Just another day in Paradise. Today's attacks 01-14-07

[LynnTheDem]

Welcome back to Vietraq.

In Country:
#1: American Parkinson Company in cooperation with the South Oil Company next Monday begins the implementation of installing measurements meters in the port of Basra which will lead to stop exporting oil for four days. The Media Spokesman of the South North Oil Company Samir AL-Maksousi said that these meters to be installed is specialized in measuring quantities of oil exported from the port which will determine the size of these quantities in high accuracy. He added that it was hoped that they will be exprting oil within days of stopping through AL-Ameyah port to prevent the oil exports from being affected pointing out that the work in this project will be finished next April

#2: The Baghdad morgue took in about 16,000 unidentified bodies last year, the bulk of them victims of death squads and other sectarian violence, a source at the morgue told Reuters on Sunday

#3: A Task Force Lightning Soldier assigned to the 105th Engineer Group, died of wounds Saturday as a result of an explosion while conducting operations in northern Iraq. One other Soldier was wounded and transported to a Coalition force medical treatment facility


Baghdad:
#1: Australian Army soldiers have shot and killed a truck driver in Baghdad whose vehicle failed to stop at a security checkpoint near the Australian Embassy. An Australian defense spokesman Colonel Mark Elliott says the driver who was killed early Saturday appears to have been an international contractor who worked inside Baghdad's Green Zone. 'The Australian Security Detachment in Baghdad fired upon the vehicle at the coalition checkpoint in the vicinity of the Australian embassy,' Elliott told reporters in the Australian capital, Canberra on Sunday. 'The vehicle had negotiated the entry control point and had been directed towards the next subsequent inspection point,' he added. 'It was at this time that it failed to adhere to any of the measures and it was fired upon by the Australian Security Detachment,' Colonel Elliot said. The spokesman said a subsequent search of the vehicle revealed no signs of explosives. The Australian defence department has opened an investigation into the incident.

Australian Prime Minister John Howard backed Australian soldiers who shot dead a truck driver in Baghdad

#2: One of the dead was employed as a bodyguard for the head of the Iraqi press network, al-Iraqiya state television said. The man was gunned down by unknown armed militants in one of Baghdad's suburbs.

Gunmen killed two brothers working as guards for Iraqiya state television on Saturday in Doura district in southern Baghdad, an employee at Iraqiya said.

An Iraqi worker in As-Sabah newspaper and a driver who were kidnapped on Saturday were found dead with their heads cut off in northwestern Baghdad on Sunday, a source in the newspaper said.

#3: In a separate attack, one civilian was killed and four police officers wounded when an explosive device was detonated near a police patrol in central Baghdad.

A roadside bomb killed a person and wounded six near al-Tayaran Square in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

#4: Another Iraqi was killed and three wounded when mortar shells fell on al-Fadl district, close to the site of the first attack. According to eyewitnesses, nearby houses suffered damages.

#5: Gunmen opened fire randomly and killed at least two people in the southern Saidiya district of Baghdad, police said

#6: A woman was killed and 10 civilians were wounded when 2 mortar shells fell in Jisr Dyala district south of Baghdad

#7: The corpses of the two Iraqis were found overnight by their relatives. The two civilians were kidnapped Saturday on their way home as they crossed a highway road in northern Baghdad.

#8: in al amil area an IED exploded at the civilians , 2 civilians were injured

#9: at 3 o'clock this afternoon unknown gunmen wearing civilian clothes stormed inside a carpenters market and opened fire killing 7 civilians

#10: at 4 o'clock this evening a number of mortar rounds fell on a residential area in Palestine street eastern Baghdad, 5 civilians were injured

#11: at 4:30 this evening 2 mortar rounds fell on residential area in ZAYUONA eastern Baghdad injuring 3 civilians.

#12: At 5 o'clock this evening clashes broke between unknown gunmen and interior ministry commandos in AL MADAIN area southeast Baghdad, 4 commandos were killed

#13: Today 40 bodies were found in Baghdad, some tortured and handcuffed: 5 were found in al adhamiyah, 2 aour, 2 new Baghdad, 1 zayuona, 1 rashad, 1 selekh, 2 sadr city , 2 mansour, 1 khadhra, 2 near Haifa street, 2 belat al shuhadaa, 7 in different places in shula, 4 kadhumiyah, 4 ghazaliyah, 1 dora, 2 amil and 1 bayaa

#14: Iraqi soldiers killed seven suspected insurgents and detained three more in the Haifa Street area where they have kept a heightened security presence since a major operation to clear insurgents earlier this week, the U.S. military said


Diyala Prv:
#1: according to medical and security sources, almost 4,623 victims were killed and injured by the terrorists last year plus more than 700 from the police and army soldiers. the source also said that 2,112 civilians of all ages were killed, 97 percent were Shiite, killed by all kinds of violence like kidnappings, executions, raids, IEDs and car bombs.


