Security Incidents for Wednesday, June 27, 07

(1) Reuters is reporting the death of a U.S. soldier in Ad Diwaniyah south of Baghdad in Qadisiyah Province on Tuesday, June 26th. His patrol was apparently hit with roadside bombs and rocket propelled grenades by elements of the Mahdi Army.

(2) The DoD has announced a new death, not previously reported by CENTCOM. Sergeant Michael J. Montpetit, 31, of Honolulu, Hawaii, died of a non-hostile, unspecified cause in Baghdad on Friday, June 22nd. He was assigned to the 15th Forward Support Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division out of Fort Hood, TX.

(3) The Dod has announced a second new death today, not previously reported by CENTCOM: Private Henry G. Byrd III, 20, of Veguita, New Mexico. Byrd contracted or sustained some kind of illness on June 18th while in Iraq. He was medically evacuated to Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany where he died on Sunday, June 24th.

(4) the DoD has announced a third new death, also not previously reported by CENTCOM: Specialist Eric C. Palmer, 21, of Maize, Kansas. Palmer was severly injured in a small arms fire attack in Bayji, Iraq, on June 21st. He died on Sunday, June 24th, at the Landstuhl Regional Medical Center in Germany. Kansas station KAKE is reporting that Palmer was shot in the head while on a foot patrol. He was stabilized at the scene, then evacuated to Landstuhl and placed on life support, to no avail. Palmer was better known to his family and friends as "Eeker". He enlisted in the army after high school graduation in 2004.

(5) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Marine from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Tuesday, June 26th.

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Baghdad:
#1: A car bomb killed at least three people on Wednesday in an attack on police vehicles near a busy market in northern Baghdad, a witness said. Police said there had been an explosion in the Suleikh district, adding 10 people had been wounded. The witness told Reuters he had seen at least three badly burned bodies and two police vehicles ablaze.

#2: police said drive-by shootings killed one man and injured six others in Baghdad. The man was killed when unknown gunmen opened fire from another civilian car in a southwestern section of the capital, police said. His son who was riding with him was seriously wounded.

#3: police said gunmen opened fire on a minibus in western Baghdad, injuring five civilians including the driver. The victims were two Shi'ite men and their wives, heading to the Shi'ite holy city of Najaf, south of the capital, police said. The shooting took place in a predominantly Sunni Muslim neighbourhood.

#4: Four pedestrians were also wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in eastern Baghdad, in the commercial Palestine Street area, police said. The bomb had apparently targeted a US military convoy, but there was no word on any American casualties, they added.

#5: Iraqi journalist Hamed Sarhan, 57, was killed by gunmen in southern Baghdad, Iraq's press syndicate president Shehab al-Tamimi said Wednesday. Sarhan was shot dead Tuesday afternoon on his way home, al-Tamimi said.

#6: The bodies of 21 people were found in Baghdad on Tuesday. Most of victims were found in the western Karkh side of the Tigris river, police said.

#7: "A six-Hummer military force, backed by U.S. choppers, opened fire randomly on civilians near al-Tahzeeb police station in al-Kayara region, killing four and injuring four others," an eyewitness told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI), noting that no gunmen clashed with the force.

#8: A U.S. force raided an institute for disabled children affiliated to the Iraqi Ministry of Labor and Social Affairs in eastern Baghdad, leading the ministry to consider suing the force for violating Iraqi laws and sovereignty of the state, a source from the ministry said on Wednesday. The ministry condemned the raid on the institute, which is located on Baghdad's Palestine Street, considering it a blatant violation of international laws and conventions and the regulations governing Iraqi institutions, the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq

#9: A suicide car bomb targeting a police commando checkpoint killed one policeman and wounded three other officers in the al-Jaderiyia district of southern Baghdad, police said

#10: The Iraqi army have killed four insurgents and detained 85 others during the last 24 hours in different districts of Baghdad, the Defence Ministry said

#11: Police found 21 dead bodies all over Baghdad. 1 in Shuala, 1 in Hurriyah, 1 an Amil, 1 in Ghazaliyah, 5 in Bayaa, 1 in Saidiyah, 1 in Khadra, 1 in Doura, 1 in New Baghdad, 1 in Sadr, 6 in Fdhiliayh, 1 in Sleikh.

#12: A car bomb exploded near a busy square in a predominantly Shiite area in northern Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least 14 people and wounding 22, police officials said. The explosion occurred about 8:30 p.m. — about 90 minutes before a nightly curfew — as many people were out doing errands and buying ice cream on the square in Kazimiyah, according to the officials, who spoke on condition of anonymity because of security concerns. The 14 killed and 22 wounded included women and children, the officials said, adding that the glass was shattered in shops selling soft drinks and ice cream and other buildings.


Diyala Prv:
#1: Medical sources in Diyala province said that 19 people were killed and 28 wounded yesterday afternoon and evening after bombing the town with mortar shells. Governmental sources talked on the condition of anonymity said that attack started at 5 pm and ended at 7,00 pm. 41 mortar shells hit different neighborhoods of the town during the two hours.

Baquba:
#1: Gunmen have kidnapped eight Iraqi students near al-Muqdadiya in Baquba, the Association of Muslim Scholars said Wednesday. The gunmen stopped a mini-bus Tuesday and took the eight male students to an unidentified place, but left the female ones, the statement said.

