Mini Mini Battlefield Digest: Iraq, Week 46

notes:

Army reports mortar attacks are way down, confirming the speculation here about overall number of attacks on coalition forces based on wounded figures.

Lots of roadside bombs going off.

Targeted violence is hardly low: policemen, academics, and all aspects of reconciliation and leadership.

The scheduled pullout of troops is coming from the North, which is surprising, as that seems to be where a great deal of the violence today is centered, rather than Baghdad.

Developments in the Blackwater investigation may further throw the security situation into question, causing concern for the volunteers that allowed the State Department to delayed its directed assignments tactic.

Battlefield News, Iraq

Political Developments and Major Campaign Resource Shifts

• WaPo: The U.S. effort to organize nearly 70,000 local fighters to solidify security gains in Iraq is facing severe political and logistical challenges as U.S.-led forces struggle to manage the recruits and the central government resists... -Monday, November 12, 2007
• Roggio: Al Qaeda killed a tribal leader in the Diyala Awakening movement and two others in a suicide attack north of Khalis. -Friday, November 9, 2007
• Roggio: Over 340 Karbala police were fired. A Sadrist leader was detained in Diwaniyah. -Sunday, November 11, 2007
• AAP: The head of police intelligence in Iraq's Karbala province has been detained after roadside bombs and other weapons were found in a raid on his house, a police spokesman said on Sunday. -Sunday, November 11, 2007
• Xinhua: Unidentified gunmen shot dead a member of the provincial council of Nineveh in the provincial capital of Mosul on Tuesday, a police source said. "Aref Yousif Qunber, the Nineveh council member and chairman of the council's culture..." -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• Guardian: Four Turkish soldiers were killed in clashes with Kurdistan Workers' Party (PKK) guerrillas yesterday and Turkey sent hundreds of anti-terrorism special forces to the troubled region bordering Iraq. -Tuesday, November 13, 2007
• NPR: Sunni tribal leaders from Iraq's Anbar province, who have joined the fight against al-Qaida, are demanding greater recognition and support from the Shiite-dominated government in Baghdad. -Tuesday, November 13, 2007
• MCT: The U.S. government is ''unforgivably slow'' in resettling Iraqi refugees and has failed to coordinate with its Arab allies to address the suffering of an estimated 4.5 million displaced Iraqis, according to a report released Tuesday... -Tuesday, November 13, 2007
• Reuters: The U.S. military is sending 3,000 soldiers home from Diyala province, the second large unit to leave Iraq -Tuesday, November 13, 2007
• AFP: A top parliamentarian from radical Shiite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's political bloc on Tuesday called for the dissolution of Iraq's parliament and the holding of fresh legislative elections. -Tuesday, November 13, 2007
• LATimes: Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday prodded U.S. officials to hand over three former aides of Saddam Hussein who have been condemned for their role in a campaign that killed as many as 180,000 Kurds. -Monday, November 12, 2007
• WaPo: During an address in which he described the changes in Iraqi security as "remarkable" and pronounced the country "revived," Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki on Sunday announced his latest push for an amnesty program for insurgents... -Monday, November 12, 2007
• Reuters: The quantity of Iranian bomb-making components being found in Iraq is increasing despite a fall in attacks and 20 Iranian-trained agents are still operating south of Baghdad, a top U.S. general said on Sunday. -Sunday, November 11, 2007

COIN: Actions, Reactions, Counteractions, etc.

• AP: Rocket and mortar attacks in Iraq have decreased to their lowest levels in more than 21 months, the U.S. military said Monday. -Monday, November 12, 2007
• NYTimes: [Police Academy barracks barely functional] More than a year after the Parsons Corporation, the American contracting giant, promised Congress that it would fix the disastrous plumbing and shoddy construction in barracks the company built at the Baghdad police academy... -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• KUNA: A case of cholera has been identified at Dar El-Hanan (care house) for the Severely Handicapped, but no deaths have resulted, said the Health Ministry's General Inspector Dr. Adel Mohsen on Wednesday. -Wednesday, November 14, 2007
• CBS4: According to a recent CBS4 I-team investigation, tens of thousands of weapons, paid for by the U S government are missing, weapons that were supposed to go to Iraq but are now unaccounted for. -Tuesday, November 13, 2007
• AP: [Intimidation feeds flight] The Shiite militia's threat came in a typed letter tossed at Mohammed Abdul-Wahab's door: "Leave this house within 48 hours or you will face death." -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• NYTimes: Federal agents investigating the Sept. 16 episode in which Blackwater security personnel shot and killed 17 Iraqi civilians have found that at least 14 of the shootings were unjustified and violated deadly-force rules in effect for security contractors... -Wednesday, November 14, 2007
• AP: The State Department says enough diplomats have volunteered for transfer to the U.S. Embassy in Iraq to let it delay the act of forcing people to serve in the combat zone. -Tuesday, November 13, 2007
• NPR: For several years, doctors have been concerned that many of the troops returning from Iraq suffer mental-health problems but are not seeking help. When soldiers return from the war in Iraq, it often takes several months for mental health... -Tuesday, November 13, 2007

