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Lion of Babylon -> The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (6/30/2007 2:02:39 AM)
Dudes. This is a thread which will outline Iraq's daily death & injury toll. Here are the first three posts starting from Wednesday 27 June 2007. Please feel free to contribute your own figures or comment on the posts. Iraq Security Developments - Wednesday Three Car Bombs in Baghdad; Country-Wide Reported Death Toll: 132 Iraqis *Iraqis reported killed: 132. Iraqis reported wounded: 127.* BAGHDAD - The bodies of 21 people shot execution style were found in different parts of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. Most of the victims were found in the Karkh sector in western Baghdad (five in Bayya’, one in Shu’la, one in Hurriya, one in Ghazaliya, one in Amil, one in Saidiya, one in Khadhraa’, and one in Dora), and the rest were found in the Rusafa sector in eastern Baghdad (six in Fudhailiya, one in Sadr City, one in Sulaikh, and one in Baghdad Al-Jedida). BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb killed seven people and wounded 14 near the Abdul Muhsin Al-Kadhimi Square in the Shi'ite district of Kadhimiya in northern Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed three people and wounded ten others in an attack on a police patrol near a busy market in the Old Sulaikh neighborhood of northern Baghdad, police and eyewitnesses said. BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb targeting a police commando checkpoint on the Jadiriya bridge in Baghdad killed one policeman and wounded six people, including three policemen, on Wednesday afternoon, police said. BAGHDAD – Three people were killed and 10 wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in the Saba’ Abkar neighborhood near Sulaikh in northern Baghdad on Wednesday afternoon, police said. BAGHDAD – Two civilians were killed and 10 wounded when a U.S. military patrol opened fire randomly in the Gayyara neighborhood of Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, police said. The U.S. military did not comment on the incident. BAGHDAD – Three civilians were wounded when a U.S. military patrol opened fire randomly against two Kia minibuses in the Qadisiya district of western Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. BAGHDAD – Gunmen assassinated an Iraqi journalist near his house in the Turath disrict of southern Baghdad, a source from the Iraqi Journalists Union said. Hamid Abd Sarhan, 57, was a veteran journalist who had worked for the Iraqi News Agency for over 30 years, as well as several local newspapers and magazines, and most recently in the media bureau of the Baghdad Municipality. BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed 14 insurgents and detained 114 others during security operations over the last 24 hours in different parts of Baghdad, the Baghdad Operations Command said. Three kidnapped civilians were also freed and two roadside bombs were defused. Eight soldiers were killed and 29 others wounded, including an army officer, during the operations, the source said. BAGHDAD – U.S. forces clashed with militants in the Saidiya district of southern Baghdad on Wednesday evening with no news of casualties, eyewitnesses said. MADAIN – The U.S. military said it killed six militants in an air strike against a building in the Mada’in suburb south east of Baghdad following an attack against a police station on Wednesday. KIRKUK - Four policemen were killed when gunmen attacked the Basheer police station south of the oil city of Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad) on Wednesday, police said. Police said they captured a wounded gunman during the attack. KIRKUK – Police found an unidentified body with multiple gunshot wounds and signs of torture near the Gemen village north east of Kirkuk on Wednesday, police said. SHIRQAT - Fourteen insurgents were killed when a truck they were rigging with explosives blew up overnight in the Aitha village near the town of Shirqat (310 km north of Baghdad), police said. Another security source said the truck exploded near the Hagna village killing one person and wounding four others. The two accounts could not be verified by an independent source. SHIRQAT – U.S. jet fighters bombed a house in the Aitha village near Shirqat, killing seven people, including a woman and several children, security sources said. The U.S. military did not comment on the incident. MOSUL - Gunmen killed two members of the Assyrian's Beth-Nahrain Association Union in a drive-by shooting in central Mosul (390 km north of Baghdad), police said. MOSUL - An athletic club in Mosul was badly damaged when gunmen planted bombs inside the building overnight, police said. MOSUL - Five people were killed and three wounded in different attacks by gunmen on Tuesday in Mosul, police said. TIKRIT – An off-duty soldier was killed and his brother wounded when gunmen attacked their car at the Hilliwa village east of Tikrit, police said. TIKRIT – Police found a decapitated head wearing an Iraqi army cap in a bus station in downtown Tikrit on Wednesday, police said. Police also found an unidentified body in the Tigris River near the Hamra village east of Tikrit, while U.S. troops delivered the body of man in his thirties shot execution style to the Tikrit Hospital. TIKRIT – Two laborers were killed in a roadside bomb explosion near the Rafidain bank in central Tikrit, police said. SAMARRA – Three Interior Ministry commandos were killed and four wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near the Mariam market in western Samarra (100 km north of Baghdad) on Wednesday, police said, adding that three civilians, including a senior physician at Samarra Hospital, were wounded when security forces opened fire in the aftermath of the blast. SAMARRA – Local policemen said Interior Ministry commandos summarily executed a 60-year-old man in front of his grocery store at the Mariam market in western Samarra on Wednesday afternoon. The commandos also set fire to an apartment in the same area after ordering residents out burning three parked cars, according to the local police source. BALAD – Gunmen killed three policemen working for Samarra police east of Balad (110 km north of Baghdad) on Wednesday, police said. A roadside bomb explosion targeting a U.S. military convoy damaged several trucks and wounded an unspecified number of soldiers near Balad, the source said. There was no comment by the U.S. military on the incident. ISHAQI – U.S. forces destroyed a house with tank fire after ordering its occupants out in Ishaqi north of Baghdad, a local police source said. A U.S. military patrol had been attacked with a roadside bomb destroying one Humvee vehicle in the same area on Tuesday night, the source added. KHALIS – Mortar shells and attacks by militants on several districts of Khalis and surrounding villages north east of Baghdad killed 19 civilians and wounded 28 others on Tuesday night, security sources said. Sources said about 40 mortar shells hit different parts of the town over a period of two hours, killing five people and wounding 15 others, followed by an attack by gunmen against the Tahwila area, killing 14 people and wounding 13. MUQDADIYA – A roadside bomb explosion targeting a U.S. military patrol near the Mahrout bridge south of Muqdadiya in the Diyala governorate destroyed a Humvee vehicle and wounded an unspecified number of soldiers, police said. MUQDADIYA – Four suspected gunmen were killed in U.S. helicopter fire in the Askari district of Muqdadiya on Wednesday, police said. MUQDADIYA – Gunmen abducted eight male students from a minibus near Muqdadiya as they were heading to Wajihiya, leaving the female students, police said. WAJIHIYA – One person was killed and three others wounded when residents of the Muathin village near Wajihiya attempted to repel an attack by 50 suspected Al-Qaeda militants against their village on Tuesday night, local sources said. ANBAR - A U.S. Marine was killed on Tuesday in combat in Anbar governorate, to the west of Baghdad, on Wednesday, the U.S. military said. KUBAISA – Two policemen were wounded when gunmen on motorcycles attacked their checkpoint near the entrance to Kubaisa (198 km west of Baghdad) in the Anbar governorate, police said. DIWANIYA – Clashes between U.S. and Iraqi forces and Mahdi Army militiamen continued for the second day in a row in several districts of Diwaniya. A roadside bomb explosion destroyed a Humvee vehicle in the 7 Nissan district of central Diwaniya on Wednesday morning, police said. SHAFI – Iraqi special forces raided the town of Shafi (50 km north west of Basrah) and confiscated eight 120 mm mortar rounds, police said. BASRAH – The joint coordination center in central Basrah (590 km south of Baghdad) was attacked with three mortar shells on Wednesday morning without casualties, police said. A British military spokesman said all three British military bases in Basrah were targeted with indirect fire over the last 24 hours without casualties. BASRAH – Two roadside bombs exploded against a British military patrol in the Buradha’iya district in eastern Basrah on Wednesday without casualties, police said. Another roadside bomb exploded near a commercial store at Tammuz Street in central Basrah without casualties. BASRAH – British military patrols came under attacks with roadside bombs and small arms fire in different parts of Basrah on Wednesday morning, a British military spokesman said. Three British soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter were wounded in a traffic accident north east of the Maysan governorate on Tuesday night, the source added. ZUBAIR – A border guard policeman was killed when three gunmen attacked his house in the Marbid area of Zubair (35 km south west of Basrah) on Tuesday night, police said. One of the attackers was also killed in the incident. FAW – An Iraqi fisherman was killed and another wounded when Iranian border guards opened fire against their boat in Iraqi waters near Faw south east of Basrah on Wednesday morning, a Basrah police source said.

Lion of Babylon -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (6/30/2007 2:11:46 AM)
Iraq Security Developments - Thursday Two Car Bombs in Baghdad; Deadly Mortar Attacks in Different Parts of Capital Iraqis reported killed: 148. Iraqis reported wounded: 107. BAGHDAD – Iraqi police found the bodies of 15 people shot execution style in different parts of Baghdad on Thursday, police said. The majority were found in the Karkh sector in western Baghdad (four in Amil, two in Bayya’, two in Saidiya, and two in Dora), and the remaining five were found in the Rusafa sector near Sadr City in eastern Baghdad (two in Kasra wa Atash, one in Rashad, one in Za’faraniya, and one in Wahda). BAGHDAD - A car bomb explosion killed 25 people and wounded 40 near a crowded bus station in the Bayya’ district of southern Baghdad during the morning rush hour on Thursday, police said. BAGHDAD - Five people were killed and 11 wounded when a car bomb exploded in the midst of a queue of cars at a fuel station in western Baghdad's Mansour district on Thursday afternoon, police said. At least 16 cars were burnt in the blast. BAGHDAD – Two civilians were killed and 12 wounded when two mortar shells struck the busy Shorja market in central Baghdad on Thursday morning, police and eyewitnesses said. Several stores were also damaged in the attack. BAGHDAD – Six people were killed and eight wounded in several mortar attacks on different parts of the capital on Thursday evening, police said. Four people were killed when a mortar shell hit the Fadhl neighborhood of central Baghdad. Another mortar shell hit the Rashad district of eastern Baghdad killing one person and wounding two others. One person was killed and another wounded when a mortar shell hit the Za’faraniya district of eastern Baghdad. Three people were wounded in a mortar attack on Nahdha Square near the Sadriya neighborhood of central Baghdad. Two people were wounded in a mortar attack on the Karrada district near Abu Nuwas Street. Another mortar shell hit the fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad with no news of casualties. BAGHDAD - Four people were wounded by a roadside bomb explosion in a busy market in the Sha’ab district of northern Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD – Three people were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in the Dora district of southern Baghdad on Thursday, police said. BAGHDAD – Two people were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in the Bayya’ district in southern Baghdad on Thursday evening, police said. BAGHDAD – Two people were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion targeting a U.S. military patrol in the Tobchi district of western Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD – One person was killed and another wounded when gunmen opened random fire at a crowd in the Amil district of southern Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD – A civilian was killed and another wounded when a U.S. military vehicle crushed part of their vehicle in the Abu Dshir district near Dora in southern Baghdad on Wednesday evening, police said. The vehicle had stopped at a traffic intersection when a U.S. military vehicle came behind, rolled over it, and continued moving, the source said. The U.S. military did not comment on the incident. BAGHDAD – Police said they found the bodies of six unidentified people with gunshot wounds and signs of torture in an industrial area of the Amil district in southern Baghdad late Wednesday. BAGHDAD – An explosives team detonated an abandoned house, which they said was rigged with explosives, in the Amil district of southern Baghdad, on Wednesday night, police said. BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed in a roadside bomb attack in eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Another soldier was wounded. BAGHDAD – A roadside bomb explosion destroyed a Humvee vehicle in southern Baghdad’s Risala district on Wednesday evening, police said. Clashes between U.S. troops and gunmen followed the blast without casualties, the source added. BAGHDAD – The U.S. military said Apache attack helicopters killed one insurgent and wounded another south of Baghdad last Tuesday. It said the helicopters received small arms fire from a building, prompting them to return fire. MADAIN - Iraqi police found the bodies of 20 beheaded men dumped on the banks of the Tigris River near the Umm Al-Ubaid village in the town of Salman Pak, south of Baghdad, on Thursday, police said. LATIFIYA – The Iraqi army detained 42 suspected insurgents and confiscated two weapon caches in Latifiya on Thursday, a military spokesman said. BAQUBA - The U.S. military said it had killed at least 60 Al-Qaeda operatives during a military operation in and around the city of Baquba in Diyala governorate. The military said 74 al Qaeda militants were detained and 31 weapons caches discovered. KHALIS – Four people were killed and 19 wounded in clashes between gunmen from two villages near Khalis north east of Baghdad on Thursday, police said. Two policemen were wounded as they were attempting to end the fighting. MUQDADIYA - U.S. forces killed two gunmen near Muqdadiya in the Diyala governorate on Tuesday, the U.S. military said. KIRKUK – A roadside bomb exploded targeting the vehicle of an Iraqi army officer on the main road between Kirkuk and Baiji late Wednesday without casualties, police said. Three suspects were detained at the site. DAQUQ – Four policemen were killed when gunmen attacked their patrol near Daquq south west of Kirkuk, police said. Police detained eight suspected militants and confiscated a large amount of weapons in a raid at the Aziziya village near Daquq following the incident. SAMARRA – A 15-year-old boy was killed when an Interior Ministry commando sniper on top of a government department shot him in the chest on Wednesday afternoon, local police said. FALLUJAH – Gunmen killed a policeman and wounded another as they were shopping at a popular market in the Andalus district of Fallujah (45 km west of Baghdad) on Thursday morning, police said. DIWANIYA – At least seven people were killed Tuesday in U.S. air strikes against the Dhubat district in central Diwaniya, a medical source said. NASIRIYA – Two militants were killed while they were planting a roadside bomb in front of the house of an interpreter working for Multi-National Forces in the Shuhadaa’ district of Nasiriya in southern Iraq on Thursday morning, police said. NASIRIYA – Iraqi special forces detonated a large munitions cache used by the Mahdi Army militia in southeastern Nasiriya and detained one suspect at the site on Thursday, a MNF statement said. BASRAH – Five people were killed when a British helicopter opened fire against their vehicle in the Hussein district of western Basrah (590 km south of Baghdad) on Thursday morning, a police source said. The source said the attack followed a tribal dispute in which heavy gunfire was exchanged between the Suwari and Shuwailat tribes in the Hussein district. The British military did not comment on the incident. BASRAH - A roadside bomb explosion killed three British soldiers and seriously wounded another in the southern city of Basra on Wednesday night, a British military spokesman said. BASRAH – The joint coordination center in the Hakimiya district and the British embassy compound in Basrah were both hit with indirect fire over the last 24 hours without casualties, a British military spokesman said.

