Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 40

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

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

note: some weekly events from Afghanistan are now collated, but those killed are not yet added to the weekly counts.

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Hometown
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Herman J. Murkerson Jr., 35	U.S. Marine	Adger, AL
	Gunnery Sergeant, Marine Wing Headquarters Squadron 2, 2nd Marine Aircraft Wing, II Marine Ex
	Al Anbar Province; 01-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire
	Chirasak Vidhyarkorn, 32	U.S. Army	Queens, NY
	Specialist, 2nd Battalion, 142nd Field Artillery Regiment
	Diwaniyah; 02-Oct-07; Non-hostile
	Randell Olguin, 24	U.S. Army	Ralls, TX
	Sergeant, 1st Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment
	Baghdad; 30-Sep-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Name Not Released Yet	U.S. Army	n.a.
	Not reported yet, Multi-National Division - Baghdad
	Baghdad (eastern part); 30-Sep-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	James D. Doster, 37	U.S. Army	Pine Bluff, AR
	Sergeant 1st Class, 2nd BN, 16th Infantry Reg, 4th Infantry Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division
	Baghdad (eastern part); 29-Sep-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED, small arms fire
	Robert T. Ayres Iii, 23	U.S. Army	Los Angeles, CA
	Sergeant, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment
	Baghdad (southern part); 29-Sep-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Donnie D. Dixon, 37	U.S. Army	Miami, FL
	Staff Sergeant, Headquarters and Headquarters Company, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division
	Baloor (near Muqdadiyah); 29-Sep-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Randy L. Johnson, 34	U.S. Army	Washington, DC
	Sergeant 1st Class, 2nd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment
	Baghdad; 27-Sep-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
	Mark R. Cannon, 31	Not reported yet	Lubbock, TX
	Petty Officer 3rd Class, 3rd Marine Reg, 3rd Marine Division, III Marine Expeditionary Force,
	Kunar Province; 02-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Zachary D. Tellier, 31	U.S. Army	Charlotte, NC
	Sergeant, 4th Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
	Firebase Wilderness; 29-Sep-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Mathew D. Taylor, 21	U.S. Army	Cameron Park, CA
	Private 1st Class, 1st Battalion (Airborne), 503rd Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team
	San Antonio, Texas (wounded in Sarobi District); 26-Sep-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Thorbjørn Ole Reese, 22	Royal Danish Army	Vajle-Denmark
	Konstabel, Royal Life Guards
	Upper Gereshk Valley - Helmand province; 26-Sep-07; Hostile - hostile fire - firefight
	Mikkel Keil Sørensen, 24	Royal Danish Army	Vilsund-Denmark
	Konstabel, Royal Life Guards
	Upper Gereshk Valley - Helmand province; 26-Sep-07; Hostile - hostile fire - firefight