VIOLENCE: Tactical Developments

• MCT: In this desolate tiny town in what was once called the Triangle of Death, signs of the violent past mix oddly with evidence of today's more tranquil life. -Tuesday, November 13, 2007
• MCT: Sgt. Brian Kerrigan...Command Sgt. Maj. Jeffrey Du...are among hundreds of soldiers from the 3rd Brigade, 2nd Infantry Division, just now back from 15 months in Iraq, who are dealing with what has been called the signature injury of the Iraq war [mild traumatic brain injury]-Monday, November 12, 2007
• dailymail: A young soldier was so traumatised by the prospect of his first Iraqi posting, he took an overdose which killed him. Private Jason Chelsea couldn't come to terms with the thought that he might have to "shoot children" carrying suicide bombs. -Wednesday, November 14, 2007
• AFP: A roadside bomb attack targetting a US patrol near Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone killed two Iraqi civilians and wounded three on Wednesday, security officials said. -Wednesday, November 14, 2007
• Reuters: Two policemen were killed and two others were wounded by a roadside bomb on Monday in Mussayab, 60 km (35 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. -Tuesday, November 13, 2007
• Reuters: A roadside bomb killed four Iraqi soldiers and wounded seven others in an attack on their patrol west of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, the Iraqi army said. -Tuesday, November 13, 2007
• Reuters: A roadside bomb wounded three policemen and five people when it targeted a police patrol in the al Masbah neighbourhood, in central Baghdad, police said. -Tuesday, November 13, 2007
• IRIN: Male gynaecologists are being targeted by Islamic extremists in Iraq as they are accused of invading the privacy of women. Women's NGOs have raised concerns as there are few women gynaecologists in the country and their male counterparts... -Tuesday, November 13, 2007
• MCT: Iraqi police said an American military convoy killed Khalaf Hussein and his wife Safra Ibraheem as he was approaching the convoy on a main road west of Kirkuk yesterday. The US military said the shooting was related to convoy operation... -Monday, November 12, 2007
• MCT: Gunmen burned two houses in Al Zubair, 35 kilometers west of Basra, near a Sunni mosque yesterday. Iraqi police said the gunmen didn' target the mosque but they were angry tribal men seeking for revenge from the owners as they accused... -Monday, November 12, 2007
• Xinhua: Iraqi soldiers fought gunmen near the town of Tal Afar in Nineveh province early on Monday, killing four gunmen and detaining two others, a military source said. -Monday, November 12, 2007
• newsobserver: Patty Desens wanted to shake the men in uniform standing in her living room. She wanted to tell them no, you're wrong. Instead, she pushed past them and out onto the back deck, where she clutched the railing and screamed her son's name... -Monday, November 12, 2007
• MCT: the governor of Mosul , Dureed Kashmoola and the general brigadier Wathiq Al-Hamadni , the chief in command of Mosul police , survived from two assassination attempts by two roadside bombs , one in the forest area and the second one was few minutes... -Sunday, November 11, 2007
• AP: An American soldier has been acquitted of murder charges in the deaths of three Iraqis but was convicted of lesser charges, the U.S. military said Sunday. -Sunday, November 11, 2007
• Reuters: U.S. and Iraqi forces have detained more than 200 suspected insurgents and three "high-value" al Qaeda operatives in a major operation in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said on Sunday. -Sunday, November 11, 2007
• Reuters: Gunmen fired 12 missiles at Camp Echo, which houses Polish, U.S. and other coalition forces, in Diwaniya...the soldiers returned fire with six rockets or mortars that landed in Nahdha district. The local hospital said one person was killed... -Sunday, November 11, 2007

Economic Developments, Reconstruction, and General Good News

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• UPI: A former employee of a Tennessee defense company is accused of sleeping with an Air Force contracting officer to secure Iraq contracts. Eric W. Barton, who worked for EOD Technology Inc., which won at least $2.5 million in Iraq contracts... -Monday, November 12, 2007

Mini Mini Battlefield Digest: Afghanistan, Week 46

Battlefield News, Afghanistan

Political Developments and Major Campaign Resource Shifts

• AP: Denmark's prime minister on Monday urged other NATO nations to send more troops and money to boost the alliance's operations in Afghanistan. -Monday, November 12, 2007
• Reuters: Amnesty International urged NATO troops in Afghanistan on Monday to suspend all transfers of detainees to Afghan authorities, citing persistent allegations that prisoners face torture. -Monday, November 12, 2007
• Reuters: Corruption among Afghan officials is rife and government must be reformed to help end 30 years of war, misery and oppression, President Hamid Karzai said on Tuesday in an unusually frank assessment of his country's woes. -Tuesday, November 13, 2007

COIN: Actions, Reactions, Counteractions, etc.

• Roggio: Afghan troops retook Farah's Gulistan district. A suicide bomber wounded five civilians in Kandahar. -Monday, November 12, 2007
• Roggio: Both the Taliban and Gulbuddin Hekmatyar's Hizb-e-Islami denied conducting the suicide attack in the northern province of Baghlan. Some in Afghanistan believe the attack was a political assassination. -Wednesday, November 7, 2007
• Roggio: US Navy and French warplanes have replaced the F-15s grounded in Afghanistan due to an unknown structural problem. -Wednesday, November 7, 2007
• Xinhua: Taliban insurgents in an overnight attack on a police checkpost in central Afghanistan's Ghazni city killed four policemen, provincial police chief Alishah Ahmadzai told Xinhua on Monday. -Monday, November 12, 2007
• Xinhua: More than one in three British servicemen killed in Iraq and Afghanistan might still be alive if not for avoidable blunders and equipment problems, an investigation by the Independent on Sunday has revealed. -Sunday, November 11, 2007

VIOLENCE: Tactical Developments

• AP: A civilian woman, two her children and 15 militants were buried under the ruins of an exploded house, as a result of a skirmish between U.S.-led coalition troops and Afghan militants. -Monday, November 12, 2007
• Roggio: The Taliban killed the Shah Joy district chief and nine police officers in Zabul province. -Friday, November 9, 2007
• AP: A suicide attacker on foot blew himself up near a NATO convoy in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, seriously wounding three civilians, while two separate attacks left three policeman dead elsewhere in the country, officials said. -Sunday, November 11, 2007
• dailymail: Fifty-nine schoolchildren were killed and 96 wounded in a suicide attack in northern Afghanistan earlier this week, the country's Education Ministry said today. -Friday, November 9, 2007
• BBC: Early investigations into Tuesday's bombing in the Afghan province of Baghlan indicate that the attacker used ball bearings to maximise casualties. -Friday, November 9, 2007
• Reuters: Four Americans were killed and six others injured on Thursday when a U.S. Blackhawk helicopter crashed in northern Italy with 10 people on board, a fire brigade official said. -Thursday, November 8, 2007
• AP: A Norwegian peacekeeper was killed and a second was seriously injured by a roadside bomb in northern Afghanistan on Thursday, the Nordic country's military said. A news release said the soldiers, whose names were not immediately released... -Thursday, November 8, 2007
• VOA: Pakistani security officials say they have found the bullet-riddled bodies of three soldiers abducted earlier this week in the tribal North Waziristan region near the Afghan border. -Thursday, November 8, 2007

