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
U.S and Dutch soldiers drive along a dusty road in a village in Baluchi pass in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan November 1, 2007.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
-October, 2003, SecDef Rumsfeld
U.S and Dutch soldiers drive along a dusty road in a village in Baluchi pass in Uruzgan province, Afghanistan November 1, 2007.
REUTERS/Goran Tomasevic
WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ENEMY CASUALTIES AND DENTENSIONS IN IRAQ
| Counted Enemy Casualties, IRAQ | |
| Counted Captured: 960; Killed: 164; High-value: 58 | |
| Wednesday, December 19, 2007: Captured: 15; Killed: 1; High value: 1 | |
| Baghdad; Kirkuk | Coalition forces captured the Special Groups leader for Diyala Province. Iraqi Security Forces killed one insurgent, detained 15, and defused 10 roadside bombs in Baghdad; eight were captured in Kirkuk. |
| Thursday, December 20, 2007: Captured: 44; Killed: 27; High value: 3 | |
| Diyala: Al Miqdadiyah; Baghdad | US soldiers killed 24 al Qaeda fighters, detained 37, and found an atrocity site, torture complex, and nine weapons caches north of Miqdadiyah. Coalition forces captured a Special Groups leader and two associates in Baghdad. Iraqi Security Forces killed three insurgents and captured 27 during operations in Baghdad. |
| Friday, December 21, 2007: Captured: 22; Killed: 1; High value: 3 | |
| Baghdad | Coalition forces killed one al Qaeda operative and detained 19 others during raids in central and northern Iraq. Coalition forces captured two suspected Special Groups leaders and detained three others in the Al Mashru area, and captured another leader in the Baghdad area. |
| Saturday, December 22, 2007: Captured: 8; High value: 8 | |
| Baghdad | Iraqi Security Forces captured eight wanted insurgents in Baghdad. Coalition forces captured six al Qaeda operatives involved in propaganda and finance operations and a technical advisor for an IED cell. Iraqi Security Volunteers captured a member of an al Qaeda anti-aircraft cell in Baghdad. |
| Sunday, December 23, 2007: Captured: 50; High value: 1 | |
| Basra; Kut; Baghdad | Coalition forces detained 12 al Qaeda operatives during raids in the Diyala River Valley region and northern Iraq. Coalition forces captured a suspected Special Groups leader and seven other during operations in the Al Kut and As Suwyarah areas. Iraqi police captured 10 al Qaeda in Mandali in Diyala province. Iraqi Security Forces arrested 20 insurgents and defused 14 improvised explosive devices in Baghdad. A Sadrist leader was killed in Basrah. |
| Monday, December 24, 2007: Captured: 20; Killed: 2 | |
| Kut | Coalition forces killed two Special Groups operatives and captured two during a raid in Al Kut. Coalition forces detained 10 al Qaeda operatives during raids in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi Security Forces detained eight al Qaeda fighters and defused five roadside bombs in Diyala. |
| Tuesday, December 25, 2007: Captured: 38; Killed: 13 | |
| Balad; Kirkuk | Coalition forces killed 13 al Qaeda operatives and detained 27 during operations in central and northern Iraq. Police arrested 11 insurgents northwest of Kirkuk and a senior al Qaeda leader in Balad Ruz. |
| Wednesday, December 26, 2007: Captured: 17; Killed: 4; High value: 1 | |
| Baghdad; Kirkuk; Samarra | The US military confirmed senior al Qaeda leader Abu Abdullah was killed in a raid in Samarra on November 8. Four al Qaeda operatives were killed in Diyala and Tarmiyah; a senior al Qaeda leader was captured near Kirkuk. Iraqi Security Forces arrested 16 insurgents and defused three IEDs in Baghdad. |
| Thursday, December 27, 2007: Captured: 56; Killed: 23; High value: 1 | |
