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WAR DEAD & WOUNDED - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY - JULY 13, 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, as well as Coalition dead and wounded. 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.

Thursday, July 13, 2006

Today’s news search came up with 51 dead Iraqis and 55 wounded -- all in a single day. Today, 1 coalition military was reported dead, and 2 wounded in Iraq.

Today's news coverage of Afghanistan turned up 33 Afghanis killed and 24 wounded. Coalition wounded in Afghanistan: 2 -- all in a single day. (see below).

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IRAQ
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Iraqis: 51 dead, 55 wounded
Coalition: 1 dead, 2 wounded

IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED



Baghdad:
#1: Three Iraqis were killed and eight others were injured on Thursday by a booby trapped car blast near a gas station on Baghdad.	3	8

#2: Earlier, five cleaning workers were killed by a bomb while performing their regular tasks in south-eastern Baghdad's Al-Ghadeer quarter.	5

#3: Police in the Shiite shrine city of Karbala announced on Thursday that the bodies of five missing policemen, who had gone to Baghdad for a training course, had been found. The men were returning to Karbala when gunmen ambushed them in the Sunni neighborhood of Dura in southern Baghdad, said Karbala authorities. Their bodies had lain in Baghdad city morgue for three days before being identified late on Wednesday.	5

#4: (N. of) A U-S Army Apache attack helicopter has crashed during a combat patrol southwest of Baghdad, but the two pilots survived.A U-S military statement did not say what caused the crash nor give a precise location. The statement says the two pilots were flown to a U-S military facility north of the capital.				2

However, an Iraqi army official in the area said the helicopter was shot down in the village of Grakoul, located near the town of Youssifiyah about eight miles southwest of Baghdad. The official spoke on condition of anonymity because he is not authorized

#5: In a separate incident, three mortar shells hit the western Baghdad district of Shoala, injuring an unspecified number of Iraqis, sources said. Further details were not immediately available.		?

Three mortar rounds landed in the Shi'ite district of Shula, wounding two people, police said.		2

#6: Five policemen were wounded when clashes erupted between gunmen and policemen in the western Sunni Ghazaliya district, an Interior Ministry source said.		5

#7: clashes erupted between gunmen and Iraqi police in Ghazaliya, a Sunni neighbourhood in western Baghdad which has seen fierce fighting between Sunni and Shi'ite fighters. The Association of Muslim Scholars, a leading Sunni religious group, said gunmen had attacked one its mosques in Ghazaliya. Police said two people were wounded in clashes.		2

#8: Meanwhile, purported Shiite militiamen drove the streets of the western Baghdad neighborhood of Ghazaliyah and called on Sunnis to leave. Clashes broke out after police arrived, supported by U.S. forces in the air, with one policeman killed and two injured, Capt. Jamil Hussein said	1	2

#9: A postal policeman also was killed in a drive-by shooting in southwestern Baghdad.	1

#10: Five policemen were wounded when clashes erupted between gunmen and policemen in the western Sunni Ghazaliya district, an Interior Ministry source said.		5


Karbala:
#1: Gunmen attacked a minivan that was coming from the Shiite holy city of Karbala to Baghdad, killing the driver and wounding four passengers.	1	4

#2: Gunmen at a fake checkpoint killed four policemen from Karbala after stopping their car in the volatile Baghdad neighborhood of Dora on Wednesday.	4


Diyala Prv:
#1: Gunmen also killed a member of a provincial council in Diwaniyah, some 80 miles south of Baghdad, Lt. Raed Jabr said	1

#2: Gunmen opened fire on a minibus carrying Shiite commuters in the northern part of the province, killing one and wounding three.	1	3


Baqubah:
#1: Gunmen attacked a police patrol, killing a police officer and wounding another in the religiously mixed city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	1	1


Muqdadiya:
#1: (Near) The bodies of three brothers were found shot dead near the town of Muqdadiya, 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said. They had been seized from their home a day earlier, police added.	3


Abu Saeda:
#1: Up to three members of a local council were killed and three others wounded Thursday in the northeastern Abu Seida village in Baghdad. A source in the Iraqi Interior Ministry told KUNA that unidentified men entered the courtyard of the council driving a motorcycle that contains a bag carrying an explosive device. The explosion killed three members and wounded three others, including the chairman of the council, where also parts of the council were destroyed, the source added.	3	3

In the violence-plagued province of Diyala, east of Baghdad, a bicycle fitted with a bomb exploded inside the town hall of Abu Saeda village just northeast of the provincial capital Baquba, killing three people and wounding three. The head of the local council Raed Israwi and one of his sons were among the wounded, while another son was killed. The three were just entering the building when they were caught by the blast.	3	3

A suicide bomber blew himself up in the city council of the town of Abi Saida, 80 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, killing six people and wounding three, including the head of the city council, police said.	6	3


Thi Qar:
#1: Iraqi police arrested several oil smugglers and confiscated an oil tank prepared to be smuggled from southern Iraq on Thursday, a government statement said today. Iraqi security forces in Thi Qar governorate, southern Iraq, confiscated the tank along with 30 barrels of oil and a number of cars used by the smugglers who are residents of Basra governorate.


