Mini Battlefield Digest: Afghanistan, Week 1

n.b. This update covers a period since the last one, much longer than a week.

(Photo:

An Afghan family walks on a snow-covered street in Kabul January 7, 2008. Dozens of people have been killed by heavy snow and freezing weather in recent days in Afghanistan, an official said on Saturday.)

REUTERS/Omar Sobhani


Battlefield News, Afghanistan

Political Developments and Major Campaign Resource Shifts

• NYTimes: Deeply concerned about the prospect of failure in Afghanistan, the Bush administration and NATO have begun three top-to-bottom reviews of the entire mission, from security and counterterrorism to political consolidation and economic development... -Sunday, December 16, 2007
• Roggio: The CENTCOM commander arrived in Kabul to discuss the Afghan strategy. President Karzai will visit Pakistan in late December. -Wednesday, December 19, 2007
• AP: The U.S. military's top officer acknowledged on Tuesday that for all the importance of preventing Afghanistan from again harboring al-Qaida terrorists, Washington's first priority is Iraq. -Tuesday, December 11, 2007
• Roggio: US Secretary of Defense Gates said there would be no troop surge for Afghanistan.-Saturday, December 22, 2007
• NYTimes: As the Bush administration struggles for a way to close the military prison at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, a similar effort to scale down a larger and more secretive American detention center in Afghanistan has been beset by political... -Monday, January 7, 2008
• AP: Estonian lawmakers on Tuesday approved a one-year extension of the Baltic country's military deployment in Afghanistan. The 101-seat Riigikogu, or parliament, supported the government's proposal to keep a maximum 150 troops in Afghanistan through 2008. -Tuesday, December 4, 2007
• AP: The U.S. general in charge of NATO's Afghanistan mission said Wednesday he expects another year of "explosive growth" in the country's poppy fields. -Thursday, January 3, 2008
• AP: Several hundred Pakistani families have fled to neighboring Afghanistan in recent days to escape the turmoil in their country, officials said Wednesday. -Wednesday, January 2, 2008
• AFP: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said yesterday the US-led "war on terror" should be directed at Islamist sanctuaries outside his country which he said was not a "hideout for terrorism" but a victim. -Thursday, December 20, 2007
• reliefweb: The G8 countries are contributing to an improvement in Afghan-Pakistan relations with a joint action plan consisting of 70 different projects. Closer cooperation between these two neighbouring countries is a key factor in enhancing stability... -Friday, December 28, 2007
• csmonitor: A senior United Nations official and the acting head of the European Union's mission in Afghanistan were expelled from the country Thursday after the government accused them of holding talks with the Taliban and giving the group cash... -Thursday, December 27, 2007
• AJC: The United States supports reconciliation talks with Taliban fighters who have no ties to al-Qaida and accept Afghanistan's constitution, U.S. Ambassador William Wood said Thursday. He said the United States is in favor... -Friday, December 28, 2007
• AFP: British intelligence agents held secret talks with Taliban leaders on several occasions this year, the Daily Telegraph newspaper reported Wednesday. Officers from MI6 met senior insurgents in the middle of the year... -Wednesday, December 26, 2007
• AFP: Afghan President Hamid Karzai said in an interview that his war-torn country will need foreign troops for at least another decade. "I believe it will take another 10 years, at least 10 years," he told Bild newspaper when asked... -Friday, December 21, 2007
• AFP: The Netherlands has announced that Dutch troops will leave Afghanistan from July 2010: a decision that may have implications for Australia's commitment there -Wednesday, December 19, 2007
• AFP : Taliban supreme leader Mullah Omar vowed Tuesday to keep fighting throughout the winter and attack Afghan and international troops who drove his forces from a southern town last week. -Tuesday, December 18, 2007
• WaPo: U.S. officials fear that a renewed campaign by Islamic militants aimed at the Pakistani government, and based along the border with Afghanistan, would complicate U.S. policy in the region by effectively merging the six-year-old war... -Saturday, December 29, 2007
• KUNA: French President Nicolas Sarkozy, who arrived here on a surprise visit Saturday morning, held talks with Afghan counterpart Hamid Karzai and assured his country would increase presence in Afghanistan, the presidential palace said. -Saturday, December 22, 2007
• AP: Shifting tactics, Defense Secretary Robert Gates said Friday that the Bush administration has decided to tone down its appeals to NATO allies for more troops and other aid in the fight against the Taliban insurgency in Afghanistan. -Saturday, December 15, 2007
• CP: The Foreign Affairs Department has developed plans to keep a Canadian provincial reconstruction base in Kandahar until at least 2015, federal officials say. -Thursday, December 13, 2007

COIN: Actions, Reactions, Counteractions, etc.