Economic Developments, Reconstruction, and General Good News

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Enemy Casualty Lists: Week 46

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
Children join armed residents in a celebration in Baghdad's Adhamiya Sunni neighbourhood November 14, 2007. (Stringer/Reuters)

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ENEMY CASUALTIES AND DENTENSIONS IN IRAQ

Counted Enemy Casualties, IRAQ
Counted Captured: 269; Killed: 79; High-value: 3
Wednesday, November 7, 2007: Captured: 29; Killed: 6; High value: 1
Baghdad; Diyala: Ba`qubah; Kirkuk; Samarra	Coalition forces killed three al Qaeda operatives and captured nine during raids in central and northern Iraq; another three were killed and a jail was discovered in Samarra. The Iraqi Army captured seven al Qaeda fighters, including a cell leader, in Baghdad and captured two during a raid in Baqubah. Iraqi security forces captured 13 insurgents near Kirkuk
Friday, November 9, 2007: Captured: 53; Killed: 15
Mosul	Coalition forces killed one al Qaeda operative and captured nine in raids nationwide. Iraqi Security Forces killed 14 insurgents and captured 44 during Operation iron Hammer in Mosul.
Saturday, November 10, 2007: Captured: 66; Killed: 22
Baghdad; Samarra	The Islamic Army of Iraq battled al Qaeda south of Samarra; 18 al Qaeda fighters were killed and 16 captured. Iraqi police and US forces killed four insurgents and captured eight in Samarra, including three foreign terrorists. Ten al Qaeda operatives were captured during raids in central and northern Iraq. Thirty-two insurgents were detained in Baghdad.
Sunday, November 11, 2007: Captured: 87; Killed: 12; High value: 3
Baghdad; Samarra; Diyala: Khalis	The 1920s Revolution Brigades captured 60 al Qaeda fighters in Diyala while five al Qaeda operatives, including three emirs, were killed in Khalis. Coalition forces captured 16 al Qaeda operatives in central and northern Iraq. Iraqi Security Forces killed seven al Qaeda fighters and captured four in Samarra, and captured 14 in Baghdad.
Monday, November 12, 2007: Captured: 30; Killed: 14
Tall Afar; Diyala: Khalis	Coalition forces killed six al Qaeda media operatives and captured 15 during raids in central Iraq. The Iraqi Army killed eight insurgents and captured 10 during an operation in Tall Afar. US forces reportedly arrested five Iranians in Khalis in Diyala province.
Tuesday, November 13, 2007: Captured: 33; Killed: 16
Kirkuk; Baghdad: Adwaniyah	Concerned Citizens, backed by US troops, killed 15 al Qaeda fighters after al Qaeda attacked checkpoints in Adwaniyah. Coalition forces killed one al Qaeda operative and captured 14 during raids throughout Iraq. Iraqi police captured 19 insurgent suspects near Kirkuk.
src Bill Roggio - Read - Support

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ENEMY CASUALTIES AND DENTENSIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

Counted Enemy Casualties, Afghanistan
Counted Captured: 12; Killed: 25; High-value: 0
Friday, November 9, 2007: Captured: 7
Uruzgan	Seven members of an IED cell were captured in Uruzgan.
Saturday, November 10, 2007; Killed: 7
Helmand; Kandahar	"Several" Taliban were killed during fighting near the Nahr Surkh District of Helmand province. The ISAF and the Afghan military denied the Taliban controlled the Tarin Kowt-Kandahar road.
Monday, November 12, 2007: Captured: 5; Killed: 18
Ghazni; Helmand	Fifteen Taliban and three civilians were killed in fighting in Helmand's Garmsir district. Five foreign fighter facilitators were captured during an operation in Ghazni province.
src Bill Roggio - Read - Support

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 46

notes:

"Battlefield Afghanistan" is HOT - you'll see it in the casualties this week.
Lots of roadside bombs going off in Iraq.

If you noticed a pattern from the dailies, two totals this week that confirm:

• 280 teachers have been killed since the 2003 invasion, according to UN report.
• 60,000 people are currently detained in Iraq (International Committee of the Red Cross).

