War News for Monday, February 21, 2011

The DoD is reporting a new death unreported by the military. Staff Sgt. Bradley C. Hart died from a non-combat related incident at Camp Lemonnier, Djibouti, Africa on Thursday, February 17th.

The French DM is reporting the death of a French ISAF soldier from a small arms fire/anti-tank attack near the village of Landakhel in valley of Kapisa, Kipisa province, Afghanistan on Saturday, February 19th.Two additional soldiers were wounded in the attack. Here's the ISAF release.

The Australian DoD is reporting the death of an Australian ISAF soldier from small arms fire in an area to the South East of Patrol Base Wali, Uruzgan Province, Afghanistan on Saturday, February 19th. An Afghan interpreter was also killed in the attack. Here's the ISAF release.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an IED strike in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, February 20th.


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: Baghdad's Internal Security Forces' Appeals Judge has escaped an assassination attempt, when an improvised explosive device (IED) blew up against his motorcade in southern Baghdad on Monday. "An IED blew off against the entourage of Baghdad's International Security Forces' Appeals Judge, Brig. Abdul-Mun'im Mowla, in southern Baghdad's Daura district, slightly wounding two of his bodyguards and causing damage to a number of his entourage cars," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Samarra:
#1: At least 12 police officers were killed and 20 others wounded when a suicide bomber drove his explosive-laden vehicle into the federal police headquarters in the city of Samarra, authorities said. The attack took place in the al-Ashaq district of Samarra, police said.


Kirkuk:
#1: "The body of an Egyptian man was found killed in his house in central Kirkuk's Shaturlu district on Sunday night," Brig. Sarhad Qadir told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#2: In another incident, Kirkuk's Miqdad Police Director, Kamel Ahmed, said that four unknown gunmen, have abducted a Turkoman citizen close to his house in the main road leading to Baghdad in southern Kirkuk. "The abducted man works in a money exchange bureau close to Kirkuk's Grand Nur Mosque," he said, giving no further details.


Shirqat:
#1: At least two people died and six others were wounded Sunday when a suicide bomber drove an explosive-laden vehicle into a Sunni mosque at the conclusion of a birthday celebration for the Muslim prophet Mohammed, according to local police. Police told CNN that the attack happened as worshippers were leaving the Mara al-Hayss mosque in Shirqat, a small town in the Nineveh provice about 300 kilometers (186 miles) north of Baghdad.

#2: Two suicide bombers have been killed in an improvised explosive device (IED) accidental bast in a civilian car in Salah al-Din Province's Shirgat township on Sunday night, a Shigat security source said. "An IED blew up accidentally inside a Corona civilian car in central Shirgat on Sunday night, killing two persons that were discovered to be suicide bombers," the security source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: Monday's suicide attack in Kunduz province 250 km north of Afghan capital Kabul has killed 31 so far, an official said. "In the suicide attack that targeted the office of Registration and Census department at 12:15 p.m. local time in Imam Sahib district today, 31 people including women and children have been registered dead and 39 others sustained injuries," district governor Mohammad Ayub Haqyar told Xinhua.

#2: A suspected U.S. missile strike killed four alleged militants in a Pakistani tribal region along the Afghan border early today, Pakistani intelligence officials said. The two intelligence officials say three missiles hit a house overnight Monday in the Kaza Panga village of the Azam Warsak area of South Waziristan tribal region. The exact identities of the dead were not immediately clear.

#3: Afghan officials said on Monday that six members of the same family were killed overnight when a NATO air strike mistakenly hit their home. 'The airstrike was originally targeting three insurgents who were planting mines on a road. One missile mistakenly hit a house and killed six civilians, all members of the same family,' Ahmad Zia Abdulzai, Nangarhar provincial spokesman, told AFP.

#4: Tribal elders in a remote part of northeastern Afghanistan claimed Sunday that NATO forces killed 64 civilians in air and ground strikes over the past four days. The international coalition denied the claim, saying video showed troops targeting and killing dozens of insurgents. Coalition and Afghan officials plan to go to the Ghazi Abad district of Kunbar province, a hotbed of the insurgency, on Monday to investigate. Civilian casualties have been a constant source of friction between coalition troops and Afghan President Hamid Karzai. Tribal elders told the provincial governor that air strikes hit a village in the area and that "women and children had been killed inside their houses," said Nawrdin Safi, a member of the Kunar provincial council. Kunar province police chief Gen. Khalilullah Ziayi said local residents claimed 15 men, 20 women and 29 children or young adults were killed during operations in the area, about 190 kilometers (117 miles) east of Kabul.


DoD: Staff Sgt. Bradley C. Hart

Au DoD: Sapper Jamie Ronald Larcombe