War News for Tuesday, October 11, 2011

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an unreported cause in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Monday, October 9th.


U.N. Finds ‘Systematic’ Torture in Afghanistan

U.N.: Detainees tortured in Afghanistan

Afghan opium poppy cultivation jumps

Many lost NATO tankers ‘have not reached checkpoint’


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: A string of explosions targeting security officials — and people who rushed to the scene to help the injured — killed at least 10 people in western Baghdad Monday evening, officials said. The first explosion came from a roadside bomb in a Shiite neighbourhood, targeting an Iraqi army patrol, a police official said. Minutes later, a second bomb exploded nearby, targeting a passing police patrol. As firefighters arrived on the scene of the first blast, the third bomb went off, an official said. He said 19 people were wounded in the attacks. A hospital official confirmed the casualties.

#2: Four soldiers and a civilians were wounded by an explosion south east Baghdad, police sources said here today. The source told Aswat al-Iraq that the bomb was directed against a military patrol.


Mosul:
#1: Two soldiers were killed by weapons equipped with silencers east of Mosul, security sources said today. The source told Aswat al-Iraq that unknown gunmen fired against a military patrol and fled away.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: Suspected militants fired two rockets at a rally led by the governor of Pakistan’s northwestern Khyber-Pakhtunkhwa province on Tuesday, killing one person and wounding four, but the governor was unhurt, security officials said. Governor Masood Kasur was to address the tribesmen when the rally was attacked in Kalaya, a large town in the Pashtun tribal region of Orakzai, the officials said. “The governor was receiving a briefing before the start of the function when the rockets struck. He is safe,” senior government official Fazal Qadir told Reuters. “One rocket fell near the helipad while the other landed inside the ground where the rally was being held.”

#2: Six people were killed in a double bombing targeting Afghan road construction workers near the country's eastern border with Pakistan, officials said. Police initially said a bomb struck a truck at around 9:50 am (0520 GMT) in the Dangam district of Kunar province. But officials later clarified that a second bomb also detonated as the rescue effort from the first attack was underway. "Four people were killed in the first explosion," said Wasifullah Wasifi, a spokesman for the Kunar governor. "In the second attack, two people were killed, including an Afghan soldier and a civilian, and two other civilians were wounded," he added.

#3: A trailer truck and an armoured vehicle of the US troops stationed in Afghanistan were burnt in an explosion at Landikotal bypass road on Pak-Afghan Highway in Khyber Agency, Khassadar sources said on Monday. The trailer truck (PT-0244), carrying two US-made armoured vehicles, hit a roadside bomb planted on the bypass road. The vehicle caught fire, which also engulfed one of the armoured vehicles on it, the sources said. Soon after the blast, fire fighters rushed to the site and extinguished the fire. They could, however, save only one vehicle on the trailer.

A bomb exploded in a truck carrying supplies for NATO troops in Afghanistan on Monday, killing one person, local officials said. The incident occurred in the Landi Kotal area of the northwestern Khyber tribal region, about 6 km (3.7 miles) from the Afghan border.

#4: Four Afghans working for a French development organization in northern Afghanistan have been abducted, officials said Tuesday. The team was driving back from a training session in Faryab province Monday afternoon when they were ambushed by a man on a motorcycle and seized, said Abdul Satar Barez, the province’s deputy governor. Barez said the captors were Taliban militants.

#5: A remote-controlled bomb exploded next to a convoy of security forces on Tuesday, injuring three soldiers, security officials said. The bomb was planted on the main road in the town of Wana in the South Waziristan tribal region.

#6: An insurgent improvised explosive on Monday killed three Afghan civilians and seriously wounded a child in southern Zabul province, the NATO-led coalition said. It gave no further details of the incident.

#7: Afghan and NATO forces killed one insurgent and wounded another on Sunday in Zharay district in southern Afghanistan after their patrol came under fire. ISAF said initial reports showed two civilians may have been accidentally killed in the incident after coalition forces called in an air strike and mortar fire. The NATO-led force was investigating.

#8: One Afghan civilian was killed when the vehicle he was traveling in hit an IED in Khost province. ISAF said the victim was a construction worker engaged in a project at a NATO combat outpost

#9: Security forces during operations have killed four insurgents and detained 12 others in different parts of the Afghanistan over the past 24 hours, Afghan Interior Ministry said on Tuesday. "Afghan National Police (ANP), backed by army and NATO-led Coalition forces, launched four joint operations in surrounding areas of the Kandahar, Helmand, Logar and Paktika provinces over the past 24 hours, killing four armed insurgents and arresting 12 other suspected insurgents," the ministry said in a statement that provides daily operational updates.


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