Dudes. Who wants to bet that that this "surge" will be extended till way after June 2008??
Military Expects to "Surge" Until June 2008? Army General Assumes 158K Will Still Be In Iraq, Raising Questions About Funding
Though Petraeus's much-anticipated appearance before Congress is a month away, comments by the Army's vice chief of staff seem to indicate that at least one top military commander believes the US will sustain the current "surge" in troop levels through June 2008. Discussing the extension of deployments to 15 months in an interview Tuesday, Gen. Richard Cody told the AP that it would take until at least June to shrink the average back to 12 months while maintaining the 158,000 troops now deployed in the region.
“It’s going to take a while to get off the 15 months,” he said.
A number of military leaders have expressed a wish for more time to press on with the additional manpower, but this is the first one who appears to mention it as a foregone conclusion.
The US military may want more time to work on stabilizing the situation and preparing Iraqi security forces to assume control, but the Pentagon can expect to face a disagreeable, if not outright hostile, Democrat-led Congress next month. That raises the issue of how exactly the Pentagon would pay for continuation of the surge. President Bush's budgetary request in the supplemental spending bill passed in late May included a funding estimate to cover the surge of additional troops only through the end of FY2007. According to a CRS report released last month, the Pentagon's FY2008 budget estimate would "presumably be inadequate" to maintain the surge troop levels past the end of September, unless additional funding is requested or "DOD shifted funds from procurement to military personnel and operations."
CRS points out that military appropriations allots funding for types of expenses--such as personnel costs--rather than for specific operations, advising that, "Unless Congress enacts specific restrictions, the president can use currently available DOD funds to conduct military operations including the deployment of additional troops."
The report also outlines different Constitutionally-sound measures Congress could adopt to affect military operations and troop levels in Iraq--all involving restrictions on funding, or how funds can be used. The Dems have been agitating to establish a plan for the draw down of US forces since they took control in January, and recent months have seen even senior Republicans turning against Bush's Iraq policy. A sense that the "DC clock" is running out of time pervades Capitol Hill, and many legislators look at September 15th as the end of patience. With Petraeus expected to push for a sustainment of the surge, Hill-watchers can anticipate a more aggressive attempt by Democrats--and probably a handful of Republicans--to exercise the power of the purse.
Security developments in Iraq on Monday, August 20, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 52. Iraqis reported wounded: 95.
BAGHDAD – Police found the bodies of 12 unidentified people shot execution style in different parts of the capital on Monday, police said, according to VOI. Nine bodies were found in the Karkh sector of west Baghdad (two in Amil, two in Bayya’, two in Saidiya, one in I’lam, one in Jihad, and one in Mansour) and three were found in the Rusafa sector of east Baghdad (one in Sadr City, one in Sulaikh, an one in Nidhal Street). BAGHDAD - At least five people were killed and 20 wounded when a parked car bomb exploded in the Chuwadir area of the Shi'ite Sadr City district of northeastern Baghdad on Monday, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. BAGHDAD - At least three people were killed and 11 wounded when a bomb on a parked motorcycle exploded near Rusafi Square in central Baghdad on Monday morning, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. BAGHDAD – Gunmen kidnapped Deputy Minister of Sciences and Technology Dr. Sameer Saleem Al-Attar and four of his bodyguards while he was returning to his residence in the Arasat Al-Hindiya area of central Baghdad on Monday, police said, according to VOI. Al-Attar was kidnapped near Jadriya, in the vicinity of dozens of police checkpoints and residences of Iraqi politicians, and which is virtually under the control of the Badr Organization – the armed military wing of SIIC. A ministry spokesman said Al-Attar was kidnapped on Sunday night along with his driver, adding that the kidnappers informed Al-Attar’s family that they were holding him but without demanding a ransom. Al-Attar is a member of the Iraqi National List of former PM Ayad Allawi. BAGHDAD – Mortar shells hit the former presidential palace compound in Adhamiya on Monday without casualties, according to McClatchy newspapers. BAGHDAD - At least five people were wounded when two roadside bombs detonated near a fuel station in the Za’faraniya district in southern Baghdad on Monday afternoon, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. BAGHDAD – The owner of a printing press was killed by unknown gunmen in central Baghdad’s Mutannabi Street on Sunday morning, his relatives said, according to WNA. KHALIS – Hundreds of angry Shi’ite demonstrators from the town of Khalis, north of Baghdad, blocked the main Baghdad-Kirkuk highway for several hours on Monday, protesting frequent insurgent attacks against the town from nearby villages and rural areas, according to VOI. Demonstrators said U.S. troops had called for a reconciliation conference in the predominately Shi’ite town and invited Sunni notables who locals accuse of supporting Al-Qaeda militants in the area, including a brother-in-law of former Iraqi Vice President Izzat Al-Duri. The town of Khalis, which is often bombed with mortars from nearby Sunni areas, had witnessed similar protests on Sunday. JUDAIDA – Police and eyewitnesses said 10 civilians were killed and 12 others wounded in a U.S. helicopter air strike in the Al-Bu Abdi area near the town of Judaida north of Baghdad on dawn Monday, according to VOI. WNA reported that a U.S. military force raided the area in search of Mahdi Army militants and detained 15 suspects. The U.S. military had said it killed eight gunmen and captured a cell leader and a weapons smuggler with suspected ties to Iran during a raid near Qasirin, north of Baghdad, but it was not clear whether the two incidents were related. MOSUL – Two civilians were wounded when three mortar rounds hit the Dawwasa district of central Mosul on Monday, police said, according to VOI. MOSUL - Two policemen were seriously wounded in a roadside bomb explosion targeting their patrol in northern Mosul on Monday, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. MOSUL – Police discovered and detonated a car bomb parked on the main road west of Mosul on Monday, police said, according to VOI. A policeman was wounded in the detonation, the source said. MOSUL – Police said U.S. helicopters bombed the Bakr and Nur districts of northern Mosul on Monday without casualties, according to WNA. The U.S. military did not comment on the attacks. QAHTANIYA – Kurdish Peshmerga fighters discovered and defused five roadside bombs planted on the main road 5 km west of the Qahtaniya village, where the deadliest bombings in Iraq since 2003 took place against the Yazidi community last Tuesday, a Peshmerga official told VOI. Up to 340 Peshmerga fighters had been deployed to the Mount Sinjar area west of Mosul –inhabited by the majority of Iraq’s Yezidi community – following orders by Masoud Barzani, president of the Kurdish autonomous region, last week. QAYYARA - The bodies of two policemen with gunshot wounds to the head were found in the town of Qayyara south of Mosul on Monday, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. HAJJ UMRAN – Eyewitnesses said Iranian artillery fire destroyed a primary school and several houses in a border village near Hajj Umran in the Kurdish autonomous region north of Iraq on Sunday evening, according to VOI. Iranian helicopters were seen circling the area following an attack by separatist Kurdish PJAK guerillas operating in the border region, downing an Iranian helicopter and killing five Iranian Revolutionary Guards on Saturday. HAWIJA - Gunmen killed a civil servant in Hawija (70 km southwest of Kirkuk), police said, according to Reuters. KIRKUK – Four policemen and a civilian were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near a police patrol in central Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad) on Monday, police said. KIRKUK – An Iraqi soldier was killed and two wounded in a roadside bomb explosion targeting their patrol on the Sarha bridge south of Kirkuk on Sunday evening, according to McClatchy newspapers. KIRKUK – A joint U.S.