War News for Monday, April 11, 2011

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier from an insurgent attack in an undisclosed location in northern Afghanistan on Sunday, April 10th.


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: Earlier Monday, four civilians were killed and 11 others wounded when a minibus hit a roadside bomb in southeastern Baghdad, officials said. Among the dead was a 10-year girl.

#2: “An IED blew off close to Shahriar Statue in central Baghdad’s Abu-Nawas Street, wounding two civilians and causing damage to a civilian vehicle,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#3: The source also said that another IED blew off early in the day in eastern Baghdad’s Shu’ala district, wounding 4 civilians and causing damage to a truck.

#4: Head of the Editing Secretariat at the Media Directorate of Iraq’s Parliament was killed and two others were wounded in a bombing in Al Hurriya region, northwestern Baghdad.

#5: In Dora, a sniper shot dead a policeman on duty.


Diyala Prv:
#1: A roadside bomb on the main road in Baghdad in the region of Jisr Diyala, wounded 13 civilians and damaged a number of cars.

#2: A bombing, western Baaquba, wounded a civilian.


Diwaniya:
#1: Three Katyusha rockets have targeted a U.S. Army camp in southern Iraq’s Diwaniya city on Sunday, and one of them fell on a citizen’s house, a security source said. “Two Katyusha rockets fell on Sunday night on the U.S. Echo camp, 3 km to the west of Diwaniya, but losses were not known,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency. He said the third rocket fell on a citizen’s house in central Diwaniya, close to the Political Prisoners Institution, causing damage, whilst security bodies and fire-extinguishing vehicles headed towards the venue of the attack, but failed to give further details.


Taji:
#1: “An IED, planted behind the so-called Nasr Institution in northern Baghdad’s Taji district, close to the Baghdad-Mosul Railwlay line, blew off when a train passed through the area, causing material damage to the train and wounding three passengers,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Al Anbar Prv:
#1: Up to six people were killed and some 20 others wounded in double car bomb explosions at a marketplace in the city of Fallujah, in west of Baghdad on Monday, a local police source told Xinhua. "Our latest reports said that a total of six people were killed and 20 wounded by the two car bombing attacks in Fallujah," the source said on condition of anonymity. An officer from the team of the explosives experts, a soldier and a policeman were among the killed along with three civilians, he said. The wounded were three policemen, two soldiers and 15 civilians, the source added. The incident took place near a marketplace in central Fallujah when a booby-trapped car detonated while a team of explosives experts were defusing the bombs, the source said. Two minutes later, another explosion occurred by a second car bomb parked close to the site of the first explosion, the source added.

In the city of Fallujah, police chief Brig. Gen. Mahmoud al-Issawi said a parked car packed with explosives blew up at about 11:00 a.m. as police were trying to defuse it. The blast killed two policemen. About 15 minutes later, the second car bomb exploded about 150 meters (yards) away, targeting people gathered near the scene of the first blast, Al-Issawi said. That blast killed four civilians and injured 20, including two policemen.

#2: He said that a third blast, caused by an explosive charge planted on the main highway passing through central Falluja, took place. The blast was aimed at a police patrol, but the casualties were yet unknown.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: At least three people were killed and eight others injured in a blast on a passenger bus in the northwestern tribal area of Pakistan, local media reported on Monday. According to local Urdu TV ARY News, a planted device hit a passenger bus on its way in Kurram agency, one of the seven semi- autonomous agencies bordering Afghanistan in northwest Pakistan. Kurram agency is considered as a safe haven of militants as many arrested miscreants come from this area.

#2: A roadside bomb killed three tribal elders in western Afghanistan on Sunday, possibly in retaliation for their cooperation with the government. The men were driving to a meeting with villagers and other tribal elders to discuss what sort of projects the Afghan government and international donors should fund when their vehicle hit a roadside bomb, killing all of them, officials said. One of the dead, Sayyed Ahmed, was the head of the group of tribal elders who organised the meeting, said Abdul Basir Kherkywi, the head of Farah province�s local council.


DoD: Spc. Keith T. Buzinski