| Kut; Diyala: Al Miqdadiyah | The Iraqi Army claimed to have captured the minister of defense of the Islamic State of Iraq. Coalition forces killed 11 Special Groups fighters in Al Kut. US and Iraqi forces killed 12 al Qaeda operatives and detained 37 near Miqdadiyah. US forces captured two ""extremists"" believed to be behind the kidnappings of three US soldiers last May. Coalition forces captured 19 al Qaeda operatives in raids throughout Iraq; Iraqi forces captured four. |
| Friday, December 28, 2007: Captured: 18; Killed: 5; High value: 1 | |
| Hillah; Samarra; Diyala: Khalis | Coalition forces killed five al Qaeda operatives and detained 14 during operations in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi troops detained four al Qaeda fighters, including a Saudi national, in Samarra. Iraqi forces arrested four al Qaeda fighters north of Hillah. Awakening forces killed an al Qaeda leader near Khalis. |
| Saturday, December 29, 2007: Captured: 34; Killed: 8; High value: 11 | |
| Kirkuk | Coalition forces killed three al Qaeda operatives and detained 34 during operations in central and northern Iraq. Coalition forces detained six Special Groups members during operations in southern Iraq. Police killed five insurgents and captured five in Tal Afar. US forces arrested a police chief and four officers in Kirkuk. Iraqi soldiers discovered a weapons cache in the home of one of the bodyguards of Adnan al Dulaimi. |
| Sunday, December 30, 2007: Captured: 40; Killed: 6; High value: 1 | |
| Baghdad; Kirkuk | Coalition forces killed six al Qaeda operative and detained 14 during operations in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi security forces arrested 40 insurgents and defused 32 IEDs in Baghdad. US troops arrested an al Qaeda leader near Kirkuk. |
| Monday, December 31, 2007: Captured: 61; High value: 4 | |
| Diyala: Ba`qubah; Karbala; Babil: | Coalition forces captured the Special Groups recruiter for Karbala Province and 21 al Qaeda operatives during operations in central and northern Iraq. The Iraqi Army arrested 40 al Qaeda fighters, including a Saudi national, in northern Babil and another six in Haditha. Police captured an al Qaeda leader and two aides in Baqubah. |
| Tuesday, January 1, 2008: Captured: 4; Killed: 1; High value: 1 | |
| Hillah | Iraqi police and soldiers captured a leader of al Qaeda in Diyala. Police arrested the leader of Buhriz's Concerned Local Citizens and three aides for involvement with al Qaeda. One al Qaeda operative was killed and two wounded near Hillah. |
| Wednesday, January 2, 2008: Captured: 39; Killed: 6; High value: 2 | |
| Diyala: Ad Diwaniyah; Diyala: Al Miqdadiyah; Baghdad; Kirkuk; Mosul; Samarra; Baghdad: Adhamiyah | Fifty-one al Qaeda leaders have been killed or captured in December. Coalition forces killed three al Qaeda operatives and detained 11 during operations in Miqdadiyah and Samarra, and detained a Special Groups operative in Adhamiyah. Iraqi security forces killed three insurgents and arrested 28 in Baghdad, 15 in Mosul, and eight in Kirkuk. Police arrested an assassination network leader in Diwaniyah. |
| Thursday, January 3, 2008; High value: 2 | |
| Baghdad; Diyala: Ba`qubah | US forces captured an al Qaeda military commander of southern Baghdad and detained five fighters in Zambraniyah.The Iraqi Army arrested a high-ranking al Qaeda commander north of Baqubah. |
| Friday, January 4, 2008: Captured: 19; Killed: 2 | |
| Diyala: Al Miqdadiyah; Kirkuk; Mosul | Coalition forces killed two al Qaeda operatives and detained 12 during operations in Miqdadiyah and Mosul. A joint Iraqi-US force arrested seven insurgents a raid south of Kirkuk. |
| Saturday, January 5, 2008: Captured: 35; Killed: 1; High value: 1 | |
| US and Iraqi soldiers killed one al Qaeda operative and detained nine during an operation in Abu Tamur. Coalition forces detained 18 al Qaeda operatives during raids in central Iraq. Coalition forces captured a Special Groups leader and eight associates in Huwaysh and a facilitator in the Qasarin area; both regions are in Diyala province. | |
