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. The following news links were compiled by Evan D.

In the news on Sunday, September 17, 2006 SUMMARY - ALL IN A SINGLE DAY	DEAD	WOUNDED	TOTAL CASUALTIES
Iraqis	84	104
Coalition in Iraq	1	0
Afghanis	47	4
Coalition in Afghanistan	0	5
ALL CASUALTIES, BOTH WARS	132	113	245
IRAQ LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	IRAQI DEAD	IRAQI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Sunday, September 17, 2006
IRAQ
Baghdad:
#1: (for yesterday's count--update from 29) Police said Saturday they had recovered 48 bodies from across Baghdad, bringing the toll of clandestine killings since Monday to at least 180 people -- most of them shot execution-style.	19
#2: A second bomb -- left in a bag near a downtown shopping area -- killed one person and injured four others. A third bomb hit a police patrol in Zafarniya, killing three and injuring two.	1	4
#3: In one attack, insurgents allegedly had placed explosives in or near a corpse, detonating the bomb when the Iraqi army came to pick up the body. One soldier died and three other people were injured.	1	3
#4: A brother of one of Saddam's co-accused in the trial for genocide and crimes against humanity against Kurds in the 1980s was kidnapped from his Baghdad home on Friday, relatives and a defence lawyer said.
#5: Two policemen were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near their patrol in the northern Adhamiya district of Baghdad, police said.		2
#6: Two Iraqi soldiers and a civilian were wounded when a roadside bomb went off near an army patrol near al-Shaab national football stadium in central Baghdad, a source in the Ministry of Interior said.	2	1
#7: A total of 24 bodies, tortured and with a single shot to the head, were found in different areas of Baghdad during the last 24 hours, a Ministry of Interior source said.	24
#8: A roadside bomb wounded 10 people in a bird and animal market in central Baghdad on Sunday, police said.		10
Baqubah:
#1: North of Baghdad near Baqubah, a bomb hit a police patrol, killing three police officers and injuring a fourth.	3	1
Taiji:
#1: On Sunday, rebel violence in Baghdad saw two Iraqi policemen killed when their patrol came under fire by unknown gunmen on the northern outskirts of the city, on the road to the town of Taji.	2
Balad:
#1: A local oil pipeline was sabotaged when a bomb was planted beneath it in the town of Balad, 80 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
Tikrit:
#1: In Tikrit, just north of Baghdad, police and witnesses described intense fighting involving rifles, machine guns and rocket-propelled grenades. One witness, Salim Shammari, a 43-year-old taxi driver, said he watched four armed men attack the municipality building, guarded by American troops. "They shouted to everybody to leave the place," he said. Shammari said the rebels were well armed. "One of them said: 'We do not want any anybody to stay here,'" Shammari recalled. "We immediately ran away." Hiding in a house, he heard fierce shooting, he said. Police Lt. Saad Jabir confirmed that the firefight injured several people.		2
Hawijah:
#1: Darrell L. Wetherbee, a former police officer from New Gloucester, Maine, was killed by sniper fire in Iraq today. Mr. Wetherbee, 46, was working as an international police liaison officer (IPLO) with DynCorp International. The shooting occurred at approximately 12:20 p.m. local time outside the police station in the city of Hawijah, located in the province of Tikrit. Darrell Wetherbee was assigned to the Civilian Police Advisory Training Team (CPATT), the component of the U.S. military Multinational Security Transition Command - Iraq (MNSTC-I) responsible for the U.S.-led effort to train and equip the 135,000-member Iraqi police service. DynCorp International is responsible for recruiting, training, equipping, and supporting the 700-member U.S. contingent of trainers through a contract with the U.S. Department of State.			1
Kirkuk:
#1: The first suicide bomb, in a truck, exploded in the morning in the center of the city, killing 18 and wounding 55, said police Brig. Sarhat Qadir.	18	55
#2: A few hours later, a suicide car bomb rammed into the joint patrol in the south of the city, killing at least three bystanders and wounding eight others, Qadir said. He said there were also casualties among the soldiers, but would not provide further details. A gunman sitting beside the truck bomber opened fire on civilians before the vehicle exploded near the city's criminal court and the headquarters of the two main Kurdish political parties, the Kurdistan Democratic Party and the Patriotic Union of Kurdistan, Qadir said	3	8
#3: In separate attacks in Kirkuk, a roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol in the south of the city, killing two civilians and wounding four	2	4
#4: while another roadside bomb, also targeting a police patrol, wounded three civilians in another part of the city, Qadir said.		3
Mosul:
#1: Gunmen shot dead the body guard of Osama al-Najafi, a former minister of Industry and Minerals, in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.	1