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Hometown
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Casey P. Mason, 22	U.S. Army	Lake, MI
	Private 1st Class, 728th Military Police BN, 8th Military Police Brigade, 8th Theater Sustainment Command
	Mosul (near); 13-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Christopher R. Kruse, 23	U.S. Army	Emporia, KS
	Sergeant, 2nd BN, 23rd Infantry Reg, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division
	Mukhisa; 13-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Peter W. Schmidt, 30	U.S. Army	Eureka, CA
	Specialist, 2nd BN, 23rd Infantry Reg, 4th Stryker Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division
	Mukhisa; 13-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Joseph M. Vanek, 22	U.S. Army	Elmhurst, IL
	Sergeant, 2nd BN, 325th Airborne Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
	Baghdad; 12-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
	Jermaine D. Franklin, 22	U.S. Army	Arlington, TX
	Specialist, 1st Squadron, 32nd Cavalry Reg, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division
	Jisr Naft; 09-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED, grenades
	Benjamin D. Tiffner, 31	U.S. Army	n.a., WV
	Captain, 1st BN, 5th Special Forces Group (Airborne)
	Baghdad; 07-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Lui Tumanuvao, 29	U.S. Army	Fagaalu, AS
	Sergeant, 1st BN, 30th Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 3rd Infantry Division
	Arab Jabour; 07-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
	Name Not Released Yet	Not reported yet	n.a.
	Not reported yet, Not reported yet
	Eastern Afghanistan; 12-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Adrian Hike, 26	Not reported yet	Ralston, IA
	Sergeant, 173rd Airborne
	Eastern Afghanistan; 12-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Patrick F. Kutschbach, 25	U.S. Army	McKees Rocks, PA
	Staff Sergeant, 1st Battalion, 10th Special Forces Group
	Tagab (Died in Bagram); 10-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
	Phillip Allen Bocks, 28	U.S. Marine	Troy, MI
	Sergeant, Not reported yet
	Aranus; 10-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
	Joseph M. Lancour, 21	U.S. Army	Swartz Creek, MI
	Private 1st Class, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team
	Aranus; 09-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
	Lester G. Roque, 23	U.S. Army	Torrance, CA
	Specialist, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team
	Aranus; 09-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
	Sean K. A. Langevin, 23	U.S. Army	Walnut Creek, CA
	Specialist, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team
	Aranus; 09-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
	Jeffery S. Mersman, 23	U.S. Army	Parker, KS
	Sergeant, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team
	Aranus; 09-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
	Matthew C. Ferrara, 24	U.S. Army	Torrance, CA
	1st Lieutenant, 2nd Battalion, 503rd Airborne Infantry Regiment, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team
	Aranus; 09-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - RPG attack
	Jake Alderton, 22	British Army	Bexley-UK
	Lance Corporal, 20 Field Squadron, 36 Engineer Regiment
	Sangin (Helmand Province); 09-Nov-07; Non-hostile - vehicle accident
	Kristoffer Sørli Jørgensen, 22	Norwegian Home Guard	Stange-Norway
	Private, Opplandske Heimevernsdistrikt 05
	Maymana (near); 08-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 206 this week; 229 last week; 283 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 57 this week; 130 last week; 100 prior week.
Tuesday 13 November: 24 dead
Baghdad:	6 bodies.
Mosul:	US forces kill suspected insurgent in his house, along with his wife and baby; gunmen kill policeman; gunmen kill medic; body found.
Baquba:	2 die in explosions.
Abu Saida:	3 bodies.
Kirkuk:	policeman killed by gunmen; body found.
Monday 12 November: 31 dead
Baghdad:	gunmen kill 2 policemen, Abu Ghraib; 5 bodies.
Baquba:	gunmen kill academic, Dr Haitham Abdel-Salam, and passenger in his car.
Mosul:	4 killed in separate incidents.
Jurf al-Sakhar:	roadside bomb kills 2.
Hawija:	headless corpse is found.
Qadir Kam:	family of 5 is found murdered.
Adwaniya:	5 citizens fighting against al-Qaeda are killed during battle.
Sunday 11 November: 17 dead
Baghdad:	roadside bomb targeting US patrol kills 12-year-old child, Baladiyat; civilian killed in bomb explosion outside policeman's house, Bayaa; 4 bodies.
Baquba:	gunmen kill student.
Mosul:	man killed by gunmen; body found.
Qasim:	body found.
Diwaniya:	3 killed in violent attacks.
Saturday 10 November: 42 dead
Baghdad:	roadside bomb kills 2, Baladiyat; man is shot dead in his car, Adil; 3 'Awakening' members are mistakenly killed in US airstrike, Yathrib; another civilian is killed in the same airstrike; 6 bodies.
Diwaniya:	US plane bombs two homes, kills father of 10.
Baquba:	2 killed by gunmen; 4 bodies.
Mosul:	4 killed by roadside bomb; gunmen kill policeman.
Balad Ruz:	roadside bomb kills 2 policemen.
Friday 9 November: 23 dead
Afghanistan:	Fifty-nine schoolchildren were killed in the Baghlan suicide attack on November 6. Ball bearings were used in the Baghlan attack; police detained two suspects.
Baghdad:	2 killed by roadside bomb, Kadhimiya; 3 bodies.
Khanaqeen:	3 policemen killed in explosions.
Balad Ruz:	3 children killed in mortar attacks.
Baquba:	a bomb in a field kills child.
Hawija:	policeman killed by roadside bomb.
Albu Ajeel:	gunmen attack on village leaves 3 residents dead.
Khalis:	suicide bomber blows himself up inside Sheikh's house during meeting, kills 5 Sunni Sheikhs and 2 others.
Thursday 8 November: 40 dead
Baghdad:	policeman killed in ambush; 4 bodies.
Falluja:	roadside bomb targeting police patrol kills 6 policemen.
Mandali:	gunmen kill 3 policemen; 9 bodies.
Baquba:	2 members of Awakening Council killed by gunmen; policeman killed during clashes.
That Thar:	7 bodies.
Mahaweel:	2 bodies.
Wednesday 7 November: 29 dead
Baghdad:	gunmen kill the son of Mizher Al-Sheikhli ( a member of the political bureau of the Islamic party), Dora; also a maths teacher on her way to work, Mansour; 6 bodies.
Suwayra:	roadside bomb kills 2 children.
Diwaniya:	mortars strike house, kill 2 children.
Hashimiyat:	mass grave containing 17 bodies 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

Talking to a naked economist

A "naked economist" has a look at what's inside Alan Kreuger's book on terrorism, which examines the topic with an economist's eye.

I've been meaning to read Alan's book, but this is a good summary, for those who don't have the time (and were unsatisfied with the reviews, so far).

Veteran's Day

From the neighbourhood of St Mary's church comes suddenly the sound of rifle shots, at first singly, then a whole volley. Albert and I look at each other; without a word we set off in the directions of the shots.

-Erich Maria Remarque

Mini Mini Battlefield Digest: Iraq, Week 45

Many developments this week. [This is long. One can skim just the first two sections and skip the third, to keep a sense of what is going on.]

The Iranians taken hostage post Irbil may be released.
The number of weapons caches appears to be diminishing.
There is a change in command in the North, as a tour ends.