Lion of Babylon -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (6/30/2007 2:12:47 AM)
Iraq Security Developments - Friday Insurgents Blow Up Pipeline Delivering Fuel to Baghdad, Blow Up Mosque in Diyala Iraqis reported killed: 64. Iraqis reported wounded: 31. BAGHDAD - Fifteen bodies shot execution style were found in different parts of the capital over the last 24 hours, police said. Five of them were found in the Karkh sector of western Baghdad (two in Saidiya, one in Dora, and one in Shu’la), and two others were found in the Rusafa sector of eastern Baghdad (one in Baghdad Al-Jedida and another in Jisr Diyala). BAGHDAD - Four people were killed in an overnight mortar attack on the Fadhl district of central Baghdad and 10 others were wounded in four other mortar strikes in different parts of the city, an Interior Ministry spokesman said. BAGHDAD – Seven mortar rounds hit the fortified Green Zone in central Baghdad on Friday afternoon, police said. Eyewitnesses said they heard several powerful blasts and warning sirens and they saw smoke billows rising from different parts of the area, which houses Iraqi government buildings, as well as U.S. and British embassies and the residences of Iraqi politicians. BAGHDAD – Gunmen killed a man and three women in the Saidiya district of southern Baghdad on Friday, residents said. BAGHDAD – U.S. troops killed one person in the Rashad district of eastern Baghdad on Friday, police said. No details were given on the incident. BAGHDAD - Five U.S. soldiers were killed and seven wounded on Thursday night in a roadside bomb attack on their patrol followed by clashes with insurgents in southern Baghdad, the U.S. military said. BAQUBA – Iraqi security forces detained 22 suspected insurgents and discovered 20 buildings rigged with explosives during security operations in Ba’quba (57 km north east of Baghdad) on Friday, a security source said. The source said several mistakes were made during the operation when U.S. helicopters mistakenly bombed several houses in the city. KHALIS – The mayor of Khalis said dozens of suspected Al-Qaeda militants have been deployed in areas north of Khalis in preparation to attack the town after they fled Ba’quba because of an ongoing security operation, adding that residents were told to protect themselves because there was no Iraqi security presence in the area. KHALIS – Gunmen roaming the streets of Khalis killed a man and wounded his wife on Friday. Gunmen also killed two ice cube vendors in the nearby village of Khuwaylis, police said. MUQDADIYA – Militants in several vehicles planted explosives inside the Rahman mosque and detonated it following Friday prayers in Muqdadiya north east of Baghdad, residents said. HASWA – Militants blew up a pipeline supplying fuel to a power station in Baghdad on Friday near Hawsa (50 km south of Baghdad), police said. MISHAHDA – A suicide truck bomber blew up a train station near a police checkpoint in the town of Mishahda north of Baghdad on Friday, killing eight people, including six soldiers, and wounding five others, police said. BALAD – The Iraqi army found three bodies shot execution style on the main road between Balad and Dujail (80 km north of Baghdad) on Friday, police said. TIKRIT - Three people were seriously wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Tikrit (175 km north of Baghdad) on Friday, police said. MOSUL – Gunmen killed three women in two separate incidents in Mosul on Friday, police said. MOSUL - One insurgent was killed and two were detained in Mosul following a clash with police, the police said. TALAFAR – Gunmen killed two policemen and two soldiers and wounded nine others in an attack with roadside bombs and small arms fire in Tala’far west of Mosul on Thursday evening, police said. KIRKUK - One policeman was killed and two others wounded when gunmen opened fire on them in three separate attacks in Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad) on Friday, police said. TAZA – Police killed a suspected militant and detained six others during a raid in Taza south of Kirkuk on Thursday night, police said. A policeman was also killed in the raid. TUZ KHURMATU – Gunmen killed a truck driver and kidnapped two others who were delivering construction material for a bridge in the Sarha village south of Tuz Khurmatu that was destroyed earlier. FALLUJAH - U.S. forces said they killed three suspected insurgents and detained 26 others during raids to the west and south of Baghdad and in Mosul (390 km north of Baghdad), the U.S. military said. HAQLANIYA – A roadside bomb explosion targeting a U.S. military patrol damaged a Humvee vehicle in Haqlaniya near Haditha (170 km west of Ramadi) on Friday, eyewitnesses said. KUT - The body of a university professor shot several times in the head and the neck was found beside the river in the Azza district of Kut (170 km southeast of Baghdad), police said. The professor worked at the Baghdad University and was on a visit to his relatives in Kut on Thursday when he was abducted by gunmen in three vehicles. KUT – Ten unidentified bodies were buried in Kut on Friday after they were discovered in the Tigris River near Suwaira, police said. The bodies were all found headless and some were in military uniform, the source said. KUT - One woman was wounded after a roadside bomb attack on a U.S. patrol in Kut, police said.BASRAH – Gunmen attacked the British embassy compound in Basrah (590 km south of Baghdad) on Friday morning with small arms fire, a British military spokesman said. The source added that all three British bases in Basrah were hit with indirect fire over the last 24 hours without casualties.

azinorum -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (6/30/2007 12:55:08 PM)
These are very detailed figures LOB. Can you please quote the source?

Lion of Babylon -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (7/1/2007 12:27:30 AM)
Sorry bro. Here is the link. http://www.iraqslogger.com

Lion of Babylon -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (7/1/2007 12:42:23 AM)
Yesterdays deadly numbers! Iraq Security Developments - Saturday Mass Grave Discovered in Fallujah; Violence Still at Large in Diyala Security developments in Iraq on Saturday, June 30, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 135. Iraqis reported wounded: 84. BAGHDAD – Police found the bodies of 16 people shot execution style in different parts of the capital over the last 24 hours, an Interior Ministry source said. Except for one body, which was found in the Jisr Diyala area, all were found in the Karkh sector in western Baghdad (five in Amil, two in Bayya’, two in Shu’la, two in Dora, one in Saidiya, one in Khadhraa’, one in Ghazaliya, and one in Taji). BAGHDAD – The U.S. military claimed it killed 26 suspected militants and detained 17 others during two separate overnight raids in the Shi'ite district of Sadr City in northeastern Baghdad on Saturday. The U.S. military said the militants were members of secret cells with “close ties to Iranian terror networks.” Sadr City residents contested the U.S. version of the incident, saying U.S. and Iraqi troops with helicopter support raided the Rashad, Orfeli and Habibiya districts overnight, killing eight civilians and wounding nine others. The locals added that 28 people were detained and that U.S. helicopters bombed residential areas, burning 18 vehicles and damaging several houses. The U.S. military denied that it targeted civilians, adding that it only responded to hostile fire. BAGHDAD - One U.S. soldier was killed and three wounded in a roadside bomb attack in southern Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD - Four people were wounded in a mortar attack on the Shi'ite district of Abu Dshir in southern Baghdad on Saturday afternoon, police said. BAGHDAD – Eight people were wounded in two separate mortar attacks against the predominately Sunni districts of Dora and Sahha in southern Baghdad on Saturday afternoon, possibly in retaliation for the attack on Abu Dshir. BAGHDAD – The Baghdad Operations Command said Iraqi security forces killed five suspected militants and detained 33 others during raids in different parts of the capital over the last 48 hours. Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and 17 others wounded in the operations, the source said. BANI SAAD – Two people were killed in a roadside bomb explosion near the Khaluf village in Bani Sa’ad north of Baghdad on Saturday. BAQUBA – A joint U.S.-Iraqi force captured five suspected Al-Qaeda militants and recovered 17 stolen vehicles and weapon caches during a raid in western Baquba (57 km north east of Baghdad), an Iraqi army source said. BUHRIZ – A civilian was wounded in a mortar attack against the town of Buhriz south east of Ba’quba. KANAN – Two unidentified bodies were found in the town of Kan’an south east of Ba’quba, a medical source said. BALADRUZ – Militants blew up the house of a local policeman in Baladruz south east of Ba’quba on Saturday. MUQDADIYA - A suicide bomber dressed as a policeman killed 20 people and wounded 22 others in an attack against a police recruitment center in Muqdadiya (90 km north east of Baghdad) on Saturday afternoon, police said. MUQDADIYA – A civilian was wounded by insurgent sniper fire in Muqdadiya on Saturday afternoon. KHALIS – Three gunmen were killed and eight people, including two policemen, were wounded during clashes in Khalis north east of Baghdad when gunmen attempted to assassinate the imam of the Grand Khalis Msoque on Saturday morning, police said. KHALIS – A policeman and two civilians were wounded when gunmen opened fire against them in Khalis on Saturday afternoon. KHANAQIN – The Iraqi army said it detained eight suspected militants, including two Syrian nationals, during raids on Saturday in the towns of Khanaqin (170 km north east of Baghdad) and Sa’diya near the Iranian border. FALLUJAH - The U.S. military said it had uncovered 35 to 40 bodies, some with bullet wounds, in a mass grave 35 km south of Fallujah, acting on a tip from locals. A medical source in the Fallujah general hospital said Iraqi police delivered them 30 bodies, which were found on the main road between Amiriyat Al-Fallujah and Musayyab 30 km south of Fallujah. It was unclear whether the two discoveries were related. FALLUJAH – The U.S. military said on Saturday it killed Abu Abdul-Rahman Al-Masri, whom it identified as a “senior Al-Qaeda figure responsible for participating in terrorist courts and issuing fatwas,” near Fallujah. FALLUJAH – Four decapitated bodies bearing signs of torture and gunshot wounds were delivered to the Fallujah general hospital on Saturday, a medical source said. The bodies are thought to belong to Anbar Salvation Council fighters, local police said. KUBAISA – Three local policemen were wounded when several mortar shells hit a police station in Kubaisa (198 km west of Baghdad) on Saturday, eyewitnesses said. The U.S. military and Iraqi police did not comment on the attack. HAQLANIYA – Several policemen were killed and wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol with hand grenades and machine gun fire west of Haqlaniya near Haditha (170 km west of Ramadi) on Saturday afternoon, locals said. Iraqi authorities did not comment on the incident. LATIFIYA – The U.S. military said it detained 59 suspected militants near Latifiya (40 km south of Baghdad). ASRIYA – Two children were killed and 12 others wounded when a mortar shell landed in a football field in Asriya south of Baghdad, police said. TARMIYA – Locals staged a demonstration near a U.S. military base in Tarmiya north of Baghdad, demanding the release of a woman detained in the Al-Bu Shallal area by U.S. troops on Saturday. The locals claimed the woman was detained to pressure male relatives suspected of attacking U.S. troops to deliver themselves to authorities. KIRKUK - Gunmen killed a civilian in Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad), police said. TAZA - Gunmen assassinated a Kurdish member of the Daquq municipality council in a hand grenade attack on his vehicle in the Taza-Kirkuk road 20 km south of Kirkuk, a Kirkuk police source said. The source said Taza police captured three suspects following the attack. ZAKHO – Turkish artillery shelled suspected Kurdish PKK rebel positions inside the border area of Zakho in northern Iraq on Saturday morning, a Kurdish security source said. The source said around 50 shells hit five different without casualties but burning several acres of natural forests. KUT – Angry demonstrators burned tires and blocked streets near a fuel station in Kut south east of Baghdad on Saturday morning, protesting a severe fuel crisis in the southern city and increased prices of black market fuel for the last ten days, an Oil Facilities Protection guard said. SUQ AL-SHIYOUKH – Police defused a 50kg roadside bomb planted near a vital bridge in the town of Suq Al-Shiyoukh south east of Nasiriya on Saturday, police said. BASRAH – Gunmen assassinated an Iraqi Interior Ministry commandos captain in western Basrah (590 km south of Baghdad) on Saturday afternoon, police said. Unknown gunmen opened fire and killed Captain Dawud Salman in the Jam’iat district of Basrah, the source said. BASRAH – Gunmen kidnapped Colonel Nasir Ali, head of the department of detainees’ affairs in the Basrah police command, when they ambushed his vehicle in the Jaza’er district of central Basrah, police said. BASRAH – British troops clashed with gunmen who attacked one of the gates of a British military compound housing the British and U.S. consulates in western Basrah on Saturday, a British military spokesman said. No casualties were reported in the attack. ZUBAIR – The Iraqi army said it uncovered a large weapons and ammunitions cache hidden in an orchard in the town of Zubair south west of Basrah.