• Roggio: Additional mine resistant armored vehicles, known as MRAPs, are bound for Afghanistan. -Saturday, December 22, 2007
• BBC: With Afghanistan's fledgling national police deeply unpopular and insufficient in number to impose control in many areas of the country, Western diplomats and commanders have been exploring what they term "Afghan solutions"... -Friday, December 28, 2007
• AKI/DAWN: Warplanes bombed the suspected locations of militants in the lawless South Waziristan tribal area on Thursday after an intelligence report said that the militant Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan chief Baitullah Mehsud was hiding somewhere in the area. -Friday, January 4, 2008
• CanWest: Weapons are being smuggled to Taliban insurgents from Afghanistan's neighbours, but there is no clear evidence that the Iranian government is complicit, a high-ranking ISAF commander said Sunday. -Sunday, December 30, 2007
• CanWest: Taliban insurgents are depending more on foreign fighters because of increased difficulties recruiting locals, Canadian Brig.-Gen. Marquis Hainse said Sunday. -Sunday, December 30, 2007
• AFP: A key Taliban commander reportedly kicked out of the militia believes the dismissal order is a conspiracy against him and has not been signed off by Taliban leader Mullah Omar, his spokesman said Sunday. -Sunday, December 30, 2007
  
• AFP: More than 200 militants were killed in last month's major operation to retake the southern Taliban stronghold of Musa Qala, the Afghan defence ministry said Thursday. Seventeen Taliban commanders were among the dead following the military operation... -Thursday, January 3, 2008
• CanWest: The death rate among Canadian soldiers fighting around Kandahar has outstripped not only that of U.S. and British troops in Afghanistan, but Americans in the bloody Iraq war as well, the forces' figures indicate. -Thursday, January 3, 2008
• UPI: A multi-day operation by Afghan and coalition forces has resulted in the removal of a militant command hub in Yakhdan, Afghanistan. -Wednesday, January 2, 2008
• AP: U.S. military deaths, suicide bombings and opium production hit record highs in 2007...But U.S. officials here insist things are looking up: The Afghan army is assuming a larger combat role, and militants appear unlikely to mount a major... -Tuesday, January 1, 2008
• AP: Taliban militants killed more than 925 Afghan police, and large swaths of the country remain outside government control. -Tuesday, January 1, 2008
• GlobeandMail: Roughly a quarter of the prisoners interviewed in Afghan jails as part of Canada's follow-up inspections of transferred detainees said they were tortured or abused, according to documents filed in Federal Court and the statements of senior... -Thursday, December 20, 2007
• IRIN: Children are being recruited and in some cases sexually abused by the Afghan police and/or various militias that support the police, as well as by private security companies and the Taliban, according to human rights and provincial officials. -Wednesday, December 19, 2007
• NPR: Secretary of Defense Robert Gates and Chairman of Joint Chiefs Admiral Mike Mullen testified before the House Armed Services on military strategy in Afghanistan. Both officials believe there is cautious reason for optimism in Afghanistan. -Wednesday, December 12, 2007
• AP: U.S. troop levels in Afghanistan have peaked this year at about 26,000, as officials tried to push NATO countries to take on more security responsibility, while keeping enough U.S. forces there to counter the stubborn insurgency -Thursday, December 13, 2007
• canwest: Canadian Force engineers are planning to build a new forward operating base in Arghandab, a strategically-vital district north of Kandahar City and the site of fierce fighting between coalition forces and the Taliban this fall. -Sunday, December 16, 2007

VIOLENCE: Tactical Developments

• AP: Taliban militants fired rocket-propelled grenades from their vehicles at a convoy of private security guards on Afghanistan's main highway, killing six guards and two police officers, a police chief said Sunday. -Sunday, December 30, 2007
• AP: Eight Afghans who ate an infected camel as part of a religious celebration died of what health experts suspect is a rare case of naturally occurring anthrax, officials said Saturday. -Sunday, December 30, 2007
• AFP: Sixteen policemen were killed when their post in the southern province of Kandahar -- a hotbed of Taliban activities -- was attacked by Islamic rebels on Saturday, the interior ministry said. -Monday, December 31, 2007
• AFP: Similar bomb attacks killed five Afghan soldiers -- one of them in eastern Paktia on Monday and four others in southern Uruzgan a day earlier, the defence ministry said in a statement. -Monday, December 31, 2007
• paktribune: A paratrooper who was shot in Afghanistan has become the first tetraplegic to return to duty. Sgt David "Paddy" Caldwell was directing mortar fire from a rooftop in Sangin in August last year when a Taliban bullet passed through his neck. -Sunday, December 30, 2007
• paktribune: The International Federation of Journalists (IFJ) is concerned by the killing of Abdul Munir, the producer and presenter of Afghanistan Radio Television in Jawzjan...while he was travelling from Jawzjan to Mazar-e-Sharif -Saturday, January 5, 2008

