At the Holidays

A special prayer for all those with an empty place at the table this season, on the eve of year 6 of OIF and OEF

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 51

This update covers all since the last (Dec 5th), which is a period longer than a week.

IBC repors "10 mass graves have been found in the last 2 months containing 206 bodies."

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Hometown
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Juctin R. P. Mcdaniel, 19	U.S. Army	Andover, NH
	Private 1st Class, 524th Combat Service Support BN, 45th Sustainment Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command
	Taji (Camp Taji); 17-Dec-07; Non-hostile - injury
	Austin D. Pratt, 22	U.S. Army	Cadet, MO
	Sergeant, 2nd BN, 30th Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, (Light Infantry) 10th Mountain Division
	Baghdad (Died in Balad); 15-Dec-07; Non-hostile
	Jonathan A. Lowery, 38	U.S. Army	Houlton, ME
	Sergeant 1st Class, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, III Corps
	Mosul; 14-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Daren A. Smith, 19	U.S. Army	Helena, MT
	Private, 3rd Squadron, 89th Cavalry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, (Light Infantry) 10th Mountain Division
	Baghdad; 13-Dec-07; Non-hostile
	Samuel E. Kelsey, 24	U.S. Army	Troup, TX
	Sergeant, 3rd BN, 7th Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division
	Tunis; 13-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Brynn J. Naylor, 21	U.S. Army	Roswell, NM
	Specialist, 2nd BN, 12th Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division
	Baghdad (southern part); 13-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Stephen Ferguson, 31	British Army	Lanarkshire-UK
	Guardsman, 1st Battalion The Scots Guards
	Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, England; 13-Dec-07; Non-hostile - vehicle accident
	Mark T. Carter, 27	U.S. Navy	Fallbrook, CA
	Chief Petty Officer, Navy SEAL
	Iraq - details not released; 11-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire
	Johnathan A. Lahmann, 21	U.S. Army	Richmond, IN
	Specialist, 59th Engineer Company, 20th Engineer BN, 36th Engineer Brigade
	Baiji; 10-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (suicide vehic
	Randy W. Pickering, 31	U.S. Army	Bovey, MN
	Specialist, Regimental Support Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Reg, 1st Armored Division
	Baghdad; 09-Dec-07; Non-hostile

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ISAF-AFGHANISTAN

------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Country
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Joshua C. Blaney, 25	U.S. Army	Matthews, NC
	Corporal, 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade
	Forward Operating Base Curry; 12-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Michael J. Gabel, 30	U.S. Army	Crowley, LA
	Staff Sergeant, 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade
	Forward Operating Base Curry; 12-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Gregory L. Elam, 39	U.S. Army	Columbus, GA
	Staff Sergeant, 54th Quartermaster Company, 49th Quartermaster Group, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
	Kandahar; 11-Dec-07; Non-Hostile - Illness
	Tanner J. O'Leary, 23	U.S. Army	Eagle Butte, SD
	Corporal, 1st BN, 508th Parachute Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
	Musa Quala; 09-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Lee Johnson, 33	British Army	Stockton-on-Tees-UK
	Sergeant, 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards)
	Musa Quala (Helmand Province); 08-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 254 this week; 271 last week; 307 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 84 this week; 71 last week; 159 prior week.
Tuesday 18 December: 50 dead
Diyala
Baquba:	suicide car bomber kills 2 policemen.
Abbara:	suicide bomber kills 17 in cafe.
Ninewa
Mosul:	gunmen kill 4; roadside bomb kills 2.
Sinjar:	gunmen attack home of Yazidi family, kill 7.
Hadar:	gunmen kill 6 men guarding oil pipeline.
Anbar
Falluja:	US forces shoot and kill 15-year-old driving too close to US army vehicle.
Monday 17 December: 41 dead
Baghdad:	roadside bomb kills 2, Palestine St.; roadside bomb kills 1, Mohammed al-Qasim; roadside bomb kills 2, Karrada; 9 bodies.
Salahuddin
Baiji:	2 policemen killed in clashes.
Dhuluiya:	body found.
Mosul:	suicide truck bomber kills 1 on bridge; US forces shoot and kill civilian after roadside bomb attack on their convoy.
Diyala
Baquba:	gunmen kill 3 in market; 6 bodies.
Balad Ruz:	bomb kills 7.
Mansouriyah:	mortars kill civilian.
Basra:	gunmen kill civilian.
Anbar
Sunday 16 December: 30 dead
Baghdad:	3 bodies.
Diyala:	al-Qaeda attack on villages kills 17 residents.
Karbala:	roadside bomb kills 2 policemen.
Balad Ruz:	2 killed in separate incidents.
Mosul:	Awakening member killed in clashes.
Qalat Diza:	2 killed in Turkish air attacks.
Jalawla:	gunmen kill mayor and companion.
Dojma:	policeman killed in clashes with al-Qaeda fighters.
Baquba:	31 unidentified bodies are buried
Saturday 15 December: 25 dead
Baghdad:	6 killed in bomb attacks and gunfire, New Baghdad, Adhamiya, Bayaa; 4 bodies.
Karbala:	2 children are blown up by cluster bomb left over from 2003 invasion.
Diyala:	3 policemen killed battling insurgents.
Dhuluiya:	Awakening member shot dead at checkpoint.
Al-Biaaj:	Awakening member killed during battle with al-Qaeda forces.
Hdid:	4 bodies.
Mosul:	4 bodies.
Friday 14 December: 4 dead
Baghdad:	2 bodies.
Hayakel:	policeman's body found.
Kirkuk:	man killed in drive-by shooting.
Thursday 13 December: 28 dead
Baghdad:	gunmen kill contractor, Mansour; car bomb kills civilian, Waziriya; 3 bodies.
Shaqraq:	5 (mother and her 4 children) killed in US shelling of village.
Mosul:	gunmen kill woman who ran beauty salon; gunmen kill 4 policemen; 2 policemen killed in clashes with insurgents.
Baquba:	gunmen kill woman; 4 bodies.
Khan Bani Saad:	woman killed by roadside bomb.
Hit:	suicide car bomber kills 2 policemen.
Dour:	2 bodies.
Hawija:	body found.
Wednesday 12 December: 80 dead
Baghdad:	car bomb kills 5, Ghadeer; 2 security forces killed in clashes with insurgents; 5 bodies.
Amara:	28 reported killed in 3 car bomb explosions.
Saydiya:	gunmen kill headmaster and teacher inside school.
Baquba:	2 civilians killed during gunbattle; 3 bodies.
Kirkuk:	roadside bomb kills civilian.
Hit:	suicide bomber blows up car on bridge, kills 5.
Iskandariya:	Awakening council member dies in US shelling.
Khanaqeen:	4 killed by roadside bombs.
Balad:	woman killed by US fire during raid.
Latifiya:	2 bodies.
Mahaweel:	2 bodies.
Dour:	policeman's body found.
Muqdadiya:	mass grave containing 16 bodies (12 decapitated) is found.

