Security Incidents for 04/06/07

Security Incidents for 04/06/07

PHOTO: An Iraqi man prays outside his tent at a camp for displaced people in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, 06 April 2007. A suicide bomber targeting a police station has exploded his truck full of chlorine gas in a residential area, killing 27 people in the biggest chemical attack by insurgents in Iraq since the invasion.(AFP/Mujahed Mohammed)

Baghdad:

The deputy director of Baghdad Satellite Television station was killed and 12 other employees were wounded in a suicide truck bomb attack on the channel's premises in the capital, the Committee to Protect Journalists (CPJ) said on Friday.

A sniper killed two people in the Amil district in southwestern Baghdad, the Interior Ministry said.

A mortar bomb killed one person in the Talibiya district in northeastern Baghdad, police said.

Two people were killed and five were wounded when three mortar bombs landed in Baghdad's northern Shaab district, police said

Gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi national police patrol, wounding three policemen in Doura district in southern Baghdad, police said.

- Around 10 am, a roadside bomb exploded in Al-Saidiyah, west Baghdad, (Tijari street) damaging two civilian cars.

- Around 11 am, a roadside bomb in Al-Saidiyah, west Baghdad, (the main road) injured two civilians.

- At noon, gunmen attacked a police patrol without casualties.

- Around 1 pm, a roadside bomb targeted an American patrol in Al-dawlay (Hurriya neighborhood) (north Baghdad) without knowing the casualties.

- Around mid-day a mortar shelling hit the area near Al-Nisour square (near Al-Mansour neighborhood), injuring 4 civilians.

- Around 2 pm, a mortar shelling targeted Al-Shurta Al-Khamsa (west Baghdad), injuring 1 civilian.

- Around 3 pm, a mortar shelling hit Al-Mahmoudiya district (south of Baghdad), injuring 1 civilian.

- Around 4 pm, three Iraqi soldiers were killed in Shulaa when gunmen attacked them near a checkpoint in the area.

- Around 5 pm, a civilian was killed by an American patrol in Al-Adhamiya neighborhood (north Baghdad) without knowing the reason behind that incident.

- Around 5 pm a chief engineer in Al-Rashid municipality was assassinated near his house in Al-Saidiya neighborhood (west Baghdad).

- 11 unidentified corpses were found in Baghdad: West of the Tigris: 2 in Abu Ghraib, 2 in Bayaa, 2 in Amil, 1 in Mansour,1 in Hurriyah, 1 in Mahmoudiya, 1 in Yarmouk. East of the Tigris: 1 in Sadr City.

- Iraqi security forces raided the office of Mohammed al-Daini, a parliament member with the Sunni Iraqi Front for National Dialogue, in Baghdad's Qadissiya district. Daini said between 25 to 30 employees were arrested.

Diyala Prv:

A Task Force Lightning Soldier was killed Thursday when an improvised explosive device exploded near his vehicle in Diyala Province. Two other Soldiers were also wounded in the attack and were taken to a Coalition Forces’ medical treatment facility.

- Yesterday night, gunmen killed an Iraqi officer of the border guards and injured two of his body guards near Khanqeen, near the Iranian border, as he was going back home. The major was a Kurdish official of PUK (Patriot Union of Kurdstan) and a former member of Peshmerga.

- During a raid by joint U.S.-Iraqi forces in north Baqouba (Suaamra, Jubainat and Ameen) soldiers found some terrorist hiding places, some weapons and captured several leaders. The American source also added that the cell members who exploded a car bomb in Hiwayder town are with them in addition to a fugitive policeman who was wanted for killing 15 policemen through his cooperation with terrorist groups.

- At dawn, Sunni extremists were seized in one of Bani Saad villages for last summer's explosion at the Mustafe mosque which sparked sectarian fighting.

- Late Thursday, two men who committed many crimes in Baghdad and Diyala were in custody of AL-Khalis emergency forces.

- At dawn, a squad from the Iraqi army and some tribes (Shimar Sikook tribe) rescued four officers who'd been abducted by Sunni insurgent groups in Hamadat and Bani Zaid villages south of Kinaan.

- Two bodies were delivered to the morgue of Baqouba hospital (one from Baquba and the second from Muqdadiya).

- Around 5 pm, two terrorists were killed and their car was burned when a clash took place between them and a police patrol in Al-Muradiya village (in Bani Saad).

Diwaniya:

Elsewhere, police said clashes had erupted between US and Iraqi forces and fighters from the Shia Mehdi Army militia in the city of Diwaniya. A number of American vehicles have been destroyed in the fighting, police sources told the BBC. Police and Shia militia sources in Diwaniya said a large American force had launched an offensive in areas in the centre of the city where there is a strong presence of the Mehdi Army, the militia loyal to the radical cleric, Moqtada Sadr. Heavy fighting was reported, with casualties among civilians as well as combatants.

