Security Incidents for Saturday, July 21, 2007

An oil worker walks past a burning oil field in the southern Rumaila region of Iraq. Insurgents have killed five people after bombing a minibus that was travelling near Sadr City, while US and Iraqi troops raided a prominent Sunni mosque compound in Baghdad and captured 18 suspected militants.(AFP/Essam Al-Sudani)

MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Task Force Lightning soldier from an explosion near his vehicle in Diyala Province on Friday, July 20th.

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Baghdad:
#1: a bomb left on a minibus also exploded shortly after noon in the predominantly Shiite area of Baladiyat in eastern Baghdad, killing at least five Iraqis and wounding 11, police said.

#2: A mortar attack also struck the eastern outskirts of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding four, another officer said.

#3: The American military said Saturday that six militants were killed in an airstrike in a Shiite stronghold in northeastern Baghdad, but Iraqi officials and relatives of the victims claimed that 18 civilians died in the attack. Attack aircraft dropped a bomb that destroyed that house. Iraqi police inspected the site and reported six militants killed and five wounded, it said. The military account contradicted reports from Iraqi police and hospital officials, who said 18 civilians had been killed and 21 wounded in a 2 a.m. attack in Husseiniyah, an area in which Shiite militias operate openly near the road leading to volatile Diyala province.

#4: A roadside bomb wounded four civilians when it targeted an ambulance in southern Baghdad, police said

#5: Gunmen killed one civilian and wounded three when they opened fire in a southern Baghdad area, police said.

#6: A police captain was killed in southern Baghdad on Friday, police said.


Diyala Prv:
#1: One Task Force Lightning Soldier died as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion near his vehicle while conducting operations in Diyala province, Friday

Baquba:
#1: 'In one operation the Iraqi army and the Multi-National Forces (MNF) troops killed five gunmen and arrested 46 others in the eastern part of Baquba last night and the early hours of Saturday,' the source said. 'Two car bombs were defused and arms and ammunition were seized during the operation.'

#2: In the second operation which took place in the al-Tahrir neighbourhood in old Baquba '13 gunmen were killed and 16 others arrested, and a field hospital offering treatment for wounded al-Qaeda members was also detected,' the source told VOI.


Najaf:
#1: An official working for Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has been murdered by an assailant in the Iraqi city of Najaf, a local police chief said on Saturday.

An official working for Shiite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani has been murdered by an attacker in the Iraqi city of Najaf, a local police chief said on Saturday. Brigadier General Abdul Karim Mustafa said Sheikh Abdullah Falak was stabbed to death and that police were now hunting for the killer.


Mahmudiyah:
#1: In another incident south of Baghdad one person was killed and five others were wounded in a car bomb attack on Saturday near a factory in the town of Mahmudiyah, security officials said.

A car bomb killed two people and wounded seven others in the town of Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, police said.

#2: Mortars killed one person and wounded five others on Friday in Mahmudiya, south of Baghdad, police said.


Diwaniyah:
#1: The body of policeman was found after he was kidnapped in the Shi'ite city of Diwaniyah on Friday, police said.


Amara:
#1: And in the southern city of Amara gunmen shot dead a former Baath party member in the Al-Hussain neighbourhood, a local police officer said.


Hawija:
#1: Gunmen killed one civilian in a drive-by shooting in Hawija, southwest of the northern city of Kirkuk on Friday, police said.


Kirkuk:
#1: A booby-trapped body killed a policeman and civilian in al-Rashad, a town near Kirkuk, police said.

#2: A roadside bomb wounded two policemen in the northern city of Kirkuk, police.


Al Anbar Prv
Ramadi:
#1: Iraqi police killed four insurgents from al Qaeda in Iraq when they chased their car on the highway in Western Anbar province on Friday, police said.



Afghanistan:
#1: A man who claims to speak for the Taliban said two German hostages had been killed, while the threat of death hangs over 18 South Korean visitors to Afghanistan who were abducted two days ago. Qari Yousuf Ahmadi, who has contacted The Associated Press several times, said the militant group had killed two Germans -- who had been kidnapped along with five Afghan colleagues on Wednesday -- because Germany hadn't met demands to withdraw troops from the country

#2: A gun battle left 25 Taliban and four security guards dead after the insurgents ambushed a convoy in western Afghanistan overnight, police said on Saturday. Taliban militants last night attacked a convoy of a private Afghan security firm in the Bakwa district of the insurgency-wracked western province of Farah, police official Juma Khan told AFP. "Four security guards and 25 Taliban were killed in the exchange," he said. The battle ended when police sent reinforcements, Khan said.

#3: An Afghan civilian was also killed and five more wounded on Friday when an artillery round fired during a NATO-led exercise hit their home in Sarkano district in eastern Kunar province, police said.

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