These daily logs detail some of the many dead and wounded in the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, both military and civilian, of all nationalities. We are not aware of any source that authoritatively and consistently compiles or counts these kinds of reports.

Note: These news reports overlap in some cases. We've done our best to count a casualty only once. Where vague reports suggest "many" "some" or "several" we count a minimum of 2. These logs were compiled by Evan D. The following news links were compiled by Evan D.

Note:  Our hearts go out to the people of Israel and Lebanon as they suffer through the terrible recent violence there.  We regret we do not have time to track the death and mayhem there.  Like the prayers of so many others, our prayers are vague and faceless: God be with them all. (For detailed daily news updates on the Middle East, try the blog, News About the Middle East.)

In the news on Tuesday, August 01, 2006

Iraqis: 66 dead, 64 wounded Coalition in Iraq: 3 dead, 1 wounded Afghanis: 8 dead, 0 wounded Coalition in Afghanistan: 3 dead, 1 wounded

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IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
8/1/2006
IRAQ
Baghdad:
#1: In the Karradah neighborhood of Baghdad, a car bomb exploded during morning rush hour near a bank, killing at least 14 people and injuring 37, said police Lt. Col. Abbas Mohammed Salman. The target was well chosen because Iraqi security forces draw their salaries from the bank on the first day of every month.	14	37
#2: A roadside bomb narrowly missed a car belonging to the Ministry of Electricity, killing one civilian and wounding another in eastern Baghdad, police said.	1	1
#3: Gunmen in two cars raided a mosque west of Baghdad, killing a cleric and his brother.	2
#4: A suicide attack was foiled when soldiers fired at a car trying to slam into an army convoy in Baghdad. The car exploded, killing the driver but nobody else, police said.	1
#5: A car bomb went off near a joint U. S. and Iraqi patrol in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, wounding seven people including three Iraqi police commandos, an Iraqi Interior Ministry source said. An explosive-laden car parking by the side of a road in the Zaiyounah neighborhood detonated at about 12:20 p.m.		7
#6: A suicide car bomber struck an Iraqi army checkpoint in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday, wounding two soldiers, an Interior Ministry source said. The suicide bomber detonated his explosive-packed car at the checkpoint on the Palestine Street shortly after 11:00 a.m. (0700 GMT)," the source said on condition of anonymity.	1	2
#7: A roadside bomb went off in the morning outside the Iraqi Ministry of Culture in eastern Baghdad, killing a guard and wounded two civilians, the source added.	1	2
#8: Gunmen shot at an army checkpoint in the northern outskirts of Baghdad, wounding five, including one civilian, an Interior Ministry source said.		5
#9: A service member assigned to the 16th Corps Support Group was killed in action by an improvised explosive device while conducting a convoy south of Baghdad, Iraq July 31.  A second service member from the unit was wounded in the same attack.			1	1
#10: Gunmen attacked two minibuses carrying civil servants in the electricity department of Baghdad, killing four and wounding seven, police said.	4	7
#11: The Baghdad correspondent of the Iranian government-run Al-Alam television station was assassinated in the western part of Baghdad, one of his colleagues said Tuesday. Adil al-Mansuri, an Iraqi who was in his 20s, was driving his car after dropping his wife at her family's home in Amiriyah when gunmen stopped him Monday and shot him dead, said Aysar al-Yasiri, the network's correspondent in the southern city of Najaf.	1
Baqubah:
#1: The bodies of three people were found in Baquba, 65 km north of Baghdad, police said.	3
Baji:
#1: Bombings killed 24 people in a bus destroyed by a roadside bomb. The bus, carrying many Iraqi soldiers, was struck in the northern industrial city of Beiji, killing everyone on board, said Defense Ministry spokesman Mohammed al-Askari. Police earlier said that 20 Iraqi soldiers were killed on the bus. Al-Askari confirmed that many of the passengers were soldiers, but said he did not know how many. He said the bus was not being escorted by U.S. troops, as earlier believed.	24
Samarra:
#1: 317. July 28 - attack near Samarra on a pipeline connecting Bayji and the Daura refinery.
Kut:
#1: A roadside bomb exploded beside a fuel truck wounding its driver in an area near Kut, 170 km southeast of Baghdad, police said.		1
Muqdqdiya:
#1: Elsewhere, a car bomb targeting a police patrol killed one policeman and six civilians in Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, said an official of a joint Iraqi-U.S. security force center.	7
Ruwayshid:
#1: Another roadside bomb struck an American convoy early on Tuesday in the northern village of Ruwayshid, destroying a military bus, witnesses said. No casualties were reported.
Basra:
#1: A British soldier has been killed in a mortar attack on a base in the southern Iraqi city of Basra. It happened in the early hours of Tuesday morning, defence sources said.			1
Mosul:
#1: In the northern town of Mosul, a drive-by shooting killed one civilian.	1
#2: Gunmen killed a student in the college of Islamic law and wounded another in Mosul, 390 km north of Baghdad, police said	1	1
Kirkuk:
#1: In the northern oil city of Kirkuk, a roadside bomb killed two police and wounded a third as they conducted a patrol.	2	1
#2: Iraq's northern oil pipeline to Turkey was also hit by a sabotage attack, delaying the restart of exports, industry sources said.
#3: A member of the Arab Consultative Assembly, which is a gathering of Arab tribes and political parties, was gunned down in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	1
Karma:
#1: And two insurgents were killed when a roadside bomb they were planting on a highway detonated prematurely in Karma, 25 miles west of Baghdad, police said.	2
Ramadi:
#1: (area) A provincial governor said Tuesday that 45 people from his predominantly Shiite region have been kidnapped in a Sunni area of western Iraq while en route by bus out of the country. Asaad Abu Kilal, governor of Najaf, said the victims were traveling in six buses when they were waylaid near the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi _ the main land route to both Syria and Jordan.
An Anbar Prv:
#1: (Ramadi) A soldier assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division died due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province today.			1
IRAQ TOTALS	66	64	3	1
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
8/1/2006
#1: Three British soldiers were killed in an ambush in southern Afghanistan the day after NATO forces took over the violence-plagued region from U.S. troops. A British convoy was attacked on Tuesday by rebels using rocket-propelled grenades and heavy machine guns in Helmand province -- one of the most dangerous in the country -- a British Defense Ministry spokeswoman said in London. "Two U.K. soldiers have died. One is missing presumed killed and another is seriously injured," she said. British officials later confirmed a third soldier had died.			3	1
#2:  A car bomb apparently targeting a provincial governor leaving a funeral killed eight people Monday as NATO took command of the first ground combat mission in the alliance's 57-year history. The bomb, which was hidden in a police car, exploded outside a mosque 12 miles south of Jalalabad after Nangarhar governor Gul Agha Sherzai left a memorial service for warlord Younis Khalis, police said.	8
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	8	0	3	1