War News for Thuraday, November 08, 2007

MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Multi-National Division – Center Soldier in a roadside bombing near his dismounted patrol south of Baghdad, Wednesday Nov. 7.


Security incidents:

Baghdad:
#1: A Multi-National Division – Center Soldier was killed as a result of wounds suffered when the dismounted patrol the Soldier was part of encountered an improvised explosive device south of Baghdad Nov. 7.

#2: southeast of Baghdad, a policeman was killed and two others injured when a bomb struck their convoy early Thursday, police said. The attack occurred in the Jisr Diyala area, about 16 kilometres southeast of the capital, they said. Two civilian bystanders were wounded, police said.

#3: A roadside bomb wounded three Iraqi soldiers on patrol in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad, police said.

#4: Iraqi soldiers killed two gunmen and arrested 65 others during the last 24 hours across Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.


Diyala Prv:
Hpbhpb:
#1: Four civilians were wounded when a suicide bomber wearing an explosive vest attacked a café in Hibhib town west of Baquba city around 1,00 pm.


Mahaweel:
#1: Two blindfolded, handcuffed bodies were found with gunshot wounds in Mahaweel, 75 km (45 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.


Kut:
#1: A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed one civilian and wounded four policemen west of Kut, 170 km (106 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.


Basra:
#1: At least four people were wounded in a roadside bomb targeting the car of Basra Qahtan al Moussawi, the top education official in the southern governorate of Basra, 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.


Riyadh:
#1: Unknown gunmen blew up a youth center in Riyadh district in southwestern Kirkuk, an official source from Kirkuk operations room said on Thursday. No casualties were reported but the building was completely destroyed," the source indicated.


Mosul:
#1: One Iraqi civilian has been killed and five more have been injured in the second attack targeting PKK premises in the last 24 hours. A suicide bomber driving a car bomb blew himself up outside the party building in Mosul, 400 kilometers north of Baghdad. A woman was killed and five others were seriously wounded.


Al Anbar Prv:
Karmah:
#1: Six policemen were killed, including two senior officers, and four others were injured on Thursday in a bomb explosion near their vehicle patrol north of Falluja, a media source from the Anbar Awakening Council said. An explosive device was detonated on Thursday morning targeting a police vehicle patrol in al-Karama district, north of Falluja," Hamed Ibrahim told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) by phone. "The blast killed six policemen, including the chief of the Anbar emergency force Colonel Sabah al-Lahibi and the Chief of the al-Walid police department Colonel Mathhar al-Lahibi, and injured four others," he explained.

Thar Thar:
#1: Iraqi police found seven decomposed and handcuffed bodies in Thar Thar, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.


Afghanistan:
#1: Authorities recovered the bullet-riddled bodies of three Pakistani soldiers kidnapped by Islamic militants this week near the border with Afghanistan, security officials said on Thursday. The men were among four frontier corps personnel who went missing Tuesday from Razmak, a town in the troubled region of north Waziristan, where remnants of al-Qaida and Taliban are believed to be hiding.

#2: One incident took place in Uruzgan province. Afghan and coalition troops were conducting a search in an area "where intelligence sources indicated Taliban and IED cells linked to several previous attacks on Afghan and coalition forces were operating." "Several armed militants" were killed in the operation and seven were detained. Military items such as ammunition vests and "a set of military-grade night vision goggles" were seized.

#3: Another incident was in Zabul province, where troops were conducting an operation "to disrupt Taliban weapons and explosive material facilitators in the area." During the operation, a firefight occurred. Two militants were killed and 11 others were