| Sunday, January 6, 2008: Captured: 4 | |
| Baghdad; Balad | US forces detained four al Qaeda operatives in Balad and a weapons trafficker south of Baghdad. |
| Monday, January 7, 2008: Captured: 227; Killed: 6; High value: 1 | |
| Baghdad; Kirkuk; Mosul; Tikrit | Three al Qaeda were captured in a clash in Buhriz. Coalition forces captured six al Qaeda operatives in raids in Mosul, Baghdad, and Tikrit. US and Iraqi forces captured a leader of Anasar al Sunnah near Kirkuk. Iraqi security forces killed six insurgents and captured 218 in raids in Baghdad. |
| Tuesday, January 8, 2008: Captured: 45; Killed: 4; High value: 2 | |
| Diyala: Al Miqdadiyah; Baghdad | Iraqi and US forces kicked off Operation Phanton Phoenix, while Operation Hero's Harvest is underway in Miqdadiyah. Coalition forces killed three al Qaeda operatives and detained 28 during operations in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi security forces killed one insurgent and captured 14 in Baghdad. Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured an ""extremist cell leader"" and three operatives in Baghdad. Coalition forces captured a Special Groups leader and three operatives in Baghdad. |
| src Bill Roggio - Read - Support | |
WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ENEMY CASUALTIES AND DENTENSIONS IN AFGHANISTAN
| Counted Enemy Casualties, Afghanistan | |
| Counted Captured: 30; Killed: 429; High-value: 0 | |
| Wednesday, December 19, 2007; Killed: 12 | |
| Uruzgan | Afghan and ISAF forces killed "several" Taliban fighters during a two-day engagement in Uruzgan province. |
| Sunday, December 23, 2007; Killed: 10 | |
| Kandahar | The Afghan Defense Ministry said 10 Taliban were killed and four Afghan soldiers were injured following a weekend skirmish in Kandahar. |
| Tuesday, December 25, 2007 | |
| Two British nationals have been ordered to leave the country after officials accused them of aiding the Taliban with money and guns. President Karzai is set to visit Pakistan tomorrow to discuss the ongoing cooperation against the Taliban and al Qaeda as well as security issues along the border. | |
| Wednesday, December 26, 2007: Captured: 3; Killed: 150 | |
| Nangarhar; Uruzgan | Afghan security forces said over 150 Taliban were killed during several days of fighting in the Charchini district of Uruzgan province. The fighting is still ongoing. Afghan and Coalition forces detained three Taliban fighters during a raid in Nangarhar Province. |
| Sunday, December 30, 2007: Captured: 9; Killed: 22 | |
| Helmand; Wardak; Zabul | Coalition forces captured nine Taliban and killed "several" in Zabul province. Ten Afghans were killed in Taliab ambushes in Helmand and Wardak province. |
| Wednesday, January 2, 2008; Killed: 17 | |
| Ghazni; Helmand; Kandahar | Five Taliban fighters were killed while trying to build a suicide car bomb in Kandahar province. Two Taliban bomb emplacers were killed when their IED detonated in Ghazni province. Ten Taliban fighters were killed while attacking a police station in Helmand province. |
| Thursday, January 3, 2008: Captured: 6; Killed: 217 | |
| Helmand; Kandahar | The Afghan Defense Ministry said over 200 Taliban and 17 of their commanders were killed during the December operation to retake Helmand’s Musa Qala district. Kandahar Police arrested six Taliban fighters in the Panjwai district. |
| Saturday, January 5, 2008: Captured: 12; Killed: 1 | |
| Ghazni; Kandahar | Afghan and ISAF forces arrested "several" Taliban fighters in Kandahar. A Taliban commander was captured in Ghazni province. |
| src Bill Roggio - Read - Support | |
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