http://warnewstoday.blogspot.com/index.htmlCasualty Report
CAMP FALLUJAH, Iraq – A Marine assigned to Multi National Force-West died Sept. 7 in a non-combat related incident in Al Anbar Province. The incident is currently under investigation.
Security Incidents
Baghdad
Suicide car bomber kills 15 people in Dakhil neighborhood of Sadr City on Saturday evening. (This occurred too late to make it into yesterday's post.)
Mortar round lands near Maisaloun Square, injures four police and two others.
Eleven bodies are found around the capital on Saturday.
A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. military patrol killed one person and wounded two near the al-Shaab National Stadium in central Baghdad, police said.
Balad
t least four Iraqi soldiers were killed and 15 injured Sunday in a suicide bombing outside a military checkpoint in the town of Balad, an Iraqi military official said. Deputy governor of Balad Amir Abdel Hadi told Deutsche Presse-Agentur (dpa) a suicide bomber driving a large truck blew himslef up outside a checkpoint on a bridge linking Baghdad to Balad, 70 kilometres north of the capital. Emergency teams and US forces were searching for more people under the rubble, Abdel-Hadi said. Human remains and mutilated bodies were found, the official said adding that the number of soldiers who were at the checkpoint at the time of the blast was not known.
Three Iraqi soldiers were wounded when they shot a suicide bomber driving a fuel tanker toward their checkpoint. This may be an early report of the same incident, but it is possible that there were two such attacks.
Basra
Headless bodies of two women are found in separate locations.
Kirkuk
Seven bullet-riddled bodies were discovered, with their hands bound.
DPA also reports that Iraqi army forces launched a rocket attack on a gathering of militants south of Kirkuk, killing seven, according to police sources. The Iraqi forces were said to be "aided" in an unspecified manner by U.S. troops. Among the dead is said to be a leader of Ansar al Sunna.
Joint U.S.-Iraqi patrols detained 14 suspects in a village west of the city, two of whom were said to be on a wanted list. (Why the 12 others were arrested is not stated.)
Tikrit
Seven police killed, two seriously injured, in armed assault on a station on the road to Bayji. The attackers fled, according to DPA. Xinhua reports that there were 40 attackers, and includes a claim that villagers captured some of them. (This seems unlikely given that these were obviously well-armed professional fighters -- C)
Roadside bomb attack on U.S. patrol destroys a vehicle. No word on casualties.
Mahumudiya
Car bomb near Iraqi army checkpoint kills two, injures six. Dead are a soldier and a civilian, injured are two soldiers and four civilians.
al-Muatassim (south of Samarra)
A "civilian worker" is assassinated. The role of this individual is unspecified, implication is this was some sort of government official.
Najaf
Bomb in Kufa market kills 4, injures 7.
Diwaniya
Joint U.S. Iraqi force arrests sixteen people, who Iraqi police say are members of the Mahdi Army. However, Sadrist spokesman says only three of those arrested are Sadrists.
Mosul
Gunmen killed four members of the same family -- three women and one man. No further explanation is given.
Other News of the Day
U.S. claims that on Sept. 3, it killed a mastermind of the Aug. 14 attack on Yazidi villages in an airstrike near Mosul. They identify him as Abu Mohammad al-Afri, an al Qaeda in Iraq "emir." It is not clear why they waited nearly a week to make this announcement, nor do they provide any evidence for the claims.
Daylong security conference of neighboring states convenes in Baghdad, under extraordinarily tight security. Parliament is unable to meet because many members cannot make it through the roadblocks. Excerpt from the AP account:
Iraq's foreign minister urged neighbors to prevent "terrorists and killers" from crossing into his country and warned Sunday that the violence in Iraq could spill across its borders.
Foreign Minister Hoshyar Zebari's comments came during the opening of a daylong conference that brought to Baghdad officials from all of Iraq's neighbors and other Mideast countries, as well as representatives from the U.N. and the Group of Eight industrialized nations.
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The Iranian and Syrian deputy foreign ministers headed their countries' delegations while other regional countries were represented by their ambassadors, Zebari told the AP ahead of the meeting. In addition to neighbors Turkey, Saudia Arabia, Kuwait and Jordan, delegations from Egypt and Bahrain were present.
With Crocker in Washington, the U.S. was represented by the deputy chief of mission in Iraq, Patricia Butenis.
Zebari said they needed to talk about helping the Iraqi government bring security and stability to Iraq internally, but added that the country's neighbors needed to "actively work on controlling the borders and prevent terrorists and killers from infiltrating across into Iraq."
"Terrorism should be fought ... because the fires that they are igniting in the land of the two rivers (Iraq) will spread outside the borders and endanger neighboring countries," Zebari said.
He did not identify any country by name, but the Iraqi and U.S. governments have accused Syria of allowing foreign fighters to cross into Iraq and say Iran is supplying Shiite militias with weapons — claims that both countries deny. The Iraqi government has also said that many of those who carry out suicide attacks in Iraq come from Saudi Arabia.
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