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.

Tracking the Iraqi Refugee Crisis

Part of the price that we were supposed to not have to pay, afterall, following "Mission Accomplished".

Nir Rosen is on the job, with a lengthy piece:

The numbers tell that story. “First the minorities left Iraq,” a UNHCR official told me, “now we get Sunnis targeted by Shia militias.” Until February 2006 the Sunnis and Shias were proportionally represented among Iraqi refugees registered with the UNHCR. But one month later the number of Sunnis shot up, far exceeding all the others. Although Iraq’s Shias are said to compose 65 percent of its population, in January 2007 more than three times the number of Sunnis (3,144) were registered than Shia (901). The next month it was four to one. Ninety-five percent were from Baghdad. And because only those Iraqis in grave need approach UNHCR, even these numbers vastly underestimate the crisis.

So Much Violence - Anyone Keeping Track?

The bombing death of the Anbar Sheik Abdul Sattar Abu Risha is now a month past.

Does anyone know who did it? Was there even an investigation?

Lessons From an Anbar Sheik

An Alliance in Deed Only

For the tens of thousands of Iraqis who work for the United States in Iraq, daily life is an elaborate balancing act of small, memorized untruths. Desperate for work of any kind when jobs are extremely hard to come by in Iraq, they do what they must, even though affiliation with the Americans makes them targets.

-In Life of Lies, Iraqis Conceal Work for U.S., By SABRINA TAVERNISE, NYT

Petreaus

Andy Bacevich asks, "Did he do enough?" and concludes that he didn't say what needed to be said, in favor of getting through for another six months and a rosey, theoretical picture of drawdown(s).

Pakistanis at the Edge of the Vortex

Notwithstanding the power shifts coming at the top in Pakistan, the nation seems on the edge of being pulled into the vortex that is terrorist political violence.

The accommodations offered to the tribal regions and the near impossibility for 'moderates' to strike a decisive blow, historically, against the 'extremists', due to many factors, including political and business corruption, extreme poverty, illiteracy, and uneven prosperity, all suggest that worse internecine violence may be yet to come.

It has long been the considered view that a large, moderate base would disallow the nation and its moderately strong institutions from being pull down by any 'extremist' effort. However, this view has to be tempered by the experience of the powerful tools that create vicious cycles, as has been seen in Iraq.

Pakistan's grip on tribal areas is slipping
By Hassan Abbas - Asia Times

The government of President General Pervez Musharraf faces policy failure in the Federally Administered Tribal Areas (FATA) of Pakistan. Taliban forces and their sympathizers are becoming entrenched in the region and are aggressively expanding their influence and operations (especially in Tank, Dera Ismail Khan and Swat Valley in North-West Frontier Province - NWFP).

A lethal combination of Musharraf's political predicament and declining public support, a significant rise in suicide attacks targeting the army, and the reluctance of soldiers in the area to engage tribal gangs militarily, further exacerbates this impasse

It's likely that Pakistan will take its own trajectory, not like Iraq's sectarian-inspired descent or Bosnia's separatism. It may just continue to simmer indefinitely, like an open wound that cannot be properly treated.

As always, the implications are profound:

Pakistan's most unique feature is not its potential as a failed state but the intricate interaction between the physical/political/legal entity known as the state of Pakistan and the idea of the Pakistani nation. Few if any other nation-states are more complex than Pakistan in this respect, with the Pakistani state often operating at cross-purposes with the Pakistani nation. The state has certainly been failing for many years, but the Pakistani nation also is a contested idea, and the tension between them is what makes Pakistan an especially important case. Pakistan has not fulfilled either its potential or the expectations of its founders, but it is too big and potentially too dangerous for the international community to allow it simply to fail. - Stephen P. Cohen, Senior Fellow, Foreign Policy Studies, Brookings, 2002

Regions of Pakistan:

Provinces:

1. Balochistan
2. North-West Frontier Province (NWFP)
3. Punjab
4. Sindh

• Balochistan and NWFP also have Provincially Administered Tribal Areas^[29] (PATA) which are being developed into regular districts.

Territories:

5. Islamabad Capital Territory
6. Federally Administered Tribal Areas

Pakistani-administered portions of Kashmir:

7. Azad Kashmir^[5]
8. Northern Areas^[5]

Mini Battlefield Digest: Afghanistan, week 40

It was not a good week in Afghanistan.