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

Name	Date
Circumstances
None counted this week.

src: MNF-I, MNF-A, journalists from icasualties.org; Iraqi Civiilan: iraqbodycount.org; Afghan events from Bill Roggio, other sources

Gives New Meaning to Being "In Country"

WE ARE NOT COWBOYS ...

Oh, my, worse than cowboys, apparently, for some:

Last week, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) said on CNN that he did not believe that gang rape in Iraq of former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones was “an isolated case of assault.” Poe then encouraged “other victims” to notify his office.

In his prepared testimony for the House Judiciary Committee today, Poe said that his office had been contacted by three women other than Ms. Jones about sexual assaults they sustained while working for KBR in Iraq: -via ThinkProgress

Also:

5th Trial in Iraqi Rape Case Drags On

As Good As It Gets?

Charles at Obsidian Wings finds encouragement in the numbers from Iraq on deaths, suggesting also that they have political consequences for Democrats (who refuse credit and cling to defeat), served with a side-dish of Iranian meddling.

He's only got the beginnings of the story, our just part of the outline.

VIOLENCE NOT A PROXY FOR SURGE, IN THIS CASE

We don't have a true picture of how well new tactics are working. Instead, the overall figures reflect Iraqi's willingness to stop the violence spiral, not American's First seen in al-anbar, in moves unrelated to the surge, and then with Muqtada and his hudna (truce), which continues but could be lifted at any time.

CORRUPTION

The enemies of stability include corruption, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq. This suggests that gains from the surge cannot be consolidated politically, or will take a very long time as political battles are settled.

VIOLENCE AND STOP GAPS

Violence, arguably, continues at levels that are unacceptably high. There is a cumulative impact of violence, too, in counterinsurgency. It's not just what happened last month ... There are some 60,000 people in administrative detention in Iraq, reportedly, as well, from all the sweeps for al-qa'ida.

We continue on a pace of losing ten or more soldiers a week, to bring stability to these parts, and circa 300 a month wounded. Most all Lieutenants in all the areas where COPS are functioning end their talks with reporters by saying that what is most needed, even five years into the effort, are Iraqis to take over.

IRAN, FORESEEABLE, NOT AN EXCUSE FOR DELAY OR FAILURE

It's not conceivable, to me, that Iran would just stand by and NOT try to meddle. Why we are so shocked and appalled that they have done it, when our own CIA does it all the time, including even in this decade in Venezuela, by most reckonings? Their negative involvement ought to have been anticipated, in any plan to stabilize the country with a minimal number of troops.

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 49

I will update the missing names when they become available from DoD.

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Hometown
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Adam P Snyder	U.S. Army	Fort Pierce, FL
	Captain, Multi-National Division - North
	Salah ad Din Province; 05-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Eric J Hernandez	U.S. Army	Waldwick, NJ
	Seagrent, Multi-National Division - North
	Tikrit; 04-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Dewayne L White	U.S. Army	Country Club Hills, IL
	Private, Multi-National Division – North
	Tikrit; 04-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Kyle Dayton, 22	U.S. Army	El Dorado Hills, CA
	Sergeant, 2nd BN, 504th Parachute Infantry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborn
	Ashwah; 03-Dec-07; Non-hostile - vehicle accident
	Matthew K. Reece, 24	U.S. Army	Harrison, AR
	Specialist, 1st BN, 504th Parachute Infantry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
	Baghdad (eastern part); 01-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Blair William Emery, 24	U.S. Army	Lee, ME
	Corporal, 504th Military Police BN, 42nd Military Police Brigade
	Baqubah; 30-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ISAF-AFGHANISTAN

