Security Incidents for Saturday, June 09, 07


MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Task Force Lightning soldier in a small arms fire attack in Diyala Province on Saturday, June 9th.

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Baghdad:
#1: The car bombing, which occurred about 9 a.m. in Baghdad's northeastern neighborhood of Shaab, killed one Interior Ministry commando and a pedestrian, while six commandos and a pedestrian were wounded, police said.

#2: In Zafaraniyah in southern Baghdad, three people were wounded by a roadside bomb aimed at a police patrol, a medic at Ibn Nafis hospital said.

#3: gunmen in a speeding car opened fire on police on a foot patrol, killing one officer and wounding another, a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because he could also become a target

#4: An armed group blew up the Sunni Fatah-Basha mosque in Bayaa in southern Baghdad on Friday, police said. There were no casualties

#5: The bodies of seven people were found in different areas of Baghdad on Friday, the Interior Ministry said.

#7: Six civilian internees were killed and at least 50 more were injured as the result of an indirect fire attack on the Multi-National Force-Iraq Theater Internment Facility at Camp Bucca today. No U.S. service members were killed or injured.

#8: Four people were killed and seven others wounded when an explosive device went off in al-Baladiyat area, eastern Baghdad, the Iraqi police said on Saturday. "The explosive charge went off near a bus carrying civilian passengers in al-Baladiyat intersection," a police source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq


Diyala Prv:
#1: One Task Force Lightning Soldier was killed as a result of injuries sustained from small arms fire while conducting operations in Diyala Province, June 9. The name of the deceased is being withheld pending next of kin notification and release by the Department of Defense

Kanaan:
#1: Late Friday, gunmen ambushed a car and killed five members of a family on the main road near Kanan, located in the restive Diyala province, northeast of Baghdad, police Lieutenant Ahmed Ali said. The dead included a woman

Muqdadiya:
#1: Iraqi security forces clashed on Saturday morning with fighters loyal to the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr in Muqdadiya district, 100 km northeast of Baghdad, said a security source describing the clashes as "fierce." "Fierce clashes erupted this morning between police and army forces on the one hand and Mahdi army fighters on the other in the centre of Muqdadiya district," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The source added "the clashes left casualties that so far have not been counted."

Baquba:
#1: U.S. helicopters fired Hellfire missiles at a Shi'ite mosque in the volatile city of Baquba, north of Baghdad, after troops came under machinegun and rocket-propelled grenade fire from gunmen inside the building, the U.S. military said. It gave no casualty figures


Iskandariyah:
#1: A suicide bomber driving a tanker truck struck an Iraqi army checkpoint outside the capital on Saturday, killing at least 13 soldiers in the deadliest of a series of attacks against Iraqi forces as they try to take over their country's security. The explosion that killed the Iraqi soldiers happened near the gate of the army unit's headquarters in Iskandariyah, 30 miles south of the capital, provincial police spokesman Capt. Muthanna Khalid said, adding that 30 other people were wounded.


Basra:
#1: British warplanes and copters bombed, over night and today at dawn, al-Jumhoriyah neighborhood, central Basra, and neighborhoods of al-Asdiqaa and Guizaizah in northern Basra, with cluster and stun bombs, local residents from different parts of Basra told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq

#2: Meanwhile, the Multi-National Forces in southern Iraq said in a statement on Saturday that British bases in Basra came over night under indirect fire attack and the Multi-National forces targeted the sites from which the attacks against the camps were launched.

#3: Meanwhile, the statement said "a civilian car collided with a British vehicle convey in Basra. The driver was wounded and sent to a nearby hospital."

#4: The statement also added "the British base at Basra international airport, 25 km northwest of Basra, was attacked with three rockets over night." The statement did not indicate whether there were casualties or damage due to the attack. Basra is 550 km south of the Iraqi capital Baghdad.


Samarra:
#1: Three people were killed and seven wounded in a mortar attack in a residential area of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, on Friday, the Interior Ministry said


Mosul:
#1: Seven people were killed in clashes between two groups of gunmen in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, on Friday, police said.

#2: One policeman was killed and another wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol in central Mosul on Friday, police said.


Kirkuk:
#1: Police said they found the bodies of three Iraqi soldiers -- shot, bound and tortured -- in southeastern Kirkuk.


Al Anbar Prv:
Fallujah:
#1: In a raid southeast of Fallujah, the former rebel town in the western province of Anbar, US troops targeted a weapons distributor for the Al Qaeda in Iraq network. “As they approached the area, five men in the front yard reached for weapons. Responding appropriately to the hostile threat, coalition forces engaged the armed men, including the suspected distributor killing them,” a military statement said. An Iraqi boy was wounded in the firefight, the military said. The military announced the death of one more militant in a similar raid but did not specify when the raid was conducted.

#2: Meanwhile, the same source said three unidentified mortar shells had been dropped on two residential houses in the al-Mualimeen neighborhood, central Falluja, on Saturday, causing damage but no casualties.The attack probably targeted a U.S. base in the area, the source added.

Saqlawiya:
#1: An explosive device went off near an Iraqi police patrol, wounding four policemen and destroying a military vehicle in the district of al-Saqlawiya, a police source in the Sunni Anbar province said on Sunday.


Afghanistan:
#1: A two-hour gunbattle left several Taliban and al-Qaida militants dead in southern Afghanistan early Saturday, officials said. Troops from the U.S.-led coalition and Afghan forces were approaching two separate compounds in Zabul province where the militants were thought to live when they came under attack with gunfire and rocket-propelled grenades from a nearby hill, a coalition statement said. "Their entire fighting force on that hill was wiped out," Maj. Chris Belcher, a coalition spokesman, said of the attackers. Five militants were detained and a cache of weapons was destroyed. The coalition did not say how many militants were killed.

#2: Four Afghan civilians were killed Friday when their vehicle and an ISAF military truck collided, NATO's International Security Assistance Force said. Seven Afghan and two ISAF soldiers were injured. ISAF said a taxi with 11 people in it drove toward the military convoy "at a high rate of speed," and when the taxi tried to slow down, the driver lost control and crashed into the front of a military truck.

#3: Elsewhere, a roadside bomb in Laghman province killed a policeman and wounded three Friday evening, said provincial police chief Abdul Karim.

#4: Suspected militants in Pakistan's tribal area have shot dead a man accused of spying for US forces operating in neighboring Afghanistan. The body of 30-year-old Rahim Khan was found late Friday near the village of Alikhel, 12 kilometers west of Miranshah, the main town in North Waziristan, a security official told AFP. He had been shot in the head and chest. A note found near his body reads that he was an "American spy and has met his fate", the official said.