Reports that refugees may be returning.

Battlefield News, Iraq

Political Developments and Major Campaign Resource Shifts

• CSM: The end of the US surge is in sight here. In two key central Iraqi provinces, American units will soon reduce their forces and modify their role in a region that is a microcosm of the fractured nation. There are Sunnis and Shiites.... -Friday, November 2, 2007
• NPR: The U.S. military transfers control of security in Karbala to Iraqi forces. It's one of eight provinces now under Iraqi control. There have been other measures of progress such as electricity. But many are not convinced the positive developments... -Friday, November 2, 2007
• MCT: The Special Inspector General for Iraq Reconstruction offered a generally optimistic picture of security developments in Iraq...noted that while violence was down, one of every seven Iraqis - 14 percent of Iraq's population - is now displaced by the war. -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• dmregister: The Iowa National Guard said today it is mobilizing 130 soldiers from the 186th Military Police Company for the unit's second tour of duty in Iraq. -Wednesday, October 31, 2007
• BBC: The US military in Iraq says it intends to release nine Iranians being held there, including two detained on suspicion of helping Shia militias. They were among five Iranians who Tehran insists are diplomats seized in the Kurdish city of Irbil in January. -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• [various] AP: A federal judge allowed a lawsuit to proceed Tuesday against private defense firm CACI International Inc., whose interrogators are accused of abusing detainees at the notorious Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• AP: House and Senate negotiators agreed Tuesday on a $460 billion Pentagon bill that bankrolls pricey weapons systems and bomb-resistant vehicles for troops, but does not pay for combat operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• Reuters: Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan has said that an army operation is still planned against Kurdish guerrillas in northern Iraq, but diplomats suggested on Tuesday that any action would now be limited in scope. -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• Reuters: Eight Turkish soldiers captured last month by Kurdish guerrillas were released in northern Iraq, a move which could ease public pressure on Turkey's government to launch a major cross-border incursion. -Sunday, November 4, 2007
• WaPo: The Iraqi government has resumed discussions about an amnesty program to encourage insurgents and militiamen to lay down their weapons as daily violence lessens across the country, according to Iraqi and U.S. officials. -Sunday, November 4, 2007

COIN: Actions, Reactions, Counteractions, etc.

• AP: In a dramatic turnaround, more than 3,000 Iraqi families driven out of their Baghdad neighborhoods have returned to their homes in the past three months as sectarian violence has dropped, the government said Saturday. -Saturday, November 3, 2007
• VOI: A joint force of Iraqi police-army personnel on Friday arrested three policemen, northeast of Hilla, for suspected involvement in facilitating armed attacks in Babel, a police source said. -Friday, November 2, 2007
• AP: There has been a sharp decline in the number of the most deadly roadside bombs found in Iraq in the last three months, but it's unclear whether that's because Iranians have curtailed the flow of the weapons, the No. 2 U.S. commander... -Thursday, November 1, 2007 [five soldiers killed this week by IEDs...]
• KUNA: Rear Admiral Greg Smith, MNF-I spokesman, announced Tuesday in a joint conference with Lt. Cmdr. Dowling, Task Force Troy, that 5,000 weapon cahces were found in Iraq since the beginning of 2007. -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• KUNA: MP for the Sadrist Bloc, Sallam Al-Malki, on Sunday said he had resigned from the Iraqi Parliament. -Sunday, November 4, 2007
• NPR: U.S. Special Forces are the undetectable side of the war in Iraq, but is being used more and more in the fight against Sunni and Shiite militants. Iraqis complain some units often use excessive force, killing innocent people... -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• AFP: Prime Minister Nuri Al Maliki has gone on a rare walkabout in central Baghdad in the latest sign of the improving security situation in the war-ravaged Iraqi capital. -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• AP: Nearly 2.3 million Iraqis the vast majority of them women and children have fled their homes but remain inside the country's borders and are in urgent need of basic care, according to a report issued Monday by the Iraqi Red Crescent. -Monday, November 5, 2007
• Reuters: Britain will start accepting applications for refuge and financial assistance from Iraqi translators and others who have worked with British forces in Iraq, the British military said on Monday. -Monday, November 5, 2007

