Security Incidents for Friday, June 22, 07

(1) CENTCOM is reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier "during combat operations" in a southwestern neighborhood of Baghdad on Thursday, June 21st.

(2) Army Sergeant Frank Sandoval is now officially dead. According to a report in the San Jose (California) Mercury News, he had been admitted to the Vet's Administration Hospital in Palo Alto, CA, for surgery to install a prosthetic cover over a hole in his skull caused by a piece of shrapnel that hit him in November 2005 in Baghdad. He never awoke from the surgery and doctors declared him brain dead on Monday, June 18th. It was his family's wish that all possible organs be donated. However, Sandoval had a rare blood type, B Pos. So it took a few extra days to line up potential recipients for his organs, during which time Sandoval was kept on a ventilator. Finally, on Wednesday night, June 20th, the ventilator was removed and six major organs, including his heart, were recovered for transplantation.

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The casket of an American soldier killed in Iraq is carried out by military honor guard in Tipton, Iowa, United States, May 2007. Fourteen US soldiers have been killed in two days of fighting, the military has announced, as US-led troops continued to press simultaneous offensives in and around Baghdad.(AFP/Getty Images/File/Scott Morgan)


Baghdad:
#1: A Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldier was killed during combat operations in a southwestern section of the Iraqi capital June 21.

#2: One policeman was killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb hidden near a body lying in the street in Karrada in central Baghdad on Thursday, police said. Police had gone to investigate the body when the bomb exploded.


Diyala Prv:
Khalis:
#1: US helicopters armed with missiles killed 17 suspected insurgents gunmen in the province of Diyala on Friday where thousands of troops have launched a crackdown on the terror group, the military said. It said the assault took place when US helicopters observed 15 armed men trying to enter the town of Khalis by circumventing Iraqi police.


Basra:
#1: A British soldier has been seriously injured in a roadside bombing in Basra. The blast hit a military convoy in the vicinity of the American and British consulates in the centre of the southern Iraqi city. The Bulldog vehicle had been returning from a routine patrol at around 6.30am when the attack occurred.


Kirkuk:
#1: The Kirkuk police received information on a Katyusha missile that fell near stores and al-Shurjah fuel station in central Kirkuk on Friday morning, wounding three civilians, who were already rushed to a hospital," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq

#2: Another civilian was wounded when an explosive device went off near a clinic in al-Nasr neighborhood, eastern Kirkuk, the source said.


Hawija:
#1: "An explosive charge went off near a civilian vehicle at the district of al-Huweija during the early hours of Friday, wounding the driver and causing severe damage to the vehicle," the source added. Huweija lies 70 km southwest of Kirkuk and 210 km north of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.

#2: Meanwhile, the same source said unidentified gunmen detonated the court of appeal building in Huweija with two explosive charges, causing severe damage to the building but left no casualties.


Al Anbar Prv:
Falluiah:
#1: A suicide bomber killed two people and wounded four when he blew himself up in a telecommunications office in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

#2: Four people were killed and 48 wounded in an explosion on Thursday evening in a shop in Falluja, police said.

Al Baghdadi:
#1: A suicide bomber crashed his vehicle into a police station in the city of al-Boghdadi in the Sunni Anbar province on Friday, killing 20 policemen and wounding 10 others, local residents said. "The bomber managed to go pass a first checkpoint of the police station and blew up his vehicle at the second one," an eyewitness told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq




Afghanistan:
#1: Suspected Taliban militants attacked police posts in southern Afghanistan, sparking clashes and NATO air strikes that left 25 civilians and 20 militants dead Friday. The militants attacked police and used civilian houses for cover in Gereshk district of Helmand province late Thursday, said Mohammad Hussein Andiwal, provincial police chief. NATO responded by calling in air strikes, which killed 20 suspected militants, but also 25 civilians, including nine women, three babies and the mullah of a local mosque, he said.
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#2: Suspected Taliban militants attacked a police patrol in eastern Afghanistan, killing three officers and wounding another. The assailants fired two rocket-propelled grenades in Nangarhar province's Chaparhar district late Thursday, hitting and destroying one police vehicle, said the provincial governor's spokesman, Noor Agha Zuwak. Three policemen were killed and another was wounded, Agha said.


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