War News for Wednesday, July 14, 2010

KTAR News is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier in a hospital in Germany on some unreported date early this week. Chris Moon died from an IED blast in an unreported location in Afghanistan sometime last week.

The British MoD is reporting the death of a British ISAF Marine from small arms fire/gunshot wounds in the Sangin district, Helmand province, Afghanistan on Tuesday, July 13th. Here's the ISAF statement.

The DoD is reporting a new death unreported by the military. Pfc. Nathaniel D. Garvin died from a non-combat related incident at FOB Frontenac, Kandahar province, Afghanistan on Monday, July 12th.

NATO is reporting the deaths of four ISAF soldiers in a roadside bombing in an unidentified location in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, July 14th. News reports these to be American soldiers.

NATO is reporting the death of another ISAF soldier from small arms fire in an unidentified location in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, July 14th.

NATO is reporting the deaths of three ISAF soldiers from an attack in an undisclosed in southern Afghanistan on Wednesday, July 14th. See below for details.


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Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: In southern Baghdad, a civilian was injured when a bomb exploded in his car in southern Baghdad, witnesses told the German Press Agency dpa.

#2: Journalist Ameer Ali al-Hasoon was able to escape an assassination attempt in Baghdad, an advocate of press freedom said on Wednesday. “Al-Hasoon was driving in al-Harthiya neighborhood yesterday evening when he was intercepted by a car with two gunmen inside it,” the source said. He explained that the gunmen left their car and directed guns with silencers toward al-Hasoon. “The journalist hit the gasoline when he saw the gunmen, and was miraculously able to escape,” the source noted.


Basra:
#1: A rocket attack has rocked a US military base located inside Basra International Airport in southern Iraq as the number of possible casualties remains unknown. The rocket landed in the American base inside Iraq's second largest airport on Tuesday, the Iranian state news agency IRIB reported, quoted an Iraqi police source as saying on condition of anonymity. The official, however, declined comment on the number of casualties left by the attack in Basra — which is located nearly 550 kilometers to the south of Baghdad.


Abu Ghraib:
#1: Militants blew up a building used by the Iraqi army in the city of Abu Ghraib, west of Baghdad, police said.


Kirkuk:
#1: Four policemen were injured in a roadside bombing in the northern city of Kirkuk, according to police. A police convoy appeared to be the target.


Al Anbar Prv:
#1: Iraqi officials say militants have attacked the house of a member of a moderate Sunni Muslim sect in the country's west, killing two women and a six-year-old child in their sleep. Police and hospital officials say they attackers surrounded the house of Rahal Hussein, a member of the Sufi sect, just after midnight on Tuesday in a village near the former Sunni insurgent stronghold of Fallujah. The militants sprayed the house with machinegun fire and threw hand grenades inside, killing the sleeping women and child. The officials say six people were also wounded. The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to speak the media



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: A car bomb and gunfight outside the headquarters of an elite police force killed three U.S. troops and five Afghan civilians in the southern city of Kandahar, officials said Wednesday.
A suicide attacker slammed a car bomb into the entrance of the compound, then insurgents opened fire with machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades, a NATO statement said. A combined force of international troops and police kept the attackers from entering the compound and eventually fought them off, but three American troops died along with five civilian workers, NATO said. The dead civilians included three Afghan translators and two security guards, Kandahar provincial police chief Sardar Mohammad Zazai said.

#2: An Afghan police officer also died in the late Tuesday night attack on the compound, which houses the elite Afghan National Civil Order Police, a provincial spokesman said.

#3: In other attacks around the country, nine Afghan civilians died in the south when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb in the volatile district of Marjah in Helmand province, the Ministry of Interior said.

#4: Another homemade bomb killed two security guards traveling on a road in eastern Paktika province.

#5: Two suspected Taliban also died in Helmand's Lashkar Gar district when the roadside bomb they were trying to plant exploded prematurely, the ministry said.

#6: A NATO oil tanker and five other vehicles got fire after firing by unknown miscreants at main GT Road on Tuesday evening. The tanker was carrying fuel to Afghanistan for NATO forces when it was fired upon by militants near Naushera. The tanker, owned by a private contractor, caught fire after the incident that later grabbed five more vehicles. The fire was so severe that it also damaged nearby buildings and affected the power supply in the area. Traffic was suspended for hours on GT Road following the incident as police and other law enforcement agencies’ personnel cordoned off the area. No casualty was reported in the incident.

#7: Pakistani warplanes killed 24 militants and destroyed five of their hideouts in the northwestern Orakzai tribal region, security officials said. There was no independent verification of casualties and militants often dispute the military's accounts.

#8: Unidentified men on a motorbike gunned down a central leader of the Baluchistan Nationalist Party, Habib Jalib, in a drive-by shooting in Quetta, the provincial capital of southwestern Baluchistan province. Baluch nationalists have for decades campaigned for greater autonomy and control of Baluchistan, and separatist guerrillas have also waged a low-key insurgency there.

#9: A roadside bomb killed a 10-year-old boy in Khuzdar district, about 337 km (210 miles) southeast of Quetta, police said


DoD: Staff Sgt. Christopher J. Antonik

DoD: Lance Cpl. Daniel G. Raney

DoD: Lance Cpl. Tyler A. Roads

DoD: Spc. Carlos J. Negron

DoD: Pfc. Nathaniel D. Garvin

DoD: Sgt. Shaun M. Mittler