Security Incidents for Monday, July 23, 2007

(1) The British Ministry of Defense is announcing the death of a 2nd Royal Tank Regiment soldier when the Basra Palace base in central Basra came under indirect fire attack on Saturday, July 21st.

(2) NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier in a small arms fire attack in the Darrah-ye Pech District of Kunar Province, Afghanistan, on Sunday, July 22nd. As the bulk of NATO troops in that area are American, the dead soldier is likely American.

(3) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Multi-National Corps - Iraq soldier in a roadside bombing in Baghdad on Saturday, July 21st.

(4) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the death of a Task Force Marne soldier in an improvised explosive device attack on Sunday, July 22nd. We assume the death took place south of Baghdad where Task Force Marne is currently operating.

(5) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) soldier in a roadside bombing south of Samarra in Salah ad Din Province on Saturday, July 21st. Two other soldiers were wounded in the blast.

(6) Reuters AlertNet is reporting the death of a Norwegian special forces soldier in a shootout with insurgents in Lowgar Province in central Afghanistan on Monday, July 23rd. This is the second Norwegian death since the current war in Afghanistan began.
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Baghdad:
#1: One MNC-I Soldier was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated next to his vehicle during combat operations in Baghdad Saturday

#2: A soldier with Task Force Marne, which operates south of Baghdad, died of wounds sustained in a roadside bombing yesterday, according to a statement

#3: Three parked cars exploded in a predominantly Shiite area in Baghdad on Monday, killing at least 12 people and wounding 19, police said. The first explosion, which occurred about 11 a.m., targeted a passing police patrol, killing six people _ three policemen and three pedestrians _ and wounding nine other people, a police officer said. At least seven cars also were damaged in the blast, which struck near the Interior Ministry's nationality and social affairs directorate and the 14th of July bridge in Karradah, he added.#4: Another parked car bomb about 500 yards away struck at about the same time, ripping through a bustling market of vegetables and household goods, killing three civilians and wounding five others, the policeman added.

#5: one Iraqi was killed and two wounded when an explosive planted in a football field in the Wahda district in Baghdad detonated, Voices of Iraq reported.

#6: Another car packed with explosives struck a police patrol in Elway square at about 11:30 a.m. in another part of Karradah, killing two policemen and a civilian and wounding five people, police said.

Three people were killed, including two policemen, and five others were wounded when a car bomb exploded near a police patrol in al-Wathiq square in central Baghdad, police said

#7: A bomb planted inside a minibus killed one person and wounded seven others in central Baghdad, police said

#8: Four people died and six others were wounded when a car bomb exploded at lunchtime outside Seerwan, Baghdad's most popular kebab restaurant, in a district next to the heavily fortified Green Zone.

Another car packed with explosives blew up on the main road about 200 yards from an entry point to the U.S.-controlled Green Zone, killing at least four Iraqis and wounding seven, a police officer said, speaking on condition of anonymity because of security concerns. The heavily fortified Green Zone is home to the U.S. and British embassies as well as Iraqi government offices and thousands of American troops and contractors

#9: The US military meanwhile said at least nine suspected militants were killed and more than a dozen captured in raids across Iraq on Monday.

#10: Also Monday, Iraqi police patrols found in the street the corpse of the police chief of Bayaa in southern Baghdad, who had been kidnapped Sunday by unidentified gunmen, according to Voices of Iraq


Diyala Prv:
#1: A roadside bomb struck an Iraqi army patrol about 75 miles east of Baghdad, near the Iranian border, killing five troops, according to police and morgue officials. The explosion occurred on the southeastern edge of the volatile Diyala province.

#2: Also near the Iranian border, gunmen ambushed a convoy of trucks loaded with goods being sent from major wholesale markets in Baghdad to Khanaqin, 90 miles northeast of Baghdad. Five people were killed and three others kidnapped, including drivers and guards, police said.

Baquba:
#1: Eighteen gunmen were killed and 62 others detained in joint Iraqi-US operations in eastern Baquba, a media spokesman said Monday. The joint forces also freed four families earlier besieged by gunmen in Samoud village, north of Balad Roz in Diyala province, senior officer Ragheb al-Ma'mouri said in press statements.


Amara:
#1: In the southern city of Amara, gunmen shot dead a former Baath party member, police said


Hilla:
#1: A roadside bomb also was aimed at a police patrol but missed its target, killing a civilian and wounding two others in the southern Shiite area of Hillah, another officer said

#2: Gunmen elsewhere in the province killed a 35-year-old lawyer, he added.

Iskandariya:
#1: Elsewhere, gunmen opened fire on an open-air market in Iskandariyah, killing a man and his wife as well as a policeman who started firing at them, another officer said.

#2: Three bullet-riddled bodies of men in civilian clothes also were found at a construction site in Iskandariyah, a mostly Sunni Arab city 30 miles south of Baghdad, police said. The men, ages 25 to 35, had been bound by their hands and legs and bore signs of torture.


Basra:
#1: Two gunmen were killed by British forces that fired back at a group attacking the British base in the former presidential palaces in central Basra, the Mutli-National Force (MNF) in southern Iraq said on Monday. "Gunmen attacked late at night on Sunday the British base in the former presidential palaces. The British forces fired back with a missile that killed two gunmen," the spokesman for the MNF in southern Iraq told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq


Dujail:
#1: A roadside bomb seriously wounded at least four policemen near Dujail, 90 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday night, police said.


Samarra:
#1: A 13th SC(E) Soldier was killed July 21 as a result of injuries sustained when an improvised explosive device detonated near his Humvee while conducting a combat logistics patrol south of Samarra, Iraq. Two other Soldiers sustained injuries in the blast and were treated by Coalition Forces’ medical personnel and are awaiting further medical assessment

Al Anbar Prv:
Ramadi:
#1: Seven policemen were killed Monday when a woman blew herself up at a checkpoint in the centre of this city, 110 km west of Baghdad, police sources said. The human bomb detonated in the al-Shaheed Nawfal police checkpoint and killed all the seven policemen there, said the source. Residents of Anbar province, where the city of Ramadi located

A female suicide bomber Monday blew herself up into a police checkpoint in the center of Ramadi City, 110 km west of Baghdad, killing seven policemen, local police source said.



Afghanistan:
#1: U.S.-led coalition and Afghan soldiers "routed" a large number of Taliban fighters in a two-day battle in southern Afghanistan's poppy-growing heartland, killing more than 50 suspected militants, the coalition said Monday. The battle in Helmand province's Sangin district saw the insurgents attempt to shoot down an aircraft and attack soldiers with a suicide car bomb, the coalition said.

#2: A Norwegian special forces soldier was killed in an exchange of gunfire with suspected insurgents in Afghanistan on Monday, defence officials said. The shooting took place in Lowgar province in central Afghanistan where a Norwegian patrol was on a reconnaissance mission with Afghan security forces, the Norwegian armed forces said in a statemen

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