• CP: A rocket landed in a crowd near Kabul's police headquarters Saturday, and a truck full of rockets exploded nearby moments later, killing at least five people. Officials say at least five others were wounded. -Saturday, December 22, 2007
• LATimes: Striking on one of the year's most important Muslim holidays, a suicide bomber killed at least 50 people and injured dozens more this morning near the home of a former government minister in volatile northwest Pakistan, police said. -Friday, December 21, 2007
• CP: A surprise raid on some 70 sleeping insurgents early yesterday in the volatile Zhari-Panjwaii district has been described as a short-term success, but a Canadian commander said boosting Afghan government forces is the key to long-term security. -Tuesday, December 18, 2007
• AFP: A SECOND NATO soldier was killed overnight as Afghan and international troops advanced on the southern town of Musa Qala, which the Taliban has controlled for the past 10 months, defence forces said. -Sunday, December 9, 2007
• AP: A suicide bomber rammed his explosives-laden car into a minibus full of Afghan soldiers south of Kabul on Wednesday, killing at least 13 people and wounding 20, officials and witnesses said. -Wednesday, December 5, 2007

US Military Justice/Violence/Casualty

• AP: A former Marine testified Tuesday that he thinks Afghans were killed needlessly by his special operations unit after its convoy was attacked by a car bomb. -Tuesday, January 8, 2008
• BBC: The US Marine Corps has opened a special tribunal into the deaths of Afghan civilians last March. As many as 19 Afghan civilians were allegedly killed when marines opened fire in Nangarhar province after their convoy was attacked by a car bomb. -Monday, January 7, 2008

Economic Developments, Reconstruction, and General Good News

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Enemy Casualty Lists: Week 1, Year 7

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

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

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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

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 1

NO HOLIDAY FOR VIOLENCE

These lists were meant to get around the summary statistics and reliance on general trends. However, at the turn of the year, we can show some summary statistics.

The U.S. took half the coalition fatalities in Afghanistan (Afghan Army/police are not included): US, 117; non-US: 115; Total 232. The wounded for 2007 are still being tallied / released. The figure will be around 600.

In Iraq, the U.S. had 901 of 957 fatalities in 2007. The wounded figure will probably come close to 6,000.

I'm not remarking "trends" here. The fact is, every week, if not every year, the battle and policy continues to be lethal - and none of these names should be ignored as "acceptable losses", as we stretch into another year of 'stabilization'.

Note: These figures cover a period longer than a week, going back to the last update.

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Hometown
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Name Not Released Yet	U.S. Army	n.a.
	Not reported yet, Multi-National Division - North
	Salah Ad Din Province; 08-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Name Not Released Yet	U.S. Army	n.a.
	Not reported yet, Multi-National Division -North
	Salah Ad Din Province; 08-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Name Not Released Yet	U.S. Army	n.a.
	Not reported yet, Multi-National Division - North
	Salah Ad Din Province; 08-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Timothy R. Hanson, 23	U.S. Army	Kenosha, WI
	Private 1st Class, 1st BN, 15th Infantry Reg, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division
	Salman Pak; 07-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	James D. Gudridge, 20	U.S. Army	Carthage, NY
	Specialist, 4th BN, 64th Armor Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division
	Baghdad (southern part); 06-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Jason F. Lemke, 30	U.S. Army	West Allis, WI
	Private 1st Class, 2nd BN, 23rd Infantry Reg, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division
	Ibrahim Al Adham; 05-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Menelek M. Brown, 24	U.S. Navy	Roswell, NM
	Petty Officer 2nd Class, USS Hopper
	Arabian Gulf; 04-Jan-08; Non-hostile - drowning
	Andrew J. Olmsted, 37	U.S. Army	Colorado Springs, CO
	Major, Military Transition Team, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division
	Sadiyah; 03-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Thomas J. Casey, 32	U.S. Army	Albuquerque, NM
	Captain, Military Transition Team, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division
	Sadiyah; 03-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Ryan D. Maseth, 24	U.S. Army	Pittsburgh, PA
	Staff Sergeant, 1st Battalion, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
	Baghdad; 02-Jan-08; Non-hostile
	Joshua R. Anderson, 24	U.S. Army	Jordan, MN
	Private 1st Class, 6th Squadron, 8th Cavalry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division
	Kamasia; 02-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Reno S. Lacerna, 44	U.S. Army	Waipahu, HI
	Sergeant, 87th Corps Support BN, 3rd Sustainment Brigade, 3rd Infantry Division
	Qayyarah; 31-Dec-07; Non-hostile - illness
	Victor W. Jeffries, 52	U.S. Navy	Honolulu, HI
	Petty Officer 1st Class, Navy Expeditionary Logistics Support Group
	Kuwait; 31-Dec-07; Non-hostile
	Joseph R. Berlin Jr., 21	U.S. Army	Chelsea, AL
	Private 1st Class, Special Troops BN, 4th Infantry Division
	Baghdad; 30-Dec-07; Non-hostile - injury
	Rowdy J. Inman, 38	U.S. Army	Panorama Village, TX
	Captain, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Reg, III Corps
	Mosul; 26-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Benjamin B. Portell, 27	U.S. Army	Bakersfield, CA
	Sergeant, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Reg, III Corps
	Mosul; 26-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Bryan J. Tutten, 33	U.S. Army	St. Augustine, FL
	Sergeant, 1st Squadron, 73rd Cavalry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Divi
	Balad; 25-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Peter C. Neesley, 28	U.S. Army	Grosse Pointe Farms, MI
	Sergeant, 3rd Squadron, 7th Cavalry Reg\, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Divis
	Baghdad; 25-Dec-07; Non-hostile - unspecified cause
	George J. Howell, 24	U.S. Army	Salinas, CA
	Private 1st Class, 1st BN, 87th Infantry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Light Infantry) 10th Infantry Division
	Riyadh (near Hawijah); 21-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Jeremy E. Ray, 26	U.S. Army	Houston, TX
	1st Lieutenant, 1st Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
	Kanaan; 20-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - suicide bomber