Baqubah:
#1: The city of Baquba, 60 kilometres north of Baghdad, was also hit by violent attacks, where at least five security personnel were killed and two were wounded in separate incidents. Of the Baquba killings, one policeman was shot down near a checkpoint in the city's north-east, another two were shot in the al- Hadid area, and two Iraqi army soldiers were killed and two were wounded in an attack on their checkpoint. In the latter incident, militants seized the checkpoint's weapons cache after the remaining soldiers fled, Iraqi authorities said.


Balad Ruz:
#1: according to a security source from baladroos area, a group of terrorists attacked one policeman from baldroos police station who was badly injured and transferred to baqouba's hospital. the source said a police patrol was near the place were the incident happened and were able to track the terrorists and arrested 3 of them


Iskandariya:
#1: Gunmen attacked a private factory and killed three workers and wounded another on Saturday night in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.


Hilla:
#1: In another incident, three people were killed and one wounded when armed gunmen fired at random at civilians in al-Hilla, a city 100 kilometres south of Baghdad.


Basrah:
#1: Two policemen were killed and a police major was wounded by gunmen in Basra, police said


Baiji:
#1: A U.S. truck loaded with supplies was burnt up in an explosion in the main street near the northern Iraqi town of Baiji on Sunday morning, a security source in Tikrit said. A roadside bomb exploded at a U.S. trucks convoy in al-Hujaj village near Baiji, the source told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq. He said one of the trucks was burnt to the ground in the blast. It was not clear if there were casualties as the U.S. forces closed off the road for several hours and did not allow the Iraqi police to reach the blast scene

#2: Police found a severed head in Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, police said


Balad:
#1: Gunmen kidnapped two Iraqi army officers and a soldier at a fake checkpoint in Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.


Mosul:
#1: Several mortar rounds landed on a residential district, wounding five people on Saturday in Mosul, police said

#2: The bodies of nine people, with gunshot wounds, were brought to the morgue in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a source in the morgue said.

#3: Gunmen killed two men in two different incidents in Mosul, police said

#4: Gunmen opened fire at a gathering of people, killing three and wounded three in Mosul, police said

#5: Gunmen killed a dentist in Mosul, police said

#6: Gunmen killed an army captain in central Mosul, police said

#7: Gunmen killed two people, including a lieutenant colonel in the former Iraqi army, in central Mosul, police said


Kirkuk:
#1: Police found the body of a man shot in the head, in Kirkuk, police said

#2: A member of the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan survived a roadside bomb attack in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said

#3: Brigadier General Sarhad Qadir, the chief of the district's police, said that 3 morter sheslls fell on the headquarters of the facilities security service, a part of the Iraqi army in Taza district. Qadir said that no human casualties were recorded.

#4: The chief of Al Nasir neighborhood police station Colonel Anwar Qadir said that 3 civilians were injured when a Katusha rocket fell inside their house in Nasir neighborhood


Fallujah:
#1: A U.S. marine took his own life by putting a bullet through his head on Sunday morning near the restive city of Fallujah, local police source said. "Early in the morning, a marine took the pistol of an Iraqi policeman in the police station of Amriyah town just south of Fallujah, and put a bullet in his head," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. "The soldier uttered words saying he was sad and miserable," the source said. The U.S. troops kept the policeman who gave the marine the pistol for several hours, but released him later, he added. Three U.S. helicopters landed at the police station and one of them evacuated the marine's body, he said. The U.S. military did not confirm the incident

#2: In a separate incident, three Iraqi soldiers were killed and two others wounded when a roadside bomb detonated near their patrol in Fallujah city, some 50 km west of Baghdad, the source said


Afghanistan:
#1: A suicide bomber blew himself up near a convoy of foreign construction workers and Afghan soldiers in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, wounding one civilian, a police official said. The blast went off south of Qalat, the capital of Zabul province, killing the bomber, said Muhammmad Asif, a police official. None of the foreigners or afghan soldiers were wounded, but an afghan passer-by was hurt in the blast, he said.