Security Incidents for Monday, July 16, 2007

A man passes the scene of a bomb attack in Kirkuk, Iraq. Photograph: Slahaldeen Rasheed/Reuters

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(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) soldier in a roadside bomb attack near Baghdad on Saturday, July 14th.

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(2) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Task Force Lightning soldier in an explosion in Ninawa Province on Sunday, July 15th.

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(seventeen million more dollars shot to hell) An Air Force F-16 deployed to the 332nd Air Expeditionary Wing crashed on base during takeoff at 4:55 p.m. July 15. The pilot of the single-seat aircraft ejected safely and was transported to the Air Force Theater Hospital for evaluation. The aircraft was flying on a combat mission in support of Operation Iraqi Freedom, providing close air support to ground forces fighting anti-Iraq forces. The cause of the accident is under investigation

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Baghdad:
#1: a roadside bomb exploded as an Iraqi army patrol passed in the Boub al-Sham area on the city's north-east outskirts, killing five soldiers and wounding nine others, an army officer said.

#2: For the second day in a row, a car bomb hit the central district of Karradah. The blast went off near Masbah Square, killing one person, wounding three others and leaving nearby shops burned, a police official said

#3: On Sunday, 22 bullet-riddled bodies were found dumped in various locations of Baghdad

#4: Also, mortar shells hit a residential area in Abu Dhsir, a south Baghdad Shiite enclave surrounded by Sunni neighborhood. The attack killed three civilians and wounded six others, said another police official.

#5: AMERICAN troops today launched a new offensive south of Baghdad against insurgents, aiming to stem the constant attacks on the Iraqi capital. The new sweep, codenamed Marne Avalanche, is the latest part of the "surge" of 28,000 new US troops sent to Iraq this year.

#6: At least two people were wounded by two mortar rounds that hit a residential area in Baghdad's central district of Karrada, police said

#7: At least two policemen killed and seven other police wounded by a suicide car bomber near their checkpoint in the al-Harthiya neighbourhood of western Baghdad, police said.


Yusufiya:
#1: Three bodes found in Yusufiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. They were shot in the head.


Samarra:
#1: Five bodies shot in the head found in Samarra, 100 km north of Baghdad, police said


Kirkuk:
#1: At least 80 people were killed in two coordinated attacks in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk today, police said. A further 136 were wounded as a suicide bomber drove into a crowded market and a separate car bomb exploded on a busy street. A Reuters cameraman on the scene described the carnage after the blast at the market, located near an office of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan (PUK), the party of the Iraqi president, Jalal Talabani. The explosion scattered bodies across the market, set dozens of cars on fire and trapped passengers on a bus where they burned to death, the cameraman said. The car bomb exploded in a commercial area called Iskan, near shops and a bus garage, police said. the death toll was "very, very likely" to rise

#2: One police officer was killed and four other officers wounded by a car bomb in southern Kirkuk, police said.


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Fallujah:
#1: Two Iraqi policeman shot dead in an attack in the western city of Falluja. One other policeman was wounded and a gunman killed in the shooting, police said



Afghanistan:
#1: (update) The government deployed thousands of troops to restive areas of North West Frontier Province in recent days in hopes of stemming the backlash from the Red Mosque. But they failed to prevent weekend suicide attacks and bombings that killed a total of 73 people. On Sunday, two suicide bombers and a roadside bomb struck a military convoy near Swat, while a suicide bomber targeted scores of people taking exams for recruitment to the police in the city of Dera Ismail Khan. Dera Ismail Khan was put on high alert Monday, with police checking vehicles leaving and entering the city, said Gul Afzal Afridi, a senior police officer. Since the mosque siege began July 3, 105 people have died in militant attacks, almost all of them in the northwest, according to an Associated Press count compiled from official sources. Among them were 72 members of the security forces.

#2: A suicide bomber targeted a supply convoy for NATO-led troops in southern Afghanistan on Monday, killing a local guard and wounding four others. The bomber attacked the supply convoy in Gereshk district in Helmand province, said Mohammad Hussein, the provincial police chief. An Afghan guard was killed and four others were hurt.

#3: In neighbouring Nimroz province, police clashed with insurgents Sunday, leaving four militants dead, said Mohammad Doud Askeryar, Nimroz's police chief.

#4: In Zabul province, U.S.-led coalition and Afghan troops clashed with suspected insurgents inside several compounds in Shahjoy district early on Monday, the coalition said in a statement. "Several suspected militants died and one was detained," the coalition said. The compounds were "suspected of providing sanctuary to insurgents," it said.

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