Lion of Babylon -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (7/2/2007 4:16:53 AM)
Iraq Security Developments - Sunday Car Bombs in Baghdad, Fallujah and Ramadi; Another Officer Abducted in Basrah Security developments in Iraq on Sunday, July 1, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 66. Iraqis reported wounded: 69. BAGHDAD - The bodies of 15 people were found shot execution style in different parts of the capital on Sunday, police said. All were discovered in the Karkh sector of western Baghdad (four in Saidiya, two in Amil, two in Washash, two in Shu’la, one in Kadhimiya, one in Ghazaliya, one in Iskan, one in Bayya’, and one in Dora). BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed one civilian and wounded four others when it exploded near a police checkpoint at the entrance of the Jadiriya bridge in southern Baghdad on Sunday, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed two policemen and wounded four civilians in eastern Baghdad’s Zayouna district on Sunday, police said. BAGHDAD – Two policemen were killed and five wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near the Rusafa amusement park in eastern Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed one civilian and wounded three others near the Al-Rashid vegetable market in southern Baghdad on Sunday, police said. BAGHDAD – A mortar attack on the Dora district in southern Baghdad wounded 12 people and damaged several houses on Sunday, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb explosion wounded three people in the Mansour district in central Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - Iraqi soldiers killed eight militants and detained 29 others in operations around Iraq in the last 24 hours, the Defence Ministry said. Three Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the operations. BAGHDAD – The U.S. military said it detained three suspected militants linked to “Iranian terror networks” in northern Adamiya near Sadr city, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD – The U.S. military said Iraqi troops detained five suspected Al-Qaeda militants in the Dora district of southern Baghdad. BAGHDAD – The U.S. military said it killed six militants and wounded three others in separate operations in the Rashid district of southern Baghdad on Thursday and Friday. RAMADI - A suicide car bomber targeting a police station killed five policemen and wounded 14 others in Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad), police said. RAMADI – Gunmen killed three civilians in a commercial market at the Huz area in Ramadi, police said. The police said it arrested one of the gunmen. FALLUJAH - A suicide truck bomb blew up near a police checkpoint killing five policemen and wounding 13 others in the Ni’aimiya village south of Fallujah (50 km west of Baghdad) on Sunday afternoon, police said. SAMARRA – The Iraqi army said it killed a suicide bomber and detained another on the main Samarra-Baghdad road on Sunday. YETHRIB - Gunmen kidnapped the deputy chairman of the municipal council in Yethrib east of Balad (80 km north of Baghdad) on Sunday morning, police said. The source added that fliers signed by the Islamic State of Iraq were distributed in Yethrib, threatening to target local policemen if they do not quit their jobs in three days. LATIFIYA - The bodies of two people were found in Latifiya (40 km south of Baghdad), police said. YUSUFIYA - A woman was killed and two others were wounded when a mortar round hit their house in Yusufiya (15 km south of Baghdad), police said. MUSAYYAB – A policeman was killed and another wounded in a roadside bomb attack against their patrol in Musayyab south of Baghdad, police said. MAHAWIL – Joint U.S.-Iraqi troops detained 15 suspected militants and confiscated weapons during raids in Mahawil on Sunday, Iraqi police said. A civilian was wounded during the raids, the source said. ZAB - Gunmen killed a lawyer when they attacked his home in the Zab village southwest of Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad) on Sunday morning, police said. HAWIJA - An Oil Facilities Protection guard was killed in a drive-by shooting in Hawija (70 km south west of Kirkuk) on Saturday evening, police said. HAWIJA - A militant was killed when a roadside bomb he was planting exploded near a market in Hawija, police said. KIRKUK – Two people were killed and two others wounded when gunmen opened fire at their vehicle near the Sarha village south of Kirkuk, police said. ZUMMAR – Authorities detained 22 Kurds who were attempting to cross illegally into neighboring Syria near Zummar north west of Mosul on Sunday, a Kurdish official said. HAJJ UMRAN – Iranian forces bombed suspected PJAK positions inside the Iraqi border at the Qandeel mountains and Hajj Umran areas on Sunday, a Kurdish official said. BAQUBA - Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and three wounded when they were ambushed by gunmen inside a house during a raid in the city of Ba’quba (57 km north east of Baghdad) on Sunday, police said. NAJAF – Gunmen assassinated a school director near his home in the Askari district of Najaf on Sunday, police said. The victim, Mohammed Abdul Wahhab, was a former Ba’ath Party member and had received several death threats, police said. KUT – Gunmen attacked a U.S. military patrol with roadside bombs and small arms fire in the Zahraa’ district of Kut (180 km south east of Baghdad) on Sunday morning, locals said. The U.S. military did not comment on the incident. NUMANIYA - Police retrieved the bodies of three unidentified people with bullet wounds from a river in the town of Nu’maniya (120 km south east of Baghdad), police said. SAMAWA – An influential Shi’ite cleric survived a roadside bomb explosion that targeted his residence in Samawa (280 km south of Baghdad) on Sunday afternoon, a security source said. The bomb was planted near the house of Sayyid Kadhim Al-Awwadi, the representative of exiled Iraqi cleric Ayatollah Kadhim Al-Ha’eri in Samawa. NASIRIYA – Militants attacked the house of Dr. Tawfiq Al-Zaidi, a physician working for the Dhi Qar Health Directorate, with a hand grenade, wounding five people, in Nasiriya, police said. BASRA - The body of a police colonel kidnapped on Saturday was found with gunshot wounds on the main road south east of Basrah (590 km south east of Baghdad) on Sunday, police said. BASRAH – Gunmen attacked a British military base housing the British and U.S. embassies south of Basrah with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire without casualties on Sunday morning, a British military spokesman said. The source said all three British military bases in Basrah were targeted with indirect fire without casualties over the last 24 hours. BASRAH – Gunmen kidnapped an Iraqi officer as he left the joint coordination center in the Hakimiya district of Basrah on Saturday night, a British military spokesman said.

