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WAR DEAD & WOUNDED - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY - JULY 12, 2006
A compilation of news for a single day...

These reports (each with a reputable news link) detail some of the many dead and wounded among Iraqi and Afghani military and civilians. We are not aware of any source that authoritatively and consistently compiles or counts these kinds of reports. The following news links were compiled by Evan D.

Wednesday, July 12, 2006

Today’s news search came up with 68 dead Iraqis and 47 wounded -- all in a single day. Today, no coalition military were reported wounded in Iraq.

Today's news coverage of Afghanistan turned up 3 Afghanis killed and 11 wounded. Coalition wounded in Afghanistan: 2 -- all in a single day. (see below).

Notable today: If Evan is reporting on the importation of frozen chickens to Iraq, must be a slow news day! But then ... Rummy was in Baghdad on a visit, and nothing much of import makes the wire services when that happens. - P.K. (See also below: Other news about the wars.)

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IRAQ
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Iraqis: 68 dead, 47 wounded

Baghdad:

#1: A suicide bomber walked into a restaurant in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday and blew himself up, killing seven people and wounding 20, police said. A police source said he counted seven bodies in the restaurant in the mainly Shi'ite New Baghdad district. The bomber's body disintegrated in the blast.

#2: Gunmen killed a Baghdad University professor on Tuesday in the western Mansur district, police said.

#3: Three civilians, including a child, were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near a police patrol in northern Baghdad, police said.

#4: (N. of) gunmen attacked an army patrol to the north of the capital, wounding four soldiers, police said.

#5: Also, an Iraqi police source told KUNA that ten people, including a policeman and a woman, were injured in a car explosion targeting a police checkpoint in south Baghdad.

#6: Clashes erupted between Iraqi policemen and gunmen in the mostly Shi'ite district of Um al-Maalif in southern Baghdad, killing one civilian and one policeman, police said. Two police cars were burnt, they added.

Miqdadiya:

#1: Iraqi security forces said they had found the bodies of 20 bus drivers who had been kidnapped north of Baghdad earlier on Wednesday. Police had put the number of bus drivers kidnapped in Miqdadiya, 100 km (60 miles) northeast of the capital at 12, but Major General Ahmed al-Awad said 20 bodies had been found after gunmen snatched a group of drivers from a station.

Gunmen ambushed a bus station Wednesday in a volatile town northeast of Baghdad, kidnapping two dozen people and killing all but four, authorities said. The attackers drove up in several cars and seized 24 people from the bus station in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles northeast of Baghdad. Iraqi Maj. Gen. Ahmed al-Awad, the commander of the army's 5th division in the area, told state TV that 20 bodies had been found and the victims were Shiites. He said four people were rescued. Police confirmed that 20 bodies were found but said their identities were uncertain.
(?) "There was a very serious breach of security in Diyala province when 60-80 Shiites were kidnapped from the bus station in Muqdadiyah," he said. "The police appear to be complicit in this incident because they pulled out of the area right before the kidnapping," he added, echoing a charge more commonly raised by the minority Sunni community against the security forces.

Hasswa:

#1: One civilian was killed and six were wounded when a car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army headquarters in the town of Hasswa, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

Kut:

#1: Gunmen on a motorcycles killed a taxi driver in separate attacks in Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad.

#2: Gunmen on a motorcycles killed a former member of the ousted Baath Party in Kut, 100 miles southeast of Baghdad.

Tikrit:

#1: A bomb exploded near a private clinic owned by the wife of the Governor of Salahaddin, killing her and wounding two of her aides on Tuesday in Tikrit, police said.

#2: The bodies of two carpenters were found with gunshot wounds in Tikrit, police said.

#3: One policeman was killed when gunmen shot at a police patrol in central Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

Kirkuk:

#1: A body with gunshot wounds and signs of torture was found near Kirkuk, police said.

#2: Gunmen killed a policeman in the northern city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

#3: In other developments, a police source in Kirkuk told KUNA that police patrols found an explosive device that blew up killing an Iraqi woman.

#4: The source added that unidentified militants opened fire against a civilian vehicle and that two civilians working for an oil company were killed.

#5: Meanwhile, unidentified gunmen shot dead an unidentified man, where also a policeman was wounded by unidentified militants' fire

Mosul:

#1: An Iraqi Police source told Kuwait News Agency (KUNA) that unknown gunmen killed three Shiite Kurds in Ansar neighborhood.

#2: The source added that insurgents also gunned down a medical worker, noting that the gunmen showered the victim with bullets in Zahra neighborhood, killing him and another civilian instantly.

#3: Meanwhile, severe clashes erupted between Iraqi police and army forces on one side and gunmen on the other in Sukkar neighborhood. A gunman was killed and another was wounded, who was detained by Iraqi security forces.

#4: The source added that 19 dead bodies were found in several areas in Mosul this week.

AFGHANISTAN
Wednesday, July 12, 2006
Afghanis: 3 dead, 11 wounded
Coalition: 2 dead

#1: Two U.S. soldiers have been wounded in a suicide car bomb attack on their convoy in eastern Afghanistan. A local official says a boy playing nearby was killed and three other children were wounded. He says injuries to the soldiers are not serious. In southern Afghanistan, a bomb planted in a fruit cart blew up in a crowded marketplace today, killing two people and wounding eight others. That attack happened less than a mile from the Pakistan border

Other War News
Wednesday, July 12, 2006

In Country:

#1: Michigan Army National Guard Sgt. Duane Dreasky, who suffered burns over 75 percent of his body during an attack in Iraq, died in a Texas military hospital after an eight-month fight for his life. He had been living a life-long dream of serving his country when the Humvee in which he was riding near al-Habbaniyah, Iraq, was hit by an improvised explosive device on Nov. 21, 2005.

#2: (Editors note "The dark lord com'ith") U.S. Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld paid an unannounced visit to Iraq Wednesday

#3: The U.S. Army will discontinue its multi-billion dollar contract with oil services giant Halliburton Co. to provide logistical support to U.S. troops worldwide, The Washington Post reported on Wednesday. Halliburton, formerly run by Vice President Dick Cheney, has drawn scrutiny for its work in Iraq from auditors, congressional Democrats and the Justice Department, which is investigating potential overcharges for fuel, dining and laundry services.

#4: Accidents, aging, and the demands of war have obliged the Marine Corps to bring back a number of its warhorses from retirement - a handful of Super Stallion helicopters recalled to active duty after a decade in mothballs. At least seven refurbished CH-53E Super Stallion heavy-lift helicopters will be brought back on line with Marine Heavy Helicopter Squadron 464 at New River Air Station. Nevertheless, at $5 million for retrofitting, it's far less expensive than buying a new Super Stallion for $27 million. With one helicopter back in service, two more are currently being restored at the Cherry Point Depot and are scheduled to be delivered to a Marine Corps squadron sometime within the year, Bair said. Four more Super Stallions will be refurbished in pairs during the next few years, in hopes that all seven additional aircraft will be in the fleet by 2009.

#5: 316. July 3 - early morning attack section of Yumurtalik pipeline in the city of Hassan about 40 miles southeast of Kirkuk.

#6: Five Sri Lankan drivers who were employed in Kuwait are now in Iraqi custody with six other persons, Sri Lanka Foreign Employment Bureau sources say. These Sri Lankan drivers had been transporting frozen chicken to Iraq. They were taken into custody three weeks ago because they violated the Iraqi laws that restricted importing frozen chicken because of the spread of bird flu. The company for which these Sri Lankan drivers worked had continued exporting chicken to Iraq despite the restrictions.

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