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 Wednesday, August 09, 2006 SUMMARY - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY	DEAD	WOUNDED	TOTAL CASUALTIES
Iraqis	42	63
Coalition in Iraq	3	5
Afghanis	12	1
Coalition in Afghanistan	1	8
ALL CASUALTIES, BOTH WARS	58	77	135
IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Wednesday, 8/9/2006
IRAQ
Baghdad:
#1: A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. patrol in eastern Baghdad's Shiite neighborhood of Habibiya, killing one bystander and injuring one U.S. soldier, said police Lt. Bilal Ali.	1			1
#2: Police also found the bodies of three men who were shot in the head and dumped in two locations in southwestern Baghdad, said police Lt. Maitham Abdul-Razzaq said.	3
Nine bodies were found in various districts of Baghdad and all were killed by gunshots, police said.	9
#3: Gunmen killed five people and wounded two in western Baghdad when they opened fire on a street vendor grilling fish, an Interior Ministry source said.	5	2
Baiji:
#1: Gunmen abducted two Iraqi contractors working with the U.S. military on Tuesday in the oil refinery city of Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Baqubah:
#1: In Baqouba, 35 miles northeast of Baghdad, four people were killed and 16 wounded in a U.S. airstrike late Tuesday, police said. There was no immediate comment from U.S. officials, but a Shiite mosque and nearby houses in the city were heavily damaged in the blast	4	16
Five civilians died and 20 were hurt by a rocket attack in Baquba, north of Baghdad, which collapsed a three-storey building near to a mosque, police said. Witnesses feared some people were still trapped in the rubble.	5	20
#2: In a separate incident, gunmen shot dead a policeman in the northern part of the city, the statement said. Baquba is the capital of Diyala province located in the so- called Sunni Triangle, an insurgent stronghold.	1
Basra:
#1: An Iraqi senior officer in the military was killed by militants in Al Basra suburbs in Iraq. German News Agency stated that eyewitnesses said that the militants opened fired towards him as he drove his car and killed him. The officer killed is Col. Qassim Abdulqader who was targeted as he was going to work.	1
In other violence Wednesday, gunmen on two motorcycles assassinated Col. Qassim Abdel-Qadir, administrative head of an Iraqi army division in the southern city of Basra, said a police official who did not want to be named for security reasons.	(see above)
Samarra:
#1: A policeman was killed and another wounded when they were trying to defuse a roadside bomb late Tuesday in Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, police Capt. Laith Mohammed said.	1	1
Habaniya:
#1: Three policemen were killed and another seven wounded when a suicide car bomber rammed his car into a police station in the former tourist area of Habaniya, 85 km (51 miles) west of Baghdad, local police said.	3	1
Dour:
#1: The police found the bodies of two people shot in the head and chest on Tuesday in the small town of Dour, near Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	2
Mosul:
#1: The body of a murdered policeman was found in Mosul, 390 km (24 miles) north of Baghdad, a source at the morgue said. The policeman had been shot.	1
Kirkuk:
#1: Two separate roadside bombs in Kirkuk killed one civilian, wounded another and hurt three Iraqi soldiers.	1	4
#2: (near) Three beheaded corpses were found on the side of the road between Tikrit and Kirkuk, police said. One of the dead men was Brigadier General Salamah Mohamed Latif, supply director in the Iraqi border police. The other two were his bodyguards.	3
Al Zab:
#1: The police found a beheaded body of a man in al- Zab, an area about 35 km (20 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.	1
Kalar:
#1: One person was killed and several injured Wednesday on the fifth day of demonstrations in cities and towns in northern Iraq over electricity and petrol shortages and a deficiency of other essential services. In the town of Kalar, approximately 160 kilometres south of the city of Sulaimaniya, around 1,000 Kurdish demonstrators gathered in front of the town council building, demanding the provision of essential services for the town's residents. Police fired in the air to disperse the angry protestors, who pelted the council building with stones. One protestor was killed by a bullet fired by a policemen and fourteen protestors and two policemen were injured during the scuffles, a hospital source told Deutsche Presse-Agentur dpa.	1	16
