Security Incidents for Monday, June 11, 07


(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - North soldier in a small arms fire attack in Diyala Province on Saturday, June 9th. In addition, one soldier was wounded in the incident.

(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier in combat in a southern neighborhood of Baghdad on Sunday, June 10th. One soldier was wounded in the same attack.

(3) MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of three U.S. soldiers and the wounding of six when a suicide car bomber detonated his load of explosives at the base of a support pillar under the overpass upon which their checkpoint was located. The attack happened about 6 miles east of Mahmudiyah in Babil Province on Sunday, June 10th. The Associated Press is carrying details of the attack and subsequent rescue of soldiers from the rubble of the collapsed overpass here.

(4) The Associated Press is reporting the death of a U.S. airman in a roadside bombing in southern Iraq on Sunday, June 10th. One other airman was wounded in the attack.


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Baghdad:
#1: The bodies of 16 people who had been shot dead were found in the mostly Sunni western Karkh part of Baghdad on Sunday, police said

#2: Around 3:00 p.m. a mortar shell slammed into Bayaa neighborhood injuring 4 civilians. The following incidents took place between for 4 p.m. and 8 p.m.

#3: More than one mortar shell landed in the Green Zone. Unknown casualties.

#4: A mortar shell landed in Zaiona neighborhood near an Iraqi army checkpoint. 3 Iraqi army soldiers were injured.

#5: An IED exploded in Al Wathiq square targeting civilians. The blast injured 3 civilians.

#6: Police found 17 dead bodies in Baghdad in the following neighborhoods today: 2 in Jihad, 3 in Amil, 4 in Bayaa, 2 in Kadhmiya , 3 in Saidiyah, 3 in Shuala

Diyala Prv:
Baqubah
#1: A suicide truck exploded on Al Sabtiya bridge north of Baqouba today. Eye witnesses said the blast caused parts of the bridge to collapse into the river. The bombing of this bridge will make the residents of the North eastern parts of the province take one route through the violent city of Baqouba to go to Baghdad, residents

Khalis:
#1: An IED exploded in the outskirts of Al Khalis city. The blast targeted an Iraqi army vehicle and 1 soldier was killed and 2 were injured.


Mahmoudiya:
#1: Three Coalition Force Soldiers were killed and six were wounded when the checkpoint they were manning was struck by a suicide car bomb south of Baghdad near Mahmoudiya June 10. An interpreter was also wounded in the attack, which destroyed part of a highway overpass.


Iskandariya:
#1: The local office of the Iraqi Islamic Party, the largest Sunni party in parliament, was badly damaged by a bomb on Sunday in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km south of Baghdad, police said


Basra:
#1: "The British forces arrested two suspects during a raid on al-Mudara neighborhood in northern Basra during the early hours of Monday morning," the spokeswoman told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "On its way back to the camp, the patrol came under indirect fire and was also targeted by an explosive device," Brown added, explaining that no casualties or damage to the British forces were reported.

#2: "Also, British bases in the former presidential palaces area in central Basra and the international airport, 25 km southwest of the city, came under indirect fire attack during the past 24 hours, but causing no casualties," the spokeswomen indicated.


Samarra:
#1: A roadside bomb targeting a police station killed two policemen and wounded three in Samarra, 100 km north of Baghdad, police said.


Tikrit:
#1: Meanwhile, the same source said that unidentified gunmen this morning kidnapped Major Ali Abdul Ghani, head of the nationality department of the police department, east of Tikrit, while on his way to work."The fate of the officer is still unknown," he noted.


Yuz Khurmato:
#1: Two suspected insurgents were killed while trying to plant a roadside bomb in the town of Tuz Khurmato, 70 km south of Kirkuk, police said


Hawija:
#1: Gunmen killed a man and wounded two others in a drive-by shooting in the town of Hawija, 70 km southwest of Kirkuk, police said.


Mosul:
#1: Gunmen ambushed the car of a senior official of Iraq's central bank and shot him and his two bodyguards dead in the restive northern city of Mosul on Monday, a police official said. Khair el-Deen Sabri Ahmed, the bank's general manager in Nineveh province, was shot dead by militants in Mosul's Al-Hadbaa neighbourhood while he was on his way to work, said police Brigadier General Mohammed al-Waggaa.

#2: Gunmen stormed into a house in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, killing four women and a man, police said.

#3: Waggaa said police also found two bullet-riddled bodies in Mosul, one of which was a policeman.


Tal Afar:
#1: Two people were killed and five wounded by a Katyusha rocket attack in the town of Tal Afar, 420 km north of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said


Al Anbar Prv:
Aana:
#1: Unknown persons planted a roadside explosive charge in al-Rihaniya village in southern Aana, which went off at 11:00 am while Marine patrols were passing by," an eyewitness told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq. According to the eyewitness, the explosion caused direct damage to a Hummer vehicle, which was completely destroyed, adding that casualties among the U.S. serviceman are likely to be significant.