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 338
Counted bodies found: 96
Tuesday 2 October: 49 dead
Afghanistan:	A Taliban suicide bomber killed 13 and wounded 10 in an attack on a bus in Kabul. Eight police, a woman, and her baby were killed in the attack, which was the second major suicide bombing in Kabul in four days.
Baghdad:	roadside bomb, Salman Bak; roadside bomb, Karrada; roadside bomb Rashid; roadside bomb, Zaafaraniya; bombs kill 9 in total; 9 bodies.
Khalis:	suicide bomber explodes car at checkpoint, kills 6, including a child.
Wihda:	gunmen shoot dead father and son.
Suwayra:	primary school teacher shot dead.
Hawija:	clashes between gunmen and police kill 2 civilians.
Baquba:	gunmen kill parents with their daughter.
Iskandariya:	doctor is shot dead in his car.
Tuz Khurmato:	the 2 bodies of brothers found.
Kirkuk:	police find 5 bodies.
Mosul:	2 bodies found in car.
Monday 1 October: 30 dead
Afghanistan:	The Taliban murdered a 15-year-old boy for possessing US money; the Taliban stuffed the bills in his mouth and hung him from a tree.
Baghdad:	roadside bomb kills 2, southern Baghdad; gunmen kill contractor, al-Nahda; 11 bodies.
Mosul:	suicide car bomber kills professor; 2 bodies.
Kirkuk:	4 bodies.
Mahaweel:	2 bodies.
Baquba:	gunmen attack home, kill 3 family members.
Sunday 30 September: 35 dead
Baghdad:	1 farmer killed by gunmen south of the capital; 5 bodies.
Mosul:	politician killed along with 3 bodyguards; gunmen kill 2 policemen; 2 shot dead in market; 11 bodies found.
Al-Uhaymer:	7 bodies found and taken to Baquba morgue.
Haswa:	3 bodies.
Saturday 29 September: 40 dead
Afghanistan:	A Taliban suicide bomber killed 27 Afghan soldiers and wounded 21 in an attack on a bus in Kabul.
Baghdad:	civilian killed in clashes between gunmen and Iraqi soldiers, Fadhil; gunmen kill civilian, Mansour; mortar kills civilian, Abu Dshir; roadside bomb kills 2, New Baghdad; 4 bodies.
Hamdaniya:	car bomb kills 6, 5 of them policemen.
Mosul:	3 Imams killed in separate incidents; shiekh dies in drive-by shooting; 2 women and a man killed in drive-by shooting.
Al-Mazra:	suicide car bomber kills 3 civilians.
Samarra:	Iraqi soldiers hand 9 bodies over to hospital -the bodies had been given to them by US soldiers.
Buhriz:	2 bodies.
Friday 28 September: 49 dead
Baghdad:	13 (4 of them children) killed in US air raid, Doura; 5 bodies.
Saadiya:	gunmen shoot dead 6 people in cafe.
Jaara:	gunmen attack village, kill 15.
Khalis:	4 bodies.
Diwaniya:	kidnapped policeman found tortured and killed.
Hilla:	2 men killed by unknown gunmen.
Mosul:	mortars kill journalist.
Thursday 27 September: 31 dead
Baghdad:	roadside bomb kills woman, Sinaa street; car bomb kills 2, New Baghdad; 7 young men playing a traditional Ramadan game called mihaidis, in which teams try to find a hidden ring, killed in US air strike, Abu Dshir; 9 bodies. Insurgents murdered a Sunni Iraqi police lieutenant and his wife in Baghdad’s Adhamiyah neighborhood.
Mosul:	gunmen kill policeman and former army officer in separate incidents.
Falluja:	policeman is killed during attack on checkpoint.
Ramadi:	policeman is killed when patrol is attacked.
Nassiriya:	2 policeman are killed by roadside bomb.
Kirkuk:	roadside bomb kills policeman.
Wednesday 26 September: 104 dead
Afghanistan:	A suicide bomber killed five police in Spin Boldak, Kandahar province.
Baghdad:	car bombs kill 32, Bayaa; parliament official shot dead, Zayuna; 7 bodies.
Shirqat:	car bomb kills 6; car bomb near police patrol kills 2 policemen.
Um al-Diban:	suicide car bomber attacks tribal leader's house killing 10.
Mosul:	car bomb kills 3; suicide car bomber attacks court under construction, killing 3 construction workers; suicide bomber kills 3.
Basra:	roadside bomb kills 5 worshippers outside mosque; police captain is shot dead; 2 bodies.
Hilla:	10 die in US air raid -US forces shell the house of Daham Kazem al-Jenabi, killing 5 women and 4 children, while a later air raid kills Imam Hassan Mohammed Aboud al-Jenabi inside a mosque.
Kanaan:	gunmen raid house, kill father and 4 sons.
Diyala:	family of 5 kidnapped the previous day at fake checkpoint is found bound and shot dead An al Qaeda suicide bomber killed 24 members of a joint Shia-Sunni tribal meeting in Shifta in Diyala province; 37 were wounded, including the governor.
Baquba:	3-year-old Mahmoud Modher is found strangled to death three days after being abducted.

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

Name	Date
Circumstances
Abdul-Khaliq Nasir	28-Sep-07
a 50-year-old journalist visiting his brother in the Bab al-Baidh neighborhood in central Mosul was killed about 9:30 a.m. when he was caught in a mortar attack. Abdul-Khaliq Nasir, who worked for Um al-Rabyain, a local newspaper, until it ceased operations about six months ago because of security concerns, was married and had three children.

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