War News for Tuesday, November 13, 2007

Photo: A U.S. armored vehicle that was damaged in a roadside bomb attack remains on a road in Baladyat district in Baghdad, on Sunday. By Mohammed Ameen, Reuters.



The North County Times (AP) is reporting the death of One 1st Sustainment Command soldier who died in a road accident in Kuwait on Monday, November 12th. Two other soldiers were injured.


Security incidents:

Baghdad:
#1: Meanwhile in a Sunni area south of Baghdad, two civilians were killed and two others wounded when another roadside bomb exploded next to their car, police added.

#2: A roadside bomb went off near a police patrol in southern Baghdad on Tuesday, wounding eight people, including three policemen, a police source said. The blast took place in the afternoon when a police patrol was passing the al-Masbah intersection in Karradah district, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

#3: One American soldier was killed and two were injured in a road accident on a highway in Kuwait on Monday, the U.S. military here said. The cause of the "single vehicle" accident is under investigation, the military said in a brief statement without providing details. The name of the 1st Sustainment Command (Theater) soldier who died of his injuries was withheld pending notification of relatives. The injured were evacuated to a Kuwaiti hospital and were in "stable condition," the military statement said

#4: U.S. forces killed one gunman and arrested 14 others during operations in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

#5: a car bomb went off near a Shiite mosque in Alf-dar district in eastern Baghdad, wounding two persons, the source added.

#6: A joint U.S.-Iraqi patrol found seven car bombs in Baghdad's northern area of Adhamiya, an official spokesman for the Baghdad security plan said on Tuesday

#7: 6 anonymous bodies were found in Baghdad today. 3 bodies were found in Rusafa, the eastern side of Baghdad in the following neighborhoods (1 body in Sadr city, 1 body in UR and 1 body in Qahira). The 3 other bodies were found in Karkh, the western side of Baghdad in the following neighborhoods (1 body in Amil, 1 body in Saidiyah and 1 body in Doura).

#8: An improvised explosive device went off on Tuesday, damaging a U.S. Hummer in western Baghdad, a police source said. "The bomb, planted by unknown gunmen in al-Dawdi neighborhood in western Baghdad, exploded this afternoon near a U.S. military patrol, damaging a U.S. Hummer," the source, who wished to remain anonymous, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq



Diyala Prv:
Baquba:
#1: Four Iraqi soldiers died when a roadside bomb went off next to their patrol in Baqouba, police said. Two others were wounded in the blast, they said.

An explosive charge went off as Iraqi-US forces were inspecting Baquba's Hashimiyat district, killing four Iraqi soldiers and injuring and seven others, Iraqi military sources said.

#2: Also in Baquba, a policeman and a civilian were killed and two others wounded in a blast in Mandali area, followed by an exchange of fire between the police and gunmen, medical sources said.

#3: in east Baquba, three dead bodies were found with signs of torture and bullets on them in Abu Saida village, forensic sources said.

Muqdadiya:
#1: Unidentified gunmen in a vehicle opened drive-by fire at a gathering of young men in the village of Ballour, Muqdadiya district, (45 km northeast of Baaquba)," wounding three of them, the source, who did not want his name mentioned, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq

Burhuz:
#1: 3 civilians were wounded in an IED explosion in Buhruz town south of Baquba city today afternoon.


Adwaniya:
#1: U.S. and Iraqi troops killed an estimated 15 al Qaeda gunmen during a fierce battle south of Baghdad after the militants launched a major attack on recently formed neighbourhood patrols, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. In a statement, the military said 30 to 45 al Qaeda fighters assaulted two checkpoints operated by local security guards on Monday using a mix of small arms and heavy-calibre machineguns mounted on trucks, sparking a day-long fight. At one stage, American F-16 warplanes jets dropped two 500-pound bombs on routes used by the gunmen to attack the checkpoints in the town of Adwaniya, 20 km (12 miles) southeast of Baghdad near the Tigris River. The area has long been a haven for al Qaeda in Iraq.


Mussayab:
#1: Two policemen were killed and two others were wounded by a roadside bomb on Monday in Mussayab, 60 km (35 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.


Jurf al-Sakhar:
#1: A roadside bomb killed two people and wounded two others in the town of Jurf al-Sakhar, about 85 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, on Monday, police said.


Kifl:
#1: Gunmen killed a man in drive by-shooting on Monday in the town of Kifl, 150 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.