-Iraqi force deained 57 suspected militants during raids in the Wasiti and Mu’alimeen districts of southern Kirkuk on dawn Monday, a police source said. TUZ KHURMATO - One Iraqi soldier was killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb in Tuz Khurmato (80 km south of Kirkuk), police said, according to Reuters. BAIJI - Gunmen killed two police officers in a drive-by shooting in Baiji (180 km north of Baghdad), police said, according to Reuters. The officers were brothers, they said. BAIJI - Gunmen kidnapped five truck drivers on the road between Baiji and Tikrit, police said, according to Reuters. SAMARRA – Police said U.S. troops have been surrounding the Samarra Pharmaceuticals Factory since Sunday evening, holding 200 workers inside for unknown reasons, according to WNA. TAJI - At least five Iraqi soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb hit their armored vehicle in Taji (20 km north of Baghdad) on Sunday, an Iraqi army source said, according to Reuters. JALAWLA – Police defused three roadside bombs planted near a checkpoint in the town of Jalawla north east of Baghdad on Monday, according to WNA. MUQDADIYA – An Islamic Party official survived an assassination attempt with a roadside bomb against his convoy between Muqdadiya and Khanaqin on Monday, according to WNA. MUQDADIYA – Police found two unidentified bodies in the Mu’alimeen district of Muqdadiya on Monday, according to WNA. MUQDADIYA – Two civilians were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Muqdadiya on Monday, while three others were wounded when gunmen opened fire against them in the Mu’alimeen district, according to WNA. MANDALI – Gunmen at a fake checkpoint in the Nida area north of Mandali stopped seven truck drivers and set their trucks on fire on Monday, according to WNA. Two unidentified bodies were also discovered in the area, a Khanaqin police source said. RAMADI – Police captured four suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq militants during a raid in the Jaraishi area in the desert north of Ramadi on Monday, police said. FALLUJAH – A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military patrol in the Al-Bu Hatem area west of Fallujah on Monday afternoon, eyewitnesses said, according to McClatchy newspapers. The U.S. military did not comment on the attack. GARMA – Two civilians were killed and eight wounded in a mortar attack on the Huwaisat area of Garma north of Fallujah on Sunday evening, according to McClatchy newspapers. LATIFIYA – Iraqi Army troops detained 50 suspected militants and confiscated weapons during raids in the Latifiya region (30 km south of Baghdad) on Monday, a source in the 2nd Brigade of the Iraqi Army told VOI. ISKANDARIYA – A civilian was killed and three wounded during clashes between two rival tribes in the town of Iskandariya (50 km south of Baghdad) on Monday, police said, according to VOI and WNA. Two others were wounded in a hand grenade explosion. MUSAYAB – Police said U.S. forces bombed a residential area near the Technical Institute in Musayab with artillery fire following a rocket attack on the U.S. military base in the area on Sunday evening, according to WNA. The U.S. military did not comment on the attack. MIDHATIYA – Police found an unidentified body with multiple gunshot wounds floating in the Euphrates River near the town of Midhatiya (30 km south of Hilla) on Monday, police said. DIWANIYA – Eyewitnesses said a sewage treatment plant in the Qa’im district of Diwaniya was destroyed in a U.S. air strike on Sunday evening. The U.S. military did not comment on the incident. RUMAITHA - Muthana Governor Mohammed Al-Hassani and two of his guards were killed in a roadside bomb explosion that hit his convoy on Monday morning near the town of Rumaitha north of Samara (280 km south of Baghdad), governorate officials said, according to Reuters and VOI. Two other guards were wounded in the attack. An indefinite curfew was imposed in Samawa after the attack. A member of SIIC’s Badr Organization, Al-Hassani has been in the position of Muthanna governor since October 2003 and is the second southern governor affiliated with SIIC to be killed over the last ten days. Diwaniya Governor Khaleel Jaleel Hamza was killed in a similar attack on August 10. NAJAF – U.S. troops surrounded the offices of the Shaheed Al-Mihrab Islamic Foundation in Najaf and detained its guards for 30 minutes before releasing them on Monday morning, a Najaf governorate source told VOI. The source said U.S. troops photographed the building before leaving the area. The Shaheed Al-Mihrab Islamic Foundation is a Shi’ite organization affiliated with the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council and is headed by Ammar Al-Hakim – the son of SIIC leader and head of the Shi’ite majority bloc in Iraqi parliament, Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim. NAJAF – A roadside bomb exploded against a U.S. military patrol on the main road south of Najaf (160 km south of Baghdad) on Monday afternoon without casualties, a security source in Najaf said. The U.S. military did not comment on the attack. BASRAH – A roadside bomb exploded outside a games center in the 5 Mile area of northern Basrah causing great damage to several stores on dawn Monday, police said, according to VOI. Shi’ite militias in Basrah have threatened and targeted alcohol stores, music shops and women hairdressers in the past. BASRAH – Police and human rights organizations in Basrah said they uncovered a mass grave containing the remains of at least 28 youths who were executed during the 1991 uprising in the Shi’ite south, according to VOI. Residents of the predominately Shi’ite Al-Hussein district near the Sports Education College stumbled upon the site while they were digging to construct a new house. BASRAH – The head of the Basrah bureau of the Iranian Al-Alam satellite channel, Ni’ma Abdul Razzaq, said they have received anonymous telephone threats, warning them that they would be killed if they continue to operate in Basrah, according to Journalistic Freedoms Observatory in Iraq and VOI. Abdul Razzaq accused U.S. and British intelligence of being behind the threats. The Al-Alam Arabic-language channel, which is funded by Iran, regularly covers attacks against British troops in the southern city. BASRAH – Police captured nine oil smugglers and confiscated a fuel tanker and five vehicles loaded with gas oil during a raid in the Mishraq area of central Basrah on Monday, police said, according to VOI. BASRAH – Major British military bases in Basrah were attacked with mortar and rocket fire over the last 24 hours without casualties, a British military spokesman said today.
Iraq Security Developments - Tuesday Attacks Against U.S. Bases in Diwaniya and Nasirya; Mass Grave Found in Fallujah
Security developments in Iraq on Tuesday, August 21, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 70. Iraqis reported wounded: 93.
