Friday, January 18, 2008

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 3, Year A+7

This week, Afghan forces were ambushed when 200 militants [!] stormed a border fort, with 25 feared dead. AP recently reported a figure of 925 Afghan police killed in 2007.

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------Name, AgeSrv BranchHometown

Rank, Unit

Location; Circumstance of Death

Danny L. Kimme, 27U.S. ArmyFisher, IL
Private 1st Class, 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Regiment, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division
Balad; 16-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire, grenade

David H. Sharrett Ii, 27U.S. ArmyOakton, VA
Private 1st Class, 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division
Balad; 16-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire, grenade

John P. Sigsbee, 21U.S. ArmyWaterville, NY
Specialist, 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division
Balad (died in Pallouata); 16-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire, grenade

Keith E. Lloyd, 26U.S. ArmyMilwaukee, WI
Private 1st Class, 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
Tall Afar; 12-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED

Curtis A. Christensen Jr., 29U.S. MarineCollingswood, NJ
Lance Corporal, 2nd BN, 8th Marine Reg, 2nd Marine Division, II Marine Expeditionary Force
Al Anbar Province; 11-Jan-08; Non-hostile

Todd E. Davis, 22U.S. ArmyRaymore, MO
Specialist, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Reg, 1st Armored Division
Sinsil; 09-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)

Sean M. Gaul, 29U.S. ArmyReno, NV
Staff Sergeant, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Reg, 1st Armored Division
Sinsil; 09-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)

Christopher A. Sanders, 22U.S. ArmyRoswell, NM
Sergeant, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Reg, 1st Armored Division
Sinsil; 09-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)

Matthew I. Pionk, 30U.S. ArmySuperior, WI
Sergeant 1st Class, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Reg, 1st Armored Division
Sinsil; 09-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)

Jonathan Kilian Dozier, 30U.S. ArmyRutherford, TN
Staff Sergeant, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Reg, 1st Armored Division
Sinsil; 09-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)

Zachary W. Mcbride, 20U.S. ArmyBend, OR
Sergeant, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Reg, 1st Armored Division
Sinsil; 09-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (house borne)

David J. Hart, 22U.S. ArmyLake View Terrace, CA
Sergeant, 2nd BN, 327th Infantry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division
Samarra (died in Balad); 09-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire

Ivan E. Merlo, 19U.S. ArmySan Marcos, CA
Private 1st Class, 2nd BN, 327th Infantry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division
Samarra; 09-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire

Phillip J. Pannier, 20U.S. ArmyWashburn, IL
Private 1st Class, 2nd BN, 327th Infantry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division
Samarra; 09-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ISAF-AFGHANISTAN

------Name, AgeSrv BranchCountry

Rank, Unit

Location; Circumstance of Death
Richard Renaud, 26Canadian ArmyAlma-Canada
Trooper, 12th Regiment of Blinde du Canada
Arghandab district (10 kilometres north of Kandahar city); 15-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Aldert Poortema, 22Royal Dutch Armyn.a.-Netherlands
Corporal, 44th Armouredinfantry Batallion
Deh Rawod - Uruzgan province; 12-Jan-08; Hostile - friendly fire
Wesley Schol, 20Royal Dutch Armyn.a.-Netherlands
Private 1st Class, 44th Armouredinfantry Batallion
Deh Rawod - Uruzgan province; 12-Jan-08; Hostile - friendly fire
Richard J. Berrettini, 52U.S. Army National GuardWilcox, PA
Lieutenant Colonel, Pennsylvania Army National Guard Medical Detachment
San Antonio, TX (Khowst Province); 11-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
David J. Drakulich, 22U.S. ArmyReno, NV
Sergeant, 508th Parachute Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
Chagali; 09-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

IBC estimates 24 civilians shot by US military this month, so far.

Counted Civilian Casualties: 98 this week; .
Wednesday 16 January: 26 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 3 university students, Bab al-Muadham; roadside bomb kills another civilian, Zaafaraniya; roadside bombs kill 2, Nahrawan; gunmen attack Awakening members at checkpoint, kill 2; 5 bodies.
Diyala
Khan Bani Saad: suicide bomber blows herself up outside mosque killing 8.


Kirkuk
Tuz Khurmato: gunmen kill student; body found.
Salahuddin
Shirqat: 2 policemen killed in clashes with gunmen during raid.
Tuesday 15 January: 16 dead
Baghdad: 5 primary school children are struck by official's convoy and are then caught in ensuing gunfight between guards and Iraqi soldiers; Awakening member killed in clashes, Sadriya; 6 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: roadside bomb kills policeman; 2 bodies.
Salahuddin
Al-Shirqat: suicide car bomber attack police checkpoint, kills policeman.
Monday 14 January: 29 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill judge along with his driver, Mansour; 5 bodies.
Diyala
Buhriz: 7 policemen die in booby-trapped house during search; Awakening member is shot dead nearby.
Dujail: roadside bomb kills 2 policemen.
Ninewa
Mosul: car bomb kills civilian; gunmen kill policeman; 2 bodies.
Anbar
Haditha: 4 bodies.
Wassit
Kut: US forces open fire at intersection killing 4 (a bus driver and 3 construction workers). The number of Iraqi civilians killed by US forces in January has now gone up to 23.
Sunday 13 January: 12 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill office worker, Arasat; policeman killed in ensuing clashes; 4 bodies.
Arbil
Kenzinar: gunmen kill doctor's assistant.
Basra
Basra: gunmen kill official at Sadr's office.
Anbar
Falluja: US forces kill civilian in car, as it approaches their patrol.
Diyala
Jalawla: body found.
Ninewa
Mosul: 2 bodies found.
Saturday 12 January: 15 dead
Baghdad: roadside bombs kill 2, Beirut Square; 2 bodies.
Salahuddin
Dhuluiya: gunmen attack two houses, kill 6 -a former Iraqi army soldier, his 14-year-old son, an Awakening member and his three sons (one of them an Awakening member, the other two a 16-year-old and a 15-year-old).
Basra
Basra: gunmen kill policeman.
Sulaimaniya
Sulaimaniya: gunmen kill liquor shop owner.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill woman in her home; 1 body found.
Al-Sukar: gunmen kill policeman.
Friday 11 January: 7 dead
Baghdad: suicide car bomb targets bakery, kills 4, Gadir; 3 bodies.
Thursday 10 January: 8 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 2 policemen, Nasr Square; car bomb kills civilian, Palestine str.; 3 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: child is killed in bomb explosion; motorist killed by roadside bomb.

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

NameDate
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

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