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 Saturday, August 05, 2006

Iraqis: 32 dead, 16 wounded Coalition in Iraq: 1 dead, 0 wounded Afghanis: 4 dead, 19 wounded Coalition in Afghanistan: 2 dead, 3 wounded

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IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
8/5/2006
IRAQ
Baghdad:
#1: Meanwhile, gunmen shot dead a bodyguard of a senior official of the Justice Ministry after breaking into his house Friday night in western Baghdad said police Capt Jamil Hussein.	1
#2: Nine bullet riddled bodies showing signs of torture were found in various Baghdad neighborhoods Saturday morning, Baghdad police said.	(see below)
At least 11 more tortured corpses were found in and around the capital, in what has become a grim daily harvest of the victims of rival death squads, whose urban dirty war has pushed Iraq to the brink of all-out civil conflict.	11
#3: Meanwhile, the US air force announced that F-16 fighter jets had dropped several 500 pound (227 kilo) GBU-12 laser-guided and GBU-38 satellite-guided bombs on an insurgent position near Baghdad "achieving the intended effects". The air force gave no further details of the airstrike, part of a pattern of such raids on the periphery of Baghdad in recent weeks.
Baqubah:
#1:  Two bombs exploded minutes apart Saturday in a market northeast of Baghdad, wounding eight people, police said. The bombings occurred in Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad. The first blast destroyed a grocery store and the second went off about five minutes later as police cars arrived at the scene. Police said the eight wounded included seven civilians and one policeman.		8
#2: Two explosive experts were killed today in Baquba in Iraq. Iraqi police sources said that the two experts were killed while they were trying to dismantle a bomb placed along the roadside	2
#3: while the civilian was killed by gunmen in car near a rehabilitation prison.	1
#4: In northern Baghdad, a gunman killed an Iraq police officer while he was driving through a Sunni neighborhood around noon, Baghdad police said.	1
Dinwaniyah:
#1: Hassan Wannas, a former member of Saddam's Baath Party, was killed in a drive-by shooting in Diwaniyah, 80 miles south of Baghdad, police 1st. Lt. Raed Jabir said.	1
Amarah:
#1: Chasib al-Minshadawi, 46, a former intelligence official in Saddam's regime, was killed as he was leaving a funeral in Amarah, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad, said police Capt. Hussein Kareem said.	1
Kut:
#1: Police found seven bodies, four of them decapitated, in different parts of Kut, 170 km (105 miles) south of Baghdad, on Friday evening, police and hospital sources said.	7
Khalis:
#1: Further south in Khalis, 80 kilometres (50 miles) northeast of Bagdhad, a roadside bomb killed two Iraqi police and wounded eight people, police said.	2	8
Hawija:
#1: Captain Mahmud al-Jiburi of the Kirkuk police told AFP gunmen had ambushed an Iraqi army patrol in the town of Hawija, in the north of the country, and killed five of them.	5
An Anbar Prv:
#1: A Soldier assigned to 1st Marine Expeditionary Force died due to non-hostile action while operating in Al Anbar Province today.			1
IRAQ TOTALS	32	16	1	0
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
8/5/2006
#1: One suspected Taliban insurgent and one Afghan police were killed and six others including four militants were wounded as they engaged in Afghanistan's southern Ghazni province, a senior provincial official said Saturday. "The incident occurred in Waghaz district Friday evening as a result one policeman was killed and two others wounded," provincial police chief Tafsir Khan Khogyani told Xinhua.	2	6
In a separate incident, Taliban attacked a police patrol in southern Ghazni province overnight which left an intelligence official and a rebel killed and two police wounded, provincial police chief Tafsir Khan said Saturday.	(see above)
#2: Five Pakistani soldiers were wounded yesterday when suspected pro-Taliban militants threw an explosive device into a house in a restive tribal region near the Afghan border, officials said.		5
#3: Staff Sgt. Daniel A. Suplee, 39, of Ocala, Fla., died on Aug 3 at James A. Haley Veterans Hospital, Tampa, Fla., of injuries sustained on Apr 1 in Kabul, Afghanistan, when his HMMWV was involved in a traffic accident.  Suplee was assigned to the National Guard 153rd Cavalry Squadron, Ocala, Fla.			1
#4: One NATO soldier was killed and three injured when their armoured jeep crashed in southern Afghanistan on Saturday, a NATO statement said. The crash, in Kandahar province where four Canadian troops were killed earlier in the week, was not the result of hostile action, the statement said. The soldiers were accompanying a supply convoy, it said			(see below)
An accident on Saturday has claimed the life of another Canadian soldier. The soldier died after a large truck collided head on with a Canadian G-Wagon, about 35 kilometres southeast of Kandahar. The soldier's name was being temporarily withheld at the request of family members. Three other soldiers in the vehicle were injured in the accident, two of them being flown to a hospital in Germany for further treatment. One of the injured, Cpl. Jared Gagnon, a reservist with the Loyal Edmonton Regiment, is listed in very serious condition.			1	3
#5: Two police officers were killed and eight others wounded in a roadside bomb aimed at a district governor in Afghanistan's troubled south, an official spokesman has said. Shadi Khan, the governor of Mianshin district in Kandahar province, was on his was to Kandahar city when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in the Shawali Kot area, provincial spokesman Daud Ahmadi said Saturday. "Two police guards were martyred and eight others were wounded in the roadside bomb blast, but fortunately the district governor survived," he told АFР.	2	8
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	4	19	2	3
SUMMARY - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY	DEAD	WOUNDED	TOTAL CASUALTIES
Iraqis	32	16
Coalition in Iraq	1	0
Afghanis	4	19
Coalition in Afghanistan	2	3
ALL CASUALTIES, BOTH WARS	39	38	77