BAGHDAD – Police found the bodies of 14 unidentified people shot execution style in different parts of the capital on Tuesday, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. Eight of the bodies were uncovered in the Karkh sector of west Baghdad (two in Amil, two in Bayya’, two in Hurriya, one in Dora, and one in Adil) and six were found in the Rusafa sector of eastern Baghdad (two in Sadr City, two in Ur, one in Sulaikh, and one in Karrada). BAGHDAD - Two people were killed and 14 wounded when a roadside bomb targeting a U.S. patrol exploded near a small bus in the Baghdad Al-Jedida district in eastern Baghdad, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. BAGHDAD – A Katyusha rocket hit the residence of Judge Arif Shaheen, head of the Higher Criminal Court, in the fortified Green Zone on Tuesday afternoon, wounding two of his guards, police said, according to VOI. BAGHDAD – Eyewitnesses said a U.S. military patrol opened heavy fire against a house in the Shi’ite Shu’la district of western Baghdad on dawn Tuesday, according to WNA. The U.S. military did not comment on the incident. BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's office announced that 11 men convicted of murder and rape were executed in Baghdad on Tuesday. BAGHDAD - U.S. forces said they killed five suspected insurgents and detained 11 others during military operations in the cities of Ba’quba, Mosul and Kirkuk, the U.S. military said today. BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army said it killed four suspected insurgents and detained 100 others during the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defense Ministry said. ISKANDARIYA - Gunmen stormed a house and killed seven members of a Sunni family and wounded two in the Muwayliha village near the town of Iskandariya (50 km south of Baghdad) on Tuesday, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. Two police sources said the dead included three women and a baby girl. The family belonged to the Sunni Janabiyeen tribe, which is often accused by Shi’ite groups in the area of ties to insurgent groups. ISKANDARIYA – Police found the body of a policeman near the Usama bin Zaid mosque in Iskandariya on Tuesday, police said. Another policeman was wounded in an attack by insurgents near the Iskandariya market, and another in a roadside bomb explosion targeting a police patrol. The area had witnessed sporadic clashes between Shi’ite and Sunni tribes recently. FALLUJAH - Eight people were wounded when a suicide bomber wearing an explosives vest targeted a queue of people outside a police station in Fallujah (50 km west of Baghdad) on Tuesday, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. The victims were among a group of civilians applying for identification badges. FALLUJAH – Police said they uncovered a mass grave containing the remains of 300 people in the Zoba’ village (17 km south of Fallujah), most of them thought to be victims of Al-Qaeda militants, according to VOI and WNA. The police source said the mass grave was discovered several days ago and that many of the victims were identified as residents of the village. SAQLAWIYA – A man was killed and two women and a boy wounded from the same family when a mortar round hit their house near a police station in Saqlawiya (10 km north west of Fallujah) on Tuesday, police said, according to VOI. A security source also said U.S. troops detained a suspected member of the Al-Qaeda-led Islamic State of Iraq group, which still maintains a presence in the town of Saqlawiya, on Tuesday morning. RAMADI – Police found three unidentified bodies in the 5 Kilo area north of Ramadi on Tuesday, police said. KHALIS – Eyewitnesses said six civilians were killed and five wounded when U.S. troops opened fire against a group of people protesting insurgent attacks against the predominately Shi’ite town of Khalis north of Baghdad on Tuesday, according to VOI. The town had witnessed similar demonstrations for the last three days, and angry protestors blocked the main Baghdad-Kirkuk road on Monday. The U.S. military denied shooting at demonstrators but confirmed that they were blocking the main Baghdad-Kirkuk road and that U.S. troops fired several warning shots and smoke screens to clear the road, according to Reuters. HIBHIB – The mayor and police commander of Khalis escaped an assassination attempt when their convoy passed the town of Hibhib north of Baghdad, Al-Nahrain and PUK Media reported. Khalis Mayor Uday Al-Khadran (SIIC) said a joint checkpoint of Hibhib police and members of the 1920 Revolution Brigades insurgent group recently recruited by U.S. troops to protect the road opened fire against the convoy, wounding two bodyguards and a driver and damaging two vehicles. MUQDADIYA – A policeman was killed and four wounded in a roadside bomb attack targeting their patrol in the Mu’alimeen district of Muqdadiya on Tuesday, police said. Eight gunmen were killed in clashes with an Iraqi Army patrol, an army source told WNA. BAQUBA – Gunmen assassinated the nephew of Diyala Governor Rasheed Al-Mullah Jawad east of Ba’quba on Tuesday, a source close to the governor told PUK Media. BAQUBA – Gunmen killed a police officer working in the Major Crimes Directorate in central Ba’quba on Tuesday, police said, according to WNA. TALA’FAR – A roadside bomb exploded in the Allaw village 5 km east of the Turkmen town of Tala’far killing two municipality workers and wounding five others on Tuesday, the mayor of Tala’far said, according to VOI. MOSUL – A car bomb explosion wounded 42 people, including five policemen, near a U.S. military patrol in the Ghizlani area of southern Mosul on Tuesday, police said, according to VOI. Eyewitnesses said a U.S. vehicle was destroyed in the attack. MOSUL – Gunmen shot and killed a young woman at a market in the Nabi Younis area of eastern Mosul on Tuesday, police said, according to VOI. HAWIJA – Two local municipal council members were seriously wounded when they were attacked by insurgents in a drive-by shooting in Hawija (70 km south west of Fallujah) on Tuesday, police said, according to VOI. JURF AL-SAKHAR – Police found an unidentified body near the town of Jurf Al-Sakhar south west of Baghdad on Tuesday, according to WNA. JIBALA – A civilian was seriously wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in the Himairi area near the town of Jibala south of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said, according to WNA. SUWAIRA – Police uncovered two unidentified bodies with multiple gunshot wounds from the Tigris River near the town of Suwaira south east of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. NAJAF – A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. military patrol on the Najaf-Diwaniya road on Tuesday, police said, according to WNA. A bus was damaged in the attack, wounding several people. Police defused a second roadside bomb in the same area. DIWANIYA – U.S. jet fighters bombed a commercial building in the Fadhiliya district of central Diwaniya causing a large fire to break out in the area, police said, according to WNA. The U.S. military had also bombed and destroyed a sewage treatment plant in Diwaniya yesterday. The U.S. military did not comment on the attack. DIWANIYA – Six Katyusha rockets hit the U.S. military base in Diwaniya on dawn Tuesday, police said. The U.S. military did not comment on the attack. NASIRYA – The U.S. military base at the Imam Ali (Tallil) airbase south of Nasirya was attacked by three rockets in two separate attacks on Tuesday, a security source told Nasiriya News Network. The U.S. military did not comment on the attack.
