Mental Health Break

...The Navy Glee Club

an irreverent look at political slogans and sloganeering:

"Pump it up"

Navy pilots letting off steam:

"Move Along" - The New ... Rock Stars?

War, glorified (not funny):

To Be a Journalist In Iraq

From the NYT Editorial, today:

Speaking for the six, Sahar Issa had a powerful message that we wanted to share with our readers:

...

“Every interview we conduct may be our last. So much is happening in Iraq. So much that is questionable. So much that we, as journalists, try to fathom and portray to the people who care to know.

Mini Mini Battlefield Digest, Week 43

Notes:

The increased use of air power is taking a toll on military-civilian relations, in both Afghanistan and in Iraq (as expected?).

Afghanistan angst centered around a suddenly revealed need to ramp up the number of trainers of the Afghan police/military and need to shore up ongoing support from NATO.

The military reported that its measures of violence in Iraq continue to fall from peak levels and that Ramadan period was calmest in past three years. Violence levels felt to be worse/worsening but still better than Taliban in Afghanistan, by poll. Some contrary readings of the same from Iraq.

The perpetual claims of human shields produced no vital, photographic of it, sadly.

A mass grave was found in Anbar and 15 bodies in Fallujah.

Selected Battlefield News, Afghanistan and Iraq

Political Developments and Major Campaign Resource Shifts

• Roggio: Britain may send more troops to Afghanistan amidst fears of a Candian and Dutch withdrawal.
  
• AP: Defense Secretary Robert Gates urged members of a European defense group Monday to boost their contributions to security efforts in Afghanistan, warning that the group "risks eventual irrelevance" unless it does more to fight terrorism... -Monday, October 22, 2007
• dailytimes: The United States urged its European allies to supply more troops to fight Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan at NATO talks on Wednesday, but Alliance sources said Washington could come away frustrated. -Wednesday, October 24, 2007
• Reuters: The United States urged its European allies to supply more troops to fight Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan at NATO talks on Wednesday, but Alliance sources said Washington could come away frustrated. -Wednesday, October 24, 2007
• Reuters: A shipment of hi-tech roadside bombs intercepted in Afghanistan originated in Iran, the commander of NATO-led troops said on Thursday, adding it was hard to believe Tehran's military did not know about the arms. -Thursday, October 18, 2007
• Roggio: The US will deploy a National Guard brigade to conduct the Afghan security forces training mission. -Saturday, October 20, 2007
• Roggio: Afghan forces have focused on the taking out the Haqqani network in eastern Afghanistan, which is led by Siraj Haqqani, the son of Taliban leader Jalaluddin. The number of international trainers for the Afghan army and police is set to quadruple. -Friday, October 19, 2007
• Roggio: The top NATO general in Afghanistan said the Iranian military was involved in a shipment of sophisticated explosive devices captured last month. The Afghan government shut down two more private security companies. -Thursday, October 18, 2007
• Roggio: Muqtada al Sadr has reiterated his call for the Mahdi Army to halt fighting after clashes in Karbala and Diwaniyah. The Mahdi Army attacked a police station in Basra.
  
• BBC: Two by two the women walked down the impromptu catwalk in the hotel gardens, showing off their well ironed, shiny-buttoned uniforms. The fashion show featured policewomen from across the Muslim world, in Kabul to give advice and a morale... -Wednesday, October 24, 2007
• AP: The first Medal of Honor awarded for combat in Afghanistan will be presented Monday to the family of a Navy SEAL from Long Island, N.Y, who gave his life to make a radio call for help for his team. -Monday, October 22, 2007

COIN: Actions, Reactions, Counteractions, etc.

• AP: Afghans believe the security situation in their country has deteriorated, compared with last year, but they say life is better now than under Taliban rule, a U.S.-funded survey released Tuesday found. -Tuesday, October 23, 2007
• IRIN: The government of Afghanistan, the UN and humanitarian agencies are expected to assist tens of thousands of food-insecure people in several districts of Ghor province in central-west Afghanistan before the first snowfalls in late November... -Tuesday, October 23, 2007
• Roggio: Terrorists bombed the Adhamiyah Islamic Party headquarters; the party is allied with Coalition forces.
• AP: Taliban militants used Afghan civilians as human shields during a battle with U.S. forces in eastern Afghanistan in which 20 Taliban and one civilian were killed and 11 civilians wounded, officials said Sunday. -Sunday, October 21, 2007
• AFP: The Afghan army needs three times the number of international military training teams as are currently working with it to accelerate its development, a senior US military official said. -Friday, October 19, 2007

VIOLENCE: Tactical Developments

• Xinhua: Afghan police killed a Taliban commander in Afghanistan's southern Zabul province, said a press release of the Afghan Interior Ministry released on Wednesday. -Wednesday, October 24, 2007
• Xinhua: A suicide bomber exploded himself Monday noon near a vehicles convoy of NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) in southern Afghan province Helmand, injuring three civilians, the provincial police chief said. -Monday, October 22, 2007
• AFP: A nomad child in a tent was killed in a battle between US-led troops and rebels in Afghanistan Tuesday while the NATO-led force looked into claims it had killed a dozen civilians in an air raid. -Wednesday, October 24, 2007
• AFP: In another incident linked to daily battles between extremists and Afghan troops backed by foreign soldiers, an Afghan interpreter was killed after a bomb hit a coalition convoy in volatile Ghazni province south of Kabul. -Wednesday, October 24, 2007
• UTV: Up to four members of the Armed Forces have been so seriously injured in Afghanistan and Iraq they will need long-term, high-dependency hospital treatment, it was disclosed today. -Monday, October 22, 2007
• Globe and Mail: Canada's diplomats in Kabul and visiting high-value targets like Prime Minister Stephen Harper are protected by a group of heavily armed gunmen hired by Saladin Security, a British firm with a long history of secretive and clandestine operations. -Monday, October 22, 2007
• NYTimes: A Marine Corps court of inquiry, scheduled to convene in November in the killings of at least a dozen Afghan civilians in March by a special operations platoon after its convoy was attacked, will focus only on the actions of two officers... -Sunday, October 21, 2007
• AFP: Bomb blasts killed six members of the Afghan security forces on Thursday while the US-led coalition said nine of its soldiers were wounded in an ambush in new attacks linked to a Taliban-led insurgency. -Friday, October 19, 2007
• AP: Taliban used heavy machine guns and rocket propelled grenades to ambush a U.S.-led coalition patrol in southern Afghanistan that wounded nine troops, a coalition statement said Thursday. -Thursday, October 18, 2007
• dpa: Four Afghan border policemen were killed in a roadside attack in south-eastern Afghanistan...hree more policemen were wounded when their vehicle was blown up by a remote-controlled mine in Alinegar area in Khost province on Thursday morning... -Thursday, October 18, 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 43

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 RumsfeldNajef Police Graduation, October 25th

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ENEMY CASUALTIES AND DENTENSIONS IN IRAQ

Counted Enemy Casualties, IRAQ

Counted Captured: 264; Killed: 85; High-value: 2

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

Five al Qaeda operatives were killed and 11 arrested in raids in central and northern Iraq.