Lion of Babylon -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (7/3/2007 1:06:26 AM)
Iraq Security Developments - Monday Locals Say U.S. Bombed Residential District in Diwaniya; Attacks in Diyala Security developments in Iraq on Monday, July 2, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 103. Iraqis reported wounded: 110. BAGHDAD – Police found the bodies of 17 people shot execution style in different parts of the capital on Monday, police said. Four of them were found in the Rusafa district of eastern Baghdad (one in Za’faraniya, one in Karrada, one in Sulaikh, and one in Husseiniya), while the rest were found in the Karkh sector of western Baghdad (three in Bayya’, two in Amil, two in Harthiya, two in Kadhimiya, two in Hurriya, one in Jami’a, and one in Khadhraa’). BAGHDAD - Nine people were killed and 33 wounded in a car bomb explosion near the Nidawi market and a church in the Binouk district of northern Baghdad on Monday evening, police said. BAGHDAD - An Iraqi policeman was killed by sniper fire in the Karrada district of central Baghdad on Monday afternoon, police said. BAGHDAD - One person was killed and two others wounded in a mortar attack on the Hayy Saddam neighborhood in Bayya’ in southwestern Baghdad on Monday evening, police said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed two people and wounded three others in a drive-by shooting in the Hayy Saddam neighborhood of Bayya’ on Monday, police said. . BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed three Iraqi soldiers and one civilian when they attacked an Iraqi military checkpoint in eastern Baghdad on Sunday evening, police said. They said three people were wounded. BAGHDAD – Two people were killed and six wounded in a mortar attack on the Malhaniya area in southwestern Baghdad on Monday, police said. Locals said clashes erupted between residents and Mahdi Army militiamen following the mortar attack. BAGHDAD – A pregnant woman was killed when Iraqi soldiers opened random fire in the Jami’a district of western Baghdad on Monday, police said. BAGHDAD – U.S. troops opened fire and killed a civilian near the Rashid vegetable market in southern Baghdad on Monday, police said. BAGHDAD – A civilian was wounded when a mortar round hit the Dora district in southern Baghdad on Monday evening, police said. BAGHDAD – Interior Ministry commandos clashed with unknown gunmen in the Bayya’ district of southern Baghdad with no news of casualties, police said. BAGHDAD – The bodies of an Iraqi woman employed at the Spanish embassy in Baghdad and three of her family members were found on Sunday after they had been kidnapped on Friday, a source in the Spanish Foreign Ministry said. BAGHDAD - Two U.S. soldiers were killed in separate attacks in Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. military said. One soldier was killed by small arms fire in southern Baghdad, while the second soldier was killed by gunfire following a roadside bomb explosion in western Baghdad. The military statement said two Iraqi policemen were wounded in the attack. BAGHDAD – The U.S. military said it killed three suspected militants following a roadside bomb explosion targeting their patrol near the Abu Hanifa mosque in the Adhamiya district of northern Baghdad. A civilian was killed in the explosion, the statement said. BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army said it killed eight insurgents and detained 99 others over the past 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said. FALLUJAH – Three civilians were killed when a U.S. military patrol opened fire at their vehicle in the Ni’aimiya village south of Fallujah (45 km west of Baghdad) on Monday morning, Iraqi police said. The U.S. military did not comment on the incident. MADAIN – The Iraqi army said it killed five suspected militants who were crossing the Tigris River in a boat near Mada’in, south east of Baghdad, on Monday morning. KHANAQIN – A roadside bomb explosion killed two border guard officers and wounded three others on the main Khanaqin-Naft Khana road in western Diyala near the Iranian border, police said. BAQUBA – A Diyala Governorate Council member escaped an assassination attempt in Ba’quba on Monday, police said. BAQUBA – Gunmen killed a policeman in central Ba’quba on Monday, police said. KHALIS – A civilian was killed and 12 others wounded in mortar attacks against different parts of Khalis north east of Baghdad on Monday afternoon, a security source said. KHALIS – A student was killed and eight others wounded when Iraqi soldiers opened random fire near a secondary school in Khalis on Monday, police said. KHALIS – Militants blew up 16 abandoned houses in the Ambakiya village north of Khalis on Monday, police said. BALADRUZ – Four people were wounded in four roadside bomb explosions in Baladruz east of Baghdad, police said. ANBAR - Two U.S. soldiers and one Marine were killed on Sunday during combat operations in western Anbar governorate, the U.S. military said. HAWIJA - Gunmen wounded three policemen when they attacked their police patrol in Hawija (70 km southwest of Kirkuk), police said. HAWIJA – Two policemen were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in front of the home of an Iraqi officer in Hawija, police said. BADOSH - The Iraqi army said it killed 17 insurgents, including three suspected Al-Qaeda members and two Arab nationals, during overnight raids in Badosh near the northern city of Mosul (390 km north of Baghdad). BADOSH – An Iraqi soldier was killed and three others wounded during clashes with militants in Badosh near Mosul, police said. MOSUL - Gunmen killed a police colonel along with his driver in Mosul, police said. MOSUL - A roadside bomb explosion targeting a police patrol killed a policeman and wounded four people, including two policemen in Mosul, police said. Police also defused four roadside bombs in different parts of Mosul. MOSUL – Police said they killed a militant in the Zuhour district of Mosul on Monday. MOSUL – U.S. jet fighters bombed the Yabsat area in new Mosul, residents said. No further information was available. MOSUL – Police arrested Salim Al-Hajj Issa, chairman of the Ninewa Governorate Council, in Mosul on charges of administrative and financial corruption, police said. DOHUK – The Turkish military fired 12 artillery rounds at the Nezdur village inside the Iraqi border near Dohuk on Monday evening without casualties, a Kurdish security official said. The source said most of the village’s residents had fled earlier when Turkish forces started operations near the northern Iraqi border directed at suspected PKK rebel positions inside northern Iraq. KIRKUK – Gunmen in two vehicles killed the imam and preacher of the Saliheen mosque, Najdah Suleiman Mohammed, in the Wahid Adhar district of central Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad) on Sunday evening, police said. KIRKUK – Police arrested three criminals accused of forging official documents and identity cards in central Kirkuk on Monday, a security source said. MISHAHDA - Militants blew up a fuel station in the town of Mishahda, north of Baghdad, without casualties on Sunday, police said. LATIFIYA – Police said they found the body of a Turkish reporter along with his camera and notes in an insurgent hideout near Latifiya south of Baghdad on Monday. HILLA – The correspondents of Radio Sawa and Al-Sumeria TV said that members of the Babel Governorate Council protection force harassed them and threatened to open fire against them while they were covering a meeting at the governorate building in Hilla south of Baghdad on Monday. The two reporters said they attempted to file a complaint at a nearby police station but were detained on charges of assaulting a police officer and were told to drop the complaint in order to be released. KARBALA – Karbala police commander said police intelligence foiled a plot by militants in Nukhaib and Husseiniya, west and east of Karbala, to attack the holy city with car bombs and explosive belts on Monday. The source said police arrested the ringleader and three of his aides. NAJAF – Police found the body of a young man shot execution style near a police station in central Najaf, police said. Police also uncovered an 82-mm mortar round in an abandoned house. DIWANIYA – Ten people were killed and 30 wounded in a pre-dawn U.S. air strike against the residential Jumhouri district in southeastern Diwaniya (180 km south of Baghdad) on Monday, a medical source said. Locals claimed that dozens of people were killed in the bombing and that nine homes were destroyed. An eyewitness said the air strike came one hour after an attack with about 40 Katyusha rockets against a U.S. base in southwest Diwaniya. The U.S. military did not comment on the incident. DIWANIYA – One person was killed and two policemen wounded during an exchange of fire between police guarding the governorate building and dozens of demonstrators protesting a U.S. air strike on a residential district in central Diwaniya, police said. MAJAR AL-KABIR – Police said they uncovered a cache of 1,312 land mines in a rural area near Majar Al-Kabir south of Amara on Monday. SUQ AL-SHIYOUKH – Police defused a roadside bomb in the town of Suq Al-Shiyoukh south east of Nasiriya, police said. BASRAH – Police found the body of Colonel Jassim Sigar Mizyad, a Facilities Protection Service officer, at Garma north of Basrah (590 km south of Baghdad). The officer had been kidnapped by unknown gunmen in central Basrah on Sunday. He was the third senior officer to be abducted and killed by suspected feuding Shi’ite militias this week. BASRAH – Gunmen attacked and wounded an Iraqi special forces officer in the Asma’i district of western Basrah on Sunday night, police said. BASRAH – The joint coordination center in the Hakimiya district of Basrah was attacked with small arms fire on Monday morning without casualties, a British military spokesman said. The source added that all three British military bases in the southern city had been attacked with indirect fire over the last 24 hours without casualties.

azinorum -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (7/3/2007 11:11:13 AM)
The guy who posts these numbers is pretty dedicated. I just visited his blog and his name is Zeyad Kasim. Do you have any info on him? Very good thread. Allows us to pinpoint the most dangerous areas on a daily basis.

Lion of Babylon -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (7/3/2007 2:29:20 PM)
Dudes, I'll do my best to post these on a daily basis but if I miss one you can go to iraqislogger and catch the numbers there. Good night.

Lion of Babylon -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (7/4/2007 5:22:11 AM)
Iraq Security Developments - Tuesday Car Bombs in Baghdad, Kirkuk and Fallujah; Curfew Imposed in Kut Security developments in Iraq on Tuesday, July 3, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 101. Iraqis reported wounded: 113. BAGHDAD – Police found 19 bodes shot execution style in different parts of the capital on Tuesday, police said. Most of the bodies were found in the Karkh sector of western Baghdad (five in Bayya’, two in Amil, two in Dora, one in Saidiya, one in Ma’moun, one in Mansour, and one in Ghazaliya), and the rest were found in the Rusafa sector of eastern Baghdad (four in Ur and one, which was completely burnt, in Wahda). BAGHDAD - A car bomb explosion killed 18 people and wounded 40 others near the busy Shallal market in the predominately Shi'ite district of Sha’ab in northern Baghdad on Tuesday evening, police said. About 13 stores and several vehicles were damaged in the blast. Car bombings usually take place before noon, but this was the second attack following yesterday’s bombing targeting a market in the nearby Binouk district that occurred late in the day, reflecting a possible change in tactics by armed groups, according to security sources. BAGHDAD – Four people were killed and four were wounded in a mortar attack against an apartment compound in the Amil district of southern Baghdad on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD – Two people were killed and three wounded in random gunfire in the Amil district on Tuesday, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD – Gunmen killed three municipality workers and wounded an engineer while they were maintaining the sewers network in Adhamiya, the Baghdad municipality said. The source said over 1,000 Baghdad municipality workers had been killed and many wounded over the last six months. BAGHDAD – Gunmen killed two gardeners at a park in the Dora district of southern Baghdad on Tuesday, the Baghdad municipality said. BAGHDAD – Three civilians were wounded when mortar shells hit the Bayya’ district of southern Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. The Sulaikh district of northern Baghdad was also hit with several mortar shells without casualties. BAGHDAD - Gunmen assassinated an Interior Ministry intelligence officer in central Baghdad’s Nahdha district on Tuesday, police said. BAGHDAD – A civilian was wounded in a roadside bomb attack targeting a U.S. military patrol in the Jami’a district of western Baghdad on Tuesday, a security source said. BAGHDAD – Eyewitnesses said a roadside bomb explosion targeting a U.S. military patrol destroyed a tank and wounded several soldiers on a street between the 7 Nissan and Baghdad Al-Jedida districts of Baghdad on Tuesday. BAGHDAD – A roadside bomb explosion targeting a U.S. military patrol destroyed a Humvee vehicle in the Saidiya district of southern Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. BAGHDAD – Insurgents shot down a U.S. Apache helicopter near Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said. Two pilots escaped with only minor injuries, the statement said. BAGHDAD - Coalition forces killed three suspected militants and detained 29 others during raids in western and central Iraq on Tuesday, the U.S. military said. MADAIN - Two people were killed and four wounded when gunmen opened random fire in Mada’in (40 km south of Baghdad), police said. MAHMOUDIYA – Two civilians were wounded in a mortar attack in Mahmoudiya south of Baghdad, police said. LATIFIYA - Gunmen hijacked four fuel tankers carrying diesel fuel on the highway near Latifiya south of Baghdad, police said. The tankers were taken in the direction of the rural area of Sayyafiya east of Latifiya, police said. HASWA – An Iraqi parliament member escaped an assassination attempt when gunmen opened fire against his motorcade wounding one of his bodyguards in Haswa south of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. MP Radhwan Al-Kelidar is a member of the United Iraqi Alliance, the majority Shi’ite bloc in parliament. MAHAWIL - Iraqi security forces detained a suspected commander of the Mahdi Army militia and three other suspects in Mahawil (75 km south of Baghdad), the U.S. military said. RAMADI – The U.S. military said it killed 23 suspected insurgents during clashes on Saturday and Sunday near Ramadi (110 km west of Baghdad). JALAWLA – Gunmen assassinated a former Iraqi army colonel and a border police colonel in front of their homes in the Dhubat district of Jalawla northeast of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said. JALAWLA – Police detained 12 suspected insurgents and confiscated weapons and explosives during raids in different parts of Jalalwa on Tuesday, police said. MUQDADIYA – Three suspected militants were killed during clashes with Iraqi security forces in the Zur area of Muqdadiya north east of Baghdad, police said. BALADRUZ – Gunmen killed a whole family in Baladruz east of Baghdad, police said. No further details were given. Police also detained a suspect following a roadside bomb explosion at a market in Baladruz. BALADRUZ – Four people were killed and five wounded when gunmen in military uniform attacked a residential area in northern Baladruz on Tuesday morning, a local source said. KANAAN – An Iraqi soldier was killed and four wounded when gunmen attacked a residential area housing displaced families from Mandali in the town of Kan’aan east of Baghdad, police said. BAQUBA – The Iraqi army detained a suspected militant during clashes with gunmen near the Sa’ad military camp in Ba’quba, the Iraqi military said. KHALIS – Gunmen manning a fake checkpoint kidnapped 10 students in two vehicles near the Salam village south of Khalis on Tuesday afternoon, security sources said. An injured student managed to escape the kidnapping. KIRKUK - A car bomb explosion targeting the motorcade of a police colonel near the Wasiti fuel station killed two civilians and wounded 19 others, including seven policemen, in central Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad) on Tuesday morning, police said. KIRKUK - A woman was wounded when Iraqi soldiers opened fire in central Kirkuk, police said. HAWIJA - Three policemen were wounded when a gunman threw a hand grenade at their patrol in Hawija (70 km southwest of Kirkuk), police said. MOSUL – A policeman was killed and two others wounded in a car bomb explosion when they were retrieving a body from it in the Wahda district of eastern Mosul on Tuesday, police said. MOSUL – A policeman was killed and two were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion targeting their patrol in the Shifaa’ district of Mosul on Tuesday, police said. MOSUL – Six children with ages ranging from three to nine years old where wounded when a mortar shell hit their home in the Qahira district of Mosul on Tuesday, police said. MOSUL – Three civilians were wounded in a mortar attack against a Kurdistan Democratic Party office in the Bakr district of northeastern Mosul on Tuesday, police said. MOSUL – Gunmen opened fire and killed one person near his home in the Hadbaa’ district of Mosul on Tuesday, police said. Another civilian was killed in the Jaza’er district. MOSUL - Police killed a gunman and arrested 19 other suspects in Mosul, police said. MOSUL – Gunmen kidnapped two Yezidi food ration dealers from Ba’shiqa in Mosul while they were receiving flour supplies, a Kurdish security source said. The gunmen also set the flour cargo on fire. TALKAIF – A roadside bomb exploded near the house of a Kurdistan Democratic Party official in Talkaif east of Mosul without casualties, police said. TALAFAR – Police uncovered a weapons cache in the Alaw village south east of Tala’far and intercepted a truck with a Katyusha rocket launcher hidden beneath its cargo attempting to enter Tala’far on Tuesday, police said. The driver was detained. ZAKHO – Border police detained 13 people from the Yazidi sect who were attempting to cross illegally into neighboring Turkey near the Bajika village west of Zakho on Tuesday, a Kurdish security official said. Kurdish border police had detained over 400 people trying to cross illegally into Turkey over the last six months. SAMARRA - At least two civilians were killed during clashes between Interior Ministry commandos and gunmen in Samarra north of Baghdad on Monday, police said. TIKRIT - A U.S. soldier was killed and two wounded in a roadside bomb explosion during combat operations in the Salah Al-Din governorate of north central Iraq on Monday, the U.S. military said. ANBAR - Two Marines died in an accident in Iraq's western Anbar governorate on Sunday, the U.S. military said. AMIRIYAT AL-FALLUJAH – Four people were killed and 10 wounded in a suicide car bomb explosion targeting Sheik Kamil Mohammed Al-Dahal Al-Issawi, a tribal leader and head of the Anbar Salvation Council in Amiriyat Al-Fallujah (20 km south of Fallujah), police said. The tribal chief escaped the attack uninjured. SAQLAWIYA – Locals said at least four mortar shells hit the U.S. military base in Saqlawiya (15 km north west of Fallujah) on Tuesday afternoon with no news of casualties or damages. KUT – Eyewitnesses said the U.S. military base south west of Kut (180 km south of Baghdad) was hit by five mortar shells on Tuesday morning with no news of casualties or damages. The U.S. military did not comment on the attack. A curfew was imposed on the southern city until Wednesday morning, a security source said. BASRAH – Gunmen attacked the joint coordination center in the Hakimiya district in Basrah (590 km south of Baghdad) with small arms fire on Tuesday morning without casualties, a British military spokesman said. The spokesman said all three British military bases in Basrah were targeted by indirect fire over the last 24 hours. ZUBAIR – Gunmen in police uniform shot and killed a civilian near his shop in Zubair (35 km south west of Basrah) on Monday night, eyewitnesses said. ZUBAIR – Gunmen in police uniform kidnapped Sabah Abu Al-Khair, a local folk singer, from his shop in Zubair on Monday morning, eyewitnesses said. UMM QASR – The U.S. military said an Iraqi detainee died from natural causes at Camp Bucca near Umm Qasr (60 km south of Basrah) on Sunday. The Camp Bucca detention center, where about 10 thousand Iraqi detainees – mostly from Baghdad and western Iraq – are held, is under direct U.S. military control, and the Iraqi government has no jurisdiction over the detainees.

