War News for Tuesday, November 27, 2007

Security incidents:

Baghdad:
#1: American troops killed up to four bank staff on their way to work in Baghdad on Tuesday after firing on their minibus. The shooting happened in the city's northern Shaab district, a Shiite militia stronghold, as the driver was collecting employees for the Rasheed bank. The soldiers opened fire when the bus reached their roadblock and tried to drive through, killing four passengers police said.

#2: A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. convoy wounded three civilians in the Karrada district of central Baghdad, police said.

#3: Around 1 p.m., a bomb was planted inside a car at Mansour neighborhood near the master of Milk injuring 2 people.

#4: Iraqi soldiers killed a gunman who was trying to attack a checkpoint in southern Baghdad's Saidiya district, a Baghdad security spokesman said.

#5: Early morning, a roadside bomb exploded at Salman Back ( south of Baghdad ) injuring one taxi driver

#7: Police found ( 3 ) unidentified bodies in the following neighborhood in Baghdad : ( 2 ) were found in west Baghdad ( Karkh bank ) ; 1 in Bayaa and 1 in Doura. While (1) was found in east Baghdad ( Risafa bank ) in Zafaraniyah.

#8: A former sheriff's deputy from Chisago (Chis-sah'-go) County has been killed while working as a security contractor in Iraq. DynCorp International says William Juneau (ju-NO) was killed Monday when his military convoy was hit by an improvised explosive device about 50 miles outside Baghdad. The 36-year-old Rush City man was helping to train the Iraqi police service as an employee of DynCorp, which has a contract with the U.S. State Department.


Diyala Prv:
#1: A suicide bomber wearing an explosive belt blew himself up at a police checkpoint on the main road between the town of Buhruz and the city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad,' the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The attack, which occurred at about 11:20 a.m. (0820 GMT), killed three policemen and three civilians at the checkpoint, the source said.. Seven people, including three policemen, were also wounded during the blast, which damaged several civilian cars that were driving past the checkpoint at the time of the attack, he said.

Another three women were killed when random gunfire broke out in the chaos after the blast.

Wednesday morning, a suicide bomber was wearing a vest filled with explosives targeted the headquarter of Diyala police in Baquba killing 7 ( three civilians and 4 policemen) and injuring 13 others ( 6 policemen and 7 civilians ) .

Baquba:
#1: East of the city, mortar rounds apparently targeting a local radio station instead landed near homes in the vicinity, killing two people

#2: a roadside bombing killed one civilian, police said.

an improvised explosive device went off on Tuesday morning in a main street in al-Salam district near a Kia-modeled vehicle, killing a civilian and seriously wounding three others," according to the same source.

#3: Armed clashes that took place on Tuesday morning between al-Qaeda gunmen and al-Aankabiya tribesmen in al-Salam district's al-Bu Aziz village, northern Baaquba, left Sheikh Hadi Muhammad Jassim, a chieftain, killed, and two other villagers wounded," the source, who preferred to remain unnamed, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "A house was destroyed during the clashes," the source noted.


Basra:
#1: A huge fire broke out in an oil pipeline following clashes between two tribes in northern Basra, a source from the South Oil Company said on Tuesday. Shooting between the tribes of al-Karamsha and al-Halaf that lasted all Monday night set fire to an oil pipeline in northern Basra's al-Harea area," the source, who requested anonymity, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). "The pipeline does not transport crude oil, but fuel," the source indicated.


Salah ad Din Prv: (Suleiman Bec?)
#1: Two Multi-National Division – North Soldiers were killed as a result of injuries sustained from an explosion near their vehicle while conducting operations in Salah ad Din province, Nov. 27. Additionally, two Soldiers were wounded and transported to a Coalition medical facility for treatment.

Around 9.30 a.m., a roadside bomb targeted an America patrol in an area of about 2 km of Suleiman Beck of Tuz Khurmatu (east of Tikrit) . Eyewitnesses said that a Humvee was destroyed. Also they saw a helicopter came to the scene taking the killed and injured soldiers with them

#2: Around 9.30a.m., a roadside bomb exploded on the road of about 2 km of Suleiman Beck of Tuz Khurmatu (east of Tikrit).No casualties reported.


Baiji:
#1: During a U.S. operation Monday against al-Qaida in Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, American troops shot at a vehicle speeding toward a roadblock after firing warning shots, the U.S. military said in a separate statement. Two men in the vehicle were killed immediately, and a child traveling with them died later of his wounds.


Tikrit:
#1: The bodies of four men were found shot near the city of Tikrit, 170 km (105 miles) north of Baghdad, a Salahuddin province official said. The men were in police custody but armed tribal members stopped a police convoy on Monday and seized them.

#2: Monday night, gunmen killed Ahmed Hassan ( the mayor of Al-Zihour neighborhood )in Tikrit using silencer guns.


Hawija:
#1: Gunmen killed a policeman in a drive-by shooting in the town of Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said.


Mosul:
#1: A car bomb wounded four civilians in Mosul, police said.

#2: The bodies of four people with gunshot wounds were found dumped in the west of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.


Al Anbar Prv:
Ramadi:
#1: The civilian driver of a vehicle was killed when U.S. troops opened fire on his vehicle as it sped towards a checkpoint in the city of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, on Sunday, the U.S. military said.




Afghanistan:
#1: A suicide car bomb targeting a U.S. military convoy in the Afghan capital Kabul killed two civilians on Tuesday, the latest attack to shake confidence in government efforts to uphold security. The target of Tuesday's attack was a two-car convoy of U.S. troops outside a Defence Ministry building in the centre of Kabul close to embassies, and offices of the United Nations and World Bank. There was no one injured from our convoy," said Lieutenant Colonel David Johnson of the Combined Security Transition Command, which trains the Afghan army. "Our convoy was on a routine mission."


Casualty Reports:

Navy medic Christopher Braley, 22-year-old lost his eye during a September explosion in Iraq and has had surgery to relieve brain swelling and to rebuild his brow area. He has spent the past two months at the National Naval Medical Center in Bethesda, Md. Doctors there are treating him for an infection around a titanium plate in his brow that could require more surgery if it does not respond to medicine, said his grandmother, Jane Braley.