Iraq Security Developments - Wednesday 14 U.S. Soldiers Killed in Helicopter Crash; Iran Resumes Shelling Kurdish Areas
Security developments in Iraq on Wednesday, August 22, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 76. Iraqis reported wounded: 120. U.S. troops reported killed: 15. U.S. troops reported wounded: 3.
BAGHDAD – Police found the bodies of 15 unidentified shot execution-style in different parts of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. Twelve bodies were found in the Karkh sector of western Baghdad (three in Amil, two in Bayya’, two in Saidiya, two in I’lam, two in Dora, and one in Kadhimiya) and three in the Rusafa sector of eastern Baghdad (one in Baghdad Al-Jedida, one in Bab Al-Mu’adham, and one in Sulaikh). BAGHDAD - Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul Karim Khalaf said 56 suspected Al-Qaeda militants were killed during a military operation in the predominately Sunni Fadhl district of central Baghdad on Tuesday evening. Residents in the area said four people were killed and many wounded during intermittent fighting between Al-Qaeda fighters and rival insurgent groups on Monday and Tuesday, according to Reuters and VOI, but the casualty count could not be confirmed independently. BAGHDAD - Iraqi soldiers killed five suspected insurgents and detained 87 others across Iraq during the past 24 hours, the Defence Ministry said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed one person and wounded five in the Washash district of western Baghdad, police said, according to Reuters. BAGHDAD – Gunmen shot and wounded a driver employed by the state-run Al-Sabah newspaper while he was in the predominately Shi’ite Ur district of northeastern Baghdad on Wednesday evening, a source from the newspaper told VOI. BAGHDAD - Two civilians were wounded when a mortar shell hit their house in the Baladiyyat district of eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, according to McClatchy newspapers. BAGHDAD – Two children were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in the Jurf Al-Naddaf area east of Baghdad on Tuesday night. BAGHDAD – A female reporter working for the Kurdish PUK Media Agency said she was kidnapped, blindfolded and tortured for four hours by gunmen in the I’lam district of southern Baghdad before she was released, according to VOI. The reporter, who refused to give her name, said the gunmen mistook her for an interpreter working for U.S. troops. BAGHDAD – A U.S. soldier was killed and three wounded during combat operations west of Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb detonated near a U.S. military patrol in the Army Canal highway of eastern Baghdad on Wednesday. There were no reports of casualties. BAIJI - At least 20 people were killed and 50 wounded when a suicide bomber blew up a fuel tanker outside the Baiji police station (180 km north of Baghdad) on Wednesday, the Interior Ministry said. SAMARRA - Fourteen U.S. soldiers were killed when their helicopter crashed in the Hawi area north of Samarra, the U.S. military said. It said initial indications suggested the Black Hawk helicopter had suffered mechanical failure, but eyewitnesses in the area said insurgents opened heavy machine gun fire on the helicopter, which was flying at a low altitude. TIKRIT - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed two policemen and wounded eight in Tikrit (175 km north of Baghdad), police said, according to Reuters. TIKRIT – Gunmen assassinated Colonel Uthman Chaichan, police operations commander in the Salah Al-Din governorate, near his home in the Qadisiya district of Tikrit, police said, according to WNA. HAWIJA - A car bomb exploded near the convoy of the head of Hawija municipal council, Hussein Ali Salih, known locally as Abu Saddam, wounding two of his guards, in Hawija (70 km southwest of Kirkuk) on Wednesday, police said. Salih had escaped an earlier assassination attempt in early July when gunmen attacked him in Hawija. Two municipal council members were also wounded yesterday in a drive-by shooting in Hawija. RIYADH – Gunmen assassinated the mayor of the Kharba village in a drive-by shooting outside his house near the town of Riyadh (65 km south west of Kirkuk) on Wednesday, police said, according to VOI. KIRKUK - A policeman was wounded in a roadside bomb attack against his patrol in Kirkuk on Wednesday, police said. KIRKUK – Police raided the building of the Kirkuk Cultural Center and detained its deputy director, Dr. Abdul Kareem Khalif Al-Mohammedawi, and 16 employees and guards in the Wasiti district of Kirkuk on Wednesday, according to VOI. A Kirkuk police source told PUK Media that several Katyusha rockets were found in the building. TUZ KHURMATO - Two suspected insurgents were killed when a roadside bomb they were trying to implant exploded in the town of Tuz Khurmato (180 km north of Baghdad), police said, according to Reuters. TUZ KHURMATO – The Tuz Khurmato police commander escaped an assassination attempt when a roadside bomb detonated near his convoy south west of Tuz Khurmato on Wednesday afternoon, killing a policeman and wounding three others, including a police lieutenant, according to VOI. MUQDADIYA – A suicide bomber blew up his explosive vest at a crowded market in the town of Muqdadiya on Wednesday evening, killing 16 people and wounding 30, according to VOI. MUQDADIYA – Gunmen killed a civilian and wounded two women in the Mu’alimeen district of Muqdadiya on Wednesday, a medical source said. BAQUBA – Eyewitnesses said gunmen belonging to the 1920 Revolution Brigades recruited by U.S. troops to fight Al-Qaeda kidnapped an old man and three women who were returning to the Ambakiya village from Karbala after reports that it was cleared from militants, according to PUK Media. BALADRUZ – Gunmen killed a policeman and wounded another in Baladruz on Wednesday, according to PUK Media. KAN’AN – Gunmen killed a police commissioner in Kan’an east of Ba’quba on Wednesday, police said, according to PUK Media. FAIDA - Four Kurdish Peshmerga fighters were wounded in a roadside bomb attack near Faida, north of Mosul, on Tuesday, according to McClatchy newspapers. QALAT DIZA – The mayor of Qalat Diza said the Iranian military resumed the shelling of Kurdish border villages near Qalat Diza on Wednesday. Residents had said Tuesday that Iranian helicopters dropped leaflets signed by the Islamic Republic of Iran warning villagers to evacuate the area ahead of an Iranian military offensive directed at Kurdish separatist PJAK guerillas, a breakaway faction from the PKK. The Iranian government denied knowledge of the leaflets, according to Reuters. SAQLAWIYA – Police said they detained two militants suspected to be members of the Al-Qaeda-led Islamic State of Iraq insurgent group in the town of Saqlawiya 15 km north west of Fallujah on Wednesday, according to VOI. LATIFIYA – Gunmen wounded two Iraqi soldiers in a drive-by shooting in Latifiya south of Baghdad on Wednesday, the Iraqi Army said, according to WNA. ISKANDARIYA - Gunmen killed two people in a drive-by shooting in the town of Iskandariya (40 km south of Baghda) on Wednesday, police said, according to WNA. Another civilian was shot and killed on Tuesday night. ISKANDARIYA – A woman was killed and four people wounded by a mortar attack at the Anwar district and Khudhur Street in Iskandariya on Wednesday, police said, according to WNA. HASWA – Gunmen killed a civilian in a drive-by shooting in the town of Haswa south of Baghdad on Tuesday night, police said, according to WNA. HILLA – Two people were wounded in a mortar attack at the Nadir district in Hilla on Tuesday night, police said, according to WNA. KUFA – Two masked men stabbed a female professor to death in front of her house in the Ghiri district of Kufa, north east of Najaf, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. The victim, Shahlaa’ Al-Nasrawi, married and a mother of two, was a professor at the Law College of Kufa University and has no known political affiliation. NAJAF – Police detained a person planting a roadside bomb on the main Najaf-Karbala road north of Najaf on Wednesday, police said, according to WNA. NU’MANIYA – Police discovered and defused three roadside bombs planted on a road north east of Kut near the town of Nu’maniya (50 km north east of Kut) on Wednesday, according to VOI. Nu’maniya is considered a relatively safe area of the Wasit governorate and is inhabited by Shia and Sunni tribes. KUT – Gunmen broke into the office of Dr. Dhiaa’ Al-Din Jaleel Salim, the head of the Wasit Health Directorate, on Wednesday afternoon and took him to an unknown destination before he was released four hours later, a media source in the Wasit governorate told VOI. Dr. Salim is a member of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council, led by Abdul Aziz Al-Hakim, and was appointed as Wasit health director last February by the governorate council. There have also been many accusations of corruption and nepotism directed at Dr. Salim in the governorate. KUT – Gunmen killed a policeman working in the criminal investigations unit in the Wahda district of Kut on Tuesday night, police said, according to VOI. Police also found the body of a cargo truck driver shot execution-style inside his truck at a vegetable market south east of Kut. BIDAIR – A joint U.S.