------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Country
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Jack Sadler, 21	British Army	Devon-UK
	Trooper, Honourable Artillery Company
	Sangin (Helmand Province); 04-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Mark Visholm, 21	Royal Danish Army	n.a.-Denmark
	Konstabel, 5. Spejdereskadron fra Gardehusarregimentet
	Upper Gereshk Valley; 29-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire
	Casper Alexander Cramer, 21	Royal Danish Army	n.a.-Denmark
	Konstabel, 5. Spejdereskadron fra Gardehusarregimentet
	Upper Gereshk Valley; 29-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 226 this week; 271 last week; 307 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 75 this week; 71 last week; 159 prior week.
Wednesday 5 December: 41 dead
Afghanistan:	A suicide bomber killed 12 and wounded dozens in an attack in Kabul. ISAF confirmed it killed Taliban senior commander Mullah Ikhalas in a strike in the Musa Qala district of Helmand province.
Baghdad:	car bomb kills 18, Karrada; 4 bodies.
Baquba:	car bomb kills 6; another civilian dies in separate bombing.
Kirkuk:	car bomb kills 3.
Mosul:	bombs kill 4.
Kut:	gunmen kill sheikh.
Asriya:	roadside bomb kills civilian.
Tuz Khurmato:	gunmen kill policeman.
Muqdadiya:	gunmen kill policeman.
Dhuluiya:	body found.
Tuesday 4 December: 26 dead
Afghanistan:	Twenty-two civilians were wounded after a suicide bomber targeted an ISAF column in Kabul.
Baghdad:	6 bodies.
Jalawla:	suicide bomber kills 8 at police station.
Mosul:	4 killed in separate incidents; 3 bodies.
Mahaweel:	2 bodies.
Monday 3 December: 27 dead
Afghanistan:	A suicide bomber killed four near a construction site. While a vast majority of Afghans support the Coalition and ISAF efforts, support for the Taliban has grown in Helmand and Kandahar provinces. [Roggio]
Baghdad:	3 killed in separate incidents, 1 by US forces; 5 bodies.
Mosul:	gunmen kill 4 policemen; bomb kills another policeman; 2 bodies.
Kirkuk:	Hawija council member is shot dead with his driver; 4 bodies.
Baquba:	violence in surrounding villages kills 3.
Samarra:	headmaster is shot dead.
Basra:	academic is shot dead.
Hashimiya:	gunmen kill policeman.
Sunday 2 December: 22 dead
Baghdad:	policeman is killed in drive-by shooting, Mansour; bomb under politician's car kills driver, Utaifiya; roadside bomb kills 2 policemen, Mansour; 6 bodies.
Al-bu Aziz:	3 women killed after refusing to marry al-Qaeda men.
Ramadi:	suicide bomber kills 4.
Riyadh:	gunmen kill 4 policemen.
Saturday 1 December: 63 dead
Baghdad:	car and roadside bombs kill 5, Shaab, Salman Pak, Rashid; 5 bodies.
Duwaila:	al-Qaeda attack leaves 16 villagers dead, including 3 children.
Mosul:	gunmen kill 2 policemen; 8 bodies.
Lihaib (near Falluja):	mass grave containing 20 bodies found.
Friday 30 November: 17 dead
Baghdad:	3 bodies.
Hibhib:	mortars kill 3.
Kirkuk:	gunmen kill 2.
Baquba:	roadside bomb kills 3.
Iskandariya:	3 killed in al-Qaeda attack.
Dhuluiya:	suicide bomber kills police captain as he is about to arrest him.
Muqdadiya:	man killed by gunmen.
Khalis:	policeman killed in al-Qaeda attack.
Thursday 29 November: 30 dead
Afghanistan:	Four civilians were killed and eight wounded during bombings in Kandahar province.
Baghdad:	roadside bomb kills 1, Shaab; 6 bodies.
Al-Salam:	mortars kill 12.
Okashat:	2 policemen killed in battle with gunmen near Syrian border.
Bamo:	roadside bomb kills policeman.
Tikrit:	gunmen kill Sheikh's son.
Hawija:	gunmen attack mayor's convoy, kill guard.
Shirqat:	car bomb kills 4 policemen.

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

Name	Date
Circumstances
None counted this week.

src: MNF-I, MNF-A, journalists from icasualties.org; Iraqi Civiilan: iraqbodycount.org; Afghan events from Bill Roggio, other sources

Mini Mini Battlefield Digest: Afghanistan, Week 48

More refugees from Swat Valley area (Mingora), as Pakistani military tries to fight Taliban. (AP Photos/Mohammad Zubair)