Thursday, October 18, 2007: Captured: 25; Killed: 3

Iraqi police killed three al Qaeda fighters and captured 10 north of Fallujah. Fifteen al Qaeda operatives were captured in raids throughout Iraq. US forces uncovered a large EFP cache in Northern Babil province. US forces are conducting operations to clear al Qaeda in Miqdadiyah.

Friday, October 19, 2007: Captured: 10; Killed: 5

Coalition special operations forces killed five al Qaeda and captured two in raids across the country. US troops captured six IED emplacers in northern Babil and captured two insurgents in Mahmudiyah ['triangle of death' area, South of Baghdad]. Iraqi forces captured two IED facilitators in Anbar and Bahgdad.

Saturday, October 20, 2007: Captured: 49; High value: 1

Iraqi forces captured 34 al Qaeda operatives in Baghdad, while three police were killed and nine wounded. US forces killed Thamir Aziz Abbas Ashuri, an al Qaeda leader of an IED cell of 250 terrorists in the Baqubah area. Eleven al Qaeda suspects were captured in raids in central Iraq. US forces captured an 11-man al Qaeda cell near Salman Pak, while four militia leaders were captured in Iskandariyah. Over 41,000 pounds of explosives were seized in a raid in Salahadin.

Sunday, October 21, 2007: Captured: 46; Killed: 4; High value: 1

Daoud Ouhnane, one of the masterminds behind the Madrid train bombings in 2004, was reported killed in Iraq in late 2006. Coalition forces killed four wanted al Qaeda operatives and detained 11. US troops captured seven insurgents in Adwaniyah. Police captured 35 Shia insurgents suspected of firing Katyusha rockets in Karbala.

Monday, October 22, 2007: Captured: 2; Killed: 67

Over 60 were killed in clashes between the Islamic Army and al Qaeda in Khannasa. Two Mahdi Army terror cell leaders were captured in New Baghdad, and one cell member was killed. Six Mahdi Army fighters and one policeman were killed during fighting in Karbala.

Tuesday, October 23, 2007: Captured: 52; Killed: 3

Two al Qaeda operatives were killed and 38 captured during a series of raids over the past several days. A US helicopter attack on an IED cell in Samara resulted in at least six civilians and one insurgent killed. Forty-six insurgents were captured during two raids in Kirkuk.

src Bill Roggio - Read - Support

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ENEMY CASUALTIES AND DENTENSIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

Counted Enemy Casualties, Afghanistan
Counted Captured: 5; Killed: 88; High-value: 0
Friday, October 19, 2007; Killed: 4
Zabul	Four Taliban were captured in the Shajoy district of Zabul.
Saturday, October 20, 2007; Killed: 16
Helmand	NATO and Afghan forces killed over 12 Taliban during a firefight in the Musa Qala Wadi region of Helmand Province. Afgan police killed four Taliban in Logar province.
Sunday, October 21, 2007; Killed: 56
Helmand; Kunar	Afghan and NATO forces killed over three dozen Taliban during fighting in the Musa Qala Wadi region of Helmand province. US forces killed 20 Taliban during a battle in the Korengal Valley in Kunar province on the border with Pakistan; three civilians were killed and eight wounded during the battle.
Tuesday, October 23, 2007: Captured: 5; Killed: 12
Kandahar; Wardak	Twelve Taliban were killed in Wardak province and five were captured in Kandahar province.
src Bill Roggio - Read - Support

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 43

Groups: MFN-Iraq, MNF-Afghan, Iraqi Civilian Casualties Count, Journalists (Iraq)

August wounded: 558 [a new section for wounded forthcoming ... soon, I hope!]

On an ad-hoc reading, there seems to be an uptick in violence in Mosul.