-Iraqi force raided the town of Bidair (50 km east of Diwaniya) on dawn Wednesday and detained two wanted Mahdi Army militants, a security source in Diwaniya told VOI. The source added that a U.S.-Iraqi force also raided the Diwaniya textiles factory and detained another suspect. BASRAH – The British military base in the Basrah International Airport was hit by several Katyusha rockets on Wednesday morning with no reports of casualties, a source at the airport told WNA. BASRAH – Police found an unidentified body shot execution-style in the Qibla district of Basrah on Wednesday, police said, according to WNA.
Iraq Security Developments - Thursday Islamic State of Iraq Assaults Sunni Village Near Baquba, Kills Insurgent Leader
Security developments in Iraq on Thursday, 23 August, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 102. Iraqis reported wounded: 91. U.S. troops reported killed: 1. U.S. troops reported wounded: 15.
BAGHDAD - Police found the bodies of 12 unidentified people shot execution-style in different parts of Baghdad on Thursday, police said. Eight bodies were found in the Karkh sector of west Baghdad (two in Amil, two in Hurriya, one in Jihad, one in Saidiya, one in Jami’a, and one in Mansour) and four in the Rusafa sector of east Baghdad (two in Sadr City, one in Ur, and one in Baghdad Al-Jedida). BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb near a parking lot killed a civilian and wounded five others in the Ni’airiya district of eastern Baghdad, police said, according to Reuters. BAGHDAD - Two people were killed and four wounded by a mortar attack in northern Baghdad, police said, according to Reuters. BAGHDAD – Several mortar shells hit the fortified Green Zone area in central Baghdad without casualties on Thursday morning, an official from the joint media center told VOI. BAGHDAD – Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and four others and 11 U.S. soldiers wounded in two suicide bomb attacks near a U.S. military outpost in northern Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. military said today. BAGHDAD – A U.S. soldier was killed and four wounded in a roadside bomb attack targeting their patrol in western Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. military said today. BAGHDAD - The U.S. military killed one suspected insurgent and detained 10 others during military operations in the cities of Baquba, Baiji and Mosul, the U.S. military said. NEAR BAQUBA - At least 32 people, including 10 militants, were killed and 22 wounded when Al-Qaeda-led Islamic State of Iraq gunmen attacked the predominately Sunni villages of Sheikh Tamim and Ibrahim Al-Yehia in a rural area between Baquba and Kan’an on dawn Thursday, police and eyewitnesses said, according to Reuters and VOI. The villages were bombed by mortars followed by an assault of dozens of Al-Qaeda gunmen armed with rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns, police said. Al-Qaeda gunmen reportedly killed a mosque imam, blew up the Hussein mosque, and kidnapped 15 people from the village before they left the area, following clashes with police and residents. Residents said the attack was to punish the villagers for supporting the 1920 Revolution Brigades insurgent group, which had turned against Al-Qaeda in the Diyala governorate, and that Al-Qaeda groups are still taking refuge in the villages of Bani Zaid and Mujamma’ south west of Kan’an. A source from the Diyala operations command said the attack specifically targeted the mosque imam, who was also a leading figure in the 1920 Revolution Brigades, and his family, according to PUK Media. MANSURIYA – Three people were wounded in a mortar attack on the town of Mansuriyat Al-Jabal north east of Ba’quba on Thursday, according to WNA. MUQDADIYA - The final toll of a suicide motorbike bombing targeting a police patrol in a market in the town of Muqdadiya (90 km northeast of Baghdad), was 10 killed and 31 wounded on Wednesday, police said, according to Reuters. MANDILI – The Iraqi Army said it arrested 150 people in raids in the mixed Kurdish and Turkmen town of Mandili near the Iraqi-Iranian border 85 km west of Ba’quba on Thursday. MOSUL – Two people were killed and 12 others, including four policemen, were wounded in a car bomb explosion in the Farouq area of central Mosul on Thursday, police said, according to VOI. Police were retrieving two unidentified bodies from an abandoned car in the area when it blew up, causing great damage to nearby buildings. MOSUL – A civilian was killed and three others wounded when two mortar shells hit the Cornishe street of central Mosul on Thursday, police said, according to Nirgal Gate. MOSUL - Gunmen assassinated a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party along with his driver in a drive-by shooting near his house in the Habaa’ district of Mosul on Thursday, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. RIYADH – Police found the body of a civilian with gunshot wounds in the Ajaj village near the town of Riyadh south west of Kirkuk on Wednesday night, police said. BAIJI - The final toll of a suicide fuel tanker bombing targeting Baiji police station on Wednesday was 27 killed and 79 wounded, Dr. Thamir Al-Kawan, director of Baiji hospital, told Reuters. KHALIDIYA – Gunmen killed a civilian and wounded two others in a drive-by shooting in the town of Khalidiya west of Fallujah on Thursday, police said, according to VOI. ISKANDARIYA – A joint U.S.-Iraqi force detained 25 suspected militants in the Muwayliha area near Iskandariya (40 km south of Baghdad) on Thursday, Babel police commander said. HINDIYA – Gunmen assassinated a member of SIIC in a drive-by shooting near the town of Hindiya east of Karbala on Thursday, police said, according to WNA. AZIZIYA – Eyewitnesses said a roadside bomb explosion targeting a U.S. military patrol destroyed a Hummer vehicle near the town of Aziziya (90 km south east of Baghdad), according to VOI. The U.S. military did not comment on the attack. KUT - Three mortar rounds landed on a house near the Kut Police Directorate, killing two civilians and wounding six from one family, police said. The predominately Shi’ite city of Kut had recently witnessed tensions between Sadrists and SIIC. BASRAH - British forces killed two militants on Wednesday night when their military convoy was attacked by small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades outside the British consulate compound in the southern city of Basrah (550 km southeast of Baghdad), the British military said. The joint coordination center in the Hakimiya district of Basrah was also attacked with small arms fire, the spokesman said. BASRAH – The British consulate at the former presidential compound south east of Basrah was hit by two Katyusha rockets with no reports of casualties, police said. The British military did not comment on the attack. ABU AL-KHASIB – Police found and defused 15 mortar rounds near the town of Abu Al-Khasib (20 km south east of Basrah) on Thursday, police said.