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ISAF-AFGHANISTAN

------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Country
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Michael L. Green, 36	U.S. Army	Chagrin Falls, OH
	Major, Headquarters, V Corps
	Laghar Juy - Nangarhar Province; 07-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	James K. Healy, 25	U.S. Army	Hesperia, CA
	Sergeant, 703rd Explosive Ordnance Detachment
	Jalalabad Airfield; 07-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Hani Massouh, 41	Canadian Army	Alexandria, Egypt-Canada
	Warrant Officer, 2e Bataillon, Royal 22e Regiment
	Nangalam (Nuristan province); 06-Jan-08; Non-hostile - vehicle accident
	Éric Labbé, 31	Canadian Army	Rimouski-Canada
	Corporal, 2e Bataillon, Royal 22e Regiment
	Nangalam (Nuristan province); 06-Jan-08; Non-hostile - vehicle accident
	Shawn F. Hill, 37	U.S. Army National Guard	Wellford, SC
	Sergeant, 178th Engineer BN, 218th Infantry Brigade, South Carolina Army National Guard
	Khowst Province; 02-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Brian Gorham, 23	U.S. Army	Woodburn, KY
	Specialist, 173rd Airborne Brigade
	San Antonio, Texas (wounded in Kamu); 31-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Jonathan Dion, 27	Canadian Army	n.a.-Canada
	Gunner, Regiment d'artillerie Royal du Canada
	Zhari district (20 kilometres west of Kandahar City); 30-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Nicholas D. Eischen, 24	U.S. Air Force	Sanger, CA
	Senior Airman, 60th Medical Operations Squadron
	Bagram Air Base; 24-Dec-07; Non-hostile