VIOLENCE: Tactical Developments

• Reuters: Six police guards were killed and eight wounded in an attack on Faris al-Umairi, police chief of the town of Balad Ruz, near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad. The police chief was not harmed, police said. -Thursday, November 1, 2007
• Roggio: Six police were killed and eight wounded in an assassination attempt on the Balad Ruz police chief. Five were killed and 18 wounded in a car bomb attack in the Saadiya district in Diyala province -Thursday, November 1, 2007
• Roggio: Apache gunships destroyed an anti-aircraft. -Friday, November 2, 2007
• Reuters: Sabri Abdul-Jabar, a university professor in Kirkuk, was found shot dead two days after being kidnapped in a town near the city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. -Thursday, November 1, 2007
• KUNA: US forces killed 51 dissidents from AL-Sadr militias during military operations on October 21-27th in Baghdad, a US military statement said on Wednesday. The statement said US forces were able to target "special locations"... -Thursday, November 1, 2007
• BBC: A girl who survived a massacre in Iraq in which a British man was shot dead, later identified five Iraqi policemen as his killers...Security worker Brian Tilley...was killed when gunmen walked into his girlfriend's house in Baghdad on 14 May 2004. -Wednesday, November 7, 2007
• Reuters: At least 12 people were wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on the Kurdistan Democratic Party headquarters in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said -Wednesday, November 7, 2007
• Reuters: Gunmen killed a woman teacher in a drive-by shooting in the Mansour district of western Baghdad, police said. -Wednesday, November 7, 2007
• NYTimes: Six American soldiers were killed in three separate attacks Monday, the military said Tuesday, taking the number of deaths this year to 852 and making 2007 the deadliest year of the war for U.S. troops. -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• Reuters: Gunmen killed six off-duty policemen on a road near Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, said Police Brigadier-General Ibrahim al-Jouburi. He said the militants also burned the bodies. -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• Reuters: Police said they found two bodies tortured and shot near the town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad. -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• Reuters: Police found the decapitated bodies of two policemen buried in the town of Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• AP: Five American soldiers were killed in two separate roadside bomb attacks, the U.S. military said Tuesday, after Iraqi soldiers discovered 22 bodies in a mass grave northwest of the capital. The soldiers died Monday, said Rear Adm. Gregory Smith... -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• KUNA: In Tikrit, a Lieutenant Colonel and his escort policeman were killed in an ambush by unkown gunmen. -Monday, November 5, 2007
• KUNA: armed men kidnapped two doctors who works in Baqouba hospital, an Iraqi police officer in Diyali province said. Iraqi Captain Qassem Al-Zubaidi said the armed men who used two vehicles stopped the doctors who were departing work... -Monday, November 5, 2007
• Reuters: Gunmen killed Hamad Abdul-Latif, a member of the Khadhra neighbourhood council, in western Baghdad's Jamiaa district, a hospital source said. -Monday, November 5, 2007
• KUNA: The media coordinator for the Joint Multi-National Force centre, Janah Hamoud, on Monday quashed reports that a US soldier in Iraq, abducted with other two in May, had been found dead. -Monday, November 5, 2007
• honoluluadvertiser: The car bomb in Fallujah exploded in May. On that warm evening, insurgents drove a vehicle packed with explosives into mourners of a slain local tribal leader as they wound through a ramshackle corner of the city, killing 20. -Monday, November 5, 2007
• Reuters: A kidnapped Baghdad correspondent for a United States-funded radio was released after two weeks in captivity, the station said on Sunday. -Sunday, November 4, 2007
• LATimes: U.S. officials met with Iraqi and Turkish diplomats here Saturday on the crisis threatening Iraq's northern border, but key Kurdistan officials failed to offer assurances that they would move against Kurdish militants attacking Turkey.... -Sunday, November 4, 2007
• Reuters: Gunmen killed a woman principal at al Mustakbal primary school and wounded a woman principal at Um Qassir school, both in the southern Baghdad district of Saidiya, police said. -Sunday, November 4, 2007
• Reuters: Gunmen kidnapped the wife of a police officer on Saturday in western Kut. Police said it was not known why the woman was kidnapped. -Sunday, November 4, 2007
• Reuters: An adviser in Iraq's finance ministry, Qutaiba Bader-al-Din, was found shot dead in a vehicle along with another ministry employee in the western Baghdad district of Jamiaa, police said. -Sunday, November 4, 2007
• dpa: In a separate incident, a senior police officer and two civilians were shot dead on Sunday on a road in Samara...The three bodies with marks of heavy shooting in different parts were found in a car they were riding, sources from the Tirkit police -Sunday, November 4, 2007
• Xinhua: Iraqi police and anti-Qaida fighters have discovered some 40 corpses buried in a mass grave in Iraq's western province of Anbar, a provincial security source said on Sunday. -Sunday, November 4, 2007

Economic Developments, Reconstruction, and General Good News

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Mini Battlefield Digest: Afghanistan, Week 45

notes:

South Korea and Japan withdrawing support/forces ...

Canadians continue in apparently fierce fighting.

The damage to "COIN" from "losing" districts to the Taliban is ... significant.

Battlefield News, Afghanistan

Political Developments and Major Campaign Resource Shifts

• Roggio: Taliban commander Mullah Mansour Dadullah issued a tape admitting links to al Qaeda in Iraq and denied links with Iran. -Thursday, November 1, 2007
• Roggio: South Korea will withdraw its 210 troops in the north by the end of the year. -Monday, November 5, 2007
• AP: Japanese warships were ordered home from the Indian Ocean Thursday after opposition lawmakers refused to support an extension of their mission supporting U.S.-led forces in Afghanistan. -Thursday, November 1, 2007
• Reuters: Iran publicly hanged two Afghans for the rape of a Dutch woman on Wednesday, state news agency IRNA said, the latest execution in what the government calls a crackdown on immoral behaviour. -Wednesday, November 7, 2007

COIN: Actions, Reactions, Counteractions, etc.

• Roggio: The Taliban seized the Khak-e Sefid district in the western province of Farah; this is the third district in Farah to fall in the past week. -Monday, November 5, 2007
• Xinhua: Afghan troops backed by the U.S.-led Coalition forces have destroyed six heroin labs in Afghanistan's eastern Nangarhar province, local police said Monday. -Monday, November 5, 2007
• Reuters: Taliban insurgents have captured a third district in western Afghanistan, local officials said on Monday, defying Western assertions the rebels are unable to mount large military offensives. -Monday, November 5, 2007
• Reuters: Canadian forces have halted a Taliban offensive to take a key district guarding the approaches to Afghanistan's main southern city of Kandahar, a spokesman said on Thursday. -Friday, November 2, 2007
• RFE/RL: Much of the world's attention on Afghanistan is now focused on the country's Pashtun-dominated south and east, where Taliban fighters are battling NATO troops and U.S.-led coalition forces. But there is a different kind of tension... -Sunday, November 4, 2007