Hilla:
#1: Farther south in Hillah, about 95 kilometers (60 miles) south of the capital, another drive-by shooting killed an Iraqi construction worker who was on contract with the U.S. military, police said. U.S. officials had no immediate comment on the incident.

#2: in Hillah city, 100 kilometres south of Baghdad, the Iskandariya region police chief Fariq al-Zamel escaped an attack by an explosive charge targeting his patrol, an Iraqi police source said. Three security guards were wounded in the blast, the source added. A police patrol carried the three policemen to a nearby hospital and on its way back was hit by another explosive device resulting in the death of a policeman and the injury of another, the source said.


Samarra:
#1: A roadside bomb killed Colonel Samir Atrous, head of the 4th Brigade of the Iraqi army in Samarra, while he was travelling in a convoy south of the city on Monday, the army said. Two of his bodyguards were wounded. Samarra is 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad.


Hawija:
#1: Gunmen killed a policeman and an Iraqi soldier when they opened fire on their car in central Hawija, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of the northern city of Kirkuk, police said.


Kirkuk:
#1: Capt. Mohammed Jamil, a Kurd, was driving his family through their ethnically mixed hometown of Kirkuk, when a sedan pulled up alongside him, according to Col. Sardar Moufri, one of Jamil's colleagues. Four men riding in the sedan showered Jamil's car with bullets, killing him and his son, Moufri said. Jamil's wife was injured in the attack, which happened around 8 a.m., he said.

#2: About 30 minutes earlier, another senior Iraqi police officer survived an attack on his convoy in another area on the west side of Kirkuk, Moufri said. A roadside bomb exploded next to Brig. Sarhad Qadir's car, injuring three of his guards, Moufri said. The officer escaped unharmed.

#3: A roadside bomb wounded six policemen, five of them seriously, southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

#4: The Kurdish security forces known as Ashayis found today afternoon a body or a civilian in one of the areas of Lailan district southeast Kirkuk city. The family of the killed man said that he had left the house ten days ago. Sings of shooting were obvious on the body.


Mosul:
#1: A blaze that occurred during a firefight between coalition troops and insurgents in northern Iraq on Tuesday killed a woman and a child, the U.S. military said. The firefight occurred in Mosul, when troops hunting al Qaeda in Iraq militants conducted a raid "targeting an alleged terrorist leader in the city." One insurgent was killed and another detained in the fighting. The military's account of the incident said troops approaching a building were fired upon from the ground floor and the roof and then they shot back at the militants. The encounter led to a fire in the building's courtyard and the blaze spread to a kitchen. "After the fire was out, the ground force entered the building and found that one terrorist had been killed during the engagement. Upstairs, they found one woman had been killed and one child was injured as a result of the fire.

#2: Unidentified gunmen opened fire on a policeman in al-Sada Bouaweiza region in northern Mosul, killing him instantly," the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI) under condition of anonymity.

#3: the same source said that another armed group killed a medic in al-Nour neighborhood in northeastern Mosul.

#4: police patrols found the policeman, who was kidnapped a few hours earlier in al-Yurmouk in western Mosul."The body bore signs of gunshot wounds to the head and the chest," he noted. "The policeman was working for Mosul al-Jadida police department and was kidnapped this morning near his house in al-Aabar neighborhood in western Mosul while heading for his work," he said.


Sulaimaniyah Prv:
#1: Turkish helicopter gunships attacked abandoned villages inside Iraq on Tuesday, Iraqi officials said, the first such airstrike since border tensions have escalated in recent months. Col. Hussein Tamir, an Iraqi Army officer who supervises border guards, said the airstrikes occurred before dawn on abandoned villages near Zakhu, an Iraqi Kurdish town near the border with Turkey. There were no casualties, he said. A spokesman for the Kurdistan Workers' Party, or PKK, corroborated Tamir's account. He spoke on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to speak to media.



Afghanistan:
#1: A roadside bomb has hit a paramilitary vehicle in Pakistan's tribal belt bordering Afghanistan, killing a soldier and wounding 9 others. The blast happened late Monday as a convoy left a paramilitary Frontier Corps camp near Miranshah, the main town in the North Waziristan district, the army said on Tuesday. Chief military spokesman Major General Waheed Arshad said that "one security forces personnel was killed and nine injured".