Battlefield News, Afghanistan

Political Developments and Major Campaign Resource Shifts

• Roggio: President Karzai said contact from Taliban leaders has increased over the past year. NATO's logistics have not been affected by Pakistan's state of emergency. The Senlis Council calls for the doubling of NATO troops, the removal of caveats, and NATO operations in Pakistan's NWFP. -Thursday, November 22, 2007
• WaPo: A White House assessment of the war in Afghanistan has concluded that wide-ranging strategic goals that the Bush administration set for 2007 have not been met, even as U.S. and NATO forces have scored significant combat successes... -Sunday, November 25, 2007
• AP: The Dutch government on Friday was expected to announce a two-year extension of its mission with the NATO-led force in southern Afghanistan. -Friday, November 30, 2007
• ANI: Pakistani security forces today notched up a major success against the Baloch nationalists when they shot and killed senior Baloch leader Balash Khan Marri. -Friday, November 23, 2007
• Roggio: Osama bin Laden urged NATO forces to leave Afghanistan. -Thursday, November 29, 2007
• Roggio: Almost half the members of the parliament walked out over the investigation of the Baghlan suicide bombing and resulting actions by security guards. -Monday, November 26, 2007
• Roggio: The Taliban beheaded a man in the Jaghato district in Maidan Wardak province. -Wednesday, November 28, 2007
COIN: Actions, Reactions, Counteractions, etc.
• Roggio: The Taliban recaptured the Gulistan district in Farah province. -Friday, November 23, 2007
• Roggio: Afghan and ISAF forces recaptured the Gulistan district in Farah province. -Sunday, November 25, 2007
• Roggio: The Taliban beheaded seven police officers after overrunning their checkpoints in Kandahar's Arghandab district; six other police are missing. -Friday, November 23, 2007
• CBC: Canadian commanders said Friday that troops have secured a strategically important area in the volatile Zhari district in southern Afghanistan. -Friday, November 30, 2007
VIOLENCE: Tactical Developments
• dpa: Taliban militants attacked a police checkpoint and beheaded seven policemen and took away another six agents in the early hours of Friday in southern Kandahar province, local police said. -Friday, November 23, 2007
• AP: The U.S.-led coalition killed 14 road construction workers in airstrikes in eastern Afghanistan because of mistaken intelligence reports, Afghan officials said Wednesday. [ISFA denied this claim, in ongoing saga of fog-of-war and posturing]. -Wednesday, November 28, 2007
• AFP: A suicide car bomb aimed at US-led coalition soldiers exploded Tuesday in an upmarket Kabul area that is home to foreign embassies and aid agencies, killing at least two Afghans, police said. -Tuesday, November 27, 2007
• AP: A bomb hit a border police convoy Sunday in southern Afghanistan, killing two policemen and injuring a third, officials said. The roadside bomb struck the police convoy in the morning in Kandahar provinces's Spin Boldak district... -Sunday, November 25, 2007
• AP: A Taliban suicide attacker killed seven people, including three children and an Italian military engineer, when he blew himself up Saturday in a scenic Afghan town near Kabul, officials said. -Saturday, November 24, 2007
• Xinhua: Gun battle between Taliban insurgents and Afghan police in Afghanistan's central Ghazni province has left a dozen persons including 11 insurgents dead, a local official said Saturday. -Saturday, November 24, 2007
• AP: A suicide attack targeting Italian soldiers building a bridge resulted in the deaths of one soldier and six Afghans, including three children who had gathered to watch the construction Saturday, officials and witnesses said. -Saturday, November 24, 2007
US Military Justice/Violence/Casualty
• theaustralian: Australian commando Luke Worsley, of Sydney, has been killed in a close-quarters battle with Taliban forces in Afghanistan...the soldier had died at 7.30am eastern Australian time, after being shot during a raid on a compound 10km east of Karim Towt -Friday, November 23, 2007
• NATO: An ISAF servicemember died this morning from injuries sustained in a vehicle-rollover last night in southern Wardak Province. The servicemember was medically evacuated to an ISAF treatment facility in Khost Province where the member died. -Sunday, November 25, 2007
• Roggio: One Australian solider and three civilians were killed during fighting in Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan province. -Friday, November 23, 2007
• AP: Two Danish soldiers were killed Thursday in a gunbattle with Taliban fighters in southern Afghanistan, the Scandinavian country's military said. The soldiers were part of a Danish reconnaissance unit that came under fire in Gereshk Valley... -Thursday, November 29, 2007
• AP: A roadside bomb struck an Afghan army vehicle in an eastern province Monday, killing four soldiers and wounding two, an official said. Four civilians were killed in another blast near the capital. -Tuesday, November 27, 2007
• Bloomberg: Two Danish soldiers who were killed in Afghanistan in September were the victims of so-called ``friendly fire'' from British troops, TV2 reported, without saying how it obtained the information. -Monday, November 26, 2007
• Xinhua: Four Afghan soldiers were killed as a roadside bomb struck their vehicle in Afghanistan's eastern Paktia province Monday, spokesman of provincial administration Deen Mohammad Darwish said. -Monday, November 26, 2007
• CanWest : Three Canadian soldiers were injured Tuesday morning when their light armoured vehicle hit a suspected homemade bomb just outside Kandahar city. -Wednesday, November 28, 2007
Economic Developments, Reconstruction, and General Good News

[this space purposely left blank because of lack of de-classified, systematic data]

Enemy Casualty Lists: Week 48

Today, we lack metrics to know if we are winning or losing the global war on terror. Are we capturing, killing or deterring and dissuading more terrorists every day than the madrassas and the radical clerics are recruiting, training and deploying against us?
-October, 2003, SecDef Rumsfeld
3rd of 101st on Patrol South of Baghdad (triangle of death)
BAGHDAD - Iraqi troops arrested the son of a leading Sunni politician and dozens of his associates after a car bomb was discovered near his compound and keys to the vehicle were found on one of his bodyguards, U.S. and Iraqi officials said Friday.

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ENEMY CASUALTIES AND DENTENSIONS IN IRAQ

Counted Enemy Casualties, IRAQ
Counted Captured: 299; Killed: 26; High-value: 13
Thursday, November 22, 2007: Captured: 18; Killed: 20
Baghdad	The Iraqi Army and police killed 19 al Qaeda fighters in an operation in Diyala. Coalition forces killed one al Qaeda operative and detained 10 during operations in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi police detained eight insurgents in Baghdad.
Friday, November 23, 2007: Captured: 45
Diyala: Ad Diwaniyah; Kirkuk; Samarra	Coalition forces captured seven members of an al Qaeda propaganda cell in in Samarra. An Iraqi Emergency Response Unit detained five extremists during an north of Diwaniyah. US and Iraqi forces captured 33 insurgents near Kirkuk.
Saturday, November 24, 2007: Captured: 75; Killed: 9; High value: 2
Baghdad; Balad; Kirkuk; Samarra	Iraqi security forces launched operations in Kirkuk and Samarra; fifty al Qaeda fighters have been captured. Iraqi Security Forces killed eight insurgents and detained 14 in Baghdad. Coalition forces killed one al Qaeda operative and detained 10 during operations central and northern Iraq. Iraqi Forces detained an IED maker and an al Qaeda in Iraq mortar specialist during raids near Balad.
Sunday, November 25, 2007: Captured: 58; Killed: 10; High value: 2
Baghdad; Samarra; Diyala: Khalis	Coalition forces killed 10 al Qaeda operatives and captured eight during operations north of Samarra; another 24 operatives were capured during raids on al Qaeda's media, courier, and foreign fighter networks. Coalition forces captured Special Groups leaders in Khalis and Ar Rashidiyah. Iraqi Security Forces detained 21 insurgents and defused 11 roadside bombs in Baghdad. A Diyala tribal council captured five al Qaeda fighters in Rasoul.
Monday, November 26, 2007: Captured: 16; High value: 3
Diyala: Ad Diwaniyah	Coalition forces detained 10 al Qaeda operatives during raids along the Tigris River Valley in Iraq. Iraqi Forces detained an al Qaeda commander and two Special Groups operatives and found 18 IEDs during three separate operations; three more Shia extremists were arrested in Diwaniyah.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007: Captured: 28; Killed: 3; High value: 3
Kirkuk; Mosul	Twenty-eight al Qaeda fighters were captured in Kirkuk. US forces killed a senior al Qaeda leader in Mosul and two al Qaeda leaders north of Baiji.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007: Captured: 39; High value: 2
Diyala: Ad Diwaniyah; Baghdad; Kirkuk; Samarra	Coalition forces captured 12 al Qaeda operatives identified two senior al Qaeda leaders killed in Kirkuk and Samarra earlier this year. Iraqi Security Forces captured an al Qaeda cell leader in Al Saker and 18 fighters in Kirkuk; another three were captured in Baghdad. Five Mahdi Army fighters were captured in Diwaniyah along with a large weapons cache.
src Bill Roggio - Read - Support

