11/01/06 DoD Identifies Army Casualty
Sgt. Michael T. Seeley, 27, of Fredericton, New Brunswick, Canada, died Oct. 30 in Baghdad, Iraq, from injuries suffered when an improvised explosive device detonated near his vehicle. Seeley was assigned to the 2nd Battalion, 8th Infantry Regiment
11/01/06 MCT: Kroll pulls security teams out of Iraq
Security company Kroll has withdrawn its bodyguard teams from Iraq and Afghanistan after it lost four workers in Iraq, its parent company said Wednesday.
11/01/06 AP: 2 Sunni coaches abducted from youth club in Baghdad
Gunmen seized two Sunni coaches from a youth club Wednesday in Baghdad, while authorities searched for dozens of Shiites abducted along a dangerous highway north of the capital in another outbreak of Iraq’s relentless tit-for-tat sectarian violence.
11/01/06 UPI: Many U.S. War Dead Were On Extended Tours
Nearly one-third of the 104 U.S. troops killed in Iraq in October were on multiple tours, a Chicago Tribune analysis published Wednesday said.
11/01/06 AP: Gunmen kill policeman and clerk with the Ministry of Industry
In fresh attacks Wednesday, unknown gunmen riding in a private car shot dead police officer Izzaddin Abbas in central Baghdad as he rode his motorcycle home…A clerk with the Ministry of Industry was shot and killed in northeastern Baghdad
11/01/06 AP: Police officer killed in Mosul, charred body found
A police officer was among three people shot dead in the northern city of Mosul, said Brig. Sa’eed Ahmed of the provincial Police Information Office. Mosul police also discovered the charred body of an apparent murder victim, Ahmed said.
11/01/06 AP: 2 people killed in Baqouba and Muqdadiyah, cleric killed in Safwan
Two people were killed in Baqouba and Muqdadiyah, about 60 miles north of Baghdad, while Sunni cleric Sheikh Yasin al-Kubaisi was killed along with his son Ahmed during clashes between police and armed fuel smugglers in the southern border town of Safwan.
11/01/06 AP: Police Maj. kidnapped while visiting relatives in Rahsad
Police Maj. Mohannad Saqiq Abbas of Transportation Ministry protection force was kidnapped while visiting relatives in Rahsad, about 250 kilometers north of Baghdad, police Brig. Sarhat Qadir said.
11/01/06 AP: More bodies found
The bodies of three people who were shot after being blindfolded and bound at the wrists were found dumped in the capital’s eastern districts…Five more bodies were pulled from the Tigris River near Suwayrah, 25 miles south of Baghdad…
11/01/06 AP: Gunmen kill police receptionist in the northern city of Mosul
Gunmen killed Batool Jabur Shallal, a police receptionist in the northern city of Mosul, as she was driving with her husband, police Col. Abdul Karim Khalaf said.
11/01/06 AP: 40 Shiites reported abducted in Iraq
More than 40 Shiites were abducted along a notoriously dangerous highway just north of Baghdad, police said Wednesday, and the death toll from a suicide bombing at a wedding party rose to 23, including nine children.
11/01/06 AP: Gunmen kidnap Iraqi coach for blind athletes
Unknown gunmen abducted the secretary general of Iraq’s national basketball federation and another man who coached blind athletes, police said, the latest in a wave of kidnappings targeting national sports figures.
11/01/06 DoD Identifies Marine Casualty
Pfc. Jason Franco, 18, of Corona, Calif., died Oct. 31 from a non-hostile incident in Al Anbar province, Iraq. He was assigned to Marine Aviation Logistics Squadron 11, Marine Aircraft Group 11, 3rd Marine Aircraft Wing, Miramar, Calif.
11/01/06 LATimes: More than ever, insurgents are targeting U.S. forces
The number of attacks on American forces increased in October to unprecedented levels, U.S. military officials said. “There has been a much more considered effort to specifically target coalition and Iraqi security forces,”
11/01/06 LATimes: A violent month hits home
Four were teenagers. Thirty were 21 or younger. The oldest was 53. They left homes in big cities and small prairie towns and Southern hamlets to answer the call of duty in Iraq, where 103 soldiers, Marines, airmen and seamen died in October…
11/01/06 NYTimes: Iraqi Demands Pullback; U.S. Lifts Baghdad Cordon
Prime Minister Nuri Kamal al-Maliki demanded the removal of American checkpoints from the streets of Baghdad on Tuesday, in what appeared to be his latest and boldest gambit in an increasingly tense struggle for more independence…
11/01/06 NYTimes: U.S. Military Deaths in Iraq Still Mostly Outside Capital
About two-thirds of the deaths among American troops in Iraq in October occurred outside Baghdad, even with a sharp increase in combat deaths in the capital that made it the fourth deadliest month of the war for the United States…
11/01/06 Guardian: Iraq has cost more than £4bn, says MoD
Britain’s participation in the invasion of Iraq and its continuing military presence in the country has cost more than £4bn, according to Ministry of Defence figures.
11/01/06 Reuters: Ten bodies found dumped in different districts of Baghdad
Ten bodies were found dumped in different districts of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. Most had gunshot wounds in the head.
11/01/06 Reuters: Roadside bomb kills two, wounds 10 in central Baghdad
A roadside bomb killed two people and wounded 10 in the Shoran district of central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
11/01/06 Reuters: Gunmen attack head of the little-known Iraqi National Party
Gunmen wounded Hazim al-Hemedawi, head of the little-known Iraqi National Party, after ambushing his convoy. Two of his bodyguards were also hurt, an Interior Ministry source said.
11/01/06 Reuters: Body found in Rumania
Police found the body of a man in the town of Rumania, 120 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
11/01/06 Reuters: Iraqi army arrest seven “terrorists” and 52 suspected insurgents
The Iraqi army has arrested seven “terrorists” and 52 suspected insurgents in the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry
11/01/06 Reuters: Translater killed in Diwaniya
Gunmen on Tuesday killed an Iraqi man who worked as a translator for U.S. forces, police said.
11/01/06 AP: 3 Killed in Second Bomb Attack in Iraq
A car bomb killed three people and wounded five others in Baghdad’s Sadr City section early Tuesday, a day after a bombing killed at least 33 people in the overwhelmingly Shiite neighborhood.
11/01/06 WaPo: Along Iraq-Syria Border, a Struggle to Cover the Terrain
A convoy of U.S. Humvees streamed through the midnight darkness, following the border as soldiers scanned the endless flats with night-vision goggles. The thin earthen berm separating northern Iraq from Syria lay just a few hundred yards…
11/01/06 AP: Family says Illinois native was killed in Iraq
A family is mourning the death of their 26-year-old son who was killed in Iraq. Sgt. Kraig Foyteck’s mother, Connie, says she was notified Tuesday that her son was killed when he was hit in the neck by a bullet or mortar fragment Monday in Mosul.
11/01/06 NYTimes: Military Charts Movement of Conflict in Iraq Toward Chaos
A classified briefing prepared two weeks ago by the United States Central Command portrays Iraq as edging toward chaos, in a chart that the military is using as a barometer of civil conflict.