War News for Tuesday, November 06, 2007

MNF-Iraq is reporting the death Four U.S. Soldiers in a roadside bombing in the Kirkuk province Monday, November 5th.

MNF-Iraq is reporting the death A U.S. Soldier assigned to Multi National Force-West in on Monday, November 5th. No other details were released.

MNF-Iraq is reporting the death A U.S. Sailor in an explosion in Salah ad Din Province on Monday, November 5th. No other details were released.

Security incidents:

Baghdad:
#1: Around 9,30 am, an IEd exploded near Al Taharyat square in Karrada neighborhood downtown Baghdad. No casualties reported.

Latifiya:
#1: Police said they found two bodies tortured and shot near the town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad.

#3: A roadside bombing hit a U.S. patrol in the central Iraqi capital on Tuesday, a well-informed police source said. "A roadside bomb detonated while a U.S. patrol was passing by near the al-Zawraa Park on Tuesday night," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. It was unclear whether American forces aboard sustained any casualty as the troops immediately cordoned off the area, preventing the Iraqi police from approaching the scene, he added. The U.S. military has not confirmed the incident yet.

#4: Police found 4 bodies in Baghdad in the following neighborhoods (1 body in Amil, 1 body in Bayaa, 1 body in Zafaraniyah and 1 body in Sadr city.

#5: A car bomb had been detonated under control by the Iraqi security forces in Adhemiyah neighborhood north Baghdad around 6,00 pm.


Basra:
#1: The head of the local council of Abo Al Khaseeb, town 20Kms south of Basra city Ali Hussein had survived from an assassination attempt. Police said gunmen attacked Hussein’s convoy was attacked in the center of the town early morning today adding that three of his guards were injured.


Tikrit:
#1: unidentified gunmen shot dead a senior Iraqi intelligence officer and a person accompanying him overnight in the town of Tikrit, 170 kilometres north of Baghdad, Iraqi police sources said.

#2: Police patrols were tipped off by a citizen to the presence of two bodies buried in a hole, east of Dalouiya, north of Baghdad," the source, who asked to remain unnamed, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI)."The bodies belong to two policemen, who were kidnapped five months ago," he explained.

#3: a medical source at the Tikrit public hospital said that the hospital received two civilian bodies, who were killed in the past 24 hours.


Dhuluiya:
#1: Police found the decapitated bodies of two policemen buried in the town of Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.


Samarra:
#1: Two men were shot dead in the city of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, a hospital source said.


Baiji:
#1: A U.S. Sailor was killed as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion while conducting operations in Salah ad Din Province Monday.


Hawija:
#1: Three civilians were wounded by a roadside bomb which exploded near a police patrol in the town of Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

#2: An armed group opened fire on the mayor of al-Sarai village while he was in his civilian car at the outlet of al-Howaiyja city, killing him and injuring his son," the source also said.


Kirkuk:
#1: Four U.S. Soldiers were killed as a result of an explosion near their vehicle while conducting combat operations in the Kirkuk province Monday.

#2: Four gunmen were killed on Tuesday in clashes with joint police and U.S. forces, south of Kirkuk Police forces, backed by U.S. troops, killed four gunmen during a security operation in Daqouq district, south of Kirkuk," the source, who requested anonymity, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq


Mosul:
#1: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a member of the provincial council of Nineveh in the provincial capital of Mosul on Tuesday, a police source said. "Aref Yousif Qunber, the Nineveh council member and chairman of the council's culture and information committee, was killed when gunmen in two cars intercepted his convoy in northeastern Mosul on his way to work in the morning," Brigadier Abdul Kareem al-Jubouri, head of the provincial police operation, told Xinhua. One of Qunber's bodyguards was also killed in the attack and another was wounded, Jubouri added.

#2: Gunmen killed six off-duty policemen on a road near Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, said Police Brigadier-General Ibrahim al-Jouburi. He said the militants also burned the bodies.


Al Anbar Prv:
#1: A U.S. Soldier assigned to Multi National Force-West was killed Nov. 5 while conducting combat operations in Al Anbar Province

Lake Tharthar:
#1: Iraqi soldiers discovered 22 bodies in a mass grave northwest of the capital, the U.S. military said Tuesday. The bodies were found Saturday during a joint operation with U.S. forces in the Lake Tharthar area, the military said in a statement. Naief said the bodies were found in a drainage canal, and that some of the victims were wearing heavy clothes , indicating they may have been killed last winter.

Iraqi soldiers uncovered two mass graves containing at least 30 bodies of men and women in a former al-Qaeda stronghold northwest of Baghdad, the US military said today. We found in one of them 22 partially decomposed corpses," he said. He said the skeletal remains of another eight people were found in another hole nearby. Male and female clothing as well as two Iraqi army identification badges were found.



Afghanistan:
#1: A bomb blast targeted a group of lawmakers touring a factory north of Kabul on Tuesday, killing at least 20 people, including six parliamentarians, a lawmaker said. The lawmakers were about to tour a sugar factory in the northern province of Baghlan when the blast went off. Six members of parliament were among at least 20 people killed, said Faizullah Zaki, a lawmaker from Jawzjan province. Among the six lawmakers killed was Sayed Mustafa Kazimi, a former Afghan commerce minister and a powerful member of the Northern Alliance, said the lawmaker's secretary, Ahmadi, who gave only one

A suicide bomber killed 90 people and wounded 50 on Tuesday in an attack on a group of visiting Afghan parliamentarians in the northern Afghan town of Baghlan, the director of the local hospital said.
"The bodies of 90 people have been brought to the hospital so far and 50 people have been wounded," Baghlan hospital director Dr. Khalilullah told Reuters.

#2: Three Afghan policemen were killed and five others sustained injures as a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province Tuesday. "It was 1 p.m. local time today when a roadside bomb planted by Taliban insurgents struck a police van in Chaparhar district, leaving three dead on the spot and wounding five others," spokesman of provincial government Noor Agha Zawak told Xinhua.

#3: An air strike by NATO-led forces has killed dozens of Taliban insurgents in northwestern Afghanistan, the Afghan army said on Tuesday.Monday night's air strike, backed by Afghan and NATO ground forces, targeted Taliban positions in Badghis province, Defence Ministry spokesman Zahir Azimi said. He said a senior Taliban commander was among those killed. The Taliban in the area said two militant fighters were killed and 10 wounded in the operation.

#4: Defence Minister Peter MacKay escaped a Taliban rocket attack this morning as a small base he was visiting came under fire from insurgents. Bodyguards for the Defence Minister removed him by helicopter shortly after two rockets landed around Forward Operating Base Wilson, a Canadian outpost about 20 kilometres west of Kandahar city. It's unclear how far Mr. MacKay was from the blasts, one of which inflicted minor injuries on four Canadian soldiers inside the base.