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Hometown
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Anamarie Sannicolas Camacho, 20	U.S. Navy	Panama City, FL
	Seaman, U.S. Naval Support Activity Bahrain
	Bahrain; 22-Oct-07; Non-hostile
	Genesia Mattril Gresham, 19	U.S. Navy	Lithonia, GA
	Seaman, U.S. Naval Support Activity Bahrain
	Bahrain; 22-Oct-07; Non-hostile
	Erik T. Garoutte, 22	U.S. Marine	Santee, CA
	Corporal, 1st Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Company, Marine Corps Security Force Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force
	Baghdad; 19-Oct-07; Non-hostile
	Wayne M. Geiger, 23	U.S. Army	Lone Pine, CA
	Specialist, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Division
	Baghdad (eastern part); 18-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Jarred S. Fontenot, 35	U.S. Army	Fontenot, LA
	Staff Sergeant, 2nd BN, 12th Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division
	Baghdad (southern part); 18-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED, small arms fire
	Vincent A. Madero, 22	U.S. Army	Port Hueneme, CA
	Specialist, 2nd BN, 82nd Field Artillery Reg, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division
	Balad; 17-Oct-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
	Larry I. Rougle, 25	U.S. Army	West Jordan, UT
	Staff Sergeant, 2nd BN, 503rd Airborne Infantry Reg, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team
	Sawtalo Sar Mountain, Kunar Province; 23-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 282 this week; 261 last week; 259 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 95 this week; 56 last week; 54 prior week.
Wednesday 24 October: 41 dead
Baghdad:	roadside bombs kill 9, Jisr Diyala; 6 bodies.
Hibhib:	mortars kill 3.
Zaghaniya:	gunmen break into house, kill 3 (father and two sons).
Shalamga:	landmine kills 7 -2 electricity workers repairing electricity line and 5 policemen accompanying them- near Basra.
Hilla:	3 people, including a child, killed during clashes between gunmen and police.
Baquba:	civilian dies in shooting; 2 bodies.
Tuesday 23 October: 46 dead
Baghdad:	gunmen kill 2 policemen, roadside bomb kills 1; 4 bodies.
Mikashifa:	US forces kill 16 civilians, including 3 children, in air strikes near Samarra.
Baquba:	roadside bomb blows up minibus carrying family to a wedding, kills 3 family members; gunmen kill 2; 1 bodies found.
Karbala:	Iraqi police kill 2 young girls -3-year-old Mariam and her sister 18-month-old Ayat- in a house raid, while looking for their father.
Basra:	5 killed in clashes with Mahdi army; a woman is killed when a mortar strikes her house.
Mosul:	4 people killed, including a 5-year-old child killed by random fire and a woman struck by a random bullet inside her house.
Iskandariya:	random fire kills girl.
Monday 22 October: 87 dead
Baghdad:	roadside bomb in Zafaraniya, Karrada kill 7; during clashes with insurgents, 7 National Accord members have been killed, Fadhil; the driver of Radio Free Europe journalist has been found murdered, while the journalist is missing; 5 bodies.
Mahaweel:	roadside bomb kills 2.
Iskandariya:	an engineer is killed by gunmen; a man dies when a mortar hits his house.
Mosul:	roadside bomb kills policeman; 6 bodies.
Kirkuk:	3 bodies.
Baquba:	3 bodies.
Anbar:	mass grave containing 25 bodies is found.
Near Falluja:	15 bodies.
Sunday 21 October: 35 dead
Afghanistan:	US forces killed 20 Taliban during a battle in the Korengal Valley in Kunar province on the border with Pakistan; three civilians were killed and eight wounded during the battle.
Baghdad:	17 reported dead in US raid (ground and air attack) over Sadr City -among the dead 3 children; mortar kills 3 inside a car, east Baghdad; 3 bodies.
Mosul:	gunmen kill coach; 2 policemen are killed in clashes with gunmen; a former officer in the Iraqi Army is shot dead; a cement factory worker is shot dead.
Saklawiya:	suicide car bomber attacks police checkpoint, kills 2 policemen, near Falluja.
Saturday 20 October: 31 dead
Baghdad:	roadside bombs kill 2, Ghadir, Tobchi; 3 policemen killed during operations; 5 bodies; also 3 decomposing bodies of women found buried in Amiriya.
Iskandariya:	roadside bomb strikes minibus, kills 3; roadside bomb strikes police patrol, kills 4 policemen.
Mosul:	child killed in clashes between gunmen and Iraqi Army; 2 bodies.
Muqdadiya:	US forces open fire at car, kill the driver.
Baquba:	3 bodies.
Basra:	1 bodies found.
Baiji:	1 bodies found.
Friday 19 October: 16 dead
Baghdad:	6 bodies.
Mosul:	2 bodies.
Muwailha:	2 bodies.
Mussayab:	mortars kill 3 women.
Thursday 18 October: 26 dead
Baghdad:	5 bodies.
Baiji:	US forces kill 4 civilians inside their car.
Basra:	bomb blows up at school, kills 2 pupils.
Mosul:	2 policemen and a civilian killed by roadside bomb; another policeman shot dead by sniper; 2 bodies.
Dhuluiya:	gunmen kill 3 tribesmen, members of 'Awakening' council.

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

None this week; 1 abuduction (see above)

Name	Date
Circumstances

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

Mini Battlefield Digest, Week 42

As always, "highlights" are ridiculous for an already abbreviated list.

I was right that any drawdowns from Iraq would be sorely needed in Afghanistan. The Marine Corps wants to do this.

Fatigue shows up in Candian troops in Afghanistan and in politics in Iraq, where one provincial Governor quits.

The alignment of a number of enemy groups in Iraq is perhaps a signal of their dwindling resources and numbers.

Battlefield News, Select Items from Afghanistan and Iraq

Political Developments and Major Campaign Resource Shifts

• AP: The US Marine Corps wants to withdraw its entire force from Iraq to focus its combat efforts on Afghanistan, the New York Times reported Thursday, citing senior military and Pentagon officials. -Thursday, October 11, 2007
• The government freed five Taliban prisoners in exchange for a German and four Afghan hostages. The government shut down two private security firms; 10 more may be closed down. -Thursday, October 11, 2007
• gulf-times: The German government pressured Kabul to release five prisoners from Afghan jails and handed over hundreds of thousands of dollars to secure the release this week of a German engineer held hostage in Afghanistan for three months... -Sunday, October 14, 2007
• AP: Afghan authorities this week shut down two private security companies and said more than 10 others — some suspected of murder and robbery — would soon be closed, Afghan and Western officials said Thursday. -Thursday, October 11, 2007
• Germany extended its mission in Afghanistan. -Friday, October 12, 2007
• Roggio: The government freed five Taliban prisoners in exchange for a German and four Afghan hostages. The government shut down two private security firms; 10 more may be closed down. -Thursday, October 11, 2007
• Roggio: The governor of Ninewa said he planned on resigning due to the deteriorating security situation in the province. -Friday, October 12, 2007
• Roggio: The Islamic Army of Iraq, the Mujahideen Army, Ansar al Sunna, the Fatiheen Army, the Islamic Front for the Iraqi Resistance (JAMI), and the Islamic Movement of Hamas-Iraq formed a political front. -Thursday, October 11, 2007
• theboltonnews: A SOLDIER from Bolton who has been awarded a top military honour has welcomed a move by defence bosses to boost payouts for the most severely injured troops. Andy Barlow, from Breighmet, suffered horrific injuries when he ran... -Monday, October 15, 2007

COIN: Actions, Reactions, Counteractions, etc.

