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Friday, February 1, 2008

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 5, Year A+7

It's now no longer possible to compile enemy casualty lists, using prior data sources.

Operation Phantom Phoenix looks pretty big (just in case you thought the struggle was nearly over):
1,023 Detained
135 Killed
351 Caches cleared
410 IEDs cleared
3 Tunnel Complexes Discovered

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------Name, AgeSrv BranchHometown

Rank, Unit

Location; Circumstance of Death

James E. Craig, 26U.S. ArmyHollywood, CA
Sergeant, 1st BN, 8th Infantry Reg, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division
Mosul; 28-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

Gary W. Jeffries, 37U.S. ArmyRoscoe, TX
Staff Sergeant, 1st BN, 8th Infantry Reg, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division
Mosul; 28-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

Evan A. Marshall, 21U.S. ArmyAthens, GA
Specialist, 1st BN, 8th Infantry Reg, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division
Mosul; 28-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

Brandon A. Meyer, 20U.S. ArmyOrange, CA
Private 1st Class, 1st BN, 8th Infantry Reg, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division
Mosul; 28-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

Joshua A. R. Young, 21U.S. ArmyRiddle, OR
Private, 1st BN, 8th Infantry Reg, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, 4th Infantry Division
Mosul; 28-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

Mikeal W. Miller, 22U.S. ArmyAlbany, OR
Sergeant, 3rd Squadron, 61st Cavalry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, 2nd Infantry Divis
National Naval Medical Center, Bethesda; 27-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

Alan G. Rogers, 40U.S. ArmyHampton, FL
Major, Military Transition Team, 1st Brigade, 1st Infantry Division
Baghdad (northeastern part); 27-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

Robert J. Wilson, 28U.S. ArmyBoynton Beach, FL
Staff Sergeant, 1st BN, 502nd Infantry Reg, 2nd Brigade Combat Team, (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division
Baghdad; 26-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

Duncan Charles Crookston, 19U.S. ArmyDenver, CO
Private 1st Class, 2nd BN, 16th Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division
Brooke Army Med Center, TX; 25-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

Tracy Renee Birkman, 41U.S. ArmyNew Castle, VA
Sergeant, 626th Brigade Support BN, 3rd Brigade Combat Team, (Air Assault) 101st Airborne Division
Owaset; 25-Jan-08; Non-hostile - injury

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ISAF-AFGHANISTAN

------Name, AgeSrv BranchCountry

Rank, Unit

Location; Circumstance of Death
Matthew Ryan Kahler, 29U.S. ArmyGranite Falls, MN
Sergeant 1st Class, 2nd BN, 503rd Infantry Regiment (Airborne), 173rd Airborne Brigade Combat Team
FOB Fenty; 26-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire
Robert J. Miller, 24U.S. ArmyIowa City, IA
Staff Sergeant, 3rd Battalion, 3rd Special Forces Group (Airborne)
Barikowt; 25-Jan-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 105 this week; 158 last week; 98 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 23 this week; 34 last week; 38 prior week.
Thursday 31 January: 21 dead
Afghanistan:A suicide bomber killed Helmand's deputy governor and five others, and wounded 18 during an attack on a mosque in the province. Another suicide bomber killed one and wounded four during an attack against a bus transporting Army personnel in Kabul. "The greatest threat to Afghanistan's future is abandonment by the international community," said Richard Boucher, the US State Department's pointman for Afghanistan.
Baghdad: car bomb kills 5 construction workers on their way home, Kadhimiya; roadside bomb kills 6, Zayouna; 2 bodies.
Salahuddin
Baiji: father and son shot dead.
Basra
Basra: British forces kill Iraqi civilian in air strike, after British base comes under rocket attack.
Ninewa
Mosul: car bomb kills 2; 2 bodies.
Kirkuk
Tuz Khurmato: 1 head found.
JANUARY TOTAL: 767 CIVILIANS KILLED; 36 by US forces, 1 by British forces


Wednesday 30 January: 19 dead
Afghanistan:The Taliban beheaded four Afghan roadworkers captured last week; three others were killed in IED attacks. A Taliban spokesman denied his forces were behind the kidnapping of an American aid worker.
Baghdad: bomb kills policeman; 3 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill University of Mosul professor and one of his students; civilian killed during clashes between police and gunmen; 2 bodies.
Diyala
Bardaniya: gunmen attack house, kill occupant.
Khalis: gunmen set up fake checkpoint, kill man in his car.
Aswad: gunmen kill 2 Awakening members.
Khan Bani Saad: gunmen kill policeman.
Anbar
Karmah: 2 Awakening members killed by roadside bomb.
Kirkuk
Tuz Khurmato: 2 heads found.
Salahuddin
Dhuluiya: body found.
Tuesday 29 January: 45 dead
Baghdad: female suicide bomber kills 2, Amiriya; roadside bomb kills 2, Karrada; 2 brothers, Awakening members, are shot dead at home by unknown gunmen, Dora; roadside bomb kills 5 in southern outskirts; roadside bomb kills boy, Mansour; roadside bomb kills policeman, Mustansiriya Square; 3 bodies.
Diyala
Muqdadiya: The remains of 19 people (10 of them just heads) are found.
Salahuddin
Al-Huija al-Bahriya: bomb outside school kills 3 children.
Tikrit-Baghdad road: roadside bomb kills 2 reporters working for TV station.
Anbar
Falluja: 2 truck drivers are found bound and buried under the gravel they were carrying.
Thiraa Dijla: suicide car bomber kills Awakening member.
Ninewa
Mosul: suicide car bomber kills 1.
Babil
Iskandariya: gunmen attack house, kill 1 man.
Monday 28 January: 10 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 3, Ghadeer; 2 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 2 policemen.
Basra
Basra: roadside bomb kills 2 security guards.
Salahuddin
Taji: tribal leader dies when bomb planted in his car explodes.
Sunday 27 January: 10 dead
Baghdad: 4 bodies.
Diyala
Shirween: 4 bodies.
Eitha: gunmen kill civilian.
Basra
Basra: body found.
Saturday 26 January: 14 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill policeman, Bab al-Sharqi; gunmen kill a couple and their son and daughter in their house, Talibiya; a civilian dies in drive-by shooting, Muaskar al-Rasheed; Awakening member is blown up in his car; 1 body found.
Diyala
Muqdadiya: roadside bomb kills policeman.
Abu Saida: roadside bomb kills governor's guard.
Salahuddin
Balad: roadside bomb kills motorist.
Sulaimaniya
Sulaimaniya: 2 bodies found.
Kirkuk
Kirkuk: man is killed in drive-by shooting.
Friday 25 January: 7 dead
Baghdad: 2 bodies.
Anbar
Saqlawiya: 3 bodies.
Diyala
Abu Saida: roadside bomb kills 1.
Karbala
Najaf: gunmen kill Sheikh loyal to al-Sadr outside his house.

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

NameDate
Circumstances
Alaa Abdul-Karim al-Fartoosi30-Jan-08
Alaa Abdul-Karim al-Fartoosi, 29, was traveling with the three colleagues Tuesday when a roadside bomb went off next to their car in Balad, 50 miles north of Baghdad, said Haider Kadhum, a Al-Forat news editor. He did not identify the others in the party by name.

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