Lion of Babylon -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (7/4/2007 10:22:11 PM)
Iraq Security Developments - WednesdayCar Bombs in Baghdad and Baiji; Two Insurgent Groups Clash in Diyala Security developments in Iraq on Wednesday, July 4, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 88. Iraqis reported wounded: 70. BAGHDAD – Police found 16 unidentified bodies shot execution style in different parts of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. Most were found in the Karkh sector of western Baghdad (three in Mansour, two in Jihad, two in Dora, two in Khadhraa’, one in Amil, one in Jami’a, one in Hurriya, and one in Shu’la), and the rest were found in the Rusafa sector in eastern Baghdad (one in Sadr City, one in Kasra wa Atash, and one in Ur). BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber killed two policemen and wounded seven others near a police checkpoint in southern Baghdad’s Saidiya district on Wednesday afternoon, police said. BAGHDAD – A suicide car bomber killed two policemen and wounded seven others near a police checkpoint in the Salam district of northeastern Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. BAGHDAD - An Iraqi soldier was killed and three were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion targeting their patrol near the Shurta tunnel in western Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. BAGHDAD – Gunmen killed a civilian in the Amiriya district on Wednesday, police said. BAGHDAD – Three civilians were wounded in a mortar attack against a residential area in the Bayya’ district on Wednesday, police said. BAGHDAD – A child was wounded in a mortar attack on the Ma’alif district in southern Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. BAGHDAD – Five mortar shells hit the Ubaidi district of northeastern Baghdad without casualties on Wednesday afternoon, police said. BAGHDAD – Eyewitnesses said Mahdi Army militiamen attacked a U.S. military convoy in the Mashtal district of northeastern Baghdad with rocket propelled grenades and destroyed two vehicles. The sources said U.S. troops detained several Interior Ministry commandos in the area following the attack. BAGHDAD – Eyewitnesses said clashes broke out in the Fadhl district of central Baghdad between suspected Sunni militants and Iraqi security forces on Wednesday morning. There was no news of casualties. BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers detained 12 suspected militants in the Adhamiya district of northern Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD – The Baghdad Operations Command said Iraqi security forces detained 38 suspected insurgents in different parts of Baghdad over the last 24 hours and defused two roadside bombs and confiscated weapons and ammunitions. The statement said one Iraqi soldier was killed and two wounded during the operations. BAIJI - A car bomb explosion targeting a police patrol near a local restaurant killed six people, including a policeman, and wounded 17 others in Baiji (180 km north of Baghdad) on Wednesday afternoon, police said. TIKRIT - Gunmen killed an Iraqi soldier in a drive-by-shooting at Al-Alam near Tikrit (175 km north of Baghdad), police said. SAMARRA - Four policemen were killed and two were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Samarra (100 km north of Baghdad), the police said. KIRKUK - Gunmen killed two policemen and wounded three others in a drive-by-shooting near the Urouba district in the southern Kirkuk (250 north of Baghdad) on Wednesday morning, police said. KIRKUK - A roadside bomb explosion targeting a traffic police patrol wounded two policemen in southern Kirkuk’s Qadisiya district on Wednesday, police said. KIRKUK – Police found and deactivated a missile launcher hidden in a vegetable cart near a mosque in the Nasr district in Kirkuk, police said. RIYADH – A roadside bomb explosion killed one Oil Facilities Protection guard and wounded three others near Riyadh (65 km south west of Kirkuk) on Wednesday, police said. RIYADH – Three Iraqi soldiers were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion against their patrol in Riyadh, police said. HAWIJA – An Iraqi soldier was wounded in a roadside bomb explosion on his patrol near a bus garage in Hawija (70 km south west of Kirkuk) on Wednesday, police said. Police defused two other roadside bombs in the town. TUZ KHURMATU – Gunmen manning a fake checkpoint kidnapped six truck drivers on the main Baghdad-Kirkuk road near Tuz Khurmatu (225 km north of Baghdad) on Wednesday, police said. SULEIMAN BEG - An Iraqi soldier was killed and three others were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion targeting their patrol in Suleiman Beg north of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. BAQUBA - The U.S. military said it killed 25 suspected insurgents and detained five others during an operation north east of Ba'quba (57 km north of Baghdad) on Monday. MUQDADIYA – The Muqdadiya local council chairman was wounded with two of his family members when a mortar shell hit his home in Muqdadiya (45 km north east of Ba’quba) on Wednesday, police said. MUQDADIYA – Locals said fierce fighting broke out between two insurgent groups at several villages around Muqdadiya, Deli Abbas and the Himrin Lake on Wednesday morning. Eyewitnesses said 1920 Revolution Brigades gunmen may have killed up to 15 Al-Qaeda gunmen and detained several others during the fighting. The report could not be independently confirmed by police or the U.S. military. MUQDADIYA – Militants blew up the house of a local policeman in the Falastin district of Muqdadiya on Wednesday, police said. MOSUL – Police found the bodies of two Yazidi food ration dealers from Ba’shiqa abducted yesterday near the Wahda district of eastern Mosul on Wednesday, police said. The two men were stoned to death and mutilated. MOSUL - Iraqi and U.S. forces detained two suspected militants and confiscated explosives during raids in Mosul (390 km north of Baghdad) on Sunday, the U.S. military said. MOSUL – The U.S. military said a helicopter crashed in Mosul on Wednesday, killing one soldier and wounding another. FALLUJAH – Police found the bodies of two people bearing gunshot wounds and signs of torture north of Fallujah (45 km west of Baghdad) on Wednesday, police said. The two were members of the Anbar Salvation Council. HADITHA – Eyewitnesses said a U.S. military base was hit with two Katyusha rockets on Wednesday afternoon in central Haditha (170 km west of Ramadi). There was no news of casualties. HAQLANIYA – Gunmen wounded two policemen when they attacked a police patrol with hand grenades and small arms fire in the Sina’a district of Haqlaniya on Wednesday, police said. HILLA - Two Iraqi soldiers and four civilians were wounded in a mortar attack on a military camp near Hilla (100 km south of Baghdad), police said. KARBALA – Police found and deactivated a rocket launching pad with two modified missiles with a range of 30 km prepared to be fired at Karbala from the Wend area north of Karbala on Wednesday morning, the Karbala governor said. KUT – The U.S. military base south of Kut was attacked with several mortar rounds on Wednesday afternoon with no news of casualties, police said. BASRAH – Police found the body of an Iraqi interpreter working for the British military on Wednesday north of Basrah (590 km south of Baghdad), police said. The interpreter, who was kidnapped on Tuesday night, was shot several times in the head. BASRAH – Police said they freed five girls who were kidnapped earlier at the Hussein district of western Basrah on Wednesday. BASRAH – The director of the Iraqi Red Crescent in Basrah said unknown gunmen attacked his home with small arms fire without casualties on Tuesday night. Sabah Khraibit said he had repeatedly received death threats since he took the position five months ago by gunmen related to the former Iraqi Red Crescent director and that he filed several complaints with no actions taken by authorities. ZUBAIR – Gunmen hijacked 24 imported vehicles near Zubair south west of Basrah after they entered from Kuwait on Wednesday morning, police said. Police later retrieved several vehicles in a raid on the Qibla district. ABU AL-KHASIB – Customs police clashed with gunmen smuggling illegal vehicles at Abu Al-Khasib (20 km south east of Basrah) on Wednesday morning, a security source said. A policeman was killed in the fighting. FAW – Police said it detained 12 suspected members of a Shi’ite militant group called Jund Al-Samaa’ during a raid near Faw (100 km south east of Basrah) on Tuesday night.

