War News for Monday, November 19, 2007

MNF-Iraq is reporting the deaths of three Multi-National Division-North Soldiers in a suicide vest attack in Baqubah city in Diyala Province on Sunday, November 18th.

The LA Times is reporting the death of a U.S. service person near Camp Virginia in Kuwait who died in a road accident on Sunday, November 18th according to the American military. One other soldier was injured in the accident.


Security incidents:

Baghdad:
#1: One person was killed and seven were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a small bus in Baladiyat district in eastern Baghdad, police said.

#2: The Iraqi army killed six suspected militants and detained 69 others in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.

#3: A roadside bomb wounded two people on Palestine Street in northeastern Baghdad, police said.

#4: An Iraqi TV journalist who was kidnapped last week in a busy Baghdad neighbourhood said he was released unharmed before dawn on Monday. Muntazer al-Zaidi, a correspondent for the independent al- Baghdadiya television station, said he spent more than two days blindfolded, barely eating and drinking, after armed men forced him into a car as he walked to work on Friday morning in the bustling Bab al-Sharji area of central Baghdad.

#5: Iraqi soldiers on Monday detained a group of Italian private security guards after they opened random fire in central Baghdad wounding a woman, a senior Iraqi army officer told AFP.

#6: Around 3.15 p.m., a roadside bomb exploded at Al-Sakhra ( the rock) intersection injuring two people.

#7: Around 8 p.m., a car bomb exploded at Shuhada Al-Bayaa neighborhood ( south west Baghdad ) injuring 5 people.

#8: Police found 3 unidentified dead bodies in the following neighborhoods in Baghdad : ( 2 ) were found ; ( 1 ) in I’laam and ( 1 ) in Ghazaliyah . While ( 1 ) was found in New Baghdad in Risafa Bank in east Baghdad.


Diyala Prv:
Baquba:
#1: Iraqi police said three officers were killed Monday in an ambush on their checkpoint northeast of Baghdad. Monday's attack on the police checkpoint wounded another officer and two civilians nearby, police said. The ambush took place at dawn in the Zaghinya area near Baqouba, the troubled capital of Diyala province. Baqouba lies 35 miles northeast of Baghdad.

#2: Three children were killed and four wounded when a bomb went off at a football pitch in the Iraqi city of Baquba, local authorities told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa on Monday. The children were killed when a bomb went off on Sunday evening near a public playground in the industrial complex district in Baquba during a football game by the local children.


Samawah:
#1: Two Iraqis were killed and four wounded in an incident involving a U.S. military convoy in a southern province, American officials said. Local officials said the soldiers had opened fire randomly. A spokesman for the Muthanna provincial council said that U.S. soldiers in a convoy opened fire Sunday on a group of cars on the highway between the cities of Samawah, about 230 miles southeast of Baghdad, and Rumaitha to the north.

#2: Police retrieved the bodies of two men bearing signs of torture from the Tigris River on Sunday in the town of Suwayra, south of Baghdad, police said.


Diwaniya:
#1: Dozens of militants loyal to radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr were arrested in an massive assault by US and Iraqi troops in the central city of Diwaniyah, officials said Monday. Iraqi security officials said that 3,000 Iraqi soldiers, policemen supported by military tanks and hundreds of US and Polish troops launched the assault on Saturday to flush out Shiite militants from the city. Hussain al-Buderi, a member of the Qadisiyah provincial council, said that 49 militants, including four leaders, from the Sadr group were arrested since Saturday when Operation Lion's Leap was launched.


Najaf:
#1: Sadr's office in the town of Nafar, south of Diwaniyah, was also raided on Monday as part of the crackdown, Buderi told AFP.


Nasiriyah:
#1: An Iraqi translator who used to work for coalition forces in the city of Nasiriyah was shot dead by gunmen on Monday, police Lieutenant Colonel Falah al-Siaidi. He said the translator had stopped working for the coalition forces a month ago.


Latifiya:
#1: The decomposed body of a man was found in the town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, on Sunday night, police said


Iskandariya:
#1: The body of a man who had been shot in the head was found on Sunday night in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.


Hilla:
#1: In Hillah, 100 kilometres south of Baghdad, Abu-Ahmed al-Basri, one of the advisors of Iraqi Premier Nuri al-Maliki survived an assassination attempt, according to the Iraqi police. The convoy of the official was targeted by an explosive device but no injuries were reported.


Kut:
#1: Police retrieved the body of a three-year-old boy from a river on Sunday in the city of Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.


Basra:
#1: Five children and their mother were killed, and two other siblings were wounded when a rocket hit their house in western Basra at an early hour on Monday morning, authorities said.


Tikrit:
#1: In Tikrit, 170 kilometres north of Baghdad, local police sources told dpa that US forces found five bodies belonging to police officers and bearing gunshot wounds and signs of torture.

#2: a car bomb which went off earlier in the day near the home of a senior officer wounded five people belonging to the same family, the same source said.


Dhuluiya:
#1: Before noon, police found a dead body in the Tigris River in Dhuluiya.

Baiji:
#1: Ten people — most of them women and children — were wounded when a car bomb exploded in front of a police officer's house farther north in Albu-Jawari village, on the northern outskirts of Beiji, about 155 miles north of the Iraqi capital, police said. The officer was not home.


Mosul:
#1: One policeman was killed and two wounded in a drive-by shooting at a police checkpoint in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.



Afghanistan:
#1: At least six police officers are dead and 14 other people are wounded after a suicide bomber struck outside a governor's residence in Afghanistan. Officials say the bomber set off his explosives as people were on their way to work. The governor of Nimroz province says he was the target of the attack, and that his son was among those killed.



Casualty Reports:

A decorated Army sergeant, Brian Schar lost both of his legs and suffered internal injuries Sept. 19 when four improvised explosive devices exploded near him while he was in Iraq.

on December 6, 2006, while stationed in Dulav, Iraq, Corporal Brian K. Sawyer came under fire while patrolling along the Euphrates River. "We were out in the middle of the open on the river bank, and a sniper from a house across the river fired one shot and it went right through my arm," said Sawyer.

Private first class Adrian Garcia lost both his legs after a grenade split through his hummer on the battlefield, in Iraq. The critically injured soldier had to have both his legs amputated just above the knee; leaving Adrian without the ability to run jump or even walk. The once 6' 4" high school basketball player is now confined to a wheelchair.