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Thursday, March 6, 2008

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 10, Yr OEF+7

Our prolonged, violent, nation-building exercises continue to be quite "hot".

There is a security emergency declared in Basra. ...

IBC counts 975 Iraqi deaths in February, up about 200 from January.

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------Name, AgeSrv BranchHometown

Rank, Unit

Location; Circumstance of Death

Christopher S. Frost, 24U.S. Air ForceWaukesha, WI
Staff Sergeant, 377th Air Base Wing
Bayji; 04-Mar-08; Non-hostile - helicopter crash

Duane Barwood, 41British Royal Air ForceCarterton, Oxfordshire-UK
Sergeant, 903 Expeditionary Air Wing
Basra; 29-Feb-08; Hostile - hostile fire - rocket attack

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ISAF-AFGHANISTAN

------Name, AgeSrv BranchCountry

Rank, Unit

Location; Circumstance of Death
Steven R. Koch, 23U.S. ArmyMilltown, NJ
Specialist, 1st BN, 508th Parachute Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
Sabari District (Khost province); 03-Mar-08; Hostile - hostile fire - suicide car bomb
Robert T. Rapp, 22U.S. ArmySonora, CA
Sergeant, 1st BN, 508th Parachute Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 82nd Airborne Division
Sabari District (Khost province); 03-Mar-08; Hostile - hostile fire - suicide car bomb
Michael Yuki Hayakaze, 25Canadian Armyn.a.-Canada
Trooper, Lord Strathcona's Horse (Royal Canadians)
Panjawayi; 02-Mar-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 190 this week; 197 last week; 271 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 73 this week; 96 last week; 71 prior week.
Tuesday 5 March: 21 dead
Baghdad: gunmen kill lorry driver,Shaab; roadside bomb kills 1, Mahmoudiya; 4 bodies.
Salahuddin
Samarra: suicide car bomb kills 2 Sahwa members.
Balad: 2 villagers are killed by gunmen; roadside bomb kills 1.
Kirkuk
Kirkuk: gunmen kill academic; roadside bomb kills 1.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 4 policemen; 3 bodies found, one decapitated.
Diyala
Udhaim: 1 killed by roadside bomb.
Tuesday 4 March: 33 dead
Baghdad: 2 bodies.
Diyala
Baquba: gunmen kill civilian; 1 body found.
Buhriz: gunmen kill civilian; 1 body found.
Khalis: 1 body found.
Muqdadiya: 15 bodies found in mass grave.
Salahuddin
Al-Hassan: gunmen kill 2.
Tikrit: gunmen attack checkpoint, kill 2 Awakening members.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill policeman; roadside bomb kills 1; 2 bodies found.
Babil
Latifiya: 1 body found.
Kirkuk
Bastamli: gunmen kill 2 family members.
Monday 3 March: 79 dead
Baghdad: car bomb kills 22, Bab al-Muadham; suicide car bomber kills 2, Ghadeer; explosion kills 3, Waziriya; 5 bodies.
Basra
Basra: gunmen kill police colonel and 3 bodyguards; gunmen kill Badr member and 2 bodyguards; gunmen kill 2 in separate incident.
Salahuddin
Samarra: 18 bodies found.
Huwaish: car bomb kills 4 children and 2 women.
Diyala
Mahmudiya: 6 bodies found.
Another body found elsewhere in the province.
Baquba: gunmen kill 2.
Wassit
Numaniya: gunmen kill policeman.
Ninewa
Shirqat: suicide car bomber kills 2 policemen.
Mosul: 2 bodies.
Sunday 2 March: 28 dead
Baghdad: 3 bodies.
Diyala
Baquba: roadside bomb kills policeman trying to defuse it; gunmen kill civilian.
Wajihiya: roadside bomb kills 6, 2 of them children.
Buhriz: motorist is shot dead by Iraqi soldiers, after failing to 'respond to checkpoint instructions.'
Muqdadiya: 3 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: car bomb kills civilian.
Shabana: 2 policemen killed in clashes with gunmen.
Salahuddin
Samarra: car bomb kills 8, a child among them.
Basra
Basra: woman and child are killed by 'defective' artillery shell fired by UK forces.
Saturday 1 March: 13 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 1, Mahmudiya; roadside bomb kills 1, Amriya; 2 bodies.
Kirkuk
Injana: 2 pilgrims (one of them a child) are shot dead inside bus returning from Karbala.
Diyala
Mulla Eid: Sheikh is killed in clashes.
Udaim: 3 pilgrims are killed when gunmen attack bus.
Anbar
Thira Dijla: 2 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