VIOLENCE: Tactical Developments

• AFP: Afghan and international security forces killed 25 Taleban in an area of southern Afghanistan that has witnessed days of deadly clashes, officials said Sunday. The 25 were killed Saturday in an operation by Afghan police and soldiers... -Monday, November 5, 2007
• AP: The death toll from a suicide blast targeting a group of lawmakers and children rose to 60 on Wednesday, the deadliest attack in Afghanistan since the 2001 U.S.-led invasion. -Wednesday, November 7, 2007
• Reuters: A suicide bomber killed 90 people and wounded 50 on Tuesday in an attack on a delegation of visiting parliamentarians in the northern Afghan town of Baghlan, the director of the local hospital said. -Tuesday, November 6, 2007
• AP: A roadside bomb blast killed four Afghan police on Sunday, while 25 militants were said to be killed in a clash in the country's south, officials said. -Sunday, November 4, 2007
• AFP: Corporal Ronald Groen is the 12th Dutch soldier killed in Afghanistan, either accidentally or in combat. -Saturday, November 3, 2007
• AP: A missile destroyed a suspected militant hide-out in northwestern Pakistan near the Afghan border Friday, killing 10 people inside and wounding 11, security officials said. -Friday, November 2, 2007
• Bloomberg: Afghan security forces killed a rebel commander and several of his men as they crossed the border from Pakistan, the U.S. military said. -Thursday, November 1, 2007

Economic Developments, Reconstruction, and General Good News

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• AP: Close to 90,000 children who would have died before age 5 in Afghanistan during Taliban rule will stay alive this year because of advances in medical care in the country, Afghan President Hamid Karzai said Sunday. -Sunday, November 4, 2007

Enemy Casualty Lists: Week 45

notes: the number of quasi 'administrative detentions' appears to be soaring.

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
Baghdad's Amariyah neighborhood, Iraq, Tuesday, Nov. 6, 2007-Douglass Birch

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ENEMY CASUALTIES AND DENTENSIONS IN IRAQ

Counted Enemy Casualties, IRAQ
Counted Captured: 457; Killed: 37; High-value: 2
Thursday, November 1, 2007: Captured: 90; Killed: 15; High value: 1
Mosul; Tall Afar	Coalition forces killed 14 al Qaeda operatives captured 37 during raids in northern and central Iraq. Iraqi police and soldiers killed a suicide bomber at a Tall Afar hospital. Iraqi security forces captured 53 insurgents, including a leader of the Islamic State of Iraq in Mosul.
Friday, November 2, 2007: Captured: 13; Killed: 10
Diyala: Al Miqdadiyah; Balad; Babil:	Coalition forces killed 10 al Qaeda operatives and captured three during operations in central and northern Iraq. Seven al Qaeda operatives were captured as US and Iraqi forces are conducting operations in Miqdadiyah and Balad Ruz. Three policemen were arrested in Babil province for "facilitating armed attacks."
Saturday, November 3, 2007: Captured: 101
Hillah; Baghdad; Baghdad: Adhamiyah	Iraqi soldiers captured 12 suspected insurgents during a raid onthe Sunni Abu Hanifa Mosque in the Adhamiyah district in Baghdad. US troops captured five insurgents during operations in Baghdad's Rashid district. Iraqi security forces captured 65 insurgents north of Hillah and detained another 19 in Baghdad. The Sadrist movement called for the end of detentions of its members.
Monday, November 5, 2007: Captured: 161; Killed: 12
Taji; Diyala: Ba`qubah; Baghdad: Al-Dura	Coalition forces killed five al Qaeda operatives and detained 30 in raids against leadership targets. US and Iraqi troops killed seven al Qaeda fighters and captured 20 in Baqubah. The Iraqi Army detained 81 suspected insurgents during clearing operations in Suwayrah. Iraqi Security Forces detained 22 suspected extremists in separate raids in Kubaysah and Taji. US troops captured eight insurgents in Doura.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007: Captured: 92; High value: 1
Baghdad; Diyala: Ba`qubah; Tikrit	Iraqi Security Forces captured 39 suspected insurgents along the foothills of the Hamrin Mountains of Tikrit, including a senior member of the Islamic State of Iraq, 20 insurgents in Baghdad, and 23 insurgents in Baqubah. Coalition forces killed eight al Qaeda operatives and captured 10 during raids throughout Iraq.
src Bill Roggio - Read - Support

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ENEMY CASUALTIES AND DENTENSIONS IN AFGHANISTAN

Counted Enemy Casualties, Afghanistan
Counted Captured: 6; Killed: 112; High-value: 1
Thursday, November 1, 2007; Killed: 50
Herat; Kandahar; Uruzgan	Afghan troops recaptured Arghandab district north of Kandahar City from the Taliban. Over 50 Taliban were killed in fighting in Herat. Afghan forces killed "several" Taliban fighters as they set up mortar positions in Uruzgan province.
Sunday, November 4, 2007; Killed: 60; High value: 1
Ghazni; Uruzgan	At least 60 Taliban were killed during fighting in Uruzgan province. The US positively identified a Taliban leader captured in September as Rahmatulla, the the former Taliban commander of Andar district in Ghazni province.
Monday, November 5, 2007: Captured: 6; Killed: 2
Ghazni	Afghan and NATO forces captured six Taliban fighters and killed two during a raid in Ghazni province.
src Bill Roggio - Read - Support

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 45

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

September wounded: 358; October: 47; [a new section for wounded forthcoming ... soon, I hope!]
update: October revised to 296

notes:

Louis Griese of the 101st Airborne, reported KIA last week, was on his third tour of duty in Iraq.

This is the third week in a row that one sees "mass grave" in the civilian body count figures (two mentions of lake TharThar region. Tharthar lies between Anbar and Saladdin provinces, and a onetime training ground for the Sunni insurgency).