Violence is at an all time high. The first female suicide bomber struck this week. Massive suicide bomb attacks in Kabul in the past week.

The head of NATO suggested that the "hold" portion could not be handled by Afghani military hands, yet. This implies whack-a-mole, as the Coalition Forces alone appear unable to hold all ground cleared. Ceding ground (or worse, ceding the same ground) has profound implications, not just for the overall strategy, but for the whole idea of who is going to fight the struggle within Islam and how. Spain will not send more troops.

The Taliban won't negotiate peace, but are following their own odd rules of engagement, which include "mistakenly kidnapping" and doing other battlefield negotiations, possibly including the infamous taking of prisoners to swap for detainees.

The goals of "build" remain elusive on some reports (comprehensive reporting, is, as ever, not available to mere citizens). Some places report switching opium for marajuana. Women struggle under the Taliban campaign of intimidation. In an area with abjectly low literacy rates, the President is indicating that schooling is the answer to mere religious instruction, although the timeline for such developments is very long, as measured by ISAF deployments.

Battlefield News, Afghanistan

Political Developments

• Spain will not send troops to Afghanistan, while Norway declined putting its troops in combat situations. The UK will deploy a company of Royal Marines Commandos.-Thursday, September 27, 2007
• President Hamid Karzai offered to negotiate with Mullah Omar and said he would give the Taliban a government ministry; the Taliban rejected the offer. The Taliban released its Constitution of the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. -Sunday, September 30, 2007

COIN: Actions, Reactions, Counteractions, etc.

• Reuters: Hard-fought gains by NATO troops this year could be lost in coming months if Afghan forces fail to hold ground seized from the Taliban, the NATO commander in Afghanistan said in an interview broadcast on Thursday-Friday, September 28, 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
• NPR: Building Islamic schools in Afghanistan has become a top priority for Afghan President Hamid Karzai's government as it struggles with the Taliban insurgency.-Wednesday, October 3, 2007
• LATimes: President Hamid Karzai, expressing horror at a suicide bombing here in the capital that killed at least 30 people, offered Saturday to meet with Taliban leader Mullah Mohammed Omar to stop the carnage. [has offered Ministry posts]-Sunday, September 30, 2007
• AP: The Taliban will "never" negotiate with Afghan authorities until U.S. and NATO forces leave the country, a spokesman for the group said Sunday, again rebuffing an overture for peace talks from President Hamid Karzai. -Sunday, September 30, 2007
• Reuters: As Afghanistan struggles to cut its raging opium production, aid workers try to find alternative crops, but for some former poppy farmers the choice was easy -- they planted marijuana instead.-Thursday, September 27, 2007
• CP: Sofia Nawabi studies hard and dreams of running her own business one day. Not so long ago, the 21-year-old Afghan woman couldn't even show her face outside her home, as she does today. To go to school, let alone run a business...-Monday, October 1, 2007

VIOLENCE: Tactical Developments

• AP: Violence in Afghanistan has spiked to its highest level since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion, with an Associated Press count of insurgency-related deaths this year surpassing the 5,000 mark and a U.N. report finding that attacks have risen by 20%.-Tuesday, October 2, 2007
• AP: A burqa-clad woman blew herself up and killed at least 15 people Monday at a crowded police checkpoint in northwestern Pakistan, police said. It was believed to be the first time a female suicide bomber has struck inside the country.-Monday, October 1, 2007
• The Taliban said it mistakenly kidnapped four Red Cross workers, and would release them shortly. A battalion of The Royal Gurkha Rifles has deployed to Helmand.-Friday, September 28, 2007
• The Afghan government negotiated for the release of four captured Red Cross workers; they have been freed from captivity.-Saturday, September 29, 2007
• CanWest: Afghans shouting "Death to Canada" and other slogans blocked a main road in the hotly disputed Zhari District of Kandahar during a protest Wednesday against the rule of President Hamid Karzai and a house-to-house search operation...-Wednesday, September 26, 2007
• The US is offering rewards of $200,000 for mid-level Taliban and al Qaeda leaders, and posting the notices in Afghan villages.-Tuesday, October 2, 2007
• AP: A suicide bomber wearing an Afghan army uniform set off a huge explosion Saturday while trying to board a military bus in the capital, killing 30 people, most of them soldiers, officials said. The Taliban claimed responsibility.-Saturday, September 29, 2007
• The French deployed a squadron of Mirage 2000D air-to-ground fighters at Kandahar Airfield.
• AKI: By Syed Saleem Shahzad - Pakistani Taliban allegedly seized 24 personnel on Monday in a daring raid on the Rocha Frontier Constabulary Fort in the Pakakhail area of Bannu, independent sources told Adnkronos International. -Monday, October 1, 2007

