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 Friday, August 04, 2006

Iraqis: 60 dead, 52 wounded Coalition in Iraq: 2 dead, 0 wounded Afghanis: 25 dead, 0 wounded Coalition in Afghanistan: 1 dead, 0 wounded

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IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
8/4/2006
IRAQ
Baghdad:
#1: An engineer was shot dead and an unidentified body, showing signs of torture, was found in western Baghdad.	2
two bodies were found in Baghdad, including one showing signs of torture.	(see above)
#2: Three suspected militants linked to al-Qaeda in Iraq were killed in U.S. raids and an air strike southeast of Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said.	3
#3: And, a short distance south of Baghdad, a bystander was killed in a botched attempt to target a police patrol with a roadside bomb.	1
#4: And four members of a Shiite family were gunned down in a city north of the capital.	4
#5: Two civilians were killed and four others wounded when gunmen opened fire in the Doura district of south Baghdad, police sources said. They said the casualties may have been participants in a rally called earlier in the day by radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, in support of Hizbollah.	2	4
Amara:
#1: Meanwhile, a former member of one of ousted Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein's security services was shot dead in the southern city of Amara, police said.	1
Mahmudiya:
#1: Two insurgents were killed and one arrested by US soldiers as they attacked a watchtower in Mahmudiya, 35 kilometres to the south of the capital.	2
Diyala Bridge:
#1: Two Iraqi civilians were killed and 17 wounded on Friday in a mortar attack on a popular market south of Baghdad. An Iraqi security source told KUNA that four mortar rounds hit a popular market on Friday afternoon in the town of Diyala Bridge, south of Baghdad, noting that a number of commercial stores and houses were damaged.	2	17
Kout and Nahrawan:
#1: Meanwhile, an Iraqi Interior Ministry source announced that 14 unidentified dead bodies were found in the towns of Kout and Nahrawan, south of Baghdad. The source told KUNA that the local police in Kout found 10 unidentified dead bodies more likely for Iraqi soldiers, noting that the bodies were handcuffed, blindfolded, had torture marks, and were executed by shooting. Also, the local police in Nahrawan found four unidentified dead bodies that were shot to death.	14
Dujail:
#1: (Thursday) Separately. gunmen shot and killed four people and wounded eight from a Shiite family late Thursday in Dujail, 80 kilometers (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police Lt. Hussam al-Dujeili, said.	4	8
Huweidar:
#1: And in the early hours of the morning, a roadside bomb killed a pregnant Iraqi woman and her husband as they raced to hospital to deliver her child. Police said the couple were taking a taxi at 2 am (2200 GMT Thursday) from the village of Huweidar towards the maternity hospital in Diyala provincial capital Baquba, north of Baghdad. The cab driver and the man's sister-in-law were injured in the blast.	2	2
Mosul:
#1: It followed clashes in Mosul between insurgents and Iraqi and U.S. forces, and a car bombing which killed one of the city's senior police officers.	(see below)
Four policemen including a colonel were killed and eight were injured in the suicide car bombing early today in Al-Nour quarter in eastern Mosul, said provincial police commander Major General Within al-Hamdani.	(see below)
The northern city of Mosul woke to a dawn blitz of six bombs and a hail of mortars, which killed at least nine police officers and triggered a six-hour gunbattle in which an unknown number of insurgents were killed.	9
Hadhar:
#1: Ten people, including three Iraqi policemen, were killed on Friday by a suicide bomber in Hadhar, a town 90 km (55 miles) south of Mosul, a police source said. The attack took place on a sports field and wounded 12 people, including nine policemen, who were patrolling the area.	10	12
He said the suicide bombing provoked pitched gunbattles that moved from street to street through five adjoining neighbourhoods in the Sunni majority city, located 225 miles northwest of Baghdad. During the battles, police shot and killed eight insurgents in two car who were firing at them, said al-Hamdani. During the course of the battles, two other cars blew up but caused no casualties. Five cars loaded with explosives were also seized, said al-Hamdani.	(see above)
Kirkuk:
#1: 318. August 1 - attack on the northern pipeline near Kirkuk.
Behdinan:
#1: One of the top names in the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK) was killed in a gun attack in north Iraq on August 1, according to a pro-PKK website. Ramazan Toptas, codenamed 'Yellow Ibrahim', was shot dead in Behdinan in North Iraq on August 1. Toptas, born in 1962, joined the PKK in 1978 and went on to become a well-known name in the top levels of the banned organization.	1
An Anbar Prv:
#1: Two Soldiers assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division died due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province today.			2
Al-Obaidey: (Ubaudi)
#1: The United States military said Friday three Iraqi civilians were killed and nine were injured in mortar shelling close to the Iraq-Syria borders. A statement issued by the US military said insurgents attacked with 120 mm mortars a civilian area in the Al-Obaidey town close to the Iraqi and Syrian borders.	3	9
IRAQ TOTALS	60	52	2	0
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
8/4/2006
#1: A Florida National Guard soldier died early Thursday from injuries he suffered while serving in Afghanistan, his wife said. Sgt. 1st Class Daniel Suplee, 39, of Lakeland, served with a Guard task force assigned to train the Afghan National Army. He was part of the 116th Field Artillery, 2nd Battalion. he suffered a severe head injury in a traffic accident April 1 in Afghanistan that was still under military investigation, his wife, Bernadine Suplee, told The Ledger in Lakeland for Friday's editions. He died of an infection, she said.			1
#2: Two bombs have exploded near NATO patrols in an area of southern Afghanistan. The early morning bombs exploded in restive Kandahar province as NATO-led International Security Assistance Force (ISAF) patrols passed, but caused no damage or casualties to the force, a spokesman said. The first destroyed a civilian vehicle
A Canadian military convoy was rocked by two bombing attacks in southern Afghanistan Friday, just a day after four Canadian soldiers were killed. The convoy was hit by two improvised explosive devices and one civilian vehicle was engulfed in flames on the main highway west of Kandahar city. There are no reports of Canadian injuries, however it's not clear whether there were civilian casualties. "These were in fact not suicide attacks but two separate improvised explosive devices known as IEDs," said CTV's Steve Chao, reporting from the coalition base in Kandahar. "One of the bombs we want off between two vehicles, another one right beside the convoy. We understand that no Canadians were injured in the blasts."
#3: Separately, the US-led coalition that handed over control of the south to NATO this week said its forces and Afghan troops had killed 25 Taliban "extremists" on Thursday in Helmand province, neighbouring Kandahar. The rebels were killed after they attacked the security force with small-arms and rocket-propelled grenades during a coalition "cordon and search" mission in a village, it said in a statement.	25
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	25	0	1	0
OTHER NEWS
#1:  Two explosives detonated within minutes of each other in a southern Turkish city Friday, seriously wounding one person and injuring 16 others, officials said. The first blast occurred in front of a bank on a busy road in Adana, injuring two bank employees, Adana police chief Mehmet Cebe said. The second explosion occurred some 30 yards away at a construction site after police had rushed to the scene of the first blast. Eight police officers and two police cadets were among the 15 injured in that blast, Gov. Cahit Kirac said.
SUMMARY	DEAD	WOUNDED
Iraqis: 60 dead, 52 wounded	60	52
Coalition in Iraq: 2 dead, 0 wounded	2	0
Afghanis: no report: 25 dead, 0 wounded	25	0
Coalition in Afghanistan: 1 dead, 0 wounded	1	0
TOTAL OF ALL:	88	52