Lion of Babylon -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (7/6/2007 2:53:54 AM)
Iraq Security Developments - Thursday Twenty Four Bodies Found in Baghdad; Clashes with Mahdi Army Erupt in Samawa Security developments in Iraq on Thursday, July 5, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 94. Iraqis reported wounded: 96. U.S. troops reported killed: 3. U.S. troops reported wounded: 2. BAGHDAD - Police found the bodies of 24 people shot execution style in different parts of the capital over the last 24 hours, an unnamed Interior Ministry source said. Most of the bodies, thought to be victims of sectarian violence, were found in the Karkh sector of western Baghdad (seven in Amil, three in Dora, two in Ghazaliya, one in Jihad, one in Khadhraa’, one in Amiriya, and one in Mahmoudiya), and the rest were found in the Rusafa sector of eastern Baghdad (six in Sadr City, one in Sulaikh, and one in Husseiniya), according to the Voices of Iraq News Agency and the National Iraqi News Agency. A Washington Post front-page report today revealed that the number of unidentified bodies found in Baghdad have increased by 41 percent in June, despite Iraqi and U.S. official reports suggesting that the number of civilian casualties were down. BAGHDAD - A car bomb explosion killed 17 people and wounded 25 others, including many women and children, in the predominately Shi’ite district of Abu Dshir in south Baghdad on Thursday, a medical source said. The car bomb was parked near a restaurant and a photography studio where people were celebrating a wedding, a police source said. Police initially reported that five people were killed and 15 wounded in the blast, according to VOI and WNA. BAGHDAD – Four people were wounded in mortar attacks on residential districts in south and west Baghdad on Thursday, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. Two were wounded when a mortar shell hit the Mansour district in west Baghdad, and two others were wounded in a mortar attack on southern Baghdad’s Dora district. Two other shells hit the Green Zone and the Dora intersection without casualties, the source said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen in three vehicles killed two shop owners and abducted five others in Baghdad's eastern district of Mashtal on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry source said, according to Reuters and VOI. BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed two guards and kidnapped two others in an attack against a bank in the Hayy Saddam neighborhood of Bayya’ in southern Baghdad, police said, according to Reuters and McClatchy newspapers. BAGHDAD – An Iraqi soldier was killed and three wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in the Jami’a district of west Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. BAGHDAD – A civilian was killed in a roadside bomb explosion in the Dora district of southern Baghdad on Thursday evening, police said. BAGHDAD – Three policemen were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in the Za’faraniya district of eastern Baghdad on Thursday, police said. BAGHDAD – A civilian was wounded in a roadside bomb explosion targeting a U.S. military patrol in the Zayouna district of eastern Baghdad on Thursday evening, police said. BAGHDAD - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in southern Baghdad on Thursday, a U.S. military statement said today. The statement identified the bomb as an explosive formed projectile, which detonated near a military patrol BAGHDAD – The U.S. military said it killed one suspected militant and detained six others before dawn Thursday during operations in and around Sadr City. The military statement said the suspects were thought to be affiliated with “secret cell terrorist leaders and are suspected to have ties to the Iranian Revolutionary Guard Corps – Quds Forces.” Eyewitnesses in Sadr City said U.S. troops backed by helicopters raided houses at two neighborhoods in the Gayyara area of Sadr City on Thursday dawn and detained an unspecified number of “civilians.” It was unclear whether the two incidents were related. BAGHDAD – The U.S. military said it killed one suspected militant and detained nine others, including “Al-Qaeda in Iraq senior operatives,” during raids in and around Baghdad Wednesday and Thursday. BAGHDAD – The Baghdad Operations Command said it killed “one terrorist and captured 14 others,” in addition to detaining seven suspected militants and defusing six roadside bombs, in different parts of the capital over the last 24 hours as part of the Imposing Law security operation. The press release said the suspected terrorist was killed in the Mansour district and that other suspects were captured in Adhamiya, Rashid, Abu Ghraib and Mahmoudiya. Four Iraqi soldiers were killed and 11 wounded during the operations, the statement said. BAGHDAD – The head of the Dora municipality council, Hamid Khalaf, escaped an assassination attempt with minor wounds when gunmen opened fire against him near the Baghdad municipality building in central Baghdad on Thursday, WNA reported. BAGHDAD – Gunmen robbed 16 million Dinars when they intercepted a vehicle belonging to the Electricity Directorate in central Baghdad’s Karrada district, McClatchy newspapers reported. MADAIN – Gunmen assassinated Colonel Hussein Kadhim, the facilities protection service commander of the Wahda electric power substation, in the Wahda district of Mada’in south east of Baghdad, a police source told WNA and VOI. MADAIN – Interior Ministry commandos arrested local Mada’in Councilman Amer Aboud Ali Al-Dulaimi while he was shopping at a market, according to a statement today by the Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq. Eyewitnesses said the commandos physically assaulted the council member during his arrest. HAFRIYA - Unknown gunmen killed an interpreter – Qasim Hassan – working with U.S. forces in the town of Hafriya (50 km south east of Baghdad) in a drive-by-shooting near his home in the Mazra’a area on Thursday afternoon, a Wasit governorate police source said. AZIZIYA – Police detained two people attempting to smuggle a fuel tanker at a checkpoint near Aziziya (90 km south east of Baghdad) on Thursday, police said. YUSUFIYA - Two Iraqi soldiers were killed and four wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in Yusufiya (15 km south of Baghdad), police said. ISKANDARIYA - Two people were wounded when a mortar shell hit their home in the town of Iskandariya (40 km south of Baghdad) late Wednesday, police said. ISKANDARIYA - Police found the body of a former Iraqi Army officer in Iskandariya on Wednesday, police said. BAQUBA – The Iraqi army killed 14 suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq militants and detained one suspect during military operations in Ba’quba (57 km north east of Baghdad), Brigadier General Abdul Karim Al-Rubai’i, the Diyala operations commander, told the press during a meeting with tribal leaders in Ba’quba on Thursday. BAQUBA – An Iraqi policeman was killed by sniper fire in central Ba’quba on Thursday afternoon, police said. BAQUBA – A decapitated head was found near a bridge in the Jadida district of Ba’quba on Thursday, a medical source said. BAQUBA – Three Iraqi soldiers were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion at the Imam Mansour area east of Ba’quba on Thursday, an Iraqi army source said. MUQDADIYA – Two people were killed when a roadside bomb exploded near a house in the Mu’alimeen district of Muqdadiya on Thursday, WNA reported. Gunmen shot and killed another civilian near his home in the Ballour district of Muqdadiya. MUQDADIYA – Gunmen attacked the home of the mayor of Muqdadiya and wounded five of his bodyguards on Thursday morning, according to WNA. KHANAQIN – Five Iraqi soldiers were wounded when a roadside bomb detonated against their patrol on the Wais-Khanaqin road near the Iranian border on Thursday, an official Iraqi army source in Ba’quba told NINA and WNA. BALADRUZ – Security forces imposed a curfew in Baladruz east of Baghdad following clashes between gunmen and police, WNA reported. Four Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the clashes with suspected Al-Qaeda in Iraq militants in the Dainiya village south of Baladruz, an Iraqi army source said. ISHAQI - Six people were killed, including three Interior Ministry commandos, when gunmen ambushed a police patrol near the Jisr Harba area of Ishaqi (100 km north of Baghdad), local police and eyewitnesses said, according to Reuters, NINA and VOI. The gunmen burned two police vehicles during the clashes, which lasted half an hour, locals said. BAIJI – Eyewitnesses said parts of the Salam mosque in the Jarish village north of Baiji were destroyed in a U.S. air strike early Thursday, an Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq statement said today. KIRKUK – A civilian was killed and three others, including two policemen, were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion near a police station in the Hajjaj area of southern Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad) on Thursday morning, a police source told VOI. KIRKUK - A civilian was killed and five other people, including two policemen, were wounded in an explosion when police were trying to defuse a roadside bomb planted in the Urouba district of Kirkuk on Thursday, an official Kirkuk police source said. KIRKUK – Kirkuk emergency police raided the Qadisiya district of Kirkuk on dawn Thursday and detained one suspected militant and confiscated 30 different weapons, WNA reported. MOSUL – A Task Force Lightning soldier was killed and another wounded when a helicopter went down in near Mosul in the Ninewa governorate on Wednesday, a U.S. military statement said today. Preliminary reports and eyewitness accounts indicated the helicopter accidentally hit high-tension electricity wires, the statement said. FALLUJAH - Iraqi police found the bodies of five people in a rural area north of Fallujah (45 km west of Baghdad), police said. FALLUJAH – Two mortar shells hit the U.S. military base in central Fallujah on Thursday afternoon, a local police source told VOI. Explosions were heard and smoke billows were seen rising from inside the base, the source said, but there were no news of casualties. The U.S. military did not comment on the incident. A third mortar shell hit the roof of a house in the nearby Mu’alimeen district without casualties. ANA - Eyewitnesses said several mortar shells hit a U.S. military base in Ana in the western Anbar governorate with no news of casualties. The U.S. military did not comment on the incident. HILLA - The U.S. consulate based at the Babel Hotel in central Hilla was hit by several mortar rounds on Thursday with no news of casualties, a Babel police source told the Nahrain website. The U.S. military did not comment on the incident. KARBALA – Police detained an Egyptian national at a checkpoint as he was trying to enter Karbala (108 km south west of Baghdad), Karbala Governor Aqeel Al-Khaz’ali said today. The man is suspected to have entered the holy city to carry out terrorist attacks and was detained for investigation, the governor said. SAMAWA - At least three people, including a policeman, were killed and nine others wounded during clashes between Iraqi police and Madhi Army militiamen in several districts of the southern city of Samawa (280 km south of Baghdad) on Thursday, police said, according to Reuters, WNA and VOI. Local sources said the clashes began after police attempted to arrest the members of a Sadrist delegation visiting the nearby town of Rumaitha for a religious ceremony. Armed Mahdi Army militiamen deployed to the southern districts of Samawa following the incident on Wednesdy night, and clashes with SIIC-dominated security forces broke out Thursday morning. Mahdi Army militiamen also fired mortar shells at the Muthanna governorate building, the police directorate and the SIIC headquarters, police said. BASRAH – A civilian was wounded when British troops opened fire at his vehicle near the gate of the British consulate compound in Basrah (590 km south of Baghdad) on Thursday morning, Basrah police spokesman Colonel Karim Al-Zaidi said. BASRAH – The Basrah police command headquarters in the Hakimiya district of Basrah was hit with four mortar shells on Thursday afternoon without casualties, a police source told VOI and WNA.