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ENEMY CASUALTIES AND DENTENSIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

Counted Enemy Casualties, Afghanistan
Counted Captured: 25; Killed: 99; High-value: 1
Friday, November 23, 2007
Ghazni	ISAF forces killed several extremists and captured two while targeting a foreign fighter facilitation cell in the Nawa district of Ghazni province.
Saturday, November 24, 2007: Captured: 6; Killed: 11
Kapisa; Zabul	Afghan Army commandos killed six Taliban fighters and captured six during an operation in the Tagab Valley of Kapisa Province. Coalition forces captured five Taliban during an operation targeting weapons smugglers in Zabul Province.
Sunday, November 25, 2007: Captured: 12; Killed: 76
Paktia	Coalition airstrikes killed 76 Taliban fighters as they massed near the Pakistani border in the Patan and Chauni regions in Paktia province; Afghan forces captured an additional 12.
Monday, November 26, 2007; Killed: 11
Ghazni	Eleven Taliban, including two commanders, and one policemen were killed in fighting in Ghazni province.
Tuesday, November 27, 2007: Captured: 7
Paktia	Afghan commandos captured seven Taliban during an operation in Zormat district in Paktia province.
Wednesday, November 28, 2007
	Afghan National Security Forces destroyed a weapons cache in the Sherzad District in Nangahar Province.
Thursday, November 29, 2007; Killed: 1; High value: 1
	ISAF states it targeted and killed a Taliban commander, not construction workers during a strike in Nuristan.
src Bill Roggio - Read - Support

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 48

The collateral impact of war:

-Half of Afghan parliament, unable to deal, walks out (Roggio) in angst over Baghlan incident a week ago in which security guards over-reacted to an attack, killing large number of civilians.
-Stress on U.S. soldiers continues unabated: Filed under "what was asked of us", IBC reports - "The number of civilians killed by US forces during November is now 75, including 2 children."

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Hometown
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	John J. Tobiason, 42	U.S. Army	Bloomington
	Sergeant 1st Class, 847th Adjutant General BN, 89th Regional Readiness Command
	Baghdad; 28-Nov-07; Non-hostile - accident
	Allen C. Roberts, 21	U.S. Marine	Arcola, IL
	Corporal, Marine Attack Squadron 214, Marine Aircraft Group 13, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, I MEF
	Al Asad; 28-Nov-07; Non-hostile - vehicle accident
	Name Not Released Yet	U.S. Army	n.a.
	Not reported yet, Multi-National Division - Baghdad
	Baghdad (western part); 28-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Isaac T. Cortes, 26	U.S. Army	Bronx, NY
	Private, 1stt Squadron, 71st Cavalry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Light Infantry) 10th Mountain Division
	Amerli; 27-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Benjamin J. Garrison, 25	U.S. Army	Houston, TX
	Specialist, 1stt Squadron, 71st Cavalry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Light Infantry) 10th Mountain Division
	Amerli; 27-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Jonathon L. Martin, 33	U.S. Army	Bellevue, OH
	Staff Sergeant, 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division
	Regensburg, Germany; 22-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ISAF-AFGHANISTAN