Kirkuk:
#1: A car bomb targeting a police patrol near the Northern Oil Company in the petroleum city of Kirkuk in northern Iraq killed three policemen and wounded six civilians, according to a local security official.	3	6


Al Abasi:
#1: Three Iraqi soldiers were killed and three wounded when gunmen attacked a checkpoint at the entrance of al-Abasi, a small town 80 km (50 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.	3	3


Mosul:
#1: Gunmen killed a policeman in the city of Mosul, police said.	1

Gunmen killed a policeman wearing civilian clothes while he was getting his car repaired in the northwestern city of Mosul.	1

#2: Five Iraqi soldiers were wounded by a roadside bomb in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

#3: A suicide car bomber struck a police patrol in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday, killing five people and wounding five, police said. The attack, which occurred about 8:15 p.m., also damaged some shops. Police Col. Abdul Karim Ahmed said two policemen and three civilians were killed, and two policemen and three civilians were wounded.	5	5


Al Anbar Prv:
#1: A Sailor assigned to 9th Naval Construction Regiment died due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province on July 12.			1


Karabilah:
#1: A suicide car bomb struck a U.S. checkpoint in Karabilah, near the Syrian border, but no casualties were immediately reported.

IRAQ TOTALS	51	55	1	2

AFGHANISTAN
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Afghanis: 33 dead, 24 wounded
Coalition: 2 wounded

AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED



#1: Some 200 militants, driving four-wheel-drive vehicles, poured into the Helmand provincial town of Nawzad around midday Wednesday and set up positions around a police compound where Afghan soldiers and police, along with coalition forces, were based, spokesman Ghulam Muhiddin said. "The Taliban surrounded this area, including a nearby bazaar, and told all their shopkeepers to leave before attacking the compound with small-arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades," Muhiddin told The Associated Press. Soldiers and Afghan forces inside the compound returned fire, said coalition spokeswoman Capt. Julie Roberge. Coalition warplanes launched several airstrikes, killing 12 militants in a vehicle and another seven near the compound, Muhiddin said. British spokesman Capt. Drew Gibson said coalition aircraft dropped two 500-pound bombs on two Taliban targets in Nawzad, including a machine-gun position that was destroyed. He had no details on militant casualties.	19

#2: In neighboring Musa Qala district, insurgents fired rocket-propelled grenades and machine guns at coalition troops, who returned fire and killed local Taliban commander Mullah Saeef, the U.S. military said. Two insurgents, including one who was wounded, were captured in the fighting Wednesday.	1	1

#3: Two coalition forces were slightly wounded in an ambush in Kunar province's Pech River Valley Wednesday, said military spokeswoman Lt. Tamara Lawrence.				2

#4: In southern Zabul province, three Afghan border guards were killed in a clash Wednesday with armed tribesmen crossing from Pakistan, border guard chief Jailani Khan said Thursday. Armed men in a convoy of cars carrying about 200 members of the Nasser tribe crossed into the Shamalzai district and fired on border guards trying to stop them, Khan said. He said he didn't know if there were any casualties among the tribespeople.	3

#5: Separately, a bomb rigged to a hand-powered tricycle for the disabled exploded and wounded four people in the northern city of Mazar-i-Sharif early Thursday, said local police official Nasseruddin Hamdad. It was unclear who was behind the attack.		4

Two bombs exploded in the northern Afghan city of Mazar-e Sharif today. One detonated near the historic Blue Mosque and the other on a road on the city's outskirts. City police chief Abdul Raof Taj said five people were wounded in the bombing near the Blue Mosque. There were no reports of injuries from the other bomb.		5

#6: Five dead bodies of Pakistani nomads, killed by Afghan security forces, were brought back home on Thursday, said an official. Five nomads of Lora Lai district, about 94 miles east of Quetta, the province of Southwestern Baluchistan province, went to Afghan eastern province of Zabul through Pakistani-Afghan Chaman border, District Mayor of Lora Lai, Sardar Jahanzeb, told KUNA by telephone.	5

#7: A bomb planted in a fruit cart exploded in a crowded southern market Wednesday, killing five men and wounding 14 others. US military have cordoned off the area and sealed the Pak-Afghan border. The explosion happened in the Kandahar provincial town of Spin Boldak in a market about 1 kilometer (0.62 miles) from the Pakistani border, said area police. Two men killed on the spot while three wounded later died in hospital. Two of the deceased were residents of Pakistan’s border town Chaman.	5	14

AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	33	24	0	2

The current time in Iraq is..

IRAQ Thursday, July 13, 2006 Iraqis: 51 dead, 55 wounded Coalition: 1 dead, 2 wounded

AFGHANISTAN Thursday, July 13, 2006 Afghanis: 33 dead, 24 wounded Coalition: 2 wounded

IRAQ
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Iraqis: 51 dead, 55 wounded
Coalition: 1 dead, 2 wounded

AFGHANISTAN
Thursday, July 13, 2006
Afghanis: 33 dead, 24 wounded
Coalition: 2 wounded