Security Incidents for Wednesday, June 06, 07
Smoke rises from a burning oil pipeline after a bomb attack near Baiji, north of Baghdad, June 5, 2007. (Nuhad Hussin - /Reuters)
1) The DoD has also identified two more deaths, both from a roadside bomb that exploded in Baghdad on June 2nd:Sergeant Shawn E. Dressler, 22, of Santa Maria, CaliforniaPrivate 1st Class Joshua D. Brown, 26, of Tampa, FloridaDressler died on the 2nd; Brown died from his wounds the following day, June 3rd, and so is likely a new death, not previously announced by CENTCOM. Both men were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment (1st Infantry Division), and were thought to be operating in a southwestern part of Baghdad. Dressler could very well be one of the IED deaths in "western Baghdad" on the 2nd.According to an article in the Lompoc (California) Record, Dressler attended Santa Maria High School from 1998 to 2002 where he was active in Future Farmers of America, taking basic through advanced agricultural mechanics classes. He apparently enlisted in the army right after graduation and returned to the school for a visit two years ago, at which point he had already served one tour of duty in Iraq. Dressler reportedly married within the past year.
Smoke rises from a burning oil pipeline after a bomb attack near Baiji, north of Baghdad, June 5, 2007. (Nuhad Hussin - /Reuters)
1) The DoD has also identified two more deaths, both from a roadside bomb that exploded in Baghdad on June 2nd:Sergeant Shawn E. Dressler, 22, of Santa Maria, CaliforniaPrivate 1st Class Joshua D. Brown, 26, of Tampa, FloridaDressler died on the 2nd; Brown died from his wounds the following day, June 3rd, and so is likely a new death, not previously announced by CENTCOM. Both men were assigned to the 1st Battalion, 18th Infantry Regiment (1st Infantry Division), and were thought to be operating in a southwestern part of Baghdad. Dressler could very well be one of the IED deaths in "western Baghdad" on the 2nd.According to an article in the Lompoc (California) Record, Dressler attended Santa Maria High School from 1998 to 2002 where he was active in Future Farmers of America, taking basic through advanced agricultural mechanics classes. He apparently enlisted in the army right after graduation and returned to the school for a visit two years ago, at which point he had already served one tour of duty in Iraq. Dressler reportedly married within the past year.
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(2) An ISAF soldier died in Regional Command East during an engagement with enemy fighters. “Our thoughts are with the family, friends and colleagues of the soldier who died today securing a better future for the people of Afghanistan,” said ISAF spokesperson Lt. Col. Angela Billings.
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(3) Two ISAF soldiers were killed in separate engagements with enemy fighters today in southern Afghanistan. “Our thoughts are with the family and friends of these two soldiers who died while trying to ensure a brighter future for Afghanistan," said ISAF Lt. Col. Michael Smith, Regional Command South spokesperson
(4) A Multinational Division-North Soldier died of wounds sustained from enemy gunfire in Diyala Province, Tuesday.
(5) One Task Force Lightning Soldier was killed as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion while conducting operations in Diyala Province, June 6. One Soldier was also wounded and transported to a Coalition medical facility for treatment.
(4) A Multinational Division-North Soldier died of wounds sustained from enemy gunfire in Diyala Province, Tuesday.
(5) One Task Force Lightning Soldier was killed as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion while conducting operations in Diyala Province, June 6. One Soldier was also wounded and transported to a Coalition medical facility for treatment.
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(6) One 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) Soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device at approximately 5 p.m. June 6 while executing a combat logistics patrol in the vicinity of Bayji, Iraq.
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(7) A Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldier was killed when a roadside bomb detonated during combat operations in an eastern section of the Iraqi capital June 6. One other Soldier was wounded in the attack.
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Baghdad:
#1: Car bombings shook the streets leading to Baghdad's most revered Shiite Muslim shrine on Wednesday, and police reported at least seven people killed and 27 others wounded. The simultaneous blasts at two key intersections in the Kazimiyah district were the latest blows in an unending series of apparent attacks by Sunni extremists bent on terrorizing Iraq's Shiite majority and inflaming hostilities between the two sects.
Diyala Prv:
Baquba:
#1: Northeast of Baghdad, in several sections of the violence-wracked city of Baqouba, Iraqi troops and U.S. helicopter gunships were reported attacking Sunni militants of the group al-Qaida in Iraq. A medical source said the bodies of eight gunmen were brought to the hospital. The U.S. military said it was looking into the report
Khalis:
#1: Moreover, six policemen were killed and eight others wounded when a gunmen attacked Khales Police station in Diyala Province
Najaf:
#1: In southern Iraq, three gunmen in a speeding automobile shot and killed a junior aide to the country's pre-eminent Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, police and a member of the ayatollah's office. Sheik Raheem al-Hasnawi, al-Sistani's representative in the al-Mishkhab area, 20 miles south of the southern Shiite shrine city of Najaf, was killed around 11 p.m. Tuesday near his home on the north side of Najaf, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns.
Baiji:
#1: In the city of Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, Maj. Enad Khattab, a Beiji police director, was shot dead along with his brother at about 10 p.m. Tuesday as they drove in central Beiji, a local police officer reported. He spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns.
Mosul:
#1: In Iskan District, a roadside bomb targeting a US patrol in Mosul wounded four civilians.
#2: One police officer was killed and another wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Afghanistan:
#1: An ISAF soldier died in Regional Command East during an engagement with enemy fighters. “Our thoughts are with the family, friends and colleagues of the soldier who died today securing a better future for the people of Afghanistan,” said ISAF spokesperson Lt. Col. Angela Billings.
