Ahhh, to already be loosing sleep. Wake up, a few minutes behind schedule; it’s cold out, I pass the time with newspapers and novels on the subway ride into work. There’s already enough distraction and suffering going on in the world, but to learn of yesterday’s tolls, tallies and events in Iraq is pretty mind-numbing:<\/p>\n
\nLSA Anaconda, Iraq\u2013 Two Soldiers assigned to the 13th Sustainment Command (Expeditionary) were killed by an improvised explosive device while conducting a security patrol in the Al Anbar province of Iraq Dec 2<\/a>.<\/p>\n
BAGHDAD \u2013 A Multi-National Corps \u2013 Iraq Soldier died from injuries sustained when the convoy he was traveling in struck an improvised explosive device near Taji, Iraq, at approximately 8:30 a.m. Saturday<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Air Force officially lists Troy Gilbert, pilot of downed F-16, as KIA<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Baghdad<\/b><\/p>\n
UPDATE<\/b>: Death toll in yesterday’s market bombing now given as 60<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Gunmen kidnapped Haitham Yassin, an adviser to the electricity minister<\/a>, on Saturday in Baghdad’s northern Shaab district, police said.<\/p>\n
A roadside bomb wounded six people near al-Shaab Stadium in east-central Baghdad, police said<\/a>.<\/p>\n
A roadside bomb went off on the Highwaynear the Sha’ab Stadium in eastern Baghdad wounding three<\/a>.<\/p>\n
A mortar round landed on a secondary school, wounding 10 students in Bab al-Muadham district in north-central Baghdad<\/a>, an Interior Ministry source said.<\/p>\n
Gunmen killed an official of the Mandaeans, a pre-Islamic gnostic religious group, after they dragged him from his house on Saturday in northern Baghdad<\/a>, police said.<\/p>\n
Police found the body of Hidaib Mejhoul, a member of the national Iraqi Football Association, in Baghdad’s Yarmouk district on Saturday<\/a>, relatives said. Mejhoul, who had been kidnapped from his home on Thursday, had been shot twice in the head and his body had signs of torture.<\/p>\n
Three civilians were gunned down in a mixed area just south of Baghdad<\/a>, according to a security official<\/p>\n
A roadside bomb detonated Sunday near a joint U.S. and Iraqi patrol in eastern Baghdad, damaging a U.S. Humvee, a well-informed police source said<\/a>. “A roadside bomb planted in the highway of Muhammad al-Qasim, went off near a passing U.S. and Iraqi joint patrol in front of Zaiyounah neighborhood,” the source said on condition of anonymity. U.S. forces immediately cordoned off the scene, but the police said they saw a U.S. Humvee was hit by the blast, he added.<\/p>\n
An Iraqi soldier was killed and 11 people wounded, including two professors, when mortar rounds landed near the Health Ministry in central Baghdad on Sunday<\/a>, an Interior Ministry source said.<\/p>\n
Baqubah<\/b><\/p>\n
U.S.-Iraqi forces launched an offensive in the volatile town of Baquba north of Baghdad, killing three insurgents and detaining 44<\/a>. Three Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the operation, the U.S. military said in a statement. U.S. and Iraqi troops also captured a suspected insurgent leader during a raid on Friday near Baquba, the military said.<\/p>\n
Meanwhile, at least 16 people were murdered in and around Baquba<\/a>, according to security and medical sources.<\/p>\n
Basra<\/b><\/p>\n
A roadside bombing targeting British military patrol in the southern oil city of Basra wounded three university students<\/a>, police said.<\/p>\n
British troops, meanwhile, clashed with Shiite militia during a search operation in the southern city of Basra<\/a>, Iraqi police said.<\/p>\n
Sinea<\/b><\/p>\n
A sniper killed a civilian in Sinea, an insurgent stronghold in northern Iraq<\/a>, police Captain Saad Nuri told AFP<\/p>\n
Kirkuk<\/p>\n
A suicide bomber blew himself up next to a police station, killing three policemen on Sunday<\/a>, Major General Torhan Yussef of Kirkuk police said. Yussef said the attack took place at Lailan town, west of Kirkuk, and was targeting the town’s police chief Colonel Faulah Othman Abdallah. “The bomber blew himself up at a checkpoint near the police station,” Yussef said.<\/p>\n
A bit more on this here<\/a>.<\/p>\n
Karmah<\/b><\/p>\n
On Saturday night in the town of Karmah, coalition ground and air forces killed six insurgents while destroying two buildings that militants were using, the military said<\/a>. Searching through one of the destroyed buildings, coalition forces also found a weapons cache and the bodies of two women and a child, the military said, without providing the age of the women or the age and sex of the child. Three suspected insurgents also were detained.
\n\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n[Via http:\/\/dailywarnews.blogspot.com\/<\/a> found via Daily Kos<\/a> re-blogged at JohnKerry.com<\/a>]<\/p>\n
<\/div><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ahhh, to already be loosing sleep. Wake up, a few minutes behind schedule; it’s cold out, I pass the time with newspapers and novels on the subway ride into work. There’s already enough distraction and suffering going on in the world, but to learn of yesterday’s tolls, tallies and events in Iraq is pretty mind-numbing: […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_et_pb_use_builder":"","_et_pb_old_content":"","_et_gb_content_width":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[466,57,409],"series":[],"class_list":["post-285","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news","tag-iraq","tag-text","tag-war"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p6OfVu-4B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=285"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3087,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/285\/revisions\/3087"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=285"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=285"},{"taxonomy":"series","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nicknormal.com\/normalblog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/series?post=285"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}