Lion of Babylon -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (7/7/2007 1:51:52 AM)
Iraq Security Developments - Friday Authorities Declare Ceasefire in Samawa; Car Bomb in Kurdish Village Kills 17 Security developments in Iraq on Friday, July 6, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 64. Iraqis reported wounded: 86. U.S. soldiers reported killed: 1. U.S. soldiers reported wounded: N/A. BAGHDAD – Police found the bodies of five people shot execution style in different parts of the capital on Friday, police said. The bodies were found in the districts of Baghdad Al-Jedida, Amil, Bayya’, Ur and Waziriya, according to VOI and Reuters. BAGHDAD - A mortar killed seven members of the same family and wounded two of their neighbors in the Fadhl district of central Baghdad on Friday as they slept on their roof, an Interior Ministry source said, according to Reuters. Eyewitnesses said clashes broke out in the area following the attack. BAGHDAD – A civilian was killed and two wounded in a roadside bomb explosion targeting a U.S. military patrol in the Za’faraniya district of eastern Baghdad on Friday, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. A Humvee vehicle was destroyed in the attack, the source said. BAGHDAD - Two civilians were wounded in a mortar attack on the Karradat Mariam district near the Green Zone on Friday, police said. Eyewitnesses said at least five mortar shells hit the fortified Green Zone on Friday and black smoke billows were seen rising from inside the area with no news of casualties, VOI reported. U.S. and Iraqi officials did not comment on the incident. BAGHDAD – A roadside bomb exploded against a U.S. military patrol in west Baghdad’s Yarmouk district without casualties, a police source told VOI. BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier died of wounds received during combat operations in western Baghdad on Thursday, a U.S. military statement said today. BAGHDAD – U.S. troops detained a Mahdi Army commander in southern Baghdad’s Amil district on Friday, according to Al-Melaf. Eyewitnesses said U.S. troops warned that any hostile reactions would harm the detained commander. MADAIN – U.S. jet fighters bombed three houses in a residential area in the suburb of Mada’in south east of Baghdad on Friday evening, a police source told VOI. There were no casualties in the attack. MADAIN – Interior Ministry commandos detained two people attending a funeral procession of a young man who was kidnapped and found killed with signs of torture and gunshot wounds in Mada’in yesterday, an Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq statement said. The commandos also confiscated the body, the statement said. RAMADI – Iraqi police detained a Saudi national who was attempting to carry out a suicide bomb attack in a truck carrying canisters of chloride in Ramadi on Friday, police said, according to Reuters. HADITHA – Fierce clashes erupted between militants and Iraqi police in the Subhani district of Haditha (170 km west of Ramadi) on Friday afternoon, eyewitnesses told VOI and WNA. Two policemen and one militant were killed in the attack, the sources said. Iraqi police have not commented on the incident. JALAWLA – Seventeen people were killed and four others wounded in a suicide car bombing near a busy market in a Kurdish village near Jalawla north east of Baghdad on Friday evening, police said, according to Radio Sawa. KHANAQIN – Seven Iraqi soldiers, including an officer, were wounded in roadside bomb explosion against their patrol on the Wais-Karakosh road near Khanaqin (75 km north east of Ba’quba), a Ba’quba police source told VOI and WNA. KHALIS – Gunmen dressed in Iraqi army uniforms, manning a face checkpoint on the Khalis-Udhaim main road north of Baghdad, abducted nine civilians on Friday, eyewitnesses told VOI. MUQDADIYA – A roadside bomb exploded against a U.S. military patrol in the Hurriya district of Muqdadiya north east of Baghdad, wounding a number of soldiers, WNA reported. U.S. soldiers clashed with militants following the explosion with no news of casualties. TUZ KHURMATU – An Iraqi police station in Tuz Khurmatu was hit with four mortar shells without casualties, police said, according to McClatchy newspapers. SULAIMAN BEG – Gunmen abducted four Christian citizens, including a Chaldean Catholic priest – identified as Father George Atta – and his son, near Sulaiman Beg (200 km north east of Baghdad), police said, according to WNA and VOI. The four men were relatives who fled the Dora district of southern Baghdad and were heading to Dohuk in the autonomous Kurdish region, according to WNA. Father Jenan Shamil, of the Chaldean Catholic Church in Kirkuk, denied that a priest was among the kidnapped, adding that George Ishaq and his son Stewart were held and his kidnappers were demanding a large ransom for their release, Ankawa reported. HAWIJA – Gunmen killed an Iraqi soldier in a drive-by shooting in Hawija (70 km west of Kirkuk) on Friday, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. KIRKUK - Three Iraqi policemen were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in central Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad) on Friday afternoon, police said. KIRKUK - A man and a woman were wounded when an Iraqi army patrol fired shots to clear traffic in central Kirkuk on Friday, a security source said, according to Reuters, WNA and VOI. KIRKUK – A civilian was wounded when a rocket targeting the U.S. military base in the Kirkuk airfield hit his home in the Tis’een district of Kirkuk on Friday, a security source told VOI. KIRKUK – Gunmen wounded an Iraqi policeman in central Kirkuk on Friday, police said. KIRKUK – Gunmen opened fire at civilians in the Abbassiya village near Kirkuk, wounding one person, according to McClatchy newspapers. MOSUL - An Iraqi police officer was killed and another officer wounded when militants attacked their vehicle with a hand grenade in the Sukar district of the northern city of Mosul (390 km north of Baghdad) on Friday evening, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. MOSUL – Gunmen killed a Kurdish married couple when they broke into their house in the Jaza’er district of northern Mosul on Friday, General Abdul Karim Al-Jubouri, head of the Ninewa Police Operations Command, said today. MOSUL – A newborn child was kidnapped from the maternity department of the Jumhouri Hospital of Mosul, Lieutenant Colonel Arif San’an, of the Medical City police station, told VOI. Police detained four hospital staffers and five nurses as part of the investigation, following a complaint by the child’s father, the source said. TALAFAR – The Iraqi army captured five wanted Al-Qaeda in Iraq militants in the Alaw area of Tala’far (70 km west of Mosul) on Friday following a tip by locals, Colonel Luqman Khorsheed, an officer in the Iraqi Army Third Division, told VOI. ZAKHO – Turkish forces bombed several villages near Zakho 3 km inside the Iraqi border with 25 artillery rounds on Friday evening without casualties, an anonymous Kurdish security official told VOI. Turkish forces have recently stepped up a military campaign against suspected positions of Kurdish separatist PKK guerillas near the Iraqi border. TIKRIT – Gunmen attacked relatives of Sheikh Shaloukh Al-Rufai’i, a member of the Salah Al-Din Salvation Council, in Tikrit, killing seven people and wounding nine others, according to McClatchy newspapers. SAMARRA – Four Interior Ministry commandos were killed and three civilians wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in the Al-Bu Rahman area of Samarra (118 km north of Baghdad) near the Askari shrine on Friday afternoon, a local police source told VOI and WNA. SAMARRA – Three schools used as bases by Interior Ministry commandos in Samarra were hit with mortar shells on Friday afternoon, according to McClatchy newspapers. YUSUFIYA - An Iraqi soldier was killed in a roadside bomb explosion in Yusufiya (15 km south of Baghdad), police said, according to Reuters. YUSUFIYA – Militants detonated explosives under an oil pipeline extending to southern Baghdad’s Dora oil refinery in the Adwaniya area of Yusufiya south of Baghdad, Asim Jihad, a spokesman for the Iraqi Oil Ministry said, according to WNA and VOI. MAHMOUDIYA - Two bodies shot execution style were found in Mahmoudiya (30 km south of Baghdad) on Friday, police said, according to Reuters. HILLA - Four Iraqi soldiers, including an officer, were killed and two wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in the southern city of Hilla on Thursday, police said, according to Reuters and Nahrain. KARBALA – Police said they discovered four anti-aircraft rocket launchers in a desert area 100 km west of Karbala on Friday, Colonel Ra’ed Shakir Jawdat, Karbala police commander, told VOI. Five suspects were detained for interrogation, the source said, adding that they were plotting to target aircraft passing over the area. KARBALA – A Sadrist official in Karbala said U.S. troops detained the brother of a Mahdi Army commander and six citizens during a raid on the Hurr area west of Karbala on dawn Friday, according to VOI. The source said the detained person worked in the security service of the deputy governor of Karbala and the six other detainees were unaffiliated with the Sadrist Movement or the Mahdi Army. The U.S. military did not comment on the incident. NAJAF – Police in Najaf detained nine members of a heretic Shi’ite religious group named Al-Mawla – modeled on the Jund Al-Samaa’ apocalyptic Shi’ite group that was attacked by Iraqi and U.S. forces in Kufa near Najaf last January, a Najaf governorate spokesman said today, according to VOI. SIIC-dominated Iraqi security forces in southern Iraq have waged a campaign against unorthodox religious Shi’ite groups in several southern cities, often acting on fatwas by leaders of the clerical establishment in Najaf. Dozens of members have been detained indefinitely on charges of “terrorism.” NAJAF – Police detained five suspected criminals in northern Najaf on Friday, a governorate spokesman said today. Two were suspected of murdering a citizen, and three others were suspected of kidnapping a citizen and sexually assaulting him after intoxicating him. KUT – A child was killed in a roadside bomb explosion in an open field near the Umm Hilayil village north of Kut (180 km south east of Baghdad) on Friday, eyewitnesses told VOI. DIWANIYA – Authorities declared a curfew until Saturday morning following a mortar attack against the U.S. military base in Diwaniya on Friday evening, WNA reported. The U.S. military did not comment on the attacks. SAMAWA – Muthanna Governor Mohammed Ali Al-Hassani announced that a ceasefire agreement was reached in Samawa following the intervention of a UIA parliamentary delegation from Baghdad, VOI reported today. Clashes had erupted on Thursday between Mahdi Army militiamen and SIIC-dominated security forces in the southern Shi’ite city. A medical source from the Samawa General Hospital said seven people were killed in the clashes and 52 wounded, including 30 policemen. Police had said that three people were killed and nine wounded on Thursday. Eyewitnesses told Reuters that sporadic fighting has continued in some parts of southern Samawa today. SAMAWA - Four Iraqi policemen were killed and three civilians wounded in a roadside bomb explosion in southern Samawa, police said, according to Reuters. BASRAH – A British helicopter attacked militants preparing to launch a rocket attack against the British military base in the Basrah International Airport near Garmat Ali north of Basrah (590 km south of Baghdad) late Thursday, a British military spokesman said today. BASRAH – A British convoy was attacked with a roadside bomb explosion and small arms fire in the Hakimiya district of central Basrah on Friday without casualties, a British military spokesman said. All three British military bases in Basrah were targeted by indirect mortar and rocket fire over the last 24 hours without casualties, the spokesman added.

Lion of Babylon -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (7/9/2007 2:54:28 AM)
The worse day yet! [:(] Iraq Security Developments - Saturday Almost 500 Iraqis Killed and Wounded on Saturday; Clashes in Diwaniya and Basrah Security developments in Iraq on Saturday, July 7, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 194. Iraqis reported wounded: 300. U.S. troops reported killed: 3. U.S. troops reported wounded: 5. British troops reported killed: 2. British troops reported wounded: 3. TUZ KHURMATO - A suicide truck bomb killed at least 150 people and wounded 250 at a busy outdoor market in the Shi’ite Turkmen village of Amerli south of of Tuz Khurmato (200 km north east of Baghdad) on Saturday morning, police said, according to Reuters and AP. Over 30 houses and 20 shops were leveled in the massive blast, and the wounded had to be transported to hospitals in Tikrit and Kirkuk because the Tuz Khurmatu hospital was understaffed, contributing to the rising death toll. Five people were still missing and unaccounted for, according to VOI. The sectarian and ethnically mixed Tuz region, sandwiched between Kirkuk and Baquba, had recently witnessed increased, deadly activity of Islamic State of Iraq militants, who were possibly on the run from military operations in Baquba and Baghdad. BAGHDAD - Police found the bodies of 19 people shot execution style in different parts of the capital on Saturday, the Interior Ministry said, according to Reuters and VOI. Most were found in the Karkh sector of western Baghdad (three in Dora, three in Amil, three in Mansour, three in Jami’a, two in Ghazaliya, one in Saidiya, and one in Kadhimiya) and the rest were found in eastern Baghdad’s Rusafa sector (one in Sadr City, one in Ur and one in Sulaikh). BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber killed five Iraqi soldiers and a civilian near an Iraqi army checkpoint in east Baghdad’s Zayouna district on Saturday afternoon, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. Fifteen people, including five soldiers, were wounded in the blast. BAGHDAD – U.S. troops killed a woman in Akhtal Street in northern Baghdad’s Adhamiya district, police sources said, according to WNA. The source said the woman was trying to ask the soldiers to cross the street before she was shot dead. BAGHDAD - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded in a roadside bomb explosion while on foot patrol south of Baghdad on Friday, a U.S. military statement said today. BAGHDAD – A U.S. soldier and an Iraqi interpreter were killed and three soldiers wounded in a roadside bomb attack targeting their patrol in southeastern Baghdad on Friday, a U.S. military statement said today. BAGHDAD – Eyewitnesses said U.S. troops clashed with suspected Mahdi Army militiamen following raids in the Shi’ite district of Shu’la in western Baghdad on Saturday evening, according to VOI. U.S. and Iraqi officials did not comment on the incident, and there were no reports of casualties. BAGHDAD – A Baghdad Operations Command statement today said five suspected insurgents were detained during security operations in Kadhimiya, Mansour and Mada’in over the last 24 hours, according to VOI. Iraqi troops also defused three roadside bombs in Adhamiya, Kadhimiya and Rashid, and confiscated weapons and ammunitions. The statement said two Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the raids. KIRKUK - Six policemen were wounded in two consecutive roadside bomb explosions in the Musala district of central Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad) on Saturday morning, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. KIRKUK - Four civilians were wounded when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb 25 km west of Kirkuk, police said. KIRKUK – A Kirkuk police spokesman said 14 suspected insurgents and oil smugglers were detained during operations south west of Kirkuk on Saturday, according to VOI and WNA. TAZA – Gunmen killed a civilian in a drive-by shooting in the Mazru’a village near Taza (20 km south of Kirkuk) on Saturday, police told VOI and WNA. DHILUIYA – A roadside bomb explosion killed the local Iraqi Army commander, Major Amer Nayif and two of his bodyguards and wounded five civilians in Dhilu’iya (90 km north of Baghdad) on Saturday, a police source told VOI. YETHRIB – Two Iraqi policemen were killed and two others wounded when a U.S. jet fighter accidentally bombed their checkpoint in Yethrib near Balad (80 km north of Baghdad) on Saturday, a local police source told VOI and WNA. The source said U.S. troops apologized for the attack. DUJAIL – Militants attacked a U.S. military convoy near Dujail (65 km north of Baghdad) and destroyed a truck carrying supplies for U.S. troops on Saturday, police sources told VOI. The U.S. military did not comment on the accident. BAQUBA – The Iraqi army said joint U.S.-Iraqi troops killed four suspected Al-Qaeda militants and detained nine others during security operations in Ba’quba and Khan Bani Sa’ad north east of Baghdad, according to Reuters and VOI. ANA – Eyewitnesses said a roadside bomb explosion targeting a U.S. military patrol destroyed a vehicle and wounded several soldiers in Ana (280 km west of Ramadi) on Saturday afternoon, according to VOI. The U.S. military did not comment on the attack. MAHMOUDIYA – Militiamen manning a fake checkpoint abducted 25 people in the Askari district of Mahmoudiya south of Baghdad on Saturday morning, an Association of Muslim Scholars in Iraq statement said. AIN AL-TAMUR – A Karbala police spokesman said police found and defused a bag full of explosives left on a road near Khudhaira in Ain Al-Tamur (40 km west of Karbala) on Saturday, according to VOI and WNA. HILLA – Police defused a roadside bomb planted near the Scorpion Brigade Interior Ministry commandos headquarters in central Hilla on Saturday, police said. NAJAF – A policeman was wounded when a mortar shell hit a police station in Najaf on Saturday morning, Najaf News Net reported. KUT – Police arrested 12 suspected oil smugglers in the southern city of Kut (180 km south east of Baghdad) on Saturday, police said, according to WNA. DIWANIYA - Six Mahdi Army militiamen were killed and 17 wounded during clashes with U.S. troops in the southern city of Diwaniya, a Sadr Bureau source in the city said, according to Reuters and WNA. The U.S. military base in Diwaniya had been attacked with Katyusha rockets on Saturday afternoon, and an Iraqi soldier was wounded in the clashes that broke out in several parts of the city, eyewitnesses said. SAMAWA – An Iraqi journalist working for local Samawa television was killed with a sniper’s bullet while entering the Samawa TV building on Friday evening, the Iraqi Journalists’ Rights Defense Association said today, according to VOI. The southern city had witnessed clashes between Mahdi Army militiamen and SIIC-dominated local security forces on Thursday and Friday, killing at least seven people and wounding 55 others. BASRA – A British soldier was killed and three others wounded when militants attacked their patrol with rocket-propelled grenades and small arms fire on dawn Saturday during the largest security operation staged by British troops this year in Basra (590 km south of Baghdad), a British military spokesman said. Five people were detained during the operation in the Tamimiya district, WNA reported. Another British soldier was killed in a shooting accident inside a military compound hosting the British consulate in southeastern Basrah, the spokesman said. The two deaths bring the number of British casualties in Iraq since March 2003 to 158. BASRAH – Several mortar shells hit the Ma’qal and Hakimiya districts of Basrah before dawn Saturday without casualties, police told WNA. ABU AL-KHASIB – Police defused a roadside bomb planted near the Hamdan water purification station in Abu Al-Khasib (20 km south east of Basrah) on Saturday morning, police said, according to WNA.