Iraq Security Developments - Tuesday Eleven SIIC Offices Attacked; 27 Dead and 134 Wounded in Karbala Violence
Security developments in Iraq on Tuesday, August 28, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 140. Iraqis reported wounded: 218.
BAGHDAD – Police found the bodies of 13 unidentified people shot execution style in different districts of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. Most were found in the Karkh sector of west Baghdad (two in Amil, two in Saidiya, two in Hurriya, one in Ghazaliya, one in Shu’la, and one in Mahmoudiya) and four in the Rusafa sector of east Baghdad (two in Qahira, one in Ur, and one in Sadr City), police said. BAGHDAD – Iraqi police said five people were killed and at least 20 wounded in clashes that broke out between suspected Mahdi Army militiamen and Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council (SIIC) guards near two SIIC offices in the Habibiya district of eastern Baghdad near Sadr City on Tuesday evening. Eyewitnesses said Mahdi Army militiamen attacked two SIIC offices in different parts of Habibiya with small and medium arms fire. BAGHDAD – Suspected Mahdi Army militiamen broke into a SIIC office in the Shi’ite district of Kadhimiya and set it on fire on Tuesday, police and eyewitnesses said, adding that clashes broke out between militiamen and guards, leaving an unspecified number of casualties. McClatchy newspapers reported that the militiamen abducted four people from the office. BAGHDAD – Suspected Mahdi Army militiamen attacked three SIIC offices in the predominately Shi’ite suburb of Husseiniya north of Baghdad on Tuesday evening, police said, according to VOI. BAGHDAD - Suspected Mahdi Army militiamen attacked a SIIC office in the Amil district of southern Baghdad and clashed with guards on Tuesday evening, eyewitnesses said, according to McClatchy newspapers. There were no reports of casualties. Gunmen also attacked SIIC offices in Shu’la and Jadiriya, according to the New York Times. BAGHDAD – Unknown gunmen broke into the Sunni Hajj Isma’il mosque in the mixed Qahira district of northern Baghdad, killed three worshippers and abducted three others on Tuesday afternoon, police said, according to VOI. The attack came hours after four people were killed in the neighborhood in a drive-by shooting. BAGHDAD – Two civilians were killed and six wounded when a mortar round hit the Baghdad Al-Jedida district of eastern Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon, police said, according to VOI. BAGHDAD – U.S. troops stormed into the Ishtar Sheraton Hotel in central Baghdad on Tuesday and detained six members of an Iranian delegation visiting Iraq to sign contracts with the Iraqi Ministry of Electricity, according to Radio Sawa and Al-Hurra TV. The Iraqi deputy minister of electricity was in the middle of a meeting with the Iranian delegation when U.S. soldiers arrested them, Radio Sawa reported. The U.S. military declined to comment on the incident, and a spokesman for the the Ministry of Electricity denied any knowledge of the delegation’s visit. BAGHDAD – A civilian was killed and three wounded in a car bomb explosion in the Sheikh Omar area of central Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon, police said, according to VOI. BAGHDAD – Iraqi police discovered and defused two abandoned cars rigged with explosives in the Mashtal district of eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, police said, according to VOI. BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army said it had killed 14 gunmen and arrested 21 in different parts of Baghdad during the last 24 hours. BAGHDAD - Gunmen wounded four Shi'ite pilgrims in the Al-Bu Aitha area south of Baghdad's southern Dora district on Tuesday morning, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. FALLUJAH – The death toll from a suicide bomb attack targeting the Al-Raqeeb mosque in Fallujah rose to 12, a medical source from the Fallujah general hospital told VOI today. A suicide bomber had detonated his explosive vest inside the mosque just after evening prayers on Monday, killing 10 people, including the mosque imam Sheikh Abdul Sattar Al-Jumaili and his son, and seriously wounding 11 others. KARBALA – Twenty-seven people were killed and 143 wounded in a fresh outbreak of violence in the holy city of Karbala, where hundreds of thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims gathered on Tuesday for a major ritual, while the toll from violence on Monday and Tuesday rose to 31 dead and 179 wounded, a medical source at the Hussein hospital in Karbala said today. NAJAF – Authorities imposed a nighttime curfew in the Shi’ite holy city of Najaf as a precautionary measure to prevent the spread of intra-Shi’ite violence, police said, according to WNA. Checkpoints and security barriers were placed around the old city, housing the Imam Ali shrine and the residences of the four Shi’ite top clerics, and armored vehicles were deployed to major streets and intersections, the source said. PENJWIN – Clashes broke out between Kurdish emergency police and separatist Kurdish PJAK fighters outside the town of Penjwin near the Iranian border, wounding one Kurdish policeman, emergency police commander General Ramadhan Abu Bakr said today. The fighting started when PJAK fighters refused to leave the area, Abu Bakr said. PJAK, or the Party of Free Life of Kurdistan, is an Iranian offshoot of the Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) of southeastern Turkey. PJAK guerillas operating from bases inside the Iraqi border have recently staged several attacks against Iranian Revolutionary Guards, including the shooting down of a helicopter last week. Iran has responded by shelling