Blue Herald
15
Nov
DAY IN IRAQ
by QuestionGirl • 12:20 pm

UPDATE: 41 US TROOPS KILLED THIS MONTH

11/15/06 oldham-chronicle: Royal Marine injured in Iraq
A TEENAGE Royal Marine from Shaw has been seriously injured in an explosion in Iraq which killed four servicemen. Jack Cooper had been in the country for only eight days when he suffered face, chest and abdominal injures in a makeshift bomb
11/15/06 MNF: 2 MND-B Soldiers killed by roadside bomb
Two Multi-National Division - Baghdad Soldiers were killed at approximately 11:30 p.m. Nov. 14 when their vehicle was struck by an improvised-explosive device in northwest Baghdad while conducting combat operations.
11/15/06 Reuters: Traffic policeman killed in Kirkuk
Gunmen killed a traffic police officer in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, 255 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said
11/15/06 Reuters: British soldier wounded, Iraqi woman killed in Basra
British forces killed an insurgent when they came under fire from a house in Basra…said Captain Tane Dunlop, a spokesman for the British forces. He said a British soldier was wounded and an Iraqi woman was killed by the insurgent.
11/15/06 Reuters: Woman’s body retreived from Tigris river
Police retrieved the body of a woman from the Tigris river in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. She had gunshot wounds in her head and was bound.
11/15/06 Reuters: U.S. forces detained 18 suspected insurgents
The U.S. military said U.S. forces detained 18 suspected insurgents in several raids in northern Baghdad province and Anbar. It said the targets of the raids were believed to have ties to al Qaeda in Iraq cells.
11/15/06 Reuters: 4 bodies, including 2 policemen received at Mosul morgue
The morgue in Mosul received the bodies of four people shot dead, including two policemen, hospital sources said.
11/15/06 Reuters: 12 brick factory workers abducted near Diwaniya
Gunmen abducted 12 workers at a brick factory on Tuesday in a town near Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
11/15/06 Reuters: Gunman kill civilian in Jamiaa district of Baghdad
Gunmen attacked the convoy of Salama al-Khafagi, a former member of the governing Council, wounding a bodyguard and killing a passer-by in the western Jamiaa district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
11/15/06 Reuters: Suicide car bomb kills 3, wounds 15 in Baghdad
suicide car bomb exploded near a funeral in south Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding 15, police and Interior Ministry sources said.
11/15/06 Reuters: Ten bodies founded in Latifiya
Police found 10 bodies in the town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, and they were investigating whether they were those of 10 Shi’ite travellers kidnapped at the weekend, police said.
11/15/06 AP: Marine gets 6 months in comrade shooting
A Marine Corps reservist was sentenced to six months in military jail after pleading guilty to negligent homicide for the shooting death of a comrade in their Iraq barracks. Lance Cpl. Michael C. Fulcher, 21, was sentenced Tuesday…
11/15/06 NPR: Mass Baghdad Kidnapping Wrapped in Mystery
Nearly all of the men taken hostage Tuesday from the Iraqi Ministry of Higher Education have been released. Details surrounding the raid remain unclear, including the number of people taken, the identity of the kidnappers and the reasons for their attack.
11/15/06 LATimes: U.S. troops become sleuths in Iraq slaying case
SOLDIERS of the U.S. Army’s Tomahawk Battalion had found witnesses to a mass kidnapping and killing that probably involved Iraqi police officers, but to get Iraqis to talk they would need a guide. They turned to a man who, until two years …
11/15/06 Reuters: Iraqi PM plays down kidnap as “militia dispute”
Iraq’s prime minister played down a mass kidnap of civil servants in which many may still be missing on Wednesday and which has put further strain on his government to disband militias involved in sectarian violence.
11/15/06 SFC: Education Ministry kidnappings reflect plight of Iraqi academics
The brazen kidnapping Tuesday of dozens of employees at a Higher Education Ministry building in Baghdad, experts and Iraqi officials say, provides evidence of an all-out assault on the Iraqi middle class, a worsening of sectarian violence…
11/15/06 AFP: US, Iraqi Forces Arrest Al-Qaeda Leader in Iraq
US and Iraqi security forces have arrested a leader of the terrorist group of Al Qaeda in Iraq during an operation overnight, AFP reported citing the Iraqi Interior Ministry.
11/15/06 guardian: Nine killed in Baghdad car bomb
A car bomb killed nine people and wounded 33 at a petrol station in central Baghdad today as violence continued to rage in Iraq. The explosion at a crowded petrol station occurred near the interior ministry - a frequent target…
11/15/06 Xinhua: Iraqi female journalist, her driver gunned down in Mosul
Gunmen shot dead an Iraqi female journalist working for a local newspaper in the northern city of Mosuliver…”Fadiyah Muhammad al-Taie, and her driver were killed by gunmen in the morning in the Zahraa neighborhood in eastern Mosul City,”
11/15/06 dpa: Forty kidnapped workers freed in Baghdad, fate of others unclear
More than 40 Iraqi government employees who were among around 100 kidnapped in a raid on a Baghdad research institute have been freed, reports said Wednesday amid conflicting accounts of exact events.
11/15/06 MNF: Three Marines, one Soldier killed in Al Anbar
One Soldier assigned to 1st Brigade, 1st Armored Division and three Marines assigned to Regimental Combat Team 7 died Tuesday from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province.

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