Khalis:
#1: Governmental and partial sources in Khalis city denied the American claims about killing 17 gunmen in Khalis city. The sources said that the killed men are residents of Khalis town who joined the local committees to defend the town of Khalis from the attacks of the gunmen explaining that the men had joined the committees because of the lack of security forces

Muqdadiyah:
#1: A source in Diyala salvation council said that the residents of Wajihiyah village,one of the villages of Muqdadiyah town 25 Kms east of Baquba had defeated an attack implemented by gunmen from Qaida organization yesterday evening. The council said in a shot statement that about 50 gunmen led by Emad Jasim Shikhata, Salah Abdul Hasan Al Awsy and his brother Muthanna and Emad Ali Shalal raided the village from three sectors to break it in. the statement said that the people fo the village confronted the attack in clashes lasted for more than tow hours. A resident from the village (Qusai Najim Abid Al Timimi was killed and 3 others from the village were injured while at least 4 gunmen were killed.


Missan Prv:
#1: An Iraqi interpreter was killed and three British soldiers were injured in a traffic accident northeast of Missan, a military spokesman said on Wednesday. "The British soldiers were sent to a military hospital in Basra and their condition is stable," the Spokesman for the Multi-National forces in southern Iraq Major Matthew Bird told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq


Salman Pak:
#1: Six insurgents were killed when a British warplane bombed a building south of Baghdad following an attack on an Iraqi police checkpoint on Tuesday, the US military said. The Tornado fighter plane dropped a 2,000-pound (900-kilogram) bomb after insurgents attacked a police station and checkpoint near Salman Pak, southeast of Baghdad.
"After attacking the checkpoint, the insurgents entered a mosque and began firing on the checkpoint from the mosque's rooftop. The insurgents fled the mosque and entered the building which was later bombed," a US statement said. It said two US helicopters also responded to the attack launched by 30 rebels using machine guns and rocket launchers.


Al Zubair:
#1: Three gunmen stormed house of a member of the boarders’ guards in Al Marbad area in Al Zubair. The policeman was killed as he fought back the attackers and killed one of them.


Basra:
#1: the spokesman said also that a British patrol came under attack by gunmen in Basra."The forces started a shootout with unidentified gunmen," he added, noting that a British vehicle was damaged in the attack.

#2: The two British military bases in Basra were attacked by indirect fire in the past 24 hours without casualties," the major also said. The two British bases are located in the Basra international airport, 25 northwest of Basra, and in the former presidential palaces at the center of the city

#3: An Iraqi fisher man was killed and another was injured today. Colonel Abdul Kareem Al Zaidi, Basra police spokesman, said the two fishermen were in the Iraqi waters near Al Faw when Iranian guarding post shot them.


Samarra:
#1: A roadside bomb killed five Iraqi policemen on Wednesday north of Baghdad, and drive-by shootings killed one man and wounded six others in the capital, authorities said. After the bombing in Samarra, 95 kilometres north of Baghdad, police opened fire randomly on the area, killing one civilian and wounding two others, a hospital official said

A roadside bomb killed seven people, including five police commandoes in Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said, adding that two civilians were killed when security forces opened fire in the aftermath of the blast.

#3: Men in Iraq Ministry of Interior commandos uniforms executed a 60 year-old-man in front a his grocery shop in Mariam market in central Samara this afternoon. Shortly after, these men burned an apartment not far from the place after ordering the family that lives in it to leave and also burned three parked cars, a local police officer said.


Tikrit:
#1: Iraqi police found a head of a man with a hut of the Iraqi army. the head was found inside Tikrit bus station downtown Tikrit city early morning today

#2: A source in Tikrit education hospital said that the US troops delivered the hospital a body of a young man who was shot in his head and other parts of his body but the troops took back the body.

#3: An Iraqi army soldier was killed and his brother was injured when gunmen opened fire near Al Hliwa village (80 Kms east Tikrit )today morning.


Shirqat:
#1: Fourteen insurgents were killed when a truck they were rigging with explosives blew up overnight in the town of Shirqat, 310 km (190 miles) north of Baghdad, police said

1 man was killed and 4 others were wounded when a truck exploded in Al Jazeera area south of Mosul city last night. Another story about the same incident says that 10 gunmen were killed when a tank exploded while they were bombing it


Mosul:
#1: An athletic club in Mosul was badly damaged when gunmen planted bombs inside the building overnight, police said

#2: Five people were killed and three wounded in different attacks by gunmen on Tuesday in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

#3: Gunmen killed two members of the Assyrian's Beth-Nahrain Association Union in a drive-by shooting in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.


Gemen:
#1: Police patrols found an anonymous body near Gemen village north east Kirkuk early morning today. Police said that signs of bullets and torture were clear to be seen on the body.


Kirkuk:
#1: Four Iraqi policemen were killed in an ambush near the oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, when gunmen opened fire on their vehicles, police said.

#2: Around 2:30 p.m. Gunmen attacked Al Basheer city police station south of Kirkuk. 4 policemen were killed in the attack and one injured gunman was captured.


Al Anbar Prv:
#1: One Marine assigned to Multi National Force-West was killed June 26 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar Province.

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