• CanWest: The heavy toll that the war in Afghanistan has taken on the minds and bodies of Canadian troops has been revealed in data, documents and interviews provided by the Canadian Expeditionary Force Command. -Monday, October 15, 2007
• Roggio: Taliban leader Mullah Omar published a speech on a jihadi website. "Neighbors should help Afghans drive Western forces from Afghanistan as they had done during Soviet Union’s invasion,” Omar said. He also said the Taliban should do everything possible to minimize civilian casualties. -Saturday, October 13, 2007
• Reuters: The United States will provide six helicopter gunships to Afghanistan's fledgling air force in August this year, part of a plan to supply 186 aircraft to the country, the head of the Afghan air force said on Thursday. -Monday, October 15, 2007
• guardian: In a swath of territory across Afghanistan and Pakistan, a wild and lawless new state is being born. As warlords struggle for control and Islamic militants pour in, Jason Burke travels deep into the region to reveal hidden forces fuelling... -Monday, October 15, 2007
• Reuters: Afghanistan, the world's biggest heroin producer, is struggling to cope with a drug problem as thousands of Afghans -- trying to cope with the traumas of war, displacement and poverty -- are becoming addicted to narcotics. -Monday, October 15, 2007

VIOLENCE: Tactical Developments

• AP: A mother who tried to stop her son from carrying out a suicide bombing triggered an explosion in the family's home, killing her, her son and three of his siblings, police said Monday. -Tuesday, October 16, 2007
• AFP: Three Afghan civilians were killed when international war planes bombed an area outside Kabul during a fierce battle with Taliban rebels, provincial police said. -Monday, October 15, 2007
• AP: Australia has sustained its first combat casualty in Afghanistan or Iraq after a roadside bomb killed a soldier in southern Afghanistan, the country's military chief said Tuesday. The soldier, whose name and rank were not immediately released... -Monday, October 15, 2007
• Reuters: Six Afghan policemen were killed on Thursday when a roadside bomb hit their vehicle, part of a convoy of U.S.-led forces in southeastern Afghanistan, a provincial police official said. There were no reports of casualties among soldiers... -Monday, October 15, 2007
• AFP: A British battalion achieved an "astonishing" turnaround in the fight against the Taliban, their commanding officer said Saturday ahead of their return from Afghanistan. Lieutenant Colonel Stuart Carver, in charge of the 1st Battalion... -Sunday, October 14, 2007
• CanWest : Canadians from the 12th armoured regiment organized their largest medical evacuation operation yet in Kandahar province Saturday in a frantic effort to save the lives of 35 Afghan policemen and civilians who were wounded... -Sunday, October 14, 2007
• AFP: Police in the Afghan capital Kabul said they had arrested 15 men after another was stabbed to death in a brawl between gangs, which have reemerged since the fall of the hardline Taliban. -Sunday, October 14, 2007
• AP: When asked about her engagement party this summer, little Sunam glanced blankly at her family, then fiddled with her gold-sequined engagement outfit - a speechless response not out of shyness, but because she does not yet talk much. Sunam is 3. -Sunday, October 14, 2007
• AP: Sergeant First Class Anthony Raymond Wasielewski, 50...was severely injured in Iraq last May and died at his home a week ago...had been recovering from injuries suffered in a roadside bombing at Ramadi. He was with C Company... -Sunday, October 14, 2007
• Roggio: Two US soldiers were killed and 38 wounded in a mortar attack on Camp Victory. -Thursday, October 11, 2007
• AFP: A bomb exploded Friday near a packed mosque in southern Afghanistan, killing at least two people, as the war-weary nation marked the start of the Muslim holiday of Eid al-Fitr, officials said. -Friday, October 12, 2007
• AP: Germany's lower house of parliament on Friday overwhelmingly approved extending the deployment of 3,000 troops and six reconnaissance jets in Afghanistan for another year, despite mounting public skepticism about the mission. -Friday, October 12, 2007
• Reuters: The NATO-led force in Afghanistan on Thursday rejected Taliban rebel claims that suicide bombs were an effective weapon to drive out foreign troops, saying the effects on the military were strategically insignificant. -Thursday, October 11, 2007
• BBC: Two people have been killed and at least 10 injured in Afghanistan after gunmen opened fire in a mosque during prayers in a province bordering Kabul. In a separate incident, also near the capital, a mullah was shot dead. -Wednesday, October 10, 2007
• AP: A German engineer and four Afghans taken hostage in July were freed Wednesday in exchange for six Taliban fighters, an Afghan official said. Rudolf Blechschmidt and the four Afghans were handed over by local elders to officials... -Wednesday, October 10, 2007
• OhmyNews : Iran’s foreign ministry has condemned the arrest and beating of a PressTV correspondent by U.S. forces in Kabul. The ministry said the Americans have been trying to prevent reporting on the realities of their failure in Afghanistan. -Tuesday, October 9, 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 42

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

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ENEMY CASUALTIES AND DENTENSIONS IN IRAQ

Counted Enemy Casualties, IRAQ

Counted Captured: 85; Killed: 20; High-value: 3

Wednesday, October 10, 2007: Captured: 46; Killed: 37

Reconciliation meetings are underway in Muqdadiyah in Diyala province. A four-day operation in the Diyala River Valley resulted in 37 al Qaeda fighters killed and 25 captured. Iraq forces captured 11 al Qaeda operatives in Sinjar and Baghdad. US forces captured 10 insurgents in Adwaniya.

Thursday, October 11, 2007; Killed: 13

Coalition forces killed three al Qaeda operatives "and ten other criminals" during operations in Baghdad.

Saturday, October 13, 2007: Captured: 30; Killed: 4; High value: 1

One al Qaeda operative was killed and 17 detained during raids nationwide. US forces killed six insurgents as they attempted to plant an IED in Mosul. US forces detained 13 insurgents, including a high-value target in North Babil and another in Narhwan.

Sunday, October 14, 2007; High value: 2

Coalition forces killed Abu Duha, an al Qaeda security emir in Mosul. Iraqi troops captured Hamid Kassousa, an al Qaeda emir in Samarra.

Monday, October 15, 2007: Captured: 30; Killed: 3

Three al Qaeda in Iraq operatives were killed and 30 captured during a series of raids in northern and central Iraq over the past several days.

Tuesday, October 16, 2007: Captured: 25

Coalition special forces captured 10 al Qaeda operatives in raids in central Iraq. Twelve insurgents were captured in a raid in Adwaniya, and another three were captured in Salman Pak.

src Bill Roggio - Read - Support

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ENEMY CASUALTIES AND DENTENSIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

Counted Enemy Casualties, Afghanistan
Counted Captured: 10; Killed: 9; High-value: 0
Thursday, October 11, 2007: Captured: 3; Killed: 8
Kandahar; Zabul	Eight Taliban fighters were killed and three capture, and four police were wounded in clashes in Kandahar's Zhari district. Coalition forces engaged 10 Taliban fighters in prepared positions in Zabul.
Friday, October 12, 2007: Captured: 2; Killed: 1
Herat	Police killed one Taliban and wounded two near Herat in western Afghanistan.
Tuesday, October 16, 2007: Captured: 5
Paktika	US forces captured five Taliban in Paktika province.
src Bill Roggio - Read - Support

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 42

Groups: MFN-Iraq, MNF-Afghan, Iraqi Civilian Casualties Count, Journalists (Iraq)

August wounded: 558 [a new section for wounded forthcoming ... soon, I hope!]

