Security Incidents for Saturday, July 07, 07


(1) MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldier in a roadside bomb attack in a western neighborhood of Baghdad on Thursday, July 5th.

(2) MNF-Iraq is also reporting the deaths of two Marines from enemy action in Al Anbar Province on Thursday, July 5th.

(3) Lastly, MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Multi-National Corps - Iraq soldier from a non-hostile, unspecified cause, likely in Baghdad, on Friday, July 6th.

(4) MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of two Multi-National Division - Baghdad soldiers when their patrol was hit by an improvised explosive device in an eastern neighborhood of Baghdad on Friday, July 6th. Three other soldiers were wounded in the attack.

(5) The British Ministry of Defense is reporting the death of a soldier from the 4th Battalion The Rifles Regiment at the Basra Palace Base in the center of Basra on Friday, July 6th. No further information is being given at this point.

(6) The British Ministry of Defense is also reporting the death of one of their soldiers in a roadside bomb attack in a northern district of Basrah on Saturday, July 7th, just after midnight.

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In Country:
#1: U.S. officials have told Chinese officials they are concerned about the discovery of Chinese-made weapons in Iraq and Afghanistan, the Financial Times said. Richard Lawless, deputy under secretary of defense for Asian and Pacific affairs, Friday said Washington had brought up the issue with Beijing, the newspaper reported. The United States has become more alarmed in recent months that Chinese armor-piercing ammunition has been used by the Taliban in Afghanistan and insurgents in Iraq, the newspaper said.


Baghdad:
#1: An MNC-I Soldier died July 6 of a non-battle related cause.

#2: A Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldier was killed when a patrol was struck by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad July 5.

#3: Two Multi-National Division-Baghdad Soldiers was killed when an improvised explosive device detonated near a combat patrol in a eastern section of the Iraqi capital July 6. Three other Soldiers were wounded in the attack. All of the wounded Soldiers were evacuated to a combat support hospital following the attack

#4: A U.S. soldier and an Iraqi interpreter were killed Friday when an explosively formed penetrator exploded near their patrol in southeastern Baghdad.

#5: a family of seven sleeping on a rooftop in Baghdad died when a mortar hit their building, CNN reported.

#6: One person was killed by a roadside bomb in the southern Baghdad neighbourhood of Zaafaraniya and two were wounded, police said.

#7: Two civilians were wounded by a mortar attack in the central Baghdad district of Karradat Mariam, police said.

#8: Another car bomb attack against a military checkpoint in Baghdad killed at least three people and wounded 10, medics at the city's Ibn Nafees hospital said. A military official said two soldiers were among the dead.

#9: A suicide car bomber killed five Iraqi soldiers and one civilian by a checkpoint in east Baghdad, police said.


Diyala Prv:
#1: The night before, a suicide bomber detonated a boobytrapped car at around 9:30 pm outside a cafe near a market stocking Iranian goods in the Shiite Kurdish village of Ahmad Marif, killing 26 and wounding 33, said an official at the joint security coordination committee of Diyala province, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to the media. The village - 85 miles northeast of Baghdad in a remote corner of Diyala province

Khan Bani Saad:
#1: U.S. forces killed four militants as they targeted al Qaeda insurgents in the town of Khan Bani Saad, north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.


Diwaniya:
#1: Six militiamen loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were killed in clashes with U.S. soldiers in the southern city of Diwaniya, a source in Sadr's office in the city said.


Samawa:
#1: The Iraqi Society for Defending Journalists' Rights said on Saturday an Iraqi journalist was killed in the clashes that erupted between security forces and fighters of the Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army in the southern Iraqi city of Samawa during the last two days. "The society's office in Samawa was informed of the death of journalist Ali Watan who was working for Samawa local TV, with a sniper's bullet while entering the Samawa TV building on Friday afternoon," the society said in a statement received by the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The body of Watan was received on Saturday morning, the statement added.


Basra:
#1: It is with deep sorrow that the Ministry of Defence must confirm the death yesterday, 6 July 2007, of a soldier of 4th Battalion The Rifles at the Basra Palace base in Basra city centre, Southern Iraq. An investigation into the incident is on going and it would be inappropriate to comment further at this stage

#2: It is with deep regret that the Ministry of Defence can confirm that a British soldier has been killed during a large scale operation in Iraq during the early hours of this morning, 7 July 2007. The soldier was killed when an Improvised Explosive Device (IED) detonated just after midnight local time, against a Warrior patrol in the Tuninah district in the north of Basra.

#3: In three separate incidents, one (British) soldier was very seriously injured and another received a minor injury from Small Arms Fire attacks, and a further soldier was injured from a separate IED attack


Al Dholouaia:
#1: An Iraqi army officer was killed in a clash with gunmen in Al Dholouaia area this morning


Balad:
#1: An Iraqi police checkpoint shot at a speeding car approaching their checkpoint in Balad today. A pregnant woman was injured.

