Friday, April 30, 2010

War News for Friday, April 30, 2010

The DoD is reporting the death of Sgt. Grant A. Wichmann who died at Walter Reed Army Medical Center, Washington, D.C., on Saturday, April 24th. He was originally wounded in a small arms fire at Out Post Bari Alai, Kunar province, Afghanistan on Monday, April 10th.

NATO is reporting the death of an ISAF soldier in an undisclosed location in southern Afghanistan on Thursday, April 29th.


Fort Bliss soldier might have killed self:

In Shift, Pakistan Considers Attack on Militant Lair:


Reported security incidents

Baghdad:
#1: A car bomb parked next to an alcohol beverages store exploded in Al Shorta Al Rabiia region, southwestern Baghdad, on Thursday night, Baghdad Operations Command Qassem Ata told Alsumaria News. The explosion killed three people and wounded 12 others.

#2: One U.S. soldier was wounded by a roadside bomb in in Baghdad's northern Adhamiya district on Thursday night, the U.S military said


Mosul:
#1: Iraqi army forces on Friday defused a bomb in eastern Mosul, according to an army source. “The forces defused the bomb, which was planted near a communication tower of AsiaCell Company in al-Intesar neighborhood in eastern Mosul,” the source told Aswat al-Iraq news agency.


Al Anbar Prv:
#1: Two people were killed and nine wounded when a roadside bomb exploded in a market in western Iraq on Friday, a local police source said. The blast struck a popular market in Fallujah, some 65 km west of Baghdad, the source told Xinhua.



Afghanistan: "The Forgotten War"
#1: At least 10 militants were killed in a clash with security forces in lower Orakzai tribal region, northwest of Pakistan, official sources said Friday. Two soldiers and four militants also sustained injuries in the gun battle and two compounds of militants were destroyed.

#2: Lt. Steven Warner and five other soldiers were traveling in Afghanistan on April 22 when there vehicle was struck by an improvised explosive device, or IED. Steven Warner's gunner, driver and a passenger had to be medically evacuated from the combat situation; Lt. Warner and two other passengers were badly shaken.

#3: Five Afghan civilians were wounded when explosives planted in a bicyle went off in the Musa Qala district of southern Helmand province, said Dawood Ahmadi, provincial government spokesman.


DoD: Lance Cpl. Thomas E. Rivers Jr.,

DoD: Sgt. Grant A. Wichmann

DoD: Sgt. Keith A. Coe

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