------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Country
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Sergio Miguel Vidal Oliveira Pedrosa, 22	Portuguese Army	Vila Nova de Gaia-Portugal
	Private (soldado), Regimento de Infantaria 10
	Wardak Province; 24-Nov-07; Non-hostile - vehicle accident
	Daniele Paladini, 35	Italian Army	Lecce-Italy
	Maresciallo capo/Chief Warrant Officer, 2nd Reggimento Pontieri
	Paghman; 24-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - suicide bomber
	Luke Worsley, 26	Australian Army	Sydney-Australia
	Private, Special Operations Task Group
	Karim Towt - east of (Oruzgan Province); 23-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 271 this week; 307 last week; 229 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 71 this week; 159 last week; 130 prior week.
Thursday 29 November: 24 dead
Afghanistan:	Four civilians were killed and eight wounded during bombings in Kandahar province.
Baghdad:	roadside bomb kills 1, Shaab; 6 bodies.
Al-Salam:	mortars kill 12.
Okashat:	2 policemen killed in battle with gunmen near Syrian border.
Bamo:	roadside bomb kills policeman.
Tikrit:	gunmen kill Sheikh's son.
Hawija:	gunmen attack mayor's convoy, kill guard.
Wednesday 28 November: 16 dead
Afghanistan:	The governor of Nuristan province said NATO airstrikes killed 12 civilian road workers.
Baghdad:	3 killed in explosion, Nafal al-Shurta; 3 bodies.
Haqlaniya:	5 killed in mortar attack.
Kirkuk:	gunmen kill 2.
Tikrit:	gunmen kill mayor.
Hawija:	gunmen kill 1.
Mosul:	gunmen kill policeman.
Tuesday 27 November: 71 dead
Afghanistan:	A suicide bomb in a market in central Kabul killed two civilians and wounded four; Gulbuddin Hekmatyar claimed responsibility for the attack. A British friendly fire incident in late September killed two Danish soldiers in Helmand province.
Baghdad:	US forces fire on minibus, kill 4, Shaab; US patrol fires on civilian vehicles, kills 2, Tobchi; woman is killed in grenade attack, Dora; 3 bodies.
Baquba:	suicide bomber kills up to 13 at police station; suicide bomber blows herself up at a gathering of Iraqi civilians and US troops, kills 2.
Haditha:	rocket hits market, kills 5.
Mosul:	2 killed in clashes; 9 bodies.
Tikrit:	4 bodies.
Nineveh province:	15 bodies of prisoners abducted the previous day by gunmen are found.
Monday 26 November: 19 dead
Baghdad:	formerly displaced mother and 2 children killed by gunmen, after returning to their home, Saidiya; 4 bodies.
Mosul:	roadside bomb kills civilian; 3 bodies.
Kut:	gunmen kill policeman.
Kanan:	al-Qaeda attack kills civilian.
Hilla:	gunmen kill man in car.
Baiji:	US forces open fire on vehicle, kill 2 men and child inside it.
Sunday 25 November: 50 dead
Baghdad:	car bombs, roadside bombs kill 18 in Bab al-Muatham, Waziriya, Rostomiya, Rusafa; gunmen kill 11 members of journalist's family (his sisters, their husbands and 7 children) opposing US occupation of Iraq and the al-Maliki government; 5 bodies.
Baquba:	gunmen open fire on car, kill 3 members of the same family.
Basra:	gunmen kill civilian; 3 bodies.
Mandali:	gunmen shoot 2 brothers.
Ramadi:	US forces open fire on car, kill man traveling with his wife and children.
Saturday 24 November: 17 dead
Afghanistan:	A Taliban suicide bomber killed nine, including six children and an Italian soldier, and wounded 12 during an attack in Kabul province.
Baghdad:	4 bodies.
Falluja:	2 bodies.
Mosul:	roadside bomb kills policeman; 2 bodies -a university student and her mother.
Samarra:	car bomb kills 3 policemen.
Hilla:	2 worshipers shot dead outside mosque.
Tuz Khurmato:	body found.
Wajihia:	body found.
Friday 23 November: 74 dead
Afghanistan:	One Australian solider and three civilians were killed during fighting in Tarin Kowt in Uruzgan province.

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

Name	Date
Circumstances
None counted this week.

src: MNF-I, MNF-A, journalists from icasualties.org; Iraqi Civiilan: iraqbodycount.org; Afghan events from Bill Roggio, other sources

Mini Mini Battlefield Digest: Iraq, Week 47

Kurdistan Goes Sour - Newsweek (see link below)

Items on military justice, this week.

Battlefield News, Iraq

Political Developments and Major Campaign Resource Shifts

• AsiaTimes: Muqtada moves to stop a Sunni 'surge'
• Guardian: The British commander in southern Iraq confirmed yesterday that UK officials have been holding talks with supporters of the Shia cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mahdi army in the hope they would be drawn into the political process. -Friday, November 16, 2007
• WaPo: More than 300,000 Shiite Muslims from southern Iraq have signed a petition condemning Iran for fomenting violence in Iraq, according to a group of sheiks leading the campaign. -Thursday, November 22, 2007
• Reuters: Iran has agreed to hold a new round of talks soon with the United States on how to improve security in Iraq, Iran's foreign minister said on Tuesday. -Tuesday, November 20, 2007

• UPI: The Iraqi Health Ministry said more than 80 cases of cholera were reported in Baghdad over the past few weeks. A Health Ministry official said most cases of the disease were reported in impoverished areas that lack water and other necessary services... -Friday, November 23, 2007
• NPR: While insurgent violence is down in Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi forces continue to face a tough fight in Mosul, the largest city in northern Iraq. The surge of American forces into Baghdad pushed some insurgents northward into the Mosul area. -Friday, November 16, 2007
  note: 11/11/07 MCT: Mosul's governer survives 2 assassination attempts
  the governor of Mosul , Dureed Kashmoola and the general brigadier Wathiq Al-Hamadni , the chief in command of Mosul police , survived from two assassination attempts by two roadside bombs , one in the forest area and the second one was few minutes...
  
• NPR: Nine months after the start of the U.S. troop surge in Baghdad, signs of life are slowly returning to some neighborhoods of the Iraqi capital. In the Sunni enclave of Amriya on the west side of the city, shops are reopening, and the economy is picking up. -Tuesday, November 20, 2007
• Newsweek: Kurdistan Goes Sour - As shocking as it was to witness, Nariman Ali wasn't surprised when a mob of his fellow Kurds ransacked and burned the paramount emblem of their people's suffering—the memorial to the more than 5,000 victims of Saddam Hussein's 1988 chemical... -Saturday, November 17, 2007
• dpa: Poland will withdraw all its troops from Iraq by the end of 2008, new Prime Minister Donald Tusk said in his first address to the Polish parliament on Friday. -Friday, November 23, 2007
• BBC: An estimated 1,000 people a day are returning across Iraq's borders having previously moving abroad to escape the violence, Iraqi authorities say. Most of the returnees are coming from Syria - and very few from Jordan... -Wednesday, November 21, 2007
• AP: Thousands of Iraqi refugees in Syria have applied for resettlement in the United States, a U.N. refugee agency official in the Syrian capital said Wednesday. -Thursday, November 15, 2007
• AP: Soldiers strained by six years at war are deserting their posts at the highest rate since 1980, with the number of Army deserters this year showing an 80 percent increase since the United States invaded Iraq in 2003. -Friday, November 16, 2007
• AP: Iraq's prime minister lashed out at the country's Sunni Arab vice president in an interview published Tuesday, drawing attention to a bitter rift between two key politicians from rival sects at a time the U.S. is pressing for Iraqi unity. -Tuesday, November 20, 2007
• Reuters: Reuters: U.S Commander says surge working in badlands south of Baghdad: "There's way too much emphasis on civil war and sectarian violence, because we're not seeing it. What we are seeing is violence," Major-General Rick Lynch said, adding that a lot of the violence was due to "thugs and criminals" vying for power, rather than insurgents -Friday, November 16, 2007

COIN: Actions, Reactions, Counteractions, etc.