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 154 this week; 271 last week; 307 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 45 this week; 71 last week; 159 prior week.
Tuesday 8 January: 18 dead
Afghanistan:	Two police and two civilians were killed in an IED attack in the Nadi Ali district in Helmand province. A suicide bomber wounded five policemen in Spin Boldak in Kandahar province. T
Baghdad:	gunmen kill interior ministry officer, Zaafaraniya; gunmen kill deputy of tax dept., Mansour; head of Yarmouk council is killed by bomb in his car; suicide bomber kills 2 policemen, Madaen; suicide bomber kills 2 policemen at checkpoint, Salman Pak; 5 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul:	3 bodies.
Shura:	roadside bomb kills civilian.
Wassit
Kut:	lawyer is killed in crossfire when fighting erupts between police and gunmen.
Diyala
Jalawla:	woman killed by roadside bomb.
Monday 7 January: 48 dead
Baghdad:	suicide bombers target Awakening members, kill 14 (including the leader of neighbourhood patrols and his son) in two explosions, Adhamiya; bomb inside a vendor's cart kills 4, Karrada; roadside bomb kills another civilian, Jadriya; mortars kill 2, Sadr City; 7 bodies.
Diyala
Buhriz:	gunmen kill Awakening member.
Baquba:	Awakening member is killed during clashes.
Khanaqeen:	5 bodies of men from the same family found.
Ninewa
Mosul:	2 bodies.
Anbar
Baghdadi:	suicide bomber kills 4 Awakening members.
Kirkuk
Abo Saif:	gunmen kill 2 -brother and sister.
Hawija:	gunmen kill 3 -father, mother and son.
Salahuddin
Samarra:	gunmen kill Awakening member (a carpenter) inside his shop.
Babil
Latifiya:	gunmen kill Awakening member on patrol at checkpoint.
Sunday 6 January: 26 dead
Baghdad:	up to 8 civilians reported killed by suicide bomber during Army Day celebrations, Karrada; car bomb kills 4 outside restaurant, Qahira; gunmen kill Awakening leader outside his house, Shaab; roadside bomb kills another civilian, Nahda; 6 bodies.
Diyala
Baquba:	sheikh and his wife reported killed by gunmen who attack their home and kidnap 13 members of their family.
Ninewa
Mosul:	gunmen attack police station, kill 1; body of kidnapped person found.
Rabee'a:	US planes bomb car, kill driver -it is the 13th civilian killed by US forces so far in January.
Wassit
Kut:	body found.
Saturday 5 January: 28 dead
Baghdad:	12 bodies.
Diyala
Khanaqeen:	roadside bomb blows up minibus, kills 6 (5 adults and 1 child).
Baquba:	roadside bomb kills 1.
Muqdadiya:	5 heads found.
Northern Diyala:	Gunmen kill lorry driver
Anbar
Falluja:	gunmen kill tribal chief.
Ninewa
Mosul:	US forces open fire and kill civilian, after their patrol is targeted by roadside bomb. It is the 12th Iraqi civilian killed by US fire this month.
Kirkuk
Sargaran:	man's body is found.
Friday 4 January: 4 dead
Baghdad:	2 bodies.
Babil
Jurf al-Sakhar:	civilian killed in drive-by shooting.
Basra
Basra:	shepherd blown up by landmine.
Thursday 3 January: 34 dead
Afghanistan:	Seven Afghan police and an Indian engineer were killed after a Taliban suicide-bomber detonated near their convoy in Nimroz province; 11 policeman and an Indian road worker were wounded.
Baghdad:	roadside bomb kills 3, Zaafaraniya; missile kills 1, Washash; 2 street sweepers killed by roadside bomb, New Baghdad; US forces kill civilian during raid, al-Horiya; 3 bodies.
Diyala
Zaghaniya:	roadside bomb kills policeman.
Baquba:	US forces kill civilian crossing the street.
Ghalhiya:	US forces open fire on car, kill 2 civilians.
Khalis:	roadside bomb kills 2 policemen.
Morjana:	2 bodies (father and son) found.
Ninewa
Mosul:	policeman killed in clashes; 3 policemen killed by mortars on police checkpoint; gunmen kill civilian; 3 (father and 2 children) shot dead by US forces after roadside bomb explodes next to their patrol.
Tal Afar:	US forces kill 2 (one of them a child), after roadside bomb explosion.
Irbil
Irbil:	4 family members shot dead at home by peshmerga fighter.
Wassit
Wahda:	athlete's body found.
Basra
Basra:	woman's body found.
Wednesday 2 January: 32 dead
Baghdad:	6 family members (5 of them children) shot dead in minibus; 3 bodies.
Diyala
Baquba:	suicide bomber kills 10 at police checkpoint.
Muqdadiya:	gunmen kill 6.
Abu Sayda:	roadside bomb kills 1.
Salahuddin
Samarra:	city official shot dead.
3 killed in clashes.
Ninewa
Mosul:	policeman killed in clashes.
Wassit
Kut:	gunmen kill policeman.

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

Name	Date
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

At the Holidays

A special prayer for all those with an empty place at the table this season, on the eve of year 6 of OIF and OEF

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 51

This update covers all since the last (Dec 5th), which is a period longer than a week.

IBC repors "10 mass graves have been found in the last 2 months containing 206 bodies."