Lion of Babylon -> RE: The Iraqi death and injury toll in daily figures! (7/9/2007 8:37:16 AM)
Iraq Security Developments - Sunday Car Bombs Strike Baghdad and Abu Ghraib; Army Foils Bridge Bombing Attempt Security developments in Iraq on Sunday, July 8, 2007: Iraqis reported killed: 99. Iraqis reported wounded: 98. U.S. troops reported killed: 1. U.S. troops reported wounded: 3. British troops reported killed: 1. BAGHDAD – Police found the bodies of 29 people shot execution style in different parts of the capital on Sunday, police said. Eighteen bodies were found in the Karkh sector of western Baghdad (six in Saidiya, five in Amil, four bodies in Bayya’, two in Qadisiya, and one in Dora), and 11 were found in the Rusafa sector of eastern Baghdad (three in Adhamiya, three in Sulaikh, two in Sha’ab, two in Jisr Diyala, and one in Shama’iya), according to Reuters and VOI. BAGHDAD – Gunmen broke into a home in the Ghazaliya district of western Baghdad and killed four people from one family on Sunday afternoon, police told VOI. The victims were strangulated, according to the police. In the nearby Jam’ia district, gunmen broke into a home and killed one person and wounded two of his sons, according to VOI. BAGHDAD - Six people were killed and seven wounded in a car bomb explosion in Karrada in central Baghdad on Sunday, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. BAGHDAD – Two people were killed and five wounded in a car bomb explosion near the Hamra Hotel in Jadiriya at almost the same timing of the Karrada explosion, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed three civilians and wounded five others at the Shorja commercial district in central Baghdad on Sunday, police said, according to Reuters and VOI. BAGHDAD – Gunmen killed Colonel Abdul Karim Hamid, head of the Facilities Protection Service in the Electricity Ministry, and two of his bodyguards in northern Baghdad’s Sulaikh district on Sunday morning, police told VOI. BAGHDAD – Gunmen killed Colonel Jawad Kadhim Al-Sa’idi, an Iraqi Army general, when he was passing through the Qahira district of northern Baghdad on Sunday, police told VOI. BAGHDAD - The bodies of an Iraqi couple employed by the U.S. embassy in Baghdad who were kidnapped in May were found, a U.S. official said on Sunday, according to Reuters. BAGHDAD – Iraqi soldiers foiled an attempted suicide car bombing near the Dora bridge in southern Baghdad on Sunday, according to WNA. The suspected bomber was killed and the car detonated remotely. BAGHDAD – Iraqi soldiers killed 6 suspected militants and detained 11 others, including a suspected Al-Qaeda leader in Tikrit, on the Baghdad-Samarra road, a security source told WNA. BAGHDAD - One U.S. soldier was killed and three wounded on Sunday by a suicide car bomb near their patrol west of the Iraqi capital, the military said. BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained ten suspected militants during raids in western Baghdad, the military said. BUHRIZ – Five people were killed and 27 others wounded in a mortar attack on the predominately Sunni town of Buhriz south east of Ba’quba (57 km north east of Baghdad) on Sunday afternoon, police told VOI. BAQUBA – Police detained two suspected militants and defused two roadside bombs in the Sada area north of Ba’quba on Sunday, police told WNA. Four vehicles and three weapon caches were confiscated in the Gatoun area west of Ba’quba, the source said. KHALIS – Two people from one family were killed and seven others wounded in a mortar attack on Khalis north of Baghdad on Sunday, police said, according to McClatchy newspapers. HASWA - A suicide truck bomber killed 23 new Iraqi army recruits and wounded 27 others near the Haswa village east of Fallujah (40 km west of Baghdad), police and army sources said, according to Reuters and VOI. KIRKUK - Police found two bodies bearing signs of torture and gunshot wounds in the Domiz area north of Kirkuk (250 km north of Baghdad) on Sunday, police said, according to Reuters. KIRKUK – Gunmen staged an attack on the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan headquarters in Kirkuk and clashed with guards on Sunday morning, police told VOI. One gunman was killed in the attack. WNA reported that the attack targeted a patrol of Kurdish Asayish intelligence operatives in the Urouba district of Kirkuk. TIKRIT - One U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb near his vehicle in Salahuddin province in northern Iraq on Saturday, the military said. TIKRIT - Iraqi soldiers and police discovered a bomb-making factory and about 10,000 pounds of ammonia nitrate near the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, the U.S. military said. MOSUL – Gunmen killed two Ninewa governorate council members in west Mosul on Sunday, police told VOI. The two members, Ibrahim Hamdi and Khalaf Jazza’ were in the 17 Tammuz district when gunmen opened fire and killed them, police said. MOSUL – Five civilians were wounded in a roadside bomb explosion targeting a U.S. military patrol west of Mosul on Sunday, an Iraqi army spokesman told VOI. TALKAIF – A policeman was killed and another wounded when a roadside bomb hidden in his car exploded in the predominately Christian town of Talkaif (12 km north of Mosul) on Sunday, police told VOI. It was the third attack of its kind this week in the relatively secure town, which is protected by Kurdish Peshmerga forces. HAJJ UMRAN – The Iranian military fired several artillery rounds at the Hajj Umran area inside the Iraqi border on Sunday morning, targeting suspected PJAK guerilla positions, a Kurdish security source said. TAJI - Iraqi soldiers detained five militants in operations near Kirkuk on Thursday, the U.S. military said. MISHAHDA – Interior Ministry commandos arrested an Islamic Army operative in Mishahda north of Baghdad on Sunday, a security source told WNA. The detainee, Rafid Al-Shiblawi, was suspected of kidnapping and killing civilians on the Baghdad-Samarra road, the source said. SAMARRA – Locals alleged that U.S. troops shot and killed two elderly men who were sitting outside near their homes during a raid in the Sikak district of Samarra on Saturday evening, according to VOI. The incident could not be confirmed independently. Tensions were high in Samarra as rumors circulated through mosques about Shi’ite militiamen dressed as security forces entering the Sunni majority town, according to VOI. HADITHA – A roadside bomb explosion targeting a U.S. military patrol destroyed a Humvee vehicle in the village of Barawana near Haditha (170 km west of Ramadi) on Sunday, eyewitnesses told VOI. The U.S. military did not comment on the attack. ISKANDARIYA – Three people were wounded in a mortar attack on Iskandariya south of Baghdad on Sunday, police told WNA. JIBALA – Two people were wounded when a mortar shell hit the Ajrash are in the town of Jibala south of Baghdad on Sunday, police told WNA. HASWA – Several mortar shells hit the Adday district of Haswa south of Baghdad on Sunday without casualties, police told WNA. HILLA - A suicide car bomber and three accomplices were killed when their bomb detonated prematurely in this southern Shi'ite city, police said, according to Reuters. The car's driver was believed to be foreign. KUT – Eyewitnesses said the U.S. military base in Kut was attacked with mortar shells on dawn Sunday with no news of casualties, according to VOI. The U.S. military did not comment on the attack. DIWANIYA – Police said six roadside bombs exploded when U.S. troops entered the Sadr district of Diwaniya on dawn Sunday, damaging two Humvee vehicles, according to WNA. DIWANIYA – An Iraqi soldier was wounded by a sniper’s bullet in the Iskan district of Diwaniya on Sunday, an Iraqi army spokesman told WNA. SAMAWA – One person was killed and six wounded when sporadic clashes broke out again on Saturday night between Mahdi Army militiamen and Iraqi security forces in several parts of Samawa (280 km south of Baghdad) following a brief truce, medical sources told VOI. SAMAWA - A mortar killed one woman and two children in the southern Iraqi city of Samawa, (270 km south of Baghdad) police said, according to Reuters. BASRAH - A British soldier died on Sunday from wounds received during a security operation in the southern city of Basra the day before, a British military spokesman said on Sunday, according to Reuters. Two British soldiers had been killed on Saturday in two separate incidents, the military said. The soldier’s death brings the number of British casualties in Iraq since March 2003 to 159. BASRAH - A suspected Al-Qaeda militant was detained in Basra with canisters of chloride, security officials said, according to Reuters.

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Iraq Security Developments - Monday
Attacks Intensify in Northern Part of Diyala Governorate; Car Bombs in Baghdad

Security developments in Iraq on Monday, July 9, 2007:

Iraqis reported killed: 91. Iraqis reported wounded: 102.

BAGHDAD – Police found the bodies of 26 people shot execution style in different parts of the capital on Monday, police told VOI. Fourteen bodies were found in west Baghdad’s Karkh sector (five in Amil, three in Bayya’, two in Saidiya, two in Ghazaliya, one in Risala, and one in Jihad), and the re