• KUNA: Undersecretary at the Iraqi Interior Ministry Adnan Al-Asadi on Wednesday said that the Ministry's internal affairs directorate has discharged, within the past few years, some 18,000 of its staff [!] as part of its reform process. -Wednesday, November 21, 2007
• timesonline: Iraq’s most infamous Shia death squad commander was accused yesterday of masterminding the kidnapping of five British citizens who have not been heard from since their abduction in Baghdad three months ago. -Saturday, November 17, 2007
• Reuters: Three Iraqi footballers secretly left their team hotel in Australia hours after playing a weekend Olympic qualifying match and plan to seek asylum, an Iraqi football official said. -Sunday, November 18, 2007
• Reuters: The provincial governor of Muthanna province accused U.S. troops of opening fire on civilian cars south of Baghdad, wounding six people, and threatened to suspend ties with U.S. officials over the attack. -Sunday, November 18, 2007
• NYTimes: With violence in Iraq on the decline and a quarter of American combat brigades scheduled to leave by July, commanders plan to give the remaining brigades an expanded role in training and supporting Iraqi forces -Friday, November 23, 2007
• NYTimes: Five months ago, Suhaila al-Aasan lived in an oxygen tank factory with her husband and two sons, convinced that they would never go back to their apartment in Dora, a middle-class neighborhood in southern Baghdad. -Tuesday, November 20, 2007
• MCT: In the expanse of gray desert east of Baghdad, an Iraqi Army brigade marched Sunday in matching boots and uniforms with M-16 rifles slung over their shoulders, showing off their new formation to Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki. -Sunday, November 18, 2007
• LATimes: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri Maliki is proposing a $7.4-billion boost in public spending next year in an aggressive budget designed to stimulate industry and speed up repairs of this country's tattered roads, sewers and utilities. -Thursday, November 22, 2007
• KUNA: Kurdish victims of the Anfal campaign bayed for blood yesterday as Iraq indicated the hanging of "Chemical Ali", one of the masterminds of the slaughter, may be delayed indefinitely. Anger was directed not only at the Iraqi government... -Sunday, November 18, 2007

VIOLENCE: Tactical Developments

• Reuters: Three suspected al Qaeda militants, including two sisters, beheaded their uncle and his wife, forcing the couple's children to watch, Iraqi police said on Friday. The militants considered that school guard Youssef al-Hayali was an infidel because... -Friday, November 23, 2007
• Reuters: The body of police major Saad Jumaa was found near Samarra after he was kidnapped on Monday, the Joint Iraqi-U.S. Coordination Centre said. -Tuesday, November 20, 2007
• Reuters: Two rockets or mortars were fired at the heavily fortified Green Zone in Baghdad, where the U.S. embassy and Iraqi government headquarters are located, police said. The U.S. military could not immediately confirm the report. -Tuesday, November 20, 2007
• Reuters: Teenagers on a motorbike threw a hand grenade at a police checkpoint in Yarmouk in western Baghdad, wounding a soldier, police said. -Thursday, November 22, 2007
• Reuters: Suspected al Qaeda militants attacked the house of Kadhim al-Mehdawi, the head of a Sunni tribe and kidnapped his 13-year-old son on Monday in the town of Muqdadiya, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police and his relatives said. -Thursday, November 15, 2007
• Reuters: Six members of the same family were killed when a Katyusha rocket hit their house in the oil hub of Basra, 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said. Three of the dead were children. -Monday, November 19, 2007
• Reuters: Police discovered a weapon cache in a Shi'ite mosque in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, on Monday, police said. (Editing by Paul Tait) -Tuesday, November 20, 2007
• Reuters: Iraqi soldiers detained 35 suspected militants in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) southwest of Baghdad, the Iraqi government said in a statement. nother three people were detained while they were planting explosives and weapons including... -Thursday, November 22, 2007
• Reuters: Gunmen kidnapped the manager of a grain company in Dhi Qar province on the road between Nassiriya and Basra, 375 km (235 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said. -Friday, November 23, 2007
• MNF: Three Multi-National Division-North soldiers were killed as a result of an suicide vest attack while conducting operations in Baqubah, Diyala Province, Nov. 18. The names of the deceased are being withheld pending next of kin notification... -Sunday, November 18, 2007
• MCT: Around 8 a.m., gunmen assassinated Dr. Musa Jaâ'afar , the head of the Geological survey , killing one of his companions and injuring the other at Baratha mosque intersection in Uttaifiya -Tuesday, November 20, 2007
• independent: Three times more journalists have been killed in Iraq than in both world wars many deliberately targeted by militias. Kim Sengupta reports on a forgotten death toll that is still rising -Sunday, November 18, 2007
• dpa: In Amarah, the capital of Maysan province, 390 kilometres south of Baghdad, gunmen shot dead a police officer and injured his brother as they were leaving their home on Friday, media reports said. -Friday, November 16, 2007
• CBS: They are the casualties of wars you don't often hear about - soldiers who die of self-inflicted wounds. Little is known about the true scope of suicides among those who have served in the military. But a five-month CBS News investigation discovered... -Wednesday, November 21, 2007
• AP: U.S. helicopters dropped 600 troops into two villages south of Baghdad before sunrise Friday, launching an assault on militants believed to be involved in the May kidnapping of three American soldiers, the military said. -Friday, November 16, 2007
• Gunmen killed a woman principal of a high school in a drive-by shooting in the Shi'ite district of Kadhimiya in northern Baghdad, police said. -Thursday, November 15, 2007