Some soliders reported succumbing to wounds sustained some time ago, included Sergeant First Class Anthony Raymond Wasielewski, injured in Ramadi with company C. Spc. Adam D. Quinn, 22, of Orange City, Fla., died Oct. 6 at Forward Operating Base Phoenix, near Bagram, Afghanistan, of IED-related wounds.

Five journalists killed this week, one from WaPo.

The collateral damage has been undiminished, IBC reports

• October: 42 Iraqi civilians have been killed by US forces so far in October -16 of them children.
• September: 108 Iraqi civilians were killed by Americans (military and private contractors) in September -including 7 children and a 90-year-old man.
• August: 103 civilians were killed by US forces in August, including 6 children.
  

-------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Hometown
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Micheal D. Brown, 20	U.S. Army	Williamsburg, KS
	Specialist, 1st BN, 1st Aviation Reg, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Divisio
	Landstuhl Reg. Med. Ctr.; 16-Oct-07; Non-hostile - illness
	Thomas M. Martin, 27	U.S. Army	Ward, AR
	1st Lieutenant, 1st Squadron, 40th Cavalry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th In
	Baghdad (Al Busayifi); 14-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Kenneth J. Iwasinski, 22	U.S. Army	West Springfield, MA
	Private 1st Class, 2nd BN, 12th Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division
	Baghdad; 14-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Justin S. Monschke, 28	U.S. Army	Krum, TX
	Sergeant 1st Class, 2nd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne)
	Baghdad (Arab Jabour); 14-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Jason B. Koutroubas, 21	U.S. Army	Dunnellon, FL
	Specialist, Special Troops BN, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division
	Tall Afar; 14-Oct-07; Non-hostile
	Nathan Z. Thacker, 18	U.S. Army	Greenbrier, AR
	Private, 2nd BN, 22nd Infantry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 10th Mountain Division
	Kirkuk; 12-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Donald L. Munn Ii, 22	U.S. Army	Saint Clairs Shores, MI
	Staff Sergeant, Special Troops Battalion, 1st Cavalry Division
	Baghdad; 11-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Eric T. Duckworth, 26	U.S. Army	Plano, TX
	Staff Sergeant, 759th Military Police BN, 89th Military Police Brigade
	Baghdad; 10-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Samuel F. Pearson, 28	U.S. Army Reserve	Westerville, OH
	Specialist, 376th Finance Company, 88th Regional Readiness Command
	Camp Victory (at Baghdad Airport); 10-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - Rocket attack
	Lillian Clamens, 35	U.S. Army Reserve	Lawton, OK
	Staff Sergeant, 1st Postal Platoon, 834th Adjutant General Company, 15th Sustainment Brigade
	Camp Victory (at Baghdad Airport); 10-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - Rocket attack
	Jason M. Lantieri, 25	U.S. Army	Killingworth, CT
	Sergeant, 725th Brigade Support BN, 4th Brigade Combat Team (Airborne), 25th Infantry Division
	Iskandariyah; 10-Oct-07; Non-hostile - vehicle accident
	Frank L. Cady Iii, 20	U.S. Army	Sacramento, CA
	Not reported yet, 4th Special Troops BN, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division
	Baghdad; 10-Oct-07; Non-hostile

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ISAF-AFGHANISTAN

------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Country
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Anders Storrud, 34	Royal Danish Army	n.a.-Denmark
	Major, Not reported yet
	Upper Gereshk Valley - Helmand province; 16-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - mortar attack

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 261 this week; 259 last week; 230 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 56 this week; 54 last week; 53 prior week.
Tuesday 16 October: 37 dead
Afghanistan:	A suicide bomber killed three siblings and his mother, as she attempted to stop him from carrying out his attack.
Baghdad:	car bomb kills 5, Al-Naser square; roadside bomb kills 1, Arasat; gunmen fire at police checkpoint, kill 3 policemen, Maysaloon square; gunmen open fire at group of cleaners, kill 1; 4 bodies.
Mosul:	suicide bomber blows up truck at police station, kills 7; policeman is shot dead; 2 bodies thrown out of a car.
Falluja:	gunmen shoot dead member of 'Awakening Council', his son and his nephew.
Baquba:	roadside bomb kills father and 2 sons; 2 bodies.
Kirkuk:	2 bodies.
Abbasi:	body found, beheaded and loaded with explosives.
Monday 15 October: 32 dead
Baghdad:	suicide car bomber kills 4, Harthiya; 5 bodies.
Diwaniya:	multi-national headquarters come under mortar attack, clashes between militia and multi-national forces ensue, followed by US shelling -5 civilians killed, 2 of them children under the age of 3.
Balad:	suicide car bomber targets police checkpoint, kills 6 policemen.
Ramadi:	3 bodies.
Mosul:	2 bodies.
Basra:	kidnapped professor's body found.
Sunday 14 October: 75 dead
Baghdad:	car bomb kills 10, including 2 children, Kadhimiya; Salih Saif Aldin, Washington Post correspondent, shot dead, Saidiya; 5 bodies.
Samarra:	suicide truck bomber kills 18 outside police station.
Kirkuk-Riyadh highway:	gunmen kill 3 reporters.
Baghdadi:	suicide car bomber kills police major and 4 members of his family.
Baquba:	former Iraqi officer shot dead; 10 bodies found.
Al-Hadid:	2 bodies.
Al-Khatoun:	2 bodies.
Riyadh:	3 members of Awakening Council die in US shelling.
Tikrit:	journalist working for Sahrin newspaper is killed with 2 relatives.
Saturday 13 October: 05 dead
Afghanistan:	A Taliabn suicide bomber killed one policeman and six civilians in Spin Boldak on the Pakistani border.
Baghdad:	3 bodies.
Kirkuk:	roadside bombs kill 2 policemen.
Friday 12 October: 18 dead
Afghanistan:	Four police were killed and seven wounded in a bombing in Girshk in Helmand province. Mullah Naqib, a powerful Afghan leader in Kandahar, died of a heart attack.
Baghdad:	car bomb kills 4, Bab al-Sharji; mortars kill 1, Dora; 4 bodies.
Tuz Khurmato:	bomb near playground kills 3 -2 children and a father.
Kut:	gunmen kill policeman, wound his pregnant wife, causing a miscarriage.
Mahaweel:	1 bodies found.
Thursday 11 October: 59 dead
Afghanistan:	four police were wounded in clashes in Kandahar's Zhari district.
Baghdad:	suicide bomber blows up car outside internet cafe, kills 8, New Baghdad; roadside bomb targeting US troops kills 2 civilians; 5 bodies.
Kirkuk:	suicide car bomber targets convoy of head of traffic police, kills 8.
Thar Thar:	US forces kill 15 -6 women and 9 children- during air strikes.
Baquba:	8 people killed in separate attacks by gunmen.
Diyala:	gunmen kill 5 on Khalis-Kirkuk bus.
Latifiya:	2 bodies.
Mosul:	body of athlete found.
Basra:	2 bodies.
Wednesday 10 October: 35 dead
Baghdad:	roadside bomb, Karrada; gunmen shoot 2 people dead, Bayaa, Saidiya; policeman is shot dead on his way home; 6 bodies.
Tikrit:	up to 10 reported killed after car bomb blows up the motorcade of the Head of National Security.
Mosul:	suicide bomber blows up truck at KDP offices, kills 6.
Tal Afar:	rockets hit home, kill 5 members of the same family.
Numaniya:	body of 4-year-old boy, abducted three days earlier, is found hanged.

