War News for Monday, July 12, 2010

Karzai to push for removing up to 50 ex-Taliban officials from U.N. blacklist

Distrust Slows U.S. Training of Pakistanis


Reported security incidents

Abu Ghraib:
#1: Unknown gunmen on Monday sabotaged two power towers in Abu-Ghraib district, western Baghdad. “The two towers have been totally destroyed,” a local security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Kirkuk:
#1: Police said they found the body of a man who had been shot and bore signs of torture, in eastern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, on Saturday


Mosul:
#1: An Iraqi soldier was wounded in a search raid west of Mosul city on Sunday, according to a security source in Ninewa. “The soldier was killed in a hand-grenade blast that targeted a military force raiding a house in al-Muthanna neighborhood, Talafar district, (60 km) west of Mosul,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#2: A wanted person blew himself up on Sunday after being holed up by the police, leaving a cop wounded southwest of Mosul, according to a security source. “The police chased a wanted man in the village of Tal al-Shei’er, southwest of Mosul. Holed up, the gunman detonated his explosive vest, leaving a policeman wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news ageny. He did not give further details.

#3: Two civilians were wounded in a blast from a hand-grenade hurled at the police by unidentified gunmen who later escaped in central Mosul city on Sunday, a local police source in Ninewa said. “Gunmen threw a hand-grenade at a police checkpoint on Ghazi street, central Mosul, from a commercial street thronging with pedestrians,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

A man threw a hand grenade at an Iraqi police checkpoint wounding two policemen in central Mosul, police said.

#4: A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol wounded one policeman in eastern Mosul, police said.


Tal Afar:
#1: Gunmen threw a hand grenade at an Iraqi army patrol while they were searching a house killing one soldier in Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: Rockets fired by Taliban insurgents have hit the Nato base near Kandahar in Afghanistan on the morning of July 12 2010, Bulgaria's defense ministry said in a statement. The attack occurred at 10.26am Afghan time. There were no Bulgarian casualties in the attack.

#2: Afghan and NATO-led troops eliminated 13 Taliban fighters including their commander Mullah Shahabudin in southern Zabul province, spokesman for provincial administration Mohammad Jan Rasouli said. "Afghan and international troops raided Taliban hideout in Shahbaz village of Shahjoi district early today as a result 13 rebels including their commander Mullah Shahabudin were killed," Rasouli told Xinhua.However, he did not say if there were any casualties on the troops.

#3: Nine police officers died when their remote checkpost was overrun by insurgents in the Emam Saheb district of Kunduz province late on Saturday, provincial district head Ayub Aqyar said.

#4: A homemade bomb also killed the head of Qaleh Zaal district police in Kunduz, along with his driver, provincial spokesman Mohboobullah Saidi said.

#5: In usually peaceful Badakhshan province, five police died when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in Kishim district, provincial police chief Aqa Noor Kintoz said.

#6: Police detained more than 200 people, including Afghan refugees, in a search operation in the northwestern city of Peshawar on Monday. The crackdown took place three days after a deadly attack in the nearby Mohman tribal region on the Afghan border that killed 107 people. Police did not say whether any of the detained were linked to the attack, but said they would release innocent people after screening.

#7: Three civilians were killed and another sustained injuries as their car ran over a mine in Sapera district of Afghanistan's eastern Khost province on Monday. "This morning at 8 a.m. local time a civilian car ran over a roadside bomb planted by insurgents in Sapera district as a result three workers with a local road construction firm were killed," Mohammad Azim governor of Sapera district told Xinhua. He said that another civilian sustained injures in the blast.

#8: A roadside bomb struck a car in Afghanistan's southern Halmand province, leaving five civilians dead and wounding four others on Monday, spokesman for provincial administration Daud Ahmadi said. "The gruesome incident organized by militants occurred in Nad Ali district at 12:00 noon time claimed the lives of five innocent civilians and injured four others, all ordinary villagers," Ahmadi told Xinhua.

#9: An explosion occurred in northwest Pakistan's Kohat area on Monday as no casualty was reported, according to local TV channels. According to initial reports the blast took place outside the guest house of Malik Sawab Khan, a local elder.