Photo: Map of where the U.S. Embassy Complex under construction in Baghdad's Green Zone 2007 MCT source: NGA, East View, Think Process. Graphic: Angela Smith.
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MNF-Iraq is reporting the death of a Task Force Lightning soldier in an explosion in Salah ad Din Province on Wednesday, October 17th. Three other soldiers were injured in the attack.
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The DoD is announcing the death of Spc. Micheal D. Brown, 20, of Williamsburg, Kansas, who died Tuesday, October 16th in Landstuhl Regional Medical Center, in Germany, of a non-combat related illness after being transported from Tikrit, Iraq on Oct.15. He was an aviation operations specialist assigned to the 1st Battalion, 1st Aviation Regiment, 1st Combat Aviation Brigade, 1st Infantry Division, Fort Riley, Kansas.
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Security incidents:
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Baghdad:
#1: U.S. forces killed five gunmen and arrested two others during operations around Iraq, the U.S. military said.
#2: Two mortar bombs wounded three people in the southern Rashid district of Baghdad, police said.
#3: Around 10 a.m. militiamen raided Al Baraka mosque (Sunni) near Al Washash area and planted four IEDs in the corners of the mosque. Three of the IEDs exploded and the fourth didn’t detonate, the mosque was not destroyed and no human casualties were caused according to the Iraqi police.
Muwalha:
#1: Two bodies were found with gunshot wounds in Muwailha, 50 km (35 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
Mosayyab:
#1: Three women were killed when three mortar shells fell on a residential area in the district of al-Musayyab, 45 km north of Hilla, on Friday, police said.
Haswa:
#1: Militants also targeted an oil pipeline near Haswa, 50 km (30 miles) south of Baghdad, causing minor damage that was quickly repaired, the Iraqi army said. The pipeline feeds the Doura oil refinery in Baghdad with crude from Iraq's southern fields.
#2: Brigadier-General Imad al-Silawi, head of the Iraqi Army's 4th Brigade, 8th Division, said soldiers were ambushed when they went to the scene of the blast. Seven gunmen were killed in ensuing clashes, he said. The patrol was later hit by a roadside bomb that wounded one soldier.
Riyadh:
#1: Gunmen attacked the convoy of the police chief in the town of Riyadh, 60 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, wounding two of his guards, police said.
Dalouiya:
#1: A convoy of policemen were returning from Samarra, Salah al-Din province, toward Baghdad came under attack with three explosive charges followed by heavy machine gun fire by unidentified gunmen in al-Dalouiya, northwest of the capital," the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The attack left a large number of casualties among the convoy that asked for air backup, the source said, adding U.S. helicopters hunted down the gunmen inside orchards in the area. The number of casualties could not be known immediately.
(?) Two people were killed and one injured when gunmen attacked the convoy of Barham Salih, a deputy to Iraq's prime minister, in north Kirkuk. Gunmen hiding in a house opened fire on Salih's convoy, which was en route to Baghdad, when fierce clashes between his security guards and the attackers broke out, the source added. One of Barham's staff and a militant were killed and an employee was wounded in the clashes, the source said. Salih was not in the convoy at the time of the attack as he was on a mission abroad.
Shirqat:
#1: Two gunmen were killed and three others were injured as the IED they were planting exploded in Al Shirqat today.
Kirkuk:
#1: Unidentified gunmen blew up a branch oil pipeline southwest of Kirkuk which is carrying crude oil to a refinery in the city, a source from Kirkuk police said on Friday. "The explosion caused a fire and a black cloud was seen overhead while fire engines rushed to the scene," the source, who preferred not to have his name mentioned, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). A source from the North Oil Company told VOI that maintenance teams were trying to control the situation, expecting the firefighters to put out the blaze during the next few hours.
#1: U.S. forces killed five gunmen and arrested two others during operations around Iraq, the U.S. military said.
#2: Two mortar bombs wounded three people in the southern Rashid district of Baghdad, police said.
#3: Around 10 a.m. militiamen raided Al Baraka mosque (Sunni) near Al Washash area and planted four IEDs in the corners of the mosque. Three of the IEDs exploded and the fourth didn’t detonate, the mosque was not destroyed and no human casualties were caused according to the Iraqi police.
Muwalha:
#1: Two bodies were found with gunshot wounds in Muwailha, 50 km (35 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
Mosayyab:
#1: Three women were killed when three mortar shells fell on a residential area in the district of al-Musayyab, 45 km north of Hilla, on Friday, police said.
Haswa:
#1: Militants also targeted an oil pipeline near Haswa, 50 km (30 miles) south of Baghdad, causing minor damage that was quickly repaired, the Iraqi army said. The pipeline feeds the Doura oil refinery in Baghdad with crude from Iraq's southern fields.
#2: Brigadier-General Imad al-Silawi, head of the Iraqi Army's 4th Brigade, 8th Division, said soldiers were ambushed when they went to the scene of the blast. Seven gunmen were killed in ensuing clashes, he said. The patrol was later hit by a roadside bomb that wounded one soldier.
Riyadh:
#1: Gunmen attacked the convoy of the police chief in the town of Riyadh, 60 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, wounding two of his guards, police said.
Dalouiya:
#1: A convoy of policemen were returning from Samarra, Salah al-Din province, toward Baghdad came under attack with three explosive charges followed by heavy machine gun fire by unidentified gunmen in al-Dalouiya, northwest of the capital," the source, who asked not to be named, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). The attack left a large number of casualties among the convoy that asked for air backup, the source said, adding U.S. helicopters hunted down the gunmen inside orchards in the area. The number of casualties could not be known immediately.
(?) Two people were killed and one injured when gunmen attacked the convoy of Barham Salih, a deputy to Iraq's prime minister, in north Kirkuk. Gunmen hiding in a house opened fire on Salih's convoy, which was en route to Baghdad, when fierce clashes between his security guards and the attackers broke out, the source added. One of Barham's staff and a militant were killed and an employee was wounded in the clashes, the source said. Salih was not in the convoy at the time of the attack as he was on a mission abroad.
Shirqat:
#1: Two gunmen were killed and three others were injured as the IED they were planting exploded in Al Shirqat today.
Kirkuk:
#1: Unidentified gunmen blew up a branch oil pipeline southwest of Kirkuk which is carrying crude oil to a refinery in the city, a source from Kirkuk police said on Friday. "The explosion caused a fire and a black cloud was seen overhead while fire engines rushed to the scene," the source, who preferred not to have his name mentioned, told the independent news agency Voices of Iraq (VOI). A source from the North Oil Company told VOI that maintenance teams were trying to control the situation, expecting the firefighters to put out the blaze during the next few hours.
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