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Hometown
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Christine M. Ndururi, 21	U.S. Army	Dracut
	Specialist, 4th Squadron, 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment
	Camp Arifjan; 06-Nov-07; Not reported yet
	Daniel J. Shaw, 23	U.S. Army	West Seneca, NY
	Sergeant, 1st BN, 9th Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division
	Taji; 05-Nov-07; Non-hostile
	Kevin R. Bewley, 27	U.S. Navy	Hector, AR
	Petty Officer 2nd Class, Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 11
	Salah Ad Din Province; 05-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Name Not Released Yet	U.S. Army	n.a.
	Not reported yet, Multi-National Force-West
	Al Anbar Province; 05-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Carletta S. Davis, 34	U.S. Army	Anchorage, AK
	Staff Sergeant, 10th Brigade Support BN, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Light Infantry) 10th Mountain Division
	Tal Al-Dahab; 05-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	John D. Linde, 30	U.S. Army	New York, NY
	Staff Sergeant, 1st Brigade Special Troops BN, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Light Infantry) 10th Mountain Division
	Tal Al-Dahab; 05-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Derek T. Stenroos, 24	U.S. Army	North Pole, AK
	Sergeant, 1st Brigade Special Troops BN, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Light Infantry) 10th Mountain Division
	Tal Al-Dahab; 05-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Adam J. Muller, 21	U.S. Army	Underhill, VT
	Private 1st Class, 1st Brigade Special Troops BN, 1st Brigade Combat Team, (Light Infantry) 10th Mountain Division
	Tal Al-Dahab; 05-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Dwane A. Covert Jr., 20	U.S. Army	Tonawanda, NY
	Private 1st Class, 104th Transportation Company, 13th Corps Support Sustainment BN, 3rd Infantry Division
	Al Sahra; 03-Nov-07; Non-hostile - explosion
	Andrzej Filipek, 31	Polish Army	Sporniak-POL
	Plutonowy, 3rd Mechanized Brigade
	Diwaniyah (near); 02-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Tracy Lynn Alger, 30	U.S. Army	New Auburn, WI
	2nd Lieutenant, 3rd BN, 187th Infantry Reg, 3rd Brigade Combat team, (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division
	Shubayshen; 01-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Thomas A. Crowell, 36	U.S. Air Force	Neosho, MO
	Master Sergent, Air Force Office of Special Investigations - Detachment 301
	Balad (near Balad Air Base); 01-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	David A. Wieger, 28	U.S. Air Force	North Huntingdon, PA
	Staff Sergeant, Air Force Office of Special Investigations - Detachment 303
	Balad (near Balad Air Base); 01-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Nathan J. Schuldheiss, 27	U.S. Air Force	Newport, RI
	Civilian, Air Force Office of Special Investigations - Detachment 204,
	Balad (near Balad Air Base); 01-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
	Name Not Released Yet	U.S. Army	n.a.
	Not reported yet, Not reported yet
	Uruzgan province; 03-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire
	Ronald Groen, 21	Royal Dutch Army	n.a.-Netherlands
	Corporal, Not reported yet
	southern Afghanistan; 03-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Name Not Released Yet	Not reported yet	n.a.-NATO
	Not reported yet, Not reported yet
	Eastern Afghanistan; 02-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire
	Johnny C. Walls, 41	U.S. Army	Bremerton, WA
	Sergeant 1st Class, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division
	Uruzgan province; 02-Nov-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 229 this week; 283 last week; 282 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 130 this week; 100 last week; 95 prior week.
Tuesday 6 November: 32 dead
Baghdad:	Islamic Party member shot dead, Dora; 4 bodies.
Tall Uwaynat:	6 policemen shot dead.
Mosul:	council member and guard shot dead.
Samarra:	2 killed by gunmen.
Tikrit:	Intelligence Officer and person accompanying him shot dead; 4 bodies.
Latifiya:	2 bodies.
Dhuluiya:	2 bodies of policemen found decapitated.
Monday 5 November: 28 dead
Baghdad:	5 killed in Baladiyat, Ghadeer, Zafaraniya, Jamia; 3 bodies.
Balad Ruz:	2 policemen killed in clashes with gunmen; 5 bodies found in river.
Mosul:	gunmen kill government employee; 7 bodies.
Tikrit-Dour:	2 bodies found on highway.
Sunday 4 November: 79 dead
Baghdad:	gunmen kill Finance Ministry employee and his driver, Jamia; gunmen kill schoolmistress, Saidiya; 2 policemen killed in separate incidents; Iraqi soldiers raid suspect's house, kill his 14-year-old son, Quray'at; 4 bodies.
Tikrit:	car bomb kills 4, including 6-year-old boy; 3 bodies.
Khalis:	mortars kill woman and 7-year-old girl.
Baquba:	5 killed in separate incidents; body found in drainage ditch; also head found.
Thar Thar:	40 bodies found decomposing in mass grave at Al-Qaeda-controlled area.
Garma:	3 bodies.
Falluja:	3 bodies.
Mosul:	6 bodies.
Saturday 3 November: 27 dead
Baghdad:	car bomb kills civilian, Mansour; roadside bomb kills civilian, Karrada; policeman is killed during combat operation; 3 killed by US forces during raid on a house; 4 bodies.
Mahaweel:	roadside bomb kills policeman.
Salman Pak:	gunmen kill policeman.
Hilla:	gunmen kill policeman.
Mosul:	gunmen kill Sunni endowment employee; 2 bodies.
Samarra:	car bomb kills 4.
Abbasi:	body found decapitated.
Khalis:	6 bodies.
Friday 2 November: 10 dead
Baghdad:	3 bodies.
Mosul:	man shot dead by unknown gunmen; 2 bodies.
Khalis:	man killed by roadside bomb.
Basra:	2 shot dead in separate incidents.
Thursday 1 November: 25 dead
Baghdad:	5 men joining the fight against al-Qaeda are blown up by a bomb, Binook; gunmen kill man, Mansour; 5 bodies.
Balad Ruz:	attack on convoy of chief of police kills 6 of his bodyguards; 2 policemen killed in separate incident.
Baquba:	child dies in bomb attack.
Kirkuk:	body of university professor found two days after his abduction.
Wednesday 31 October: 28 dead
Baghdad:	car bomb kills civilian; 6 bodies.
Mosul:	gunmen kill civilian; 8 bodies.
Kirkuk:	gunmen trying to assassinate judge kill his bodyguard; US forces kill 3 members of the same family during a raid in their home.
Salman Pak:	US helicopter fire kills 3 policemen at checkpoint.

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

Name	Date
Circumstances
A journalist kidnapped a few weeks ago was released this week.

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