US Military Justice/Violence

• WaPo: Federal authorities have convened a grand jury to investigate multiple shootings involving private security contractors in Iraq, including a Sept. 16 incident in which guards for Blackwater Worldwide killed 17 civilians at a Baghdad traffic... -Tuesday, November 20, 2007
• NYTimes: Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect for security contractors... -Wednesday, November 14, 2007
• AP: The highest-ranking U.S. serviceman to face court-martial involving combat since Vietnam was due to answer charges Friday of failing to investigate the killings of 24 Iraqis, including women and children. -Friday, November 16, 2007
• AP: The leader of an anti-al-Qaida Sunni group is accusing U.S. troops of mistakenly killing dozens of his fighters during a battle north of Baghdad. The sheik told Al-Jazeera television that he had tried repeatedly to call American commanders... -Wednesday, November 14, 2007
• AP: The Iraqi military on Tuesday took a hard stance against 33 foreigners and 10 Iraqis detained after a shooting involving their convoy run by a U.S.-contracted firm in Baghdad, saying they were accused of opening fire randomly and wounding an Iraqi woman. -Tuesday, November 20, 2007
• AP: Iraqi soldiers detained two American and one Italian security guards along with several other foreigners traveling Monday in a private security convoy after they opened fire in Baghdad, wounding one woman, an Iraqi military spokesman said. -Monday, November 19, 2007

Economic Developments, Reconstruction, and General Good News

[this space purposely left blank because of lack of de-classified, systematic data]

• CSM: Ammar al-Hakim is presiding over an Iraqi Shiite building boom. His austere Shaheed al-Mihrab Foundation has raised 400 mosques in Iraq since 2003. It's building the largest seminary here in the holy city of Najaf and opening a chain of schools... -Monday, November 19, 2007

Systematic evidence of violence stlil slim, drips and drabs

TRYING TO FIGURE OUT WHAT IS GOING ON

The lack of systematic information from Iraq is something that this blog was started to point out.

Here's a lesson in the perils of reading the headlines and making conclusions about the violence levels.

AP: Maj. Gen. James Simmons, a deputy corps commander, told reporters that the number of roadside bombs either found or exploded nationwide had fallen from 3,239 in March to 1,560 last month. The October figure was the lowest since September 2005, he added. -Thursday, November 15, 2007

But, these ripped from the headlines, suggest a huge amount of the violence attributable to bombs of one kind or another

• Xinhua: A roadside bomb went off near a town in Salahudin province north of Baghdad on Thursday, wounding five Iraqi soldiers, a provincial police source said. -Thursday, November 15, 2007
• Reuters: U.S. helicopters killed two men planting a roadside bomb south of Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said. -Sunday, November 18, 2007
• Reuters: One person was killed and seven were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a small bus in Baladiyat district in eastern Baghdad, police said. -Monday, November 19, 2007
• Reuters: A roadside bomb wounded two people on Palestine Street in northeastern Baghdad, police said. -Monday, November 19, 2007
• Reuters: A roadside bomb wounded two people in the Talbiya district of eastern Baghdad, police said. -Thursday, November 22, 2007
• Reuters: A roadside bomb targeting an army patrol wounded two soldiers in central Baghdad, police said. -Thursday, November 22, 2007
• Reuters: A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded three people, including one policeman, in central Baghdad...A roadside bomb targeting a police commando patrol wounded two policemen in the Diyala Bridge district of southern Baghdad, police said. -Thursday, November 22, 2007
• Reuters: A roadside bomb killed one policeman and wounded another in the city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. -Thursday, November 22, 2007
• CNN: A roadside bomb killed three Iraqi children and injured seven as they gathered around American troops handing out toys on Sunday, police and government officials told CNN. Three U.S.soldiers were also killed in the explosion in Baquba... -Sunday, November 18, 2007
• AP: Violence continued Friday, with one civilian killed by a roadside bomb outside a motorcycle shop in central Baghdad, police said. Four others were wounded by the blast and transferred to a nearby hospital, they said. -Friday, November 16, 2007
• AFP: A roadside bomb attack targetting a US patrol near Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone killed two Iraqi civilians and wounded three on Wednesday, security officials said. -Wednesday, November 14, 2007
• A roadside bomb wounded two people in Kesra neighbourhood in northern Baghdad, police said. -Sunday, November 18, 2007
• A roadside bomb wounded two people in Ameen district of southeastern Baghdad, police said. -Sunday, November 18, 2007
• A roadside bomb hit a police commandos patrol near al-Tayaran Square in central Baghdad on Saturday, wounding two policemen, police said. -Sunday, November 18, 2007
• Reuters: A truck bomb exploded near the house of a tribal leader, killing one person and wounding three others in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The leader, a member of a local tribal council overseeing neighbourhood... -Wednesday, November 21, 2007
• Reuters: A parked car bomb wounded five people, including two children, when it exploded near the house of a policeman in the oil refinery city of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. -Monday, November 19, 2007
• Reuters: A parked car bomb near the Atta Allah mosque killed two worshippers and wounded two others in Jurf Al Sakhar, 85 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. -Friday, November 23, 2007
• LATimes: A car bomb targeting an undersecretary in the Ministry of Finance exploded just after 5 p.m., killing 10 bystanders and injuring 21 people at Hurriya Square in the Karada district of central Baghdad -Sunday, November 18, 2007
• AP: Farther south in Tikrit, a bomb exploded inside a police station, killing one policeman and wounding two others, according to police and doctors at a nearby hospital. -Sunday, November 18, 2007
• AP: Explosives hidden in a parked car went off around 11am near an Iraqi police patrol in Mosul, killing three civilian bystanders and wounding at least 16 people, according to police Brig Mohammed al-Wagga. Five of those wounded were policemen... -Sunday, November 18, 2007