul, Iraq )

Fadi Shanoon

The Christians of Ba’asheeqa and Bahzani, near Mosul in north of Iraq, were shocked this afternoon when they discovered Fadi’s body. The ‘Aaid Khidir Shamoon family was devastated as they witnessed the body of their 15-years-old son Fadi. Fadi’s body was found burned after he was beheaded. Fadi was kidnapped while he was riding his bike, which his father has given to him as a present, in the ‘Ain ‘alaq orchards in Ba’asheeqa around 12:00 noon. His body was treated in the most barbaric way; he was mutilated, burned, and thrown in the Ba’asheeqa-Teez Kharab road in front of al-’Azzawi ranch. Earlier, Ba’asheeqa mourned another son, Julian Afram Yacoub, 14-years-old, when he was hit in the head with a concrete block and then burned. The murderers have been targeting innocent children, which are forcing many Christians and Yezidis to flee their homes and villages.http://www.bahzani.net http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=1855

(Mosul, Iraq)

Majd Sako

October 14

(Baghdad, Iraq)

Little Girl

Baghdad (Fides Service) – The most recent victim was a little Chaldean Christian girl brutally murdered by a group of Islamic terrorists in Baghdad. The group kidnapped the child and demanded ransom money for her release, but the distraught parents were unable to pay the sum. On October the 14 the lifeless body was delivered to the parents home. http://www.fides.org/eng/news/2004/0410/16_3314.html

October 17

(Baghdad)

*Yasmin Boodagh and daughter

Yasmin Boodagh, and her daughter were killed in Dora by a bombed car. source: http://www.christiansofiraq.com/update.html

October 21

(Baghdad)

Layla Elias Kakka Essa

Layla Elias Kakka Essa (aged 30s) lived peacefully in Baghdad. Economical hardship forced her to seek employment as an instant translator in the Assyrian quarters of Dora region in Baghdad to support her two very young children, Manar and Mina. She was killed in cold blood on Thursday October 21 while on her way back home after completing her tenth day of employment. The killer mercilessly emptied his bullets in her head. http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2029

October 25

(Mosul)

Nasrin Shaba

Four unidentified armed men tried to force themselves inside the home of Nasrin Shaba Murad, an Assyrian Christian woman, in the quarters of 17 July in Mosul. When Nasrin Shaba Murad, a housewife aged 42, tried to escape to her neighbor’s home, the gunmen opened fire and killed her. Nasrin is a mother of three children. Her body was transferred to Sinjar where she was buried. http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2019

October 30

(Mosul)

Ma’an Yousuf

Ma’an Yousuf, an Assyrian male, was confronted by three men (two masked and one unmasked). Yousuf was killed in his electrical supplies shop in Dawasa street in Mosul at 7:30 p.m. when the unmasked attacker shot him with three bullets in his head and the three escaped in their car. http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2078

November 2

(Baghdad)

‘Alaa’ *Andrawis and his 10-year old son

An unidentified group surprised and fired upon an Assyrian family in Dora, Meekanik quarters, south of Baghdad. ‘Alaa’ Andrawis (b. 1965), his wife Evelyn Malkizdaq, and their 10-years old son were shot at while in their car. Andrawis and his son were killed instantly, meanwhile, the mother her head was badly wounded. She was transferred to a hospital where she is undergoing surgery. ‘Alaa’ Andrawis and Evelyn Malkizdaq had three children; the oldest is 12 years old. http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2102

November 4

(Falluja)

Dr. Nadia Hanna Murqos

Dr. Nadia Hanna Murqos was killed near Falluja while returning from Syria. Her husband and son were injured in the attack on their car. http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2123

November 8

(Baghdad)

3 Christians, names unknown

Two bombs exploded outside two churches in southern Baghdad quarters of Dora. Three people were dead and around 40 to 50 injured. The news was reported in the afternoon by CBS, ABC, and by FOX NEWS at 3:05 with Brit Hume during his segment Special Report. Read also http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2154

The first bomb went off near the Mar Giwargis (St. George) Church, the U.S. military said. Witnesses reported that 18 people were slightly injured in the explosion. The second car bomb detonated minutes later, less than a mile away, outside the St. Matthew Church, killing three people and wounding 34, said a policeman on the scene that declined to give his name. Also reported by Daily Times, Reuters (NY), Los Angeles Times. http://www.defenselink.mil/news/Nov2004/n11082004_2004110811.html

November 18

(Bassora, Iraq)

Sargon Nato

November 19

(Mosul)

Muntadir As’aad Matti and Bashar As’aad Matti

A mortar shell killed 2 Assyrian brothers of the town of Bartella while at work when the bomb fell on the shop they worked at in Mosul market. http://www.bartella.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1669&sid=be7b477051b949af465606ea30fda461

November 21

(Mosul)

Sami Esho Khoshaba

Sami Esho Khoshaba, aged 19, and a member of the Assyrian Democratic Movement (ADM), was a cadre in the al-Karkh Branch in Baghdad. He was shot and killed in Mosul, while on leave.

(Baghdad)

Essarhadon Elia al-Qas Oraham

Born 1977, was killed near al-Mashriq Club in Camp Sara quarters around 8:00 p.m. Sunday night. The two killers attempted to steal his Ford car, which he used privately and sometimes as a taxi, however, he resisted and they shot him. He leaves behind a wife and a 2 year old girl. http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2256

November 30

(Baiji)

Sabih Mousa Abada (Salah al-Din)

Born 1949, married with five boys and three girls, was killed when a car bomb exploded on a side road in Baiji. Abada worked as a driver at Baiji refinery. He had stopped to assist a stalled school bus. Abada was a resident of the of Baghdeda. http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2325

December 2

(Mosul)

Laith Antar Khanno

The body of Laith Antar Khanno (29 years) of Baghdeda was found near Mosul Hospital in the al-Wahda quarters, east of Mosul. Khanno was kidnapped two weeks ago and the kidnappers asked first for a ransom of $1,000,000 then dropped the figure to $100,000; however, his family could not come up with this large amount of money to rescue Khanno. Khanno had worked for a foreign company in Baghdad and had traveled to Mosul to open a branch there. His body was found first and the head was found later at a distance. Khanno was married three years ago and had one daughter. http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2329

(Mosul)

Imad Jameel Younan

Imad Jameel Younan (born 1975), married with two children, was confronted with criminals who murdered him and stole his private taxi. Younan was a resident of the Assyrian town of Baghdeda. http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2325

December 8

(Ramadi)

Ra’aad Augustine Qoryaqos

One of the notable Assyrian of Bartella, was murdered in Ramadi. A group of three terrorists stormed his clinic while he was checking on his patients. They shot him and left him bleed. An operation later failed to save his life. Dr. Qoryaqos leaves behind his wife and two children. Dr. Qoryaqos worked as a professor at the College of Medicine in al-Anbar University and was a successful surgeon. http://www.bartella.com/forums/viewtopic.php?t=1831 http://www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2397

December 9

(Baghdad, Iraq)

Fawzi Soorish Luqa and Haitham Yousuf Saka

Two Assyrian Christians, Fawzi Soorish Luqa of ‘Ankawa, 43, and Haitham Yousuf Saka of Bartella, who owned a hall used for celebrations in Baghdad, were kidnapped from their place of business and murdered by an unidentified terrorist group. Sources: www.ankawa.com/cgi-bin/ikonboard/topic.cgi?forum=4&topic=2399 www.elaph.com/Politics/2004/12/27349.htm

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*Yasmin and Alaa’ Andrawis were cousins.