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

Name	Date
Circumstances
Eyad Tariq	15-Oct-07
Eyad Tariq, an editor of al-Watan, a weekly newspaper in Tikrit, was killed along with two security guards for the news organization after dropping off a colleague at the airport
Salih Saif Aldin	14-Oct-07
Salih Saif Aldin, 32, was reporting on the violence that has plagued Baghdad's Sadiyah neighborhood Sunday afternoon when he was shot in the forehead. A

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

Mini Battlefield Digest: Afghanistan, week 41

A bit behind this week, but still timely.

I hesitate to do highlights, but the expansion of Bagram military base by one-third to accommodate more troops in country has to stand out against the backdrop of last weeks news of a 15 year plan to be involved in the country.

Selected Battlefield News, Afghanistan & Iraq

Political Developments

• CBC: The Canadian military has begun paying the salaries of Afghan police directly, following reports that impoverished police officers weren't receiving money owed by the Afghan government. -Tuesday, October 9, 2007
• Mustafa Abu al Yazid, al Qaeda's commander in Afghanistan, released a video where he claimed Osama bin Laden is alive and the Taliban is winning on the battlefield. Mullah Mansour, the Taliban military leader, released a video praising suicide bombers. An Italian intelligence agent who was kidnapped with a colleague in Afghanistan and wounded during a rescue operation died Thursday...The man had been put on a respirator after he was wounded in the NATO-led raid on Sept. 24... -Thursday, October 4, 2007
• Roggio: Muqtada al Sadr and Abdul Aziz al Hakim signed an agreement to put aside religious and sectarian issues. Sunni and Shia tribal leaders in Muqdadiyah signed an agreement to put aside tribal differences to fight al Qaeda. -Saturday, October 6, 2007
• Roggio: Al Qaeda assassinated a senior member of the Salahuddin Awakening Council. -Tuesday, October 9, 2007
• Roggio: The Sunni insurgent group Army of Truth has halted operations and seeks reconciliation. -Thursday, October 4, 2007
• Roggio: Reconciliation meetings are underway in Muqdadiyah in Diyala province. -Wednesday, October 10, 2007
• Roggio: Muqtada al Sadr and Abdul Aziz al Hakim signed an agreement to put aside religious and sectarian issues. Sunni and Shia tribal leaders in Muqdadiyah signed an agreement to put aside tribal differences to fight al Qaeda. -Sunday, October 7, 2007

COIN: Actions, Reactions, Counteractions, etc.

• UPI: Critics said spraying U.S.-made chemicals over opium fields in Afghanistan could be a boon to Taliban propagandists if food crops are also destroyed. -Monday, October 8, 2007
• NYTimes: In this isolated Taliban stronghold in eastern Afghanistan, U.S. paratroopers are fielding what they consider a crucial new weapon in counterinsurgency operations here: a demure civilian anthropologist named Tracy. -Sunday, October 7, 2007
• AP: A German engineer and four Afghans taken hostage in July were freed Wednesday in exchange for six Taliban fighters, an Afghan official said. Rudolf Blechschmidt and the four Afghans were handed over by local elders to officials... -Wednesday, October 10, 2007
• ABC News: Former Spy Chief, Avid Golfer Set to Take Over Pakistan's Army
  -October 02, 2007 9:43 AM

VIOLENCE: Tactical Developments

• NPR: As many as 250 people have been killed in recent days in fierce combat between Pakistani security forces and Islamic militants along the rugged Afghan border in some of the deadliest clashes in years, army officials said Tuesday. Also Brian Ross story. Retaliation? -Tuesday, October 9, 2007
• Thehindu: Fighting continued to rage in North Waziristan on Tuesday with fighter jets of the Pakistan Air Force bombing targets near Mir Ali on the third day of clashes between the military and pro-Taliban militants. -Tuesday, October 9, 2007
• AP: Insurgency-related deaths in Afghanistan were 55% higher in the first nine months of 2007 compared with last year, as violence since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion surpassed all previous highs, according to an Associated Press analysis. -Thursday, October 4, 2007
• BBC: Two people have been killed and at least 10 injured in Afghanistan after gunmen opened fire in a mosque during prayers in a province bordering Kabul. In a separate incident, also near the capital, a mullah was shot dead. -Wednesday, October 10, 2007
• irna: Defence Secretary Des Browne revealed that there had been 1,359 attacks on British troops between October 2006 and August this year...The list showed a fluctuation between 181 attacks carried out in March to 52 in April compared to a monthly... -Tuesday, October 9, 2007
• radioaustralia: Afghanistan has ended a three-year moratorium on the death penalty by executing 15 prisoners, including a man convicted of murdering Australian cameraman Harry Burton. The mass execution by firing squad took place on Sunday. -Tuesday, October 9, 2007
• OhmyNews : Iran's foreign ministry has condemned the arrest and beating of a PressTV correspondent by U.S. forces in Kabul. The ministry said the Americans have been trying to prevent reporting on the realities of their failure in Afghanistan. -Tuesday, October 9, 2007
• AP: Twenty militants and two soldiers died in a battle in northwest Pakistan on Sunday, an army spokesman said. The fighting occurred in North Waziristan, a stronghold of pro-Taliban militants near the Afghan border... -Sunday, October 7, 2007
• Bloomberg: A group of civilians, including several men, a woman and a child, were killed in a raid by Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces on a compound used by militants in eastern Afghanistan, the American military said. -Friday, October 5, 2007
• timesofindia: Pro-Taliban commander Baitullah Mehsud has threatened to launch suicide attacks on former Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto. -Friday, October 5, 2007

