War News for Monday, October 29, 2007

Baghdad:
#!: In the capital Monday, a bomb in a parked car wounded at least five Iraqi civilians at a bus stop and taxi stand, an Interior Ministry official said. The attack took place in southwestern Baghdad's predominantly Shiite al-Baya'a district, the official said.

#2: Around 3:15 p.m. a roadside bomb targeted civilians in Al Wathiq square in Karrada, injuring 3 civilians.

#3: Gunmen killed one street cleaner and wounded another in a drive-by shooting in western Mansour district of Baghdad, police said.

#4: In another development Monday, U.S. Army Brig. Gen. Jeffrey Dorko was injured when a roadside bomb exploded near his vehicle in Baghdad, Pentagon sources said. Dorko is believed to the be the highest-ranking military officer injured in the war. He suffered shrapnel wounds and has been evacuated to Germany, the sources said. Dorko took command of the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers Gulf Region Division in Baghdad on October 10, according to the Corps of Engineers Web site.


Diyala Prv:
Baquba:
#1: A suicide bomber on a bicycle killed 28 Iraqi policemen doing their morning exercises at their base north of Baghdad on Monday, police said. A shopkeeper whose store is close to the base told Reuters he had seen a man riding a bicycle slip through a gap in the concrete wall surrounding the compound and heard a huge blast seconds later that threw a cloud of dust into the air. At least 20 people were wounded in the attack, including a woman and a child, police said. The base is in the city of Baquba, capital of Diyala province,

#2: Twenty decapitated bodies were found dumped near a police station on Monday west of the volatile city of Baquba in Iraq, police said. There was no immediate information on who the victims were. Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad, is a mixed Sunni and Shi'ite city that has been riven by sectarian violence.


Najaf:
#1: Unidentified gunmen killed Dr. Adel Abdul-Hadi, a professor of philosophy at the College of Arts, Kufa University, while returning home in eastern Najaf on Sunday evening, a security source said. "Unknown armed men in a vehicle opened drive-by fire at Abdul-Hadi near al-Kufa municipal council building (10 km eastern Najaf) at 10:00 p.m. on Sunday, killing him instantly," the source, who preferred not to have his name mentioned, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The gunmen then escaped to an unknown place, the source said, giving no further details about the incident, its motives or the organization behind it.


Kut:
#1: Police patrols in the city of Kut found the unidentified body of a woman on Monday morning, police said. The body, found in the neighborhood of al-Hawraa, southern Kut, showed signs of having been shot in the head and chest," a security source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) on condition of anonymity.


Basra:
#1: The British base at Basra International Airport, 25 kilometres north-west of the city, came under Katyusha rocket attack early on Monday morning, media reports said. British forces fired back at the source of the rockets in Mohandessin neighbourhood, a spokesperson for the multinational forces in Iraq, Major Matthew Bird, told Voices of Iraq news agency (VOI), refusing to give further details.

#2: An Iraqi serviceman was killed and 12 others wounded in a truck accident in northwestern Basra on Monday noon, an official source from Basra police said.


Baiji:
#1: Also Monday, a deadly bombing struck about four miles west of Baiji, an Iraqi oil center about 90 miles (145 kilometers) north of Baghdad. The device, placed in a parked car, killed seven civilians and wounded another 15 people, local police said.

Kirkuk:
#1: a car bomb in a residential area in the northern Iraqi town of Siniya demolished two homes and killed four people and wounded 11, police and health officials said.


Mosul:
#1: On Monday morning unidentified gunmen opened fire on a policewoman working in al-Salam Hospital in Mosul's northeastern neighborhood of al-Noor, killing her on the spot," the source, who preferred to remain unnamed, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq

#2: In another incident in Mosul, unknown gunmen shot down a civilian in the west of the city," the source added.

#3: Unidentified gunmen killed four members of the same family and wounded another in an armed attack on a house in eastern Mosul, an official source from Ninewa police said. "Armed men raided a house in the Eastern Ninewa area, eastern Mosul, and opened their machine-gun fire at the people inside, killing a man, his wife, sister and mother and wounding his brother," the source, who did not want his name mentioned, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq


Al Anbar Prv:
Fallujah:
#1: Gunmen killed a policeman near the city of Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. The source added that security forces captured two suspected al Qaeda militants who were involved in the attack.



Afghanistan:
#1: Two New Zealand soldiers have been wounded in Afghanistan in what is described as an accidental discharge of a weapon. A New Zealand Defence Force statement gives few details but says the accident happened during a routine patrol between Bagram Air Force Base and Kabul. The injured servicemen were taken to Bagram Air Force Base Medical Centre for assessment and initial treatment. One of the soldiers received minor injuries to his leg but the other received moderate injuries, said Major Zac Prendergast. The two soldiers were in a Humvee vehicle, returning from Kabul to their base in Bamyan when a Steyr rifle accidentally discharged.

#2: A SOLDIER with the US-led coalition in Afghanistan was killed in a roadside bomb blast which also injured another foreign trooper, the military said. The soldiers were escorting an local convoy delivering supplies for Afghan army forces in the troubled Sangin district of southern Helmand province when the explosion took place.