War News for Monday, February 28, 2011

The British MoD is reporting the death of a British sailor from a traffic accident somewhere in Dubai on Sunday, February 27th. Until we learn more details this will not be counted as an OEF/OIF casualty.

The Italian Defense ministry is reporting the death of an Italian ISAF soldier from an IED attack near Shindand, Herat province Afghanistan on Monday, February 28th. Four additional soldiers were wounded in the attack. Here's the ISAF release.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an IED attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, February 27th.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, February 27th.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an IED attack in an undisclosed location in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, February 28th.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in eastern Afghanistan on Monday, February 28th


British guard gets life for killing colleagues in Iraq

RPT-Iraq's Basra oil exports restored to 1.872 mln bpd

Afghans say NATO attack killed 65 civilians


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: In Baghdad, two people were wounded when a roadside bomb struck their car on the highway that passes through Doura district in southern the capital, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

#2: Separately, a roadside bomb went off near an oil tanker in Baghdad southeastern neighborhood of Kamaliyah, wounding the driver and set fire to the tanker, the source said.

"An IED blew off in east Baghdad's Kamaliya district against a mobile oil-products tank early on Monday, wounding two persons.

#3: Also in the capital, a makeshift bomb detonated outside a liquor store in Baghdad central district of Karrada, destroying the store and wounding a civilian, the source added.

another IED blew off close to central Baghdad's Alwiya Telephone Exchange Office, aimed at an alcohol drinks shop, wounding two persons.

#4: He said that a third IED blew off in central Baghdad's Mohammed al-Qassim Highway, wounding three persons.

#5: a fourth IED blew off in southwest Baghdad's Amiriya District late Sunday night, against a vehicle belonging to the office Baghdad Mayor, wounding two persons, who were also taken to hospital for treatment.


Diwaniya:
#1: Two Katusha rockets fell on Sunday night on a U.S. Army base in southern Iraq's Diwaniya city, an Iraqi Army source said. "Two Katusha rockets fell on the U.S. Echo Camp, 3 kms to the west of Diwaniya city, but losses were not known," the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He said that air sirens were heard after the fall of the two rockets, adding that Iraqi Army and police forces rushed to venue of the attack, searching for the attackers in the streets of the city. The source added that the past few days had witnessed at least three attacks on the U.S. forces in the area, two of them with Katusha rockets and the third with an improvised explosive device (IED) that damaged an armoured vehicle.


Diyala Prv:
#1: In Diyala, a roadside bomb went off near a car carrying two off- duty policemen in a village near the town of Baldruz, south of the provincial capital city of Baquba, some 65 km northeast of Baghdad, killing one of them and seriously wounding the other, a source from the provincial operations command told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

#2: In a separate incident, three people were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion at a village near the town of Jalawla, 70 km northeast of Baquba, the source said.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: A Canadian man is missing in Afghanistan, Canadian officials said Sunday, with the Taliban claiming they had captured him in a volatile central province because he was a spy. A spokeswoman for the Department of Foreign Affairs and International Trade in Ottawa said the man had travelled to Afghanistan as a tourist.

#2: Unknown men kidnapped two lower court judges in Pakistan's troubled southwestern Balochistan province, local media reported Monday. Session Judge Jan Muhammad Gohar and Senior Civil Judge Muhammad Ali went missing along with their driver and body guard in Jafarabad district late Saturday night, the daily DAWN reported, quoting official sources. Three lawyers were also abducted last week from Sibi area of Balochistan.


IT/DM: Lt. Massimo Ranzani