Al Anbar Prv:
#1: U.S. Army UH – 60 Blackhawk helicopter from 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing went down August 8 in Al Anbar Province with six Coalition forces on board during an area familiarization flight. The aircraft has been located.  Search and rescue efforts are ongoing for two missing crewmembers. The remaining four are in stable condition.				4
#1: Three Soldiers assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division died from enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province today.			3
Ramadi:
#1: Three civilians were wounded by a roadside bomb beside a U.S. patrol in the western city of Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, the Civil Defence Directorate said.		3
IRAQ TOTALS	42	63	3	5
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Wednesday, 8/9/2006
#1: US-led soldiers and warplanes killed 12 Taliban militants who ambushed coalition forces in mountainous eastern Afghanistan, a US military spokesman said on Wednesday. Two US soldiers and an Afghan soldier were wounded in Tuesday’s battle in the remote province of Nuristan which borders Pakistan, Colonel Tom Collins told a press conference in Kabul. “There was a significant coalition engagement yesterday in Nuristan, in which enemy extremists attacked our forces with rockets and rifle fire,” Collins said.	12	1		2
#2: A weapons accident has killed a NATO soldier patrolling in southern Afghanistan. Officials say they're ruling out any Taliban responsibility.			(see below)
One Canadian soldier was killed at approximately noon Kandahar time today, while conducting routine operations on Highway 1, about 20 km West of Kandahar City, in a weapons related accident. The incident occurred while conducting operations outside the Zharey district centre. The accident resulted in the death of Master Corporal Jeffrey Scott Walsh of The 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry, based in Shilo, Manitoba. Master Corporal Walsh recently arrived in Afghanistan as part as the new rotation of soldiers contributing to Task Force Afghanistan. His next-of-kin have been notified.			1
#3: And in another incident today, six NATO troops were hurt when their armored vehicle collided with a civilian truck.				6
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	12	1	1	8
OTHER NEWS
#1: In New Zealand, the Foreign Ministry said a Cook Islands national working as a driver in Iraq was killed in a bomb attack late Tuesday.	(see below)
The Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade says Te Ina Marokura Ngamata, 37, was killed on Tuesday. He died after the vehicle he was driving was bombed while transporting foreign workers.	1
#2: Almost 2,000 bodies were brought to Baghdad's morgue last month, an official said on Wednesday, recording the highest number since an attack in February on a Shi'ite shrine that sparked a wave of sectarian bloodshed. Morgue assistant manager, Doctor Abdul Razzaq al-Obaidi, told Reuters about 90 percent of the deaths were due to violence in the capital	2000 (many reported here previously)
#3: Three soldiers of the Turkish armed forces were wounded late Monday after setting off a land mine in the south eastern province of Hakkari. The three, listed as a senior non-commissioned officer and two sergeants were wounded when one of the men stood on the mine, believed to have been planted by the terrorist group the PKK. The incident occurred in the Yuksekova district of Hakkari, close to Turkey’s borders with both Iran and Iraq.		3
ALL IN A SINGLE DAY - Daily News Log
Dead and Wounded in Both Wars, military and civilian
Daily News Log	Total deaths reported, all nationalities, both wars	Total wounded reported, all nationalities, both wars	Total dead and wounded reported, all nationalities, both wars
31-Aug-06			0
30-Aug-06			0
29-Aug-06			0
28-Aug-06			0
27-Aug-06			0
26-Aug-06			0
25-Aug-06			0
24-Aug-06			0
23-Aug-06			0
22-Aug-06			0
21-Aug-06			0
20-Aug-06			0
19-Aug-06			0
18-Aug-06			0
17-Aug-06			0
16-Aug-06			0
15-Aug-06			0
14-Aug-06			0
13-Aug-06			0
12-Aug-06			0
11-Aug-06			0
10-Aug-06			0
9-Aug-06	58	77	135
8-Aug-06	59	87	146
7-Aug-06	47	97	144
6-Aug-06	95	57	152
5-Aug-06	39	38	77
4-Aug-06	88	52	140
3-Aug-06	127	118	245
2-Aug-06	86	48	134
1-Aug-06	81	66	147
Totals, August 2006	680	640	1320
Daily average, August 2006	76	71	147