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Hometown
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Juctin R. P. Mcdaniel, 19	U.S. Army	Andover, NH
	Private 1st Class, 524th Combat Service Support BN, 45th Sustainment Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command
	Taji (Camp Taji); 17-Dec-07; Non-hostile - injury
	Austin D. Pratt, 22	U.S. Army	Cadet, MO
	Sergeant, 2nd BN, 30th Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, (Light Infantry) 10th Mountain Division
	Baghdad (Died in Balad); 15-Dec-07; Non-hostile
	Jonathan A. Lowery, 38	U.S. Army	Houlton, ME
	Sergeant 1st Class, 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment, III Corps
	Mosul; 14-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Daren A. Smith, 19	U.S. Army	Helena, MT
	Private, 3rd Squadron, 89th Cavalry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, (Light Infantry) 10th Mountain Division
	Baghdad; 13-Dec-07; Non-hostile
	Samuel E. Kelsey, 24	U.S. Army	Troup, TX
	Sergeant, 3rd BN, 7th Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division
	Tunis; 13-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Brynn J. Naylor, 21	U.S. Army	Roswell, NM
	Specialist, 2nd BN, 12th Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division
	Baghdad (southern part); 13-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Stephen Ferguson, 31	British Army	Lanarkshire-UK
	Guardsman, 1st Battalion The Scots Guards
	Selly Oak Hospital, Birmingham, England; 13-Dec-07; Non-hostile - vehicle accident
	Mark T. Carter, 27	U.S. Navy	Fallbrook, CA
	Chief Petty Officer, Navy SEAL
	Iraq - details not released; 11-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire
	Johnathan A. Lahmann, 21	U.S. Army	Richmond, IN
	Specialist, 59th Engineer Company, 20th Engineer BN, 36th Engineer Brigade
	Baiji; 10-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack (suicide vehic
	Randy W. Pickering, 31	U.S. Army	Bovey, MN
	Specialist, Regimental Support Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Reg, 1st Armored Division
	Baghdad; 09-Dec-07; Non-hostile

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ISAF-AFGHANISTAN

------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Country
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Joshua C. Blaney, 25	U.S. Army	Matthews, NC
	Corporal, 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade
	Forward Operating Base Curry; 12-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Michael J. Gabel, 30	U.S. Army	Crowley, LA
	Staff Sergeant, 1st Battalion, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade
	Forward Operating Base Curry; 12-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Gregory L. Elam, 39	U.S. Army	Columbus, GA
	Staff Sergeant, 54th Quartermaster Company, 49th Quartermaster Group, 101st Airborne Division (Air Assault)
	Kandahar; 11-Dec-07; Non-Hostile - Illness
	Tanner J. O'Leary, 23	U.S. Army	Eagle Butte, SD
	Corporal, 1st BN, 508th Parachute Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
	Musa Quala; 09-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Lee Johnson, 33	British Army	Stockton-on-Tees-UK
	Sergeant, 2nd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment (Green Howards)
	Musa Quala (Helmand Province); 08-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 254 this week; 271 last week; 307 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 84 this week; 71 last week; 159 prior week.
Tuesday 18 December: 50 dead
Diyala
Baquba:	suicide car bomber kills 2 policemen.
Abbara:	suicide bomber kills 17 in cafe.
Ninewa
Mosul:	gunmen kill 4; roadside bomb kills 2.
Sinjar:	gunmen attack home of Yazidi family, kill 7.
Hadar:	gunmen kill 6 men guarding oil pipeline.
Anbar
Falluja:	US forces shoot and kill 15-year-old driving too close to US army vehicle.
Monday 17 December: 41 dead
Baghdad:	roadside bomb kills 2, Palestine St.; roadside bomb kills 1, Mohammed al-Qasim; roadside bomb kills 2, Karrada; 9 bodies.
Salahuddin
Baiji:	2 policemen killed in clashes.
Dhuluiya:	body found.
Mosul:	suicide truck bomber kills 1 on bridge; US forces shoot and kill civilian after roadside bomb attack on their convoy.
Diyala
Baquba:	gunmen kill 3 in market; 6 bodies.
Balad Ruz:	bomb kills 7.
Mansouriyah:	mortars kill civilian.
Basra:	gunmen kill civilian.
Anbar
Sunday 16 December: 30 dead
Baghdad:	3 bodies.
Diyala:	al-Qaeda attack on villages kills 17 residents.
Karbala:	roadside bomb kills 2 policemen.
Balad Ruz:	2 killed in separate incidents.
Mosul:	Awakening member killed in clashes.
Qalat Diza:	2 killed in Turkish air attacks.
Jalawla:	gunmen kill mayor and companion.
Dojma:	policeman killed in clashes with al-Qaeda fighters.
Baquba:	31 unidentified bodies are buried
Saturday 15 December: 25 dead
Baghdad:	6 killed in bomb attacks and gunfire, New Baghdad, Adhamiya, Bayaa; 4 bodies.
Karbala:	2 children are blown up by cluster bomb left over from 2003 invasion.
Diyala:	3 policemen killed battling insurgents.
Dhuluiya:	Awakening member shot dead at checkpoint.
Al-Biaaj:	Awakening member killed during battle with al-Qaeda forces.
Hdid:	4 bodies.
Mosul:	4 bodies.
Friday 14 December: 4 dead
Baghdad:	2 bodies.
Hayakel:	policeman's body found.
Kirkuk:	man killed in drive-by shooting.
Thursday 13 December: 28 dead
Baghdad:	gunmen kill contractor, Mansour; car bomb kills civilian, Waziriya; 3 bodies.
Shaqraq:	5 (mother and her 4 children) killed in US shelling of village.
Mosul:	gunmen kill woman who ran beauty salon; gunmen kill 4 policemen; 2 policemen killed in clashes with insurgents.
Baquba:	gunmen kill woman; 4 bodies.
Khan Bani Saad:	woman killed by roadside bomb.
Hit:	suicide car bomber kills 2 policemen.
Dour:	2 bodies.
Hawija:	body found.
Wednesday 12 December: 80 dead
Baghdad:	car bomb kills 5, Ghadeer; 2 security forces killed in clashes with insurgents; 5 bodies.
Amara:	28 reported killed in 3 car bomb explosions.
Saydiya:	gunmen kill headmaster and teacher inside school.
Baquba:	2 civilians killed during gunbattle; 3 bodies.
Kirkuk:	roadside bomb kills civilian.
Hit:	suicide bomber blows up car on bridge, kills 5.
Iskandariya:	Awakening council member dies in US shelling.
Khanaqeen:	4 killed by roadside bombs.
Balad:	woman killed by US fire during raid.
Latifiya:	2 bodies.
Mahaweel:	2 bodies.
Dour:	policeman's body found.
Muqdadiya:	mass grave containing 16 bodies (12 decapitated) is found.