#2: A roadside bomb exploded targeting a civilian car in AL Khuudaira area south east of Balad today. The driver was killed in the incident.

#3: Iraqi police said two policemen were killed and two others wounded when a U.S. warplane attacked their checkpoint in the early hours of Saturday "by mistake" north of Baghdad. "A U.S. warplane dropped a bomb on an Iraqi police checkpoint near Balad town, today at dawn, killing two policemen and wounding two more," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq


Dujail:
#1: a police source from Dujail town, 70 km north of Baghdad, said "a U.S. vehicle convoy came under armed attacks, this morning, near Dujail town, setting a blaze a supply truck."The source could not say what the fate of the truck driver was


Tikrit:
#1: Tikrit general hospital received 3 inured citizens from Samarra today. The hospital said the injuries due to shooting by Interior Ministry commandos shooting in the city.


Armili:
#1: Saturday's blast, at around 8:30 a.m., destroyed several mud homes in the village of Armili, and victims had to be transported in farmers' pickup trucks to the nearest health facility, in Tuz Khormato, 27 miles to the north, said Capt. Soran Ali of the Tuz Khormato police. Saleh Ali, a medic at Tuz Khormato hospital, said 25 dead and 100 wounded were brought to the facility. Residents of the village said more victims remained trapped under destroyed houses and shops, and doctors said many of the wounded were in critical condition, meaning the toll could rise. The village, 100 miles north of Baghdad is mainly made up of Shiite Turkomen. Armili, the village hit Saturday morning, is on the edge of Salahuddin province, near the border with Diyala.

"We have 100 people killed and some 120 others wounded in the attack on the outdoor market in the village of Amerli near Tuz-Khurmato town," the source said, citing a report from the provincial health directorate.

At least 100 Iraqis were killed Saturday and more than 80 injured when a truck bomb blast rocked a busy market in the northern town of Tuz Khurmato in Tikrit province, 170 kilometres north of the capital Baghdad. One of the initial figures placed the number of deaths at 30 but Hassan Zein al-Abbedin, the head of Tikrit's health department, told reporters that the number of dead has risen to 100 because of the blast's intensity.


Zargosh:
#1: A half hour after that blast, a suicide bomber detonated an explosives belt in a funeral tent in another Shiite Kurdish village, Zargosh, west of Ahmad Marif. The blast killed 22 people and wounded 17 others, said the head of Diyala provincial council, Ibrahim Bajilan, and a police official in the provincial capital of Baqouba, who spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media..


Mosul:
#1: An Iraqi police lieutenant was killed and another officer wounded when a hand grenade was thrown at their car in the restive northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said


Kirkuk:
#1: Four civilians were wounded by a roadside bomb in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said

#2: An explosive charge detonated, this morning, near a police vehicle patrol in al-Musala neighborhood in Kirkuk, wounding one policeman and damaging a police vehicle," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq

#3: Only 40 minutes later, a second explosive charge went off, in the same location, near a police vehicle patrol, wounding five of its elements, the source added


Northern Iraq:
#1: Turkish forces shelled two villages in northern Iraq late on Friday, an Iraqi border security source and a local official said on Saturday, but there were no reports of casualties. An Iraqi border force source said around 25 shells were fired at Merta Shesh and Gale Psagha, villages near the town of Zagho on Friday evening. A local official in the region also said dozens of shells had been fired at the area. The officials had no other details.


Al Anbar Prv:
#1: Two Marines assigned to Multi National Force-West were killed July 5 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar Province

Ramadi:
#1: A Saudi man was detained while trying to carry out a suicide bomb attack in a truck carrying canisters of chloride in the western Sunni city of Ramadi on Friday, police said.



Afghanistan:
#1: A roadside blast struck a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan and wounded four alliance soldiers Saturday. The NATO convoy was attacked west of Kandahar city, and the four wounded soldiers were taken to a nearby military hospital, said Maj. John Thomas, a NATO spokesman. Qari Yousef Ahmadi, a purported Taliban spokesman, said a suicide bomber had attacked the convoy. An Associated Press reporter at the scene said the wounded soldiers were Canadian, but that could not be immediately confirmed.

#2: (update) Shalizai Dedar, governor of northeastern Kunar province, said villagers accused foreign troops of killing dozens of civilians in airstrikes Friday. He said about 60 militants died in the battle but he could not confirm the reports of civilian deaths. U.S.-led coalition and NATO spokesmen on Friday emphasized that ground commanders had evaluated the terrain in Kunar province to prevent civilian casualties, but Dedar said villagers had reported that an initial airstrike killed 10 civilians , and that a second killed about 30 people who were trying to bury the dead. Abdul Sabur Allayar, the provincial deputy police chief, said Saturday that 25 civilians and 20 militants were killed in clashes over three days.

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