#2: In separate attacks, gunmen killed two former Baath party members and a former army brigadier in the northern city of Mosul.	3
#3: Gunmen killed a man who was in charge of pilgrims' affairs in the northern city of Mosul, police said.	1
#4: A policeman was wounded when a roadside bomb went off near his patrol in Mosul, police said		1
Fallujah:
#1: In Fallujah, a roadside bomb detonated in the centre of the city, followed a few minutes later by a car bomb attack and a blast from an explosives-rigged motorcycle in separate areas of the city. All three attacks targeted police patrols, said police Lt Mohammed Ismail. The attacks killed a total of four people, including two policemen, and wounded 10 others, including four policemen, he said. He would not provide details of which attack the casualties resulted from. Shortly afterward, a mortar round hit the area of a US and Iraqi police base in the centre of the city, and clashes erupted between gunmen and police nearby. Another mortar fell in an Iraqi army base in western Fallujah but did not cause any casualties, Ismail said.	4	10
A series of blasts, including a car bomb and a motorcycle bomb targeted American troops and Iraqi police in the restive city of Fallujah on Sunday, local police source said. "Four roadside bombs, a car bomb and a motorcycle bomb detonated in several parts of the city before midday, targeting the U.S. troops and Iraqi police," the source told Xinhua on condition of anonymity. The blasts followed by gunfight and mortar barrage between gunmen and U.S. troops in three of Fallujah neighborhoods, the source said.	(see above)
IRAQ TOTALS	84	104	1	0
AFGHANISTAN LOCATION / STORY / NEWS LINK	AFGHANI DEAD	AFGHANI WOUNDED	COALITION DEAD	COALITION WOUNDED
Sunday, September 17, 2006
#1: A suicide bomber blew himself up next to a U.S. military convoy on the outskirts of Kabul, injuring two American soldiers and two civilians, police said. The bombing occurred on a road about three miles east of the Afghan capital, police Sgt. Mohammed Sama said. "The attacker carried the explosives on his body and he ran in front of American vehicles before he blew himself up," Sama said.	1	2		2
#2: Two Afghans were hurt after a Canadian trooper fired a warning shot Saturday at a vehicle deemed to be too close to a military convoy. According to Navy Lieutenant Sue Stefko, shrapnel from the spent ammunition caused the injuries. Both victims were brought to an area hospital, one of whom needed surgery.		2
#3: A suicide bomber plowed his explosive-laden vehicle into a Canadian military convoy in southern Afghanistan on Sunday, killing one civilian. Three soldiers were slightly wounded, a NATO statement said, without identifying their nationalities. The bomber died in the blast, west of Kandahar city, and eight civilians were hurt, police said.	2			3
#4: The mutilated body of an Afghan engineer kidnapped earlier in the week by suspected Taliban militants in Ghazni province was found Sunday, said Ali Ahmad Fakuri, the provincial governor‘s spokesman. The victim worked for a local aid agency involved in rural development, he said.	1
#5: Thousands of Afghan and foreign security forces kicked off a major new offensive against the Taliban in eastern Afghanistan on Saturday as violence left 23 people dead. About 4,000 Afghan police and soldiers and 3,000 troops with the US-led coalition launched the main “manoeuvre” phase of Operation Mountain Fury in five provinces, three of them on the Pakistan border.	23
#6: In neighbouring Uruzgan province, ISAF troops used gunfire and bombs to strike a group of insurgents spotted laying bombs near a military base late Friday, the force said. Seventeen were killed, it said.	17
#7: In other violence, three men working for a US-funded water project were killed in Kabul on Saturday when a remote-controlled bomb struck their car in the capital.	3
#8: A top NATO general said Sunday that the alliance's anti-Taliban offensive in southern Afghanistan has been "successfully completed." Lt. Gen. David Richard, the head of the 20,000 NATO-led force, called the two weeklong operation in insurgency wracked southern Afghanistan a "significant success." The insurgents were forced to abandon their positions and reconstruction and development efforts would soon begin in three southern areas, he said.
AFGHANISTAN TOTALS	47	4	0	5
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
30-Sep-06			0
29-Sep-06			0
28-Sep-06			0
27-Sep-06			0
26-Sep-06			0
25-Sep-06			0
24-Sep-06			0
23-Sep-06			0
22-Sep-06			0
21-Sep-06			0
20-Sep-06			0
19-Sep-06			0
18-Sep-06			0
17-Sep-06	132	113	245
16-Sep-06	64	62	126
15-Sep-06	128	28	156
14-Sep-06	88	84	172
13-Sep-06	181	149	330
12-Sep-06	63	81	144
11-Sep-06	127	44	171
10-Sep-06	196	69	265
9-Sep-06	68	37	105
8-Sep-06	88	88	176
7-Sep-06	107	131	238
6-Sep-06	66	70	136
5-Sep-06	123	39	162
4-Sep-06	104	65	169
3-Sep-06	248	49	297
2-Sep-06	90	91	181
1-Sep-06	36	180	216
Totals, September 2006	1909	1380	3289
Daily average, September 2006	112	81	193