Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 43

Groups: MFN-Iraq, MNF-Afghan, Iraqi Civilian Casualties Count, Journalists (Iraq)

August wounded: 558 [a new section for wounded forthcoming ... soon, I hope!]

On an ad-hoc reading, there seems to be an uptick in violence in Mosul.

[n.b. See Enemy Casualty Lists and Battlefield Digest on sister blogologalog.]

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Hometown
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Anamarie Sannicolas Camacho, 20	U.S. Navy	Panama City, FL
	Seaman, U.S. Naval Support Activity Bahrain
	Bahrain; 22-Oct-07; Non-hostile
	Genesia Mattril Gresham, 19	U.S. Navy	Lithonia, GA
	Seaman, U.S. Naval Support Activity Bahrain
	Bahrain; 22-Oct-07; Non-hostile
	Erik T. Garoutte, 22	U.S. Marine	Santee, CA
	Corporal, 1st Fleet Anti-terrorism Security Team Company, Marine Corps Security Force Battalion, II Marine Expeditionary Force
	Baghdad; 19-Oct-07; Non-hostile
	Wayne M. Geiger, 23	U.S. Army	Lone Pine, CA
	Specialist, 3rd Squadron, 2nd Stryker Cavalry Regiment, 1st Armored Division
	Baghdad (eastern part); 18-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
	Jarred S. Fontenot, 35	U.S. Army	Fontenot, LA
	Staff Sergeant, 2nd BN, 12th Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Division
	Baghdad (southern part); 18-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED, small arms fire
	Vincent A. Madero, 22	U.S. Army	Port Hueneme, CA
	Specialist, 2nd BN, 82nd Field Artillery Reg, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 1st Cavalry Division
	Balad; 17-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ISAF-AFGHANISTAN

------	Name, Age	Srv Branch	Country
	Rank, Unit
	Location; Circumstance of Death
	Larry I. Rougle, 25	U.S. Army	West Jordan, UT
	Staff Sergeant, 2nd BN, 503rd Airborne Infantry Reg, 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team
	Sawtalo Sar Mountain, Kunar Province; 23-Oct-07; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 282 this week; 261 last week; 259 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 95 this week; 56 last week; 54 prior week.
Wednesday 24 October: 41 dead
Baghdad:	roadside bombs kill 9, Jisr Diyala; 6 bodies.
Hibhib:	mortars kill 3.
Zaghaniya:	gunmen break into house, kill 3 (father and two sons).
Shalamga:	landmine kills 7 -2 electricity workers repairing electricity line and 5 policemen accompanying them- near Basra.
Hilla:	3 people, including a child, killed during clashes between gunmen and police.
Baquba:	civilian dies in shooting; 2 bodies.
Tuesday 23 October: 46 dead
Baghdad:	gunmen kill 2 policemen, roadside bomb kills 1; 4 bodies.
Mikashifa:	US forces kill 16 civilians, including 3 children, in air strikes near Samarra.
Baquba:	roadside bomb blows up minibus carrying family to a wedding, kills 3 family members; gunmen kill 2; 1 bodies found.
Karbala:	Iraqi police kill 2 young girls -3-year-old Mariam and her sister 18-month-old Ayat- in a house raid, while looking for their father.
Basra:	5 killed in clashes with Mahdi army; a woman is killed when a mortar strikes her house.
Mosul:	4 people killed, including a 5-year-old child killed by random fire and a woman struck by a random bullet inside her house.
Iskandariya:	random fire kills girl.
Monday 22 October: 87 dead
Baghdad:	roadside bomb in Zafaraniya, Karrada kill 7; during clashes with insurgents, 7 National Accord members have been killed, Fadhil; the driver of Radio Free Europe journalist has been found murdered, while the journalist is missing; 5 bodies.
Mahaweel:	roadside bomb kills 2.
Iskandariya:	an engineer is killed by gunmen; a man dies when a mortar hits his house.
Mosul:	roadside bomb kills policeman; 6 bodies.
Kirkuk:	3 bodies.
Baquba:	3 bodies.
Anbar:	mass grave containing 25 bodies is found.
Near Falluja:	15 bodies.
Sunday 21 October: 35 dead
Afghanistan:	US forces killed 20 Taliban during a battle in the Korengal Valley in Kunar province on the border with Pakistan; three civilians were killed and eight wounded during the battle.
Baghdad:	17 reported dead in US raid (ground and air attack) over Sadr City -among the dead 3 children; mortar kills 3 inside a car, east Baghdad; 3 bodies.
Mosul:	gunmen kill coach; 2 policemen are killed in clashes with gunmen; a former officer in the Iraqi Army is shot dead; a cement factory worker is shot dead.
Saklawiya:	suicide car bomber attacks police checkpoint, kills 2 policemen, near Falluja.
Saturday 20 October: 31 dead
Baghdad:	roadside bombs kill 2, Ghadir, Tobchi; 3 policemen killed during operations; 5 bodies; also 3 decomposing bodies of women found buried in Amiriya.
Iskandariya:	roadside bomb strikes minibus, kills 3; roadside bomb strikes police patrol, kills 4 policemen.
Mosul:	child killed in clashes between gunmen and Iraqi Army; 2 bodies.
Muqdadiya:	US forces open fire at car, kill the driver.
Baquba:	3 bodies.
Basra:	1 bodies found.
Baiji:	1 bodies found.
Friday 19 October: 16 dead
Afghanistan:	Four Afghan border policemen were killed in a roadside attack in south-eastern Afghanistan... three more policemen were wounded when their vehicle was blown up by a remote-controlled mine in Alinegar area in Khost province on Thursday morning...
Baghdad:	6 bodies.
Mosul:	2 bodies.
Muwailha:	2 bodies.
Mussayab:	mortars kill 3 women.
Thursday 18 October: 26 dead
Baghdad:	5 bodies.
Baiji:	US forces kill 4 civilians inside their car.
Basra:	bomb blows up at school, kills 2 pupils.
Mosul:	2 policemen and a civilian killed by roadside bomb; another policeman shot dead by sniper; 2 bodies.
Dhuluiya:	gunmen kill 3 tribesmen, members of 'Awakening' council.

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WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

None this week; 1 abducted, driver murdered (see above)

Name	Date
Circumstances

src: MNF-I, MNF-A, journalists from icasualties.org; Iraqi Civiilan: iraqbodycount.org; Afghan events from Bill Roggio, other sources

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