Economic Developments, Reconstruction, and General Good News

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Enemy Casualties, OIF & OEF: Week 41

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

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ENEMY CASUALTIES AND DENTENSIONS IN IRAQ

Counted Enemy Casualties, IRAQ

Counted Captured: 185; Killed: 94; High-value: 2

Wednesday, October 3, 2007: Captured: 20; Killed: 6

Six al Qaeda were killed and 14 captured during operations in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi Special Forces captured four Special Groups operatives in southern Iraq, two in Diyala, and another six in Tha’Alba.

Thursday, October 4, 2007: Captured: 14; Killed: 5; High value: 1

Sunni Iraqi member of parliament, was detained during an Iraqi Army raid on an al Qaeda meeting. Iraqi scouts captured five al Qaeda operative and killed two near Balad; another three were killed near Tikrit. Special operations forces killed one al Qaeda operative and captured eight in raids throughout Iraq.

Friday, October 5, 2007: Captured: 8; Killed: 13

Coaltion special forces killed 12 al Qaeda operatives and wounded four in raids in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi police killed a Yemeni al Qaeda operative near Salman Pak. The Iraqi Army and Concerned Citizens captured eight al Qaeda operatives in Hawr Rajab.

Saturday, October 6, 2007: Captured: 25; Killed: 6

Special operations forces killed six al Qaeda operatives and captured 18 in raids throughout Iraq. US soldiers captured six rogue Mahdi Army fighters in Sadr City. Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured a Shia extremist company commander in Khalis.

Sunday, October 7, 2007: Captured: 14; Killed: 1

US troops captured three insurgents and dismantled four EFPs in eastern Baghdad, and three Special Groups operatives were captured in Sadr City. One al Qaeda operative was killed and eight captured during raids throughout Iraq.

Monday, October 8, 2007: Captured: 30; Killed: 11

US soldiers killed five Special Groups operatives and captured three during an operation in eastern Baghdad. Ten Special Groups operatives were captured and one killed in Wasit Province. US and Iraqi forces captured 17 suspected terrorists in Mahmudiyah. Iraq and US special forces killed five terrorists in Baghdad and destroyed a bomb factory in Thar Thar.

Tuesday, October 9, 2007: Captured: 28; Killed: 15; High value: 1

Nine al Qaeda operatives were killed and 22 captured in raids throughout the country. Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured six al Qaeda operatives, including an emir in Mosul; six more al Qaeda operatives were killed in Mosul while emplacing an IED.

by Bill Roggio, others - Read - Support

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ENEMY CASUALTIES AND DENTENSIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

Counted Enemy Casualties, Afghanistan
Counted Captured: 5; Killed: 306; High-value: 0
Thursday, October 4, 2007; Killed: 20
Kandahar	Twenty Taliban were killed in fighting in the Shah Wali Khot district in Kandahar.
Friday, October 5, 2007; Killed: 20
Kandahar; Paktia	NATO and Afghan forces killed 20 Taliban fighters in Kandahar province and "several" in Paktia province. The US Army is deploying teams of civilian anthropologists in eastern Afghanistan.
Saturday, October 6, 2007
	The US is expanding the Bagram military base by one-third to accommodate more troops in country.
Monday, October 8, 2007: Captured: 5; Killed: 16
Paktia; Paktika	The US airstrike in Paktika province killed 16 members of Tahir Yuldashev's Islamic Movement of Uzbekistan, lead by a wanted Uzbek warlord with a $200,000 bounty on his head. The fighters were Chechen, Uzbek, and Pakistani; one Uzbek was captured. Four Taliban were captured in Paktia.
Tuesday, October 9, 2007; Killed: 250
	As many as 250 people have been killed in recent days in fierce combat between Pakistani security forces and Islamic militants along the rugged Afghan border in some of the deadliest clashes in years, army officials said Tuesday.
by Bill Roggio, others - Read - Support

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 41

Groups: MFN-Iraq, MNF-Afghan, Iraqi Civilian Casualties Count, Journalists (Iraq)

August wounded: 558 [a new section for wounded forthcoming]

Personnel not on the military lists include some tragic casualties from Afghanistan. Steven Thomas (Tom) Stefani, A USDA forest service worker, was killed in a roadside blast. An Italian intelligence agent rescued in an operation on September 24, succumbed to the wounds from that op.

