War News for Monday, April 19, 2010

Secret prison for Sunnis revealed in Baghdad:

Iraqi panel orders vote recount in Baghdad:

Taliban building up for summer showdown:


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: A policeman was wounded in an improvised explosive device (IED) attack in western Baghdad on Sunday, a local security source said. “An IED went off near a police patrol in al-Ghazaliya neighborhood, wounding a soldier,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Diyala Prv:
#1: A magnetic bomb that was stuck to a parked civilian car detonated in the main marketplace in Anasfiyah neighbourhood, central Baquba, Sunday, killing one woman and seriously injuring one man.


Kirkuk:
#1: A police brigadier survived an assassination attempt on Monday when he came under gunmen’s fire in central Kirkuk city. “The officer and his driver were wounded,” a local police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Mosul:
#1: Seven civilians were wounded when a bomb went off on Monday in central Mosul city.
“The blast attempted to target a police patrol in central Mosul,” a local police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#2: Armed men broke into a home in Bab al Beedh neighbourhood, central Mosul and shot and killed one man and three women who were inside the house.

#3: Armed men threw a home made bomb at an army checkpoint in Darghazliyah neighbourhood, east Mosul, injuring one civilian.

#4: Armed men opened fire upon a police patrol in Mashahdah neighbourhood, west Mosul, injuring two police officers.

#5: Armed men wounded two retired senior army officers after they left a mosque in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: A bomb attack in a restive Pakistani tribal area on Monday destroyed two tankers carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan, local officials said. The bomb planted under one tanker exploded near the village of Takhtabeg in the lawless Khyber tribal district, turning the vehicle into a huge ball of flames, administration official Rehan Gul Khattak said. Six people were injured. The second tanker and a goods truck passing by also caught fire and the blaze spread to a petrol pump and timber stores on the roadside, he added. The tankers were carrying fuel for NATO forces in Afghanistan, Khyber administration chief Shafeerullah Wazir told AFP.

#2: Afghanistan's defense ministry says an explosion has killed one Afghan army soldier and wounded three during a military training exercise in Kabul.The Taliban claimed responsibility for the explosion Monday, saying it was a suicide attack. But Defense Ministry spokesman Gen. Mohammad Zahir Azimi denied that. He said the blast was likely caused by an old land mine or by one of the mortars that were used in the exercise. He said authorities were still investigating.Azimi said one soldier was killed and three wounded.

#3: An explosion shook an area of Afghanistan's southern city of Kandahar on Monday, sending smoke and dust into the sky, a Reuters witness said. It was not immediately clear what caused the blast and if there were any casualties. The blast happened in an area where several government buildings are located.