At least one man was killed and four others wounded in violent clashes Friday between joint Iraq- US forces and unidentified gunmen Iraqi city of Diwaniya, south of Baghdad, news reports said.

Lt. Col. Scott Bleichwehl, a U.S. military spokesman, said between three and six militia fighters had been killed, eight were wounded and five detained. There were no reports of civilian casualties in the assault on Diwaniyah, code-named "Operation Black Eagle," he said.

Dr. Hameed Jaafi, the director of Diwaniyah Health Directorate, said an American helicopter fire on a house in the Askari neighborhood, seriously wounding 12 people at the start of the early morning assault. Initial U.S. military accounts of the fighting did not include airstrikes.

In Diwaniya, 180 kilometres south of Baghdad, at least 30 men were killed and many others wounded in clashes on Friday between joint Iraqi-US forces and Shiite Mahdi Army militants, pan-Arab news broadcaster al-Jazeera reported.

Hilla:

Sheikh Karim Omran al-Shafi, a tribal leader, was seriously wounded when gunmen opened fire on his vehicle in the Shi'ite city of Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, police said

Basra:

British forces wounded a gunman in northern Basra

Two British bases two British bases came under random fire attacks but no casualties were reported, a military spokeswoman said on Friday.

Camp Cropper:

A security detainee died April 4 at Camp Cropper, Iraq. The detainee was pronounced dead at 11:53 on April 4 by an attending physician at Camp Cropper’s medical facility. An investigation is pending to determine the cause of death, a standard procedure for detainees who die while in custody of the Multi-National Force

Kirkuk:

A shepherd was wounded by a landmine in a rural area south of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said

Unidentified men bombed an Iraqi oil pipeline in southern Kirkuk on Friday morning, setting the oil installation ablaze, a security source in the Iraqi police said. "The pipeline, which carries oil from Kirkuk to the Baiji refineries and is near the main road linking Kirkuk to the district of al-Huweija, was blown up with an explosive charge, causing a thick blaze firefighters are trying to control," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq

A Task Force Lightning Soldier was killed by gunfire Thursday in Kirkuk Province. One other Soldier was also wounded in the incident and was taken to a Coalition Forces’ medical treatment facility.

A roadside bomb exploded in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, wounding three civilians, police said.

A roadside bomb also exploded near the law college in the city centre, wounding three civilians, police said

Hawija:

Another device that went off near a police patrol in central Huweija district wounded four policemen, an official security source said on Friday.

- Early morning, 9 students were killed in their mini bus in Hawija twown when gunmen opened fire on the bus of 13 passengers who were going for the technical institute in Kirkuk.

Mosul:

A tribal chief was killed when a unidentified gunmen opened fire at him after finishing the Friday prayers in Mosul

A booby-trapped car went off on Friday night in al-Tahrir neighborhood in eastern Mosul, 402 m north of Baghdad, a police source said. "A car bomb was exploded in al-Tahrir neighborhood in eastern Mosul near to Al al-Beit mosque, targeting an Iraqi military division," director of operations room in Ninewa police department Brigadier Abdul Karim al-Juburi told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). Ambulances rushed to the blast scene, he added, noting that no word was available on casualties.

Tal Afar:

Four bodies, including that of a child, were found in Tal Afar, about 420 km (260) miles northwest of Baghdad, police said.

Al Anbar Prv:

A suicide car bomber hit a police checkpoint Friday in western Ramadi, killing at least 20 people, two of them policemen, and wounding as many as 30, police in the Anbar provincial capital. Police opened fire as the suicide bomber sped toward a checkpoint, three miles west

A suicide bomber driving a truck loaded with TNT and toxic chlorine gas crashed into a police checkpoint in western Ramadi on Friday, killing at least 27 people and wounding dozens, police in the Anbar provincial capital said.

A roadside bomb went off near a minibus carrying a family on a main road near the Amriyat al-Fallujah town, 7 km south of Fallujah City, killing seven family members and wounding two others, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. Two women and three children were among the deaths, the source said.

In separate incident, another roadside bomb detonated near a minibus in the Albu Hatim area just west of Fallujah, some 50 km west of Baghdad, wounding seven people, the source added.

In Country:

The DoD has announced the death of Private 1st Class James J. Coon, 22, of Walnut Creek, California, in Iraq. According to the release, Coon died on Wednesday, April 4th, in Balad, Salah ad Din Province, from wounds suffered when a roadside bomb hit his vehicle. However, he could have been wounded elsewhere and could have been in the process of being airlifted out of the country. His unit, the 1st Battalion, 8th Cavalry, had lost a man (Pfc. Gabriel Figueroa) the day before, April 3rd, from small arms fire in east Baghdad.

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