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Hometown
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Jeremy W. Burris, 22	U.S. Marine	Tacoma, WA
	Lance Corporal, 1st BN, 4th Marine Reg, 1st Marine Division, I Marine Expeditionary Force
	Al Anbar Province; 08-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire
	Benjamin C. Dillon, 22	U.S. Army	Rootstown, OH
	Corporal, 3rd BN, 75th Ranger Reg
	Nothern Iraq; 07-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Name Not Released Yet	U.S. Army	n.a.
	Not reported yet, Multi-National Division - Baghdad
	Baghdad (southern part); 06-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Rachael L. Hugo, 24	U.S. Army Reserve	Madison, WI
	Specialist, 303rd Military Police Company, 97th Military Police BN, 89th Military Polic
	Bayji; 05-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED, small arms fire
	Joseph B. Milledge, 23	U.S. Army	Pointblank, TX
	Sergeant, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Reg, 1st Armored Division
	Baghdad (southeast part); 05-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Jason N. Marchand, 26	U.S. Army	Greenwood, WV
	Specialist, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Reg, 1st Armored Division
	Baghdad (southeast part); 05-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Vincent G. Kamka, 23	U.S. Army	Everett, WA
	Specialist, 1st BN, 505th Parachute Infantry Reg, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
	Baiji; 04-Oct-07; Non-hostile
	Ricardo X. Rodriguez, 23	U.S. Army	Arecibo, PR
	Sergeant, 2nd Bn, 325th Airborne Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Divisio
	Bayji; 04-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Avealalo Milo, 23	U.S. Army	Hayward, CA
	Specialist, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Reg, 2nd Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 1st Armored Division
	Baghdad (southern part); 04-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Bartosz Orzechowski, 29	Polish Government	Zamosc-POL
	Plutonowy, Government Protection Bureau (Biuro Ochrony Rzadu)
	Baghdad; 03-Oct-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
	David Pearce, 41	Australian Army	Liverpool-Australia
	Trooper, 2nd/14th Light Horse Regiment
	Oruzgan province; 08-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Adam D. Quinn, 22	U.S. Army	Orange City, FL
	Specialist, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 82nd Airborne Division
	Bagram (Forward Operating Base Phoenix); 06-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Alexis Roberts, 32	British Army	Kent-UK
	Major, 2nd BN (with 1st BN) The Royal Gurkha Rifles
	Kandahar; 04-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Lorenzo D'Auria, 33	SISMI	Campania-Italy
	Maresciallo Capo, Intelligence agency
	Policlinico Militare del Celio (Rome); 04-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 259 this week; 489 last week; 345 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 54 this week; 53 last week; 119 prior week.
Tuesday 9 October: 77 dead
Afghanistan:	As many as 250 people have been killed in recent days in fierce combat between Pakistani security forces and Islamic militants along the rugged Afghan border in some of the deadliest clashes in years, army officials said Tuesday.
Baghdad:	bombs and shootings kill 31 people in Jisr Diyala, Shaab, al-Khilani mosque, al-Binook, Karrada, Zafaraniya, Saidiya, al-Jedidah, Talibiya, Dora and Ur. Among the victims 2 women shot dead by a security company convoy: 49-year-old Marony Ohanis, a widow raising her 3 daughters by driving a taxi, and 30-year-old Geneva Jalal Entranic, a friend and passenger. 2 children were riding in the back, one of whom was shot in the arm. Among the Baghdad victims also a man shot dead with his sons as they step out of their house. 8 bodies.
Baiji:	two suicide car bombers kill 22. The targets: the Baiji police commander and tribal chiefs fighting al-Qaeda. Among those killed 3 children.
Tuz Khurmato:	a bomb outside a house kills 2 children from the same family.
Qassim:	3 bodies.
Hawija:	2 bodies.
Basra:	2 bodies -husband and wife.
Mosul:	2 bodies.
Monday 8 October: 36 dead
Afghanistan:	A suicide bomber wounded three civilians in Lashkar Gah
Baghdad:	bomb attacks in al-Arasat, Kamaliya and Sinaa st. 7 dead; 7 bodies.
Tikrit:	suicide car bomber kills 3 policemen at police checkpoint.
Dijla:	suicide car bomber kills 14 outside police station.
Hawija:	roadside bomb kills policeman.
Amara:	law professor's body found tortured and shot 2 days after his abduction.
Sunday 7 October: 22 dead
Baghdad:	11 die in bombings in Dora, Baladiyat, Salhiya; 6 bodies.
Mosul:	2 paramedics killed by US forces inside ambulance.
Mussayab:	2 bodies pulled out of the Euphrates.
Babil:	body found.
Saturday 6 October: 11 dead
Afghanistan:	A suicide car bomb attack killed four Afghan civilians and one US soldier in Kabul today. This is the third suicide attack inside Kabul in eight days.
Baghdad:	mortars kill 1, Madaen; 5 bodies.
Kirkuk:	car bomb kills civilian; gunmen kill policeman, west of Kirkuk.
Mahaweel:	gunmen kill policeman.
Iskandariya:	beheaded body found.
Mussayab:	young student's body found, bound and tortured.
Friday 5 October: 33 dead
Afghanistan:	A group of civilians, including several men, a woman and a child, were killed in a raid by Afghan and U.S.-led coalition forces on a compound used by militants in eastern Afghanistan, the American military said.
Baghdad:	4 bodies.
Kifil:	2 bodies.
Basra:	lecturer is shot dead.
Kirkuk:	civilian killed in bomb explosion.
Jizani al-Imam:	25 reported killed (7 of them children) in US raid on village.
Thursday 4 October: 51 dead
Baghdad:	10 killed in bomb attacks and shootings in Zafaraniya, Waziriya, Wihda and Ur; 8 bodies.
Iskandariya:	Abbas al-Khafaji, member of the Supreme Iraqi Islamic Council and Deputy Governor of Iskandariya, is killed with 5 of his guards after the explosion of a roadside bomb; 1 body found.
Riga:	Sheikh Muawiya Jebara, senior member of the Salahuddin Awakening Council, and 5 of his guards are killed by roadside bomb.
Tal Afar:	car bomb kills 3 in market.
Shirqat:	gunmen kill 3 policemen.
Dawr:	gunmen kill 2 policemen.
Samarra:	2 policemen are killed during clashes with insurgents.
Arbil:	body of young woman found.
Hilla:	body found.
Samarra:	policeman' body found, following his abduction.
Abu Lukah:	3 members of Northern Babil Awakening Council ( a group of Iraqis who have turned against extremists) shot dead by US forces near checkpoint. Five council members were guarding a deserted road into their village at about 2 a.m. when U.S. troops fired on them from a watchtower at a nearby military base. Three guards were killed, another was wounded and the fifth man fled on foot.
Wednesday 3 October: 29 dead
Baghdad:	roadside bombs targeting the Polish Ambassador's convoy kill 2 Iraqis -a shopkeeper and a taxi driver who jumps out of his vehicle after the blast and is shot by Polish convoy guards; car bomb kills 2, Fadhil; 6 bodies.
Ifach:	local council member is shot dead.
Baquba:	3 killed in clashes; 3 killed by mortars.
Kirkuk:	roadside bomb kills policeman; 2 bodies found burnt.
Samarra:	3 killed by mortars.

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

None this week

Name	Date
Circumstances

src: MNF-I, MNF-A, journalists from icasualties.org; Iraqi Civiilan: iraqbodycount.org; Afghan events from Bill Roggio, other sources
note: some weekly events from Afghanistan are now collated, but those killed are not yet added to the weekly counts.