War News for Friday, January 08, 2010

The Washington Post is reporting the death of an American soldier in a roadside bombing in an undisclosed location in eastern Afghanistan on Thursday, January 7th.

The DoD is reporting a new death previously unreported by the military. Spc. David A. Croft Jr died in an IED/small arms fire attack in Baghdad, Iraq on Tuesday, January 5th.


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: A roadside bomb exploded in Ameriyah neighborhood, west Baghdad, injuring six civilians.


Sinjar:
#1: “Two persons were killed and four others were wounded in a conflict between two Kurdish tribes in Sinjar district, north of Mosul,” the same source said.


Mosul:
#1: An Iraqi soldier was wounded when an improvised explosive device went off near his patrol in Mosul on Thursday, a local police source said. “The IED went off near a patrol of the Iraqi army’s 7th Brigade, 3rd Contingent, in 17 Tammuz neighborhood, western Mosul, leaving one soldier wounded,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#2: In a separate incident, a police force from al-Qiyara, south of Mosul, defused an IED that was planted on a main road in the district without incident.

#3: “Clashes flared up on Friday morning (Jan. 8) between U.S. forces and gunmen on the Mosul-Baghdad road, south of Mosul, during which four gunmen were killed,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.

#4: A roadside bomb exploded targeting a police patrol in west Mosul injured two policemen.

#5: A parked car bomb exploded in Bartullah town, 10 miles east of Mosul, injuring four civilians.

#6: A gunman threw a grenade at a police vehicle in central Mosul injuring five people.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: A blast apparently caused by a suicide vest stored in a house in the southern Pakistani city of Karachi killed eight suspected militants Friday. The explosion occurred in Baldia, a mostly ethnic Pashtun neighborhood where many militants are suspected to be hiding out, police Chief Wasim Ahmad told The Associated Press.

#2: Early Friday, a suicide bombing at a facility of the Ansarul-Islam militant group in the Khyber tribal region killed at least one person and wounded 11, local government official Farooq Khan said.


DoD: Spc. David A. Croft Jr