#2: Two ISAF soldiers were killed in separate engagements with enemy fighters today in southern Afghanistan. “Our thoughts are with the family and friends of these two soldiers who died while trying to ensure a brighter future for Afghanistan," said ISAF Lt. Col. Michael Smith, Regional Command South spokesperson
In the central province of Uruzgan, militants attacked U.S.-led troops and Afghan forces in the Khas Uruzgan district on Tuesday, a statement from the U.S.-led coalition said. Two suspected militants were found dead after the clash and nine "enemy fighters" were detained, it said. Troops also recovered weapons and ammunition from the compound. Two of the 10 were apprehended while trying to flee with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and three grenades
#3: Gunmen shot dead an outspoken female journalist in northern Afghanistan, five days after another female reporter was killed in a similar incident, officials said on Wednesday. Zakia Zaki, headmistress of a girls school in Parwan province and owner of a private radio station called Radio Sulh (Radio Peace), was fatally shot by three unknown gunmen who broke into her house on Tuesday night, Parwan provincial governor Abdul Jabar Takwa told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. "A group of three unknown armed men entered her house in Jabalsaraj city and shot her seven times in her back, head, chest and feet," Takwa said, adding the gunmen escaped from the area before a police unit arrived at the scene.
#4: A senior official in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) was gunned down outside his home Tuesday by unknown assailants. Two gunmen on foot shot Mehdi Hussain, 55, spokesman and director of information for the NWFP government, several times in the head and chest as he walked towards his car in the provincial capital city of Peshawar.
#5: A roadside bombing killed a district police chief in Paktika province of eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday morning, provincial governor Akram Khapalwak told Xinhua. A bomb struck a vehicle carrying the police chief of Yahya Khil district, killing him on the spot, the governor said. He said the vehicle was totally damaged and blamed militants for planting the bomb.
Baghdad:
#1: Car bombings shook the streets leading to Baghdad's most revered Shiite Muslim shrine on Wednesday, and police reported at least seven people killed and 27 others wounded. The simultaneous blasts at two key intersections in the Kazimiyah district were the latest blows in an unending series of apparent attacks by Sunni extremists bent on terrorizing Iraq's Shiite majority and inflaming hostilities between the two sects.
Diyala Prv:
Baquba:
#1: Northeast of Baghdad, in several sections of the violence-wracked city of Baqouba, Iraqi troops and U.S. helicopter gunships were reported attacking Sunni militants of the group al-Qaida in Iraq. A medical source said the bodies of eight gunmen were brought to the hospital. The U.S. military said it was looking into the report
Khalis:
#1: Moreover, six policemen were killed and eight others wounded when a gunmen attacked Khales Police station in Diyala Province
Najaf:
#1: In southern Iraq, three gunmen in a speeding automobile shot and killed a junior aide to the country's pre-eminent Shiite Muslim cleric, Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, police and a member of the ayatollah's office. Sheik Raheem al-Hasnawi, al-Sistani's representative in the al-Mishkhab area, 20 miles south of the southern Shiite shrine city of Najaf, was killed around 11 p.m. Tuesday near his home on the north side of Najaf, said the sources, who spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns.
Baiji:
#1: In the city of Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, Maj. Enad Khattab, a Beiji police director, was shot dead along with his brother at about 10 p.m. Tuesday as they drove in central Beiji, a local police officer reported. He spoke on condition of anonymity out of security concerns.
Mosul:
#1: In Iskan District, a roadside bomb targeting a US patrol in Mosul wounded four civilians.
#2: One police officer was killed and another wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Afghanistan:
#1: An ISAF soldier died in Regional Command East during an engagement with enemy fighters. “Our thoughts are with the family, friends and colleagues of the soldier who died today securing a better future for the people of Afghanistan,” said ISAF spokesperson Lt. Col. Angela Billings.
#2: Two ISAF soldiers were killed in separate engagements with enemy fighters today in southern Afghanistan. “Our thoughts are with the family and friends of these two soldiers who died while trying to ensure a brighter future for Afghanistan," said ISAF Lt. Col. Michael Smith, Regional Command South spokesperson
In the central province of Uruzgan, militants attacked U.S.-led troops and Afghan forces in the Khas Uruzgan district on Tuesday, a statement from the U.S.-led coalition said. Two suspected militants were found dead after the clash and nine "enemy fighters" were detained, it said. Troops also recovered weapons and ammunition from the compound. Two of the 10 were apprehended while trying to flee with a rocket-propelled grenade launcher and three grenades
#3: Gunmen shot dead an outspoken female journalist in northern Afghanistan, five days after another female reporter was killed in a similar incident, officials said on Wednesday. Zakia Zaki, headmistress of a girls school in Parwan province and owner of a private radio station called Radio Sulh (Radio Peace), was fatally shot by three unknown gunmen who broke into her house on Tuesday night, Parwan provincial governor Abdul Jabar Takwa told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. "A group of three unknown armed men entered her house in Jabalsaraj city and shot her seven times in her back, head, chest and feet," Takwa said, adding the gunmen escaped from the area before a police unit arrived at the scene.
#4: A senior official in Pakistan’s North-West Frontier Province (NWFP) was gunned down outside his home Tuesday by unknown assailants. Two gunmen on foot shot Mehdi Hussain, 55, spokesman and director of information for the NWFP government, several times in the head and chest as he walked towards his car in the provincial capital city of Peshawar.
#5: A roadside bombing killed a district police chief in Paktika province of eastern Afghanistan on Wednesday morning, provincial governor Akram Khapalwak told Xinhua. A bomb struck a vehicle carrying the police chief of Yahya Khil district, killing him on the spot, the governor said. He said the vehicle was totally damaged and blamed militants for planting the bomb.
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