suspected PJAK positions around Hajj Umran, Qalat Diza and Penjwin. MOSUL – The medico-legal institute in Mosul received six unidentified bodies, one of them burned completely and three of them decapitated, a medical source said today, according to VOI. MOSUL – Two brothers were shot dead inside their vehicle by U.S. troops in the Wahda district of Mosul on Tuesday morning, police said, without giving more details, according to VOI. The U.S. military did not comment on the incident. MOSUL – Eyewitnesses said suspected militants brazenly used bulldozers on Monday night to remove several concrete blocks placed on strategic bridges and streets by U.S. and Iraqi troops to restrict militant activity in city, according to Nirgal Gate. MOSUL – Iraqi police defused a roadside bomb in the Borsa area of western Mosul on Tuesday, acting on a tip by residents, police said. The Iraqi Army said it discovered and detonated a roadside bomb factory in eastern Mosul on Tuesday. HAMAM Al-ALEEL – Six people, including five policemen, were killed when gunmen attacked their checkpoint near Hamam Al-Aleel south of Mosul on Tuesday night, police said. KIRKUK - Gunmen wounded a policeman and his wife when they opened fire on their car in the northern city of Kirkuk, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. KIRKUK - At least two policemen and a civilian were wounded when gunmen opened fire on their car in the northern city of Kirkuk, police said. HAWIJA – A joint U.S.-Iraqi force detained 10 suspected militants during a security operation in the volatile town of Hawija (70 km south west of Kirkuk) on dawn Tuesday, a security source in Kirkuk said today, according to VOI. An indefinite curfew was imposed on the town. HAWIJA – Gunmen wounded a civilian in a drive-by shooting near a bank in Hawija on Tuesday, according to McClatchy newspapers. TIKRIT - Gunmen killed a police colonel in the Al-Bu Ajeel area west of Tikrit (175 km north of Baghdad) on Monday night, police said, according to Reuters. BAQUBA - At least 14 people were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their bus in Ba’quba (57 km north of Baghdad) on Tuesday, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. KHALIS - U.S. and Iraqi troops said they killed 33 suspected insurgents in an airborne assault and air strikes near Khalis north of Baghdad in an operation to reopen a major irrigation canal that had been seized by gunmen. UDHAIM – Four Iraqi soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb explosion targeting their patrol in the town of Udhaim north of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said, according to VOI. WAJIHIYA – Police said 10 suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq militants, including a Saudi national, were detained during a security operation in the town of Wajihiya (45 km north east of Ba’quba) on Tuesday, according to VOI. SA’DIYA – Iraqi police found the body of a Kurdish civilian in the town of Sa’diya north east of Baghdad on Tuesday, according to WNA. MAHMUDIYA - At least six Shi'ite pilgrims were wounded when gunmen attacked them in Mahmudiya (30 km south of Baghdad) on Tuesday morning, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. ISKANDARIYA - Gunmen killed two Shi'ite pilgrims when they opened fire on their vehicle near Iskandariya (40 km south of Baghdad) on Tuesday, Babel police said, according to Reuters and VOI. MAHAWIL - Gunmen opened fire on Shi'ite pilgrims, wounding two in Mahawil (70 km south of Baghdad) on Monday, police said, according to Reuters. HILLA – Suspected Mahdi Army militiamen attacked a SIIC office in the Nadir district of Hilla and clashed with guards, police said, according to WNA. HASHIMIYA – About 20 gunmen, suspected to be Mahdi Army militiamen broke into a SIIC office in the Shi’ite town of Hashimiya (30 km south of Hilla), cleared its occupants, and set it on fire on Tuesday, a Babel police source told VOI. Police imposed a curfew on the town following the attack. MUSAYAB - Gunmen killed a policeman and wounded his brother in Musayab (60 km south of Baghdad), on Monday night, police said, according to Reuters. KUT – Eyewitnesses said a tribal leader – Sheikh Aziz Hameed Miz’al, head of the Shumoos tribe – was killed and his wife seriously wounded in a U.S. military air strike targeting his house in the Falahiya area (4 km south of Kut) on Monday night. The U.S. military did not immediately comment on the attack. The same area had witnessed clashes between U.S. troops and suspected Mahdi Army militiamen on Sunday night, wounding 12 people, according to VOI. DIWANIYA – Iraqi police said two wanted criminals were killed by unknown gunmen in the Nahdha district of Diwaniya on Tuesday, according to WNA. KAHLAA’ – Iraqi police discovered and defused three roadside bombs planted under crude oil pipelines near Kahlaa’ (35 km south east of Amara) on Tuesday, a police spokesman told VOI. BASRAH – The compound housing the British and U.S. consulates south east of Basrah was targeted with several mortar rounds without casualties, the British military said today.
Screw the Jarab Mehdi Monkeys. This proves that that Sadr doesn't wield the power he thought he did. I would love it if these monkeys turned against their master and started to fight amongst themselves. Sadr waited all this time to "rehabilitate" his Shuwadi despite the hundreds of reports that were highlighting all the crimes they committed.
Iraq Security Developments - Wednesday Mahdi Army Attacks on SIIC Offices Continue, Despite Statement from Sadr
Security developments in Iraq on Wednesday, August 29, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 55. Iraqis reported wounded: 35. U.S. troops reported killed: 1.