Features:

• Struggle to unite Afghan tribes, one by one- Christian Science Monitor
• Uphill battle to bolster Afghan police- Christian Science Monitor

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Reference

Afghan Provinces:



ISAF (NATO) Commands by Region



Combat strength in Afghanistan: 34,743
American contingent: 15,154

Enemy Casualties, OIF & OEF: Week 40

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

Counted Enemy Casualties, Afghanistan
Counted Captured: 8; Killed: 211; High-value: 2
Wednesday, September 26, 2007; Killed: 169
Helmand	Afghan Army soldiers, backed by advisors, killed 104 Taliban during a battle near Musa Qala Wadi in Helmand province, and NATO forces killed another 65 in a battle in Uruzgan.
Thursday, September 27, 2007; High value: 2
Helmand	Taliban spokesman Yousuf Ahmadi and his brother were captured in Helmand province.
Saturday, September 29, 2007: Captured: 6
Ghazni	Police arrested six Taliban fighters in Ghazni province.
Monday, October 1, 2007: Captured: 2; Killed: 22
Helmand; Nangarhar; Zabul	Two Taliban were killed, one wounded, and six captured in Zabul province. NATO and Afghan forces killed 20 Taliban in Helmand province. Police captured an IED maker in Nangarhar.
by Bill Roggio - Read - Support

Counted Enemy Casualties, IRAQ

Counted Captured: 217; Killed: 45; High-value: 7

Wednesday, September 26, 2007: Captured: 34; Killed: 5; High value: 1

Task Force 88 captured a member of the Special Groups in Baghdad. Five al Qaeda operatives were killed and 34 suspects detained.

Thursday, September 27, 2007: Captured: 35; Killed: 1

Special operations forces killed one Special Groups operative and captured two. Twenty-one al Qaeda operatives were captured in raids throughout the country. US forces captured 12 insurgents in raids near Busayefi and Hawr Rajab.

Friday, September 28, 2007; High value: 1

Special Operations Forces killed Abu Usama al Tunis, a Tunisian al Qaeda in Iraq leader, during a raid in in Musayyib. Al Tunis was the emir of all of al Qaeda in Iraq foreign fighters and was a likely successor to Abu Ayyub al Masri. "Al Tunisi facilitated foreign terrorists and helped equip them for improvised explosive device attacks, car-bombing campaigns and suicide attacks throughout Baghdad," Multinational Forces Iraq stated. [see also 10/1]

Saturday, September 29, 2007: Captured: 27; Killed: 6; High value: 2

Iraqi and US Special Forces captured a Shia extremist brigade leader in New Baghdad. Operations against al Qaeda's network resulted in six killed and 27 wounded. Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured the al Qaeda in Iraq cell leader in Baghdad's Ghazaliyah neighborhood.

Sunday, September 30, 2007: Captured: 35; Killed: 9; High value: 1

Abdel Rahman al Anbari, a senior al Qaeda leader, was captured near Samarra. Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured 16 al Qaeda leaders and fighters in raids nationwide. The Iraqi Army killed seven IED emplacers near Tal Afar. US forces captured 14 al Qaeda operatives in the Rashid District of southern Baghdad. Two al Qaeda operatives were killed and 21 captured during raids in the Tigris River Valley.

Monday, October 1, 2007: Captured: 34; Killed: 7; High value: 1

Al Qaeda in Iraq confirmed the US killed Abu Usama al Tunisi last week. Iraqi Special Operations Forces captured 23 suspected al Qaeda in Iraq operatives. Coalition special forces killed seven al Qaeda operatives and captured 11 during raids in central and northern Iraq.

Tuesday, October 2, 2007: Captured: 10; Killed: 1

Special operations forces raids against al Qaeda in Iraq associates in central and northern Iraq resulted in one operative killed and 10 captured. US soldiers captured five insurgents and destroyed a car bomb during a raid near Salman Pak.

by Bill Roggio - Read - Support

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