War News for Thursday, July 21, 2011

Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: In a separate incident, a roadside bomb ripped through Amriyah district in western Baghdad wounded three people, an Interior Ministry source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.


Abu Ghraib:
#1: Unidentified gunmen attacked a checkpoint manned by members of a local Awakening Council group in Abu Ghraib area, some 20 km west of Baghdad, sparking a clash between the attackers and the group members, a local police source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The attack resulted in the killing of a gunman and the capture of another, while a group member was also wounded by the clash, the source said.


Baaj:
#1: An Iraqi army patrol killed a militant during a raid at his home in the town of Baaj, 375 km (233 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said.


Kirkuk:
#1: He said that an explosive charge blew off against a police patrol, when an al-Riyadh police patrol arrived at the venue of the house attack, killing a civilian and wounding 2 others, but none of the police patrol men was injured.

#2: “A rocket was launched on the house of Police Officer, Colonel Imad Murshid in a village close to al-Riyadh township, 45 km to the southwest of Kirkuk, causing severe damage to the house, but no human casualties,” Lt-Brigadier, Sarhad Qader told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Mosul:
#1: A child was hurt in bomb blast targeted against the Iraqi army east of Mosul, security sources told Aswat al-Iraq here today.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: Taliban-linked militants in northwestern Pakistan have blown up a NATO oil truck carrying fuel for US-led foreign troops in Afghanistan, security officials say. In a fresh militant attack on the NATO containers heading from Pakistan to neighboring Afghanistan, the militants destroyed a NATO fuel truck on Thursday, Reuters reported.

#2: At least four people were killed Wednesday when a U.S. drone targeted the North Waziristan tribal area in northwest Pakistan, local sources said. The pilotless aircraft fired two missiles at a house in Mir Ali area of North Waziristan which borders Afghanistan, they said.

#3: A suicide bomber on foot attacked a vehicle carrying soldiers from the military-run construction company, The Frontier Works Organisation (FWO), in South Waziristan's tribal region on the Afghan border, wounding at least two, intelligence officials said.

#4: A remote-controlled bomb strapped to a motor-bike destroyed a state-owned oil and gas company vehicle in Jaffarabad district of southwestern Baluchistan province, killing three men and wounding four, police said. There was no claim of responsibility.


DoD: Staff Sgt. Kenneth R. Vangiesen

DoD: Sgt. Edward W. Koehler

DoD: Sgt. Brian K. Mowery

DoD: Cpl. Raphael R. Arruda