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

Name	Date
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

Gives New Meaning to Being "In Country"

WE ARE NOT COWBOYS ...

Oh, my, worse than cowboys, apparently, for some:

Last week, Rep. Ted Poe (R-TX) said on CNN that he did not believe that gang rape in Iraq of former Halliburton/KBR employee Jamie Leigh Jones was “an isolated case of assault.” Poe then encouraged “other victims” to notify his office.

In his prepared testimony for the House Judiciary Committee today, Poe said that his office had been contacted by three women other than Ms. Jones about sexual assaults they sustained while working for KBR in Iraq: -via ThinkProgress

Also:

5th Trial in Iraqi Rape Case Drags On

As Good As It Gets?

Charles at Obsidian Wings finds encouragement in the numbers from Iraq on deaths, suggesting also that they have political consequences for Democrats (who refuse credit and cling to defeat), served with a side-dish of Iranian meddling.

He's only got the beginnings of the story, our just part of the outline.

VIOLENCE NOT A PROXY FOR SURGE, IN THIS CASE

We don't have a true picture of how well new tactics are working. Instead, the overall figures reflect Iraqi's willingness to stop the violence spiral, not American's First seen in al-anbar, in moves unrelated to the surge, and then with Muqtada and his hudna (truce), which continues but could be lifted at any time.

CORRUPTION

The enemies of stability include corruption, both in Afghanistan and in Iraq. This suggests that gains from the surge cannot be consolidated politically, or will take a very long time as political battles are settled.

VIOLENCE AND STOP GAPS

Violence, arguably, continues at levels that are unacceptably high. There is a cumulative impact of violence, too, in counterinsurgency. It's not just what happened last month ... There are some 60,000 people in administrative detention in Iraq, reportedly, as well, from all the sweeps for al-qa'ida.

We continue on a pace of losing ten or more soldiers a week, to bring stability to these parts, and circa 300 a month wounded. Most all Lieutenants in all the areas where COPS are functioning end their talks with reporters by saying that what is most needed, even five years into the effort, are Iraqis to take over.

IRAN, FORESEEABLE, NOT AN EXCUSE FOR DELAY OR FAILURE

It's not conceivable, to me, that Iran would just stand by and NOT try to meddle. Why we are so shocked and appalled that they have done it, when our own CIA does it all the time, including even in this decade in Venezuela, by most reckonings? Their negative involvement ought to have been anticipated, in any plan to stabilize the country with a minimal number of troops.

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 49

I will update the missing names when they become available from DoD.