BAGHDAD – Police found the bodies of 11 unidentified people shot execution-style in different parts of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said, according to Reuters. Nine bodies were found in the Karkh sector of west Baghdad (two in Amil, two in Dora, one in Saidiya, one in Jami’a, one in Kadhimiya, and one in Ghazaliya) and three in the Rusafa sector of east Baghdad (two in Baghdad Al-Jedida and one in Qahira). BAGHDAD - At least one person was killed and three wounded when a car bomb exploded near the Karkh court in the Mansour district of west Baghdad on Wednesday afternoon, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. BAGHDAD – Police said clashes broke out again between suspected Mahdi Army militiamen and Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council guards in the Habibiya district near Sadr City on Wednesday afternoon, according to VOI. Mahdi Army militiamen attacked two SIIC offices in the area on Tuesday as a reaction to the intra-Shi’ite violence in Karbala. BAGHDAD – SIIC sources said several members of the Badr Organization were abducted and then found shot execution-style in the Bayya’ district of Baghdad on Wednesday, according to Al-Melaf Net. The reports could not be confirmed independently. BAGHDAD – A civilian was wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in the Baghdad Al-Jedida district of eastern Baghdad on Wednesday morning, according to McClatchy newspapers. BAGHDAD – The U.S. military released six Iranian delegates it detained at a Baghdad hotel on Tuesday, an unnamed Iraqi official told VOI. The official and the Iranian Embassy in Iraq said the Iranian delegation was visiting Baghdad to sign a contract with the Iraqi Electricity Ministry. A U.S. military official said the Iranians were arrested for carrying arms without a permit, according to VOI. BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed two gunmen and arrested 22 others in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said today. MOSUL - A sniper shot dead two policemen in two different parts of Mosul on Wednesday, police said, according to Reuters and Eye Iraq Media. MOSUL – A policeman was wounded when a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle after being chased by police in Mosul on Wednesday, police said, according to Eye Iraq Media. MOSUL - Police killed a gunman wearing a suicide vest in Mosul on Tuesday, police said, according to Reuters. TALAFAR – Two civilians, a woman and her child, were wounded when 11 Katyusha rockets hit the Sarai and Muthanna districts of the Turkmen town of Tala’far (70 km west of Mosul) on Wednesday night, the mayor of Tala’far said, according to VOI. KIRKUK - Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi soldier in the Askari district of Kirkuk on Wednesday morning, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. KIRKUK - A car bomb killed three civilians and wounded seven others when it exploded in the Dumez district of southwestern Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad) on Wednesday evening, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. Nirgal Gate reported that the explosion was targeting a senior police commander, who escaped the attack. KIRKUK – Three policemen were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion targeting their patrol in the Dumez district of Kirkuk on Wednesday evening, police said, according to VOI. Gunmen also shot dead an alcohol-store owner in the same area on Wednesday, the source said. KIRKUK - Two people were killed and one wounded in a mortar attack on a residential area in Kirkuk, police said, according to Reuters. KIRKUK - One American soldier died of wounds suffered during combat operations in the vicinity of Kirkuk on Tuesday, the U.S. military said today. KIRKUK – Kirkuk police said they captured three suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq militants who had recently fled the Diyala governorate to Kirkuk, according to VOI. HAWIJA - Gunmen killed an Iraqi soldier in a drive-by shooting in Hawija (70 km southwest of Kirkuk) on Wednesday morning, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. TIKRIT - A woman and her five children were killed on Tuesday when gunmen stormed into her house in the village of Al-Bu Ajeel just east of Tikrit (175 km north of Baghdad), police said, according to Reuters and WNA. FALLUJAH – A joint U.S.-Iraqi force clashed with suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq militants at the Shayha rural area (9 km north of Fallujah) on Wednesday afternoon, killing five militants, wounding seven and detaining 12 others, Fallujah police said, according to VOI. The source added that a roadside bomb explosion in the area killed two U.S. soldiers and wounded another. The U.S. military did not confirm the deaths. HADITHA – Eyewitnesses said the U.S. military base in the Asad airbase near Haditha was attacked with mortar rounds on Wednesday, according to WNA. The U.S. military did not comment on the attack. MUQDADIYA – A roadside bomb explosion targeting a police patrol in the town of Muqdadiya killed eight policemen, police said, according to VOI. ABU SAIDA – Four Iraqi soldiers were wounded in clashes with militants in the Mukhaisa village near Abu Saida on Wednesday afternoon, an Iraqi Army source said, according to WNA. BAQUBA – Police found three bodies shot execution-style, including one of a displaced woman kidnapped five days ago, in the Mafraq area of west Ba’quba on Wednesday, police said, according to VOI. The Mafraq and nearby Gatoun and Mu’alimeen districts of Ba’quba had recently witnessed clashes between suspected Islamic State of Iraq militants and 1920 Revolution Brigades insurgents recruited by U.S. and Iraqi troops. KHALIS – Eyewitnesses said eight masked gunmen manning a fake checkpoint near the Mujadid village south of Khalis abducted a farmer and two of his relatives on Wednesday morning, according to VOI. The farmer was transporting his harvest to sell at nearby markets, locals said. Several villages around the town of Khalis and west of Ba’quba have continued to witness Al-Qaeda in Iraq activities despite major military operations in the region. ISKANDARIYA - The headquarters of SIIC in Iskandariya (40 km south of Baghdad) was attacked with mortar rounds without casualties, police said, according to VOI. KARBALA – Babel Police Commander General Qais Al-Ma’mouri escaped an assassination attempt when a roadside bomb exploded near his convoy while he was heading to Karbala, Babel police said, according to VOI. The source said the perpetrators were detained but without identifying them. KARBALA – Unknown gunmen attacked and torched the headquarters of the Islamic Da’wa Party in Karbala on Wednesday afternoon, eyewitnesses said, according to VOI. The attack coincided with the visit of Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki to the holy city. The Islamic Da’wa Party, led by Prime Minister Nuri Al-Maliki who succeeded former PM Ibrahim Al-Ja’fari, is a chief component of the United Iraqi Alliance – the majority Shi’ite bloc in Iraqi parliament. KARBALA – SIIC sources said several representatives of Grand Ayatollah Ali Al-Sistani and members of the Badr Organization, SIIC’s military wing, received threats from unknown gunmen warning them to leave Karbala within three days, according to Radio Sawa. HINDIYA – A Sadrist source said Iraqi Army troops detained Razzaq Al-Musawi, a senior Sadrist official, in the town of Hindiya (Tuwayrij) east of Karbala and set his house ablaze on Wednesday afternoon, according to Nirgal Gate. The source said the force also attempted to detain a Sadrist council member but he escaped detention. HILLA – A roadside bomb exploded in front of the house of a female council member in the Dibla area south of Hilla without casualties, according to Bint Al-Rafidain. The councilwoman is a member of the Supreme Islamic Iraqi Council. AL-HAMZA AL-GHARBI - At least six people were killed and four wounded when Mahdi Army gunmen attacked a party headquarters of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council (SIIC) and set it a blaze in the town of Al-Hamza Al-Gharbi south of Hilla overnight, police said, according to Reuters and Al-Melaf Press. KUFA - Gunmen attacked a SIIC party headquarters in Kufa (10 km east of Najaf) and set it ablaze on Tuesday night, police and SIIC sources said, according to Reuters and VOI. NAJAF - Gunmen killed a policeman and wounded his brother in a drive-by shooting in the Jam’ia district north of Najaf (160 km south of Baghdad), police said, according to Reuters and VOI. The source said police captured the murderer who admitted to killing the policeman as part of a family feud. NAJAF – A roadside bomb exploded in the Makrama district of Najaf without casualties on Tuesday night and a Katyusha rocket fell in the same area, a governorate spokesman said today, according to VOI. MANADHIRA – A civilian was wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in the town of Manadhira (20 km south of Najaf) on Wednesday, a governorate spokesman said today, according to VOI. The area had witnessed several roadside bomb attacks, including one that targeted a U.S. military patrol last week. DIWANIYAH - Two bodyguards of a government official in the southern city of Diwaniyah were killed by roadside bomb targeting their convoy, police said, according to Reuters. AL-HAMZA – Police said they discovered and defused a car bomb parked near the Imam Al-Hamza Al-Sharqi shrine in the town of Al-Hamza south of Diwaniya, according to WNA. SUQ AL-SHIYOUKH – Mahdi Army militiamen attacked the Badr Organization headquarters in the town of Suq Al-Shiyoukh south west of Nasiriya on dawn Wednesday with small arms fire and roadside bombs and clashed with guards, a local Badr official told Nasiriya News Network.
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