War News for Wednesday, October 31, 2007

MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths Three Multi-National Division - Center Soldiers in a roadside bombing in an southeast neighborhood of Baghdad on Tuesday, Oct. 30.

Security incidents:

Baghdad:
#1: A car rigged with explosives, left by unknown gunmen near Baniya mosque outside Garage Allawi on the main road in central Baghdad, went off this afternoon, killing a civilian and injuring three more," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq


Diwaniya:
#1: Diwaniya General Hospital received an unknown body that had been found by police forces in southeastern Diwaniya, a local medic said on Wednesday.


Iskandariya:
#1: A policeman was injured seriously when gunmen opened fire attacking a police patrol in Eskandariyah city north of Babil city around 9,30 am.

Tuz Khurmato:
#1: A roadside bomb killed an off-duty soldier and a policeman and wounded one civilian when it exploded near their car on a main road near Tuz Khurmato, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

Two policemen were killed and another was injured when an explosive charge went off near their civilian vehicle on Wednesday morning in the city of al-Azim, southwest of Kirkuk, a police source from the Touz Khormato police department said.


Kirkuk:
#1: Gunmen wounded an intelligence officer along with his wife and son in a drive-by shooting in the northern city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

#2: Dhahir al-Bayati, chief judge of Kirkuk Appeal Court, escaped an assassination attempt when gunmen opened fire at his car, killing one of his guards and seriously wounding another in the northern city of Kirkuk, 250 km (150 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

#3: A policeman was killed and two others injured when gunmen attacked one of the check points of Al Multaqa police station in Yaiji town northwest of Kirkuk city yesterday night.

#4: Gunmen driving a fast car (grey Opel Sedan) opened fire targeting an employee with his two kids while he was talking them to their school in Al Baath neighborhood downtown Kirkuk city early morning today. The employee and his two kids were injured. Police took the employee and his kids to the hospital.

#5: three people from the same family were shot dead in a US army raid on homes in the district of Wasiti in Kirkuk, 250 kilometres north of Baghdad, police and hospital sources told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa. There was no comment from the US military.


Mosul:
#1: One civilian was killed by unknown gunmen in northeastern Mosul and another was wounded in an explosive charge attack in the north of the city, an official security source said on Wednesday.

#2: another civilian was wounded when an explosive device went off in al-Arabi neighborhood in northern Mosul, the same source added.

#3: On the Kirkuk-Mosul road, a member of a tribal council involved in a crackdown against the al-Qaeda terrorist network was killed and three others were injured when gunmen opened fire on their car.


Al Anbar Prv:
Ratba:
#1: The mayor of the city of al-Ratba, Anbar province, escaped an attempt on his life on Wednesday afternoon at the center of the city, eyewitnesses said. "Unknown gunmen opened fire at the motorcade of the Mayor of al-Ratba, Qassem Marei al-Kabessi, while passing by the center of the city, causing severe damage to one of the vehicles," an eyewitness told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) over the phone. Another eyewitness said that "gunmen used automatic weapons in the attack, which followed by clashes between the gunmen from one side and police forces from the other."




Afghanistan:
#1: Authorities in southern Afghanistan say Afghan and NATO-led forces have killed about 20 Taliban fighters during an operation near the city of Kandahar. The chief of police in Kandahar province, Sayed Agha Saqib, said another 25 Taliban fighters were wounded in the fighting around two villages in Arghandab district on Monday and Tuesday. He said Afghan and foreign troops did not suffer any casualties. The official said the military operation was launched after Taliban fighters captured several checkpoints in the area, following the death of a local pro-government tribal leader, Mullah Naqibullah, who had managed to keep the militants out of his district.

Afghan, U.S. and Canadian troops have surrounded a pocket of some 250 Taliban fighters who have commandeered people's homes in villages just outside Afghanistan's major southern city, officials said Wednesday. Hundreds of Afghans _ their cars and tractors piled high with personal possessions _ were fleeing the battleground about 15 miles north of Kandahar city. The provincial police chief said the combined forces have killed some 50 Taliban in three days of fighting. Three police and one Afghan soldier have also died, Sayed Agha Saqib said.