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Hometown
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Adam P Snyder	U.S. Army	Fort Pierce, FL
	Captain, Multi-National Division - North
	Salah ad Din Province; 05-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Eric J Hernandez	U.S. Army	Waldwick, NJ
	Seagrent, Multi-National Division - North
	Tikrit; 04-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Dewayne L White	U.S. Army	Country Club Hills, IL
	Private, Multi-National Division – North
	Tikrit; 04-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Kyle Dayton, 22	U.S. Army	El Dorado Hills, CA
	Sergeant, 2nd BN, 504th Parachute Infantry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborn
	Ashwah; 03-Dec-07; Non-hostile - vehicle accident
	Matthew K. Reece, 24	U.S. Army	Harrison, AR
	Specialist, 1st BN, 504th Parachute Infantry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
	Baghdad (eastern part); 01-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Blair William Emery, 24	U.S. Army	Lee, ME
	Corporal, 504th Military Police BN, 42nd Military Police Brigade
	Baqubah; 30-Nov-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
	Jack Sadler, 21	British Army	Devon-UK
	Trooper, Honourable Artillery Company
	Sangin (Helmand Province); 04-Dec-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Mark Visholm, 21	Royal Danish Army	n.a.-Denmark
	Konstabel, 5. Spejdereskadron fra Gardehusarregimentet
	Upper Gereshk Valley; 29-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire
	Casper Alexander Cramer, 21	Royal Danish Army	n.a.-Denmark
	Konstabel, 5. Spejdereskadron fra Gardehusarregimentet
	Upper Gereshk Valley; 29-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 226 this week; 271 last week; 307 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 75 this week; 71 last week; 159 prior week.
Wednesday 5 December: 41 dead
Afghanistan:	A suicide bomber killed 12 and wounded dozens in an attack in Kabul. ISAF confirmed it killed Taliban senior commander Mullah Ikhalas in a strike in the Musa Qala district of Helmand province.
Baghdad:	car bomb kills 18, Karrada; 4 bodies.
Baquba:	car bomb kills 6; another civilian dies in separate bombing.
Kirkuk:	car bomb kills 3.
Mosul:	bombs kill 4.
Kut:	gunmen kill sheikh.
Asriya:	roadside bomb kills civilian.
Tuz Khurmato:	gunmen kill policeman.
Muqdadiya:	gunmen kill policeman.
Dhuluiya:	body found.
Tuesday 4 December: 26 dead
Afghanistan:	Twenty-two civilians were wounded after a suicide bomber targeted an ISAF column in Kabul.
Baghdad:	6 bodies.
Jalawla:	suicide bomber kills 8 at police station.
Mosul:	4 killed in separate incidents; 3 bodies.
Mahaweel:	2 bodies.
Monday 3 December: 27 dead
Afghanistan:	A suicide bomber killed four near a construction site. While a vast majority of Afghans support the Coalition and ISAF efforts, support for the Taliban has grown in Helmand and Kandahar provinces. [Roggio]
Baghdad:	3 killed in separate incidents, 1 by US forces; 5 bodies.
Mosul:	gunmen kill 4 policemen; bomb kills another policeman; 2 bodies.
Kirkuk:	Hawija council member is shot dead with his driver; 4 bodies.
Baquba:	violence in surrounding villages kills 3.
Samarra:	headmaster is shot dead.
Basra:	academic is shot dead.
Hashimiya:	gunmen kill policeman.
Sunday 2 December: 22 dead
Baghdad:	policeman is killed in drive-by shooting, Mansour; bomb under politician's car kills driver, Utaifiya; roadside bomb kills 2 policemen, Mansour; 6 bodies.
Al-bu Aziz:	3 women killed after refusing to marry al-Qaeda men.
Ramadi:	suicide bomber kills 4.
Riyadh:	gunmen kill 4 policemen.
Saturday 1 December: 63 dead
Baghdad:	car and roadside bombs kill 5, Shaab, Salman Pak, Rashid; 5 bodies.
Duwaila:	al-Qaeda attack leaves 16 villagers dead, including 3 children.
Mosul:	gunmen kill 2 policemen; 8 bodies.
Lihaib (near Falluja):	mass grave containing 20 bodies found.
Friday 30 November: 17 dead
Baghdad:	3 bodies.
Hibhib:	mortars kill 3.
Kirkuk:	gunmen kill 2.
Baquba:	roadside bomb kills 3.
Iskandariya:	3 killed in al-Qaeda attack.
Dhuluiya:	suicide bomber kills police captain as he is about to arrest him.
Muqdadiya:	man killed by gunmen.
Khalis:	policeman killed in al-Qaeda attack.
Thursday 29 November: 30 dead
Afghanistan:	Four civilians were killed and eight wounded during bombings in Kandahar province.
Baghdad:	roadside bomb kills 1, Shaab; 6 bodies.
Al-Salam:	mortars kill 12.
Okashat:	2 policemen killed in battle with gunmen near Syrian border.
Bamo:	roadside bomb kills policeman.
Tikrit:	gunmen kill Sheikh's son.
Hawija:	gunmen attack mayor's convoy, kill guard.
Shirqat:	car bomb kills 4 policemen.

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

Name	Date
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