Security Incidents for Monday, July 02, 07

(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier in a small arms fire attack that followed an improvised explosive device strike in a western neighborhood of Baghdad on Sunday, July 1st.

(2) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier in a small arms fire attack in a southern neighborhood of Baghdad on Sunday, July 1st.

(3) MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of two soldiers and one Marine from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Sunday, July 1st.

(4) The British Ministry of Defense has announced the death of a soldier from the 1st Battalion, The Worcestershire and Sherwood Foresters Regiment in Afghanistan on Saturday, June 30th. The soldier was part of a coalition force, including U.S. and Afghan troops, that engaged Taliban forces near the village of Qaleh-e-Gaz southwest of Sangin in Helmand Province. He was shot in the ensuing firefight.

(5) The British Ministry of Defense has announced the death of a soldier from 19th Regiment Royal Artillery in Afghanistan on Sunday, July 1st. As a British patrol was leaving a meeting in the town of Gereshk in Helmand Province, they were engaged by insurgents using small arms fire and RPGs. After the initial onslought, one of the British vehicles was hit by an explosion, injuring five soldiers in the vehicle, one fatally.

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Baghdad:
#1: A Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldier was killed in a small arms fire attack that followed an improvised explosive device strike targeting a joint combat patrol in a western section of the Iraqi capital July 1. Two Iraqi National Police officers were also wounded in the attack

#2: One Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldier was killed when a combat patrol was targeted with small arms fire in a southern section of the Iraqi capital July 1.

#3: Gunmen killed three Iraqi soldiers and one civilian when they attacked an Iraqi military checkpoint in eastern Baghdad on Sunday evening, police sources said. They said three people were wounded

#4: The Iraqi army also said it killed eight insurgents and arrested 99 others in the last 24 hours in other parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.


Diwaniya:
#1: A man was killed and two police guards were wounded during an exchange of fire between police guarding a government building and dozens of demonstrators protesting what they said was a pre-dawn U.S. air strike in the city of Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.


Basra:
#1: A group of gunmen attacked the joint coordination center in central Basra on Monday morning using light arms. “The joint coordination center in al-Hakimiya region in central Basra was attacked by light arms early on Monday and British forces responded,” the spokesman for the Multi-National Forces in southern Iraq Captain Maskeli told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). “The attack caused no casualties among the forces,” he added

#2: Meanwhile, the spokesman said that all British bases in Basra came under indirect fire during the past 24 hours without human or material damage resulting. Britain has two bases in Basra: the first at the former presidential palaces and the other at the Basra international Airport


Mishahda:
#1: Militants blew up a petrol station after they planted explosives around it on Sunday in the small Sunni town of Mishahda, north of Baghdad, police said. There were no casualties.


Hawija:
#1: Gunmen wounded three policemen when they attacked a police patrol in the town of Hawija, 70 km (40 miles) southwest of the city of Kirkuk, police said


Kirkuk:
#1: Gunmen killed the preacher of a Sunni mosque in the northern city of Kirkuk on Sunday, police said


Mosul:
#1: A roadside bomb killed a policeman and wounded four people, including two policemen, when it struck their patrol car in Mosul, police said.

#2: Gunmen killed a police colonel along with his driver on Sunday in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

#3: Another policeman was killed in a separate attack on Sunday in Mosul

#4: The Iraqi army killed 12 insurgents, including three al Qaeda members, during overnight raids near the northern city of Mosul, the army said. Troops found lethal roadside bombs called explosively formed penetrators, or EFPs, during the raid.



Al Anbar Prv:
#1: Two Soldiers and one Marine assigned to Multi National Force-West were killed July 1 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar Province.

Ramadi:
#1: A dump truck laden with explosives detonated on a bridge over the Euphrates River on Sunday, the latest in a series of attacks targeting Iraq's bridge network. The 3 p.m. suicide bombing damaged a large section of the bridge, which is along the main road north of Ramadi in the western province of Anbar. Two civilians were injured and evacuated to a hospital, according to U.S. military officials.



Afghanistan:
#1: (update) A recent air strike carried out by international troops deployed in the country at least killed 80 Afghan civilians in Gereshk district of Helmand province in southern Afghanistan, local police said Sunday. Foreign air forces bombarded a village Friday night in the district, where the troops said some Taliban militants were hiding, district deputy police chief Amanullah told Xinhua. "So far we have found 80 dead bodies of civilians including women and children," Amanullah said. "The civilian casualties may go on to rise as a search for dead bodies is continuing." The air strike also killed 35 Taliban fighters, he said.

#2: Unknown gunmen on Monday morning killed Syed Usman Hussaini, deputy chief of education department in Khost province of eastern Afghanistan, local officials said. Armed men opened fire toward a car carrying Hussaini in Yaqubi district, killing him and injuring one of his colleagues, district chief Gul Qasim Jihadyar told Xinhua.

#3: The NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) killed one Afghan civilian and injured three others in southern Afghanistan on Monday, a local doctor said. ISAF soldiers opened fire toward civilians at around 2 p.m. (0930 GMT) in Kandahar city, the capital of Kandahar province, doctor Azatullah from local Mirwais hospital said. One killed civilian and three injured were sent to the hospital, he added. He did not say why the soldiers opened fire

#4: A roadside bomb destroyed a police vehicle patrolling in a dangerous area of southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing all seven policemen inside, an official said. The police truck, a Ford Ranger, was traveling through the Zhari district of Kandahar province when the bomb exploded, said provincial police chief Fayed Agha Faqid.