War News for Tuesday, September 07, 2010

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in eastern Afghanistan on Sunday, September 5th.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Tuesday, September 7th.

News (DPA) is reporting the death of a Hungarian ISAF soldier in a Budapest hospital on Tuesday, September 7th. The soldier was wounded in a roadside bombing in northern Afghanistan on Tuesday, August 23rd.


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Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: At least 12 people, including four soldiers, have been killed and 29 others wounded after five suicide bombers armed with rifles attempted to storm an army base in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad. Two attackers blew themselves up at the back gate of the compound after being shot, while a third detonated a minibus packed with explosives at the entrance. The remaining two fought an hour-long gunbattle with troops before being killed, Major-General Qassim al-Moussawi, a Baghdad security spokesman, said. US military spokesman Lieutenant Colonel Eric Bloom said US troops provided "suppressive fire" during the attack, as well as support through helicopters and drones. US explosives experts were also brought in to examine the site.

#2: An Iraqi journalist working for the country's official television was killed in western Baghdad on Tuesday morning, an Interior Ministry source said. Riyadh al-Sarray, presenter of political and religious programs in the state-run television Iraqia, was gunned down by armed men in their car in al-Harthiyah district when he was heading for work, the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity.

#3: Three police officers, one of them a colonel, were wounded on Monday when a roadside bomb went off in western Baghdad. “The blast targeted a police patrol in the al-Ghazaliya neighborhood, western Baghdad,” a local police source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#4: Four persons were wounded on Monday in a bomb blast in western Baghdad, a police source said. “Unknown gunmen blew up an improvised explosive device targeting a police vehicle patrol on Monday afternoon (Sept. 6) in al-Shuhadaa neighborhood in western Baghdad,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency, noting that the blast wounded a policeman and three passing civilians.


Thi Qar:
#1: The U.S. army on Monday announced that there is an increase in the attacks that targeted its convoys during Ramadan, according to a spokesperson of the U.S. army. “There is an increase in the attacks on the U.S. army convoys during Ramadan compared to the previous months,” Major Alan Brown told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “A Marines team will organize a training course to the river police in Thi-Qar,” he added, noting that the training should start today, but some security operation postponed it. The U.S. army in Thi-Qar has been attacked by four bombs since the beginning of Ramadan, during which two vehicles were damaged.

#2: A roadside bomb went off on Tuesday targeting a convoy of the U.S. Provincial Reconstruction Team (P.R.T) in western Nassiriya city, causing no casualties.


Samarra:
#1: Gunmen shot dead three family members execution style when they stormed their house in central Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.


Kirkuk:
#1: Iraqi police found the bodies of two men, including a policeman, in a parked car in southern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad late on Monday, police said. The bodies bore gunshot wounds and signs of torture, the source added


Mosul:
#1: The forensic medicine department received on Monday the body of a gunman, who had been killed by security forces, a police source said. “The Ninewa Operations Command on Monday afternoon (Sept. 6) handed over the body of a gunman, who had been killed by security forces in al-Arbajiya region, eastern Mosul, to the forensic medicine department,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. “The body bore signs of gunshot wounds,” he added.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: Finnish troops came under fire in the Samangan region of Afghanistan, but according to a statement by the Finnish Defence Forces on Monday no one was injured during the attack. The troops made up of Finnish and Swedish soldiers came under fire around 5 pm on Monday. The soldiers summoned air support during the incident. However, air support did not resort to the use of arms.

#2: Five more people, including some suspected militants, were killed in a drone attack by US spy planes on a car at Doga village in Dattakhel area in North Waziristan tribal region on Monday. Tribal sources said six US spy planes were flying over the border town of Dattakhel during the missile attack on the vehicle. Pleading anonymity, a security official based in Miramshah, the regional headquarters of North Waziristan, confirmed the latest drone attack in Dattakhel, and said it was the 4th attack by the US spy planes on the Pakistani soil during the last 72 hours. He said those killed in the attack were local tribal militants.

#3: Two militants were killed on Monday during an exchange of fire with the security forces in Shokhdhara area of Matta tehsil in Swat district, official sources said. The sources said they had been tipped off about the presence of militants who opened fire on the security personnel when they were encircled. The security forces returned the fire and shot dead two militants identified as Zarai alias Mulla Dad and Khan Sahib. The sources said it was not clear as to how many militants were present in the area as the bodies of only two were recovered from the spot. For the last one-week, more than 15 militants have been killed by the forces in various gun battles in Matta area.

#4: Anti-government militants gunned down a district chief in Afghanistan's northern Baghlan province, Mahmoud Haqmal, the spokesman for provincial administration, said Tuesday. "Ahmad Masoud Jaushanpoor the governor of Nahrin district was on way to his home on Monday afternoon when the militants opened fire on his car in Jar-e-Khushk area killing him and his driver on the spot," Haqmal told Xinhua. Meantime, two bodyguards accompanying the ill-fated district chief went missing, he further said.

#5: A prominent Afghan television news journalist and political activist was stabbed to death near his Kabul home, police said on Monday. Sayed Hamid Noori, who was also deputy head of Afghanistan’s National Journalists’ Association, was found dead of knife wounds late on Sunday. “Someone called him and asked him to come down from his apartment last night. His body was found later by police in a tree-covered area near his home,” deputy Kabul police chief Khalilullah Dastyar told AFP.

#6: NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) troops killed an unspecified number of insurgents during an air strike in an area of southern Kandahar on Monday, the U.S. military said.

#7: Insurgents killed three Afghan children and wounded five in an attack on an ISAF combat outpost in southeastern Paktika province on Monday, the U.S. military said.

#8: Four Afghan government workers were kidnapped by approximately 15 suspected insurgents while travelling in eastern Kunar province on Monday, ISAF said. It gave no further details.


news: WO Gyorgy Kolozsvari

MoD: Lance Corporal Joseph McFarlane

MoD: Captain Andrew Griffiths