War News for Monday, November 05, 2007

Baghdad:
#1: A roadside bomb killed one civilian and wounded four others in eastern Baghdad, police said.

#2: Later Monday, gunmen assassinated a member of the neighborhood council in Khadra, an area of western Baghdad, police said. Hamad Abdul-Latif was driving his car in the adjacent al-Jamia area when he was attacked, police said.

#3: One policeman was killed and six others wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol in Harthiya in western Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

#4: Four bodies, all shot, were found in Baghdad on Sunday, police said

#5: One of the guards of withdrawn Sunni Iraqi Deputy Prime Minister Sallam al-Zawbaie was killed in the area of al-Bayya in southern Baghdad, two days after he was kidnapped, a release by Zawbaie's office read on Monday."The guard had been kidnapped on Tuesday and two days later his body was found in the al-Yarmuk hospital.


Diyala Prv:
Balad Ruz:
#1: In one incident, two police officers and one militant were killed in an exchange of fire in Balad Rose, a suburb of Baquba, 60 kilometres north of Baghdad, local authorities told Deutsche Presse- Agentur dpa.

#2: Five corpses were also found in a river near the city. Only one of the bodies was identified as a government employee who was kidnapped several days earlier.


Salman Pak:
#1: U.S. soldiers killed three insurgents who they found trying to plant a bomb on a road in a village near Salman Pak, 45 km (25 miles) southeast of Baghdad, on Saturday, police said.


Suwayrah:
#1L: Another such bomb exploded near Suwayrah, 25 miles south of the capital, killing another civilian, officers said.


Basra:
#1: A British convoy came under a roadside improvised explosive device (IED) attack in western Basra on Sunday night but no casualties were reported, the Multi-National Force (MNF) in southern Iraq said.

#2: Head of Basra's environment department escaped an attempt on his life when unidentified gunmen attacked his house with a hand grenade, a local media source said on Monday.


Tikrit:
#1: Early morning , police found two dead bodies for policemen on the high way between Tikrit and Dour .


Kirkuk:
#1: The same source said that a decapitated corpse was discovered by authorities on Monday, while a school principal was kidnapped in Rashad village, south of Kirkuk. No further details were disclosed.


Mosul:
#1: Six bodies were found in different areas of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday, police said.




Afghanistan:
#1: Taliban insurgents have captured a third district in western Afghanistan, local officials said on Monday, defying Western assertions the rebels are unable to mount large military offensives. But in the last week, the Taliban have captured three districts in the western province of Farah, bordering Iran, forcing lightly armed Afghan police to flee and defying Afghan and foreign forces to retake the lost ground. First, Taliban rebels captured the Farah district of Gulistan a week ago, then on Wednesday took nearby Bakwa. On Sunday, the insurgents seized Khak-e Sefid without a fight. "Khake-e Sefid district fell into Taliban hands yesterday without any resistance from Afghan forces," Qadir Daqiq, a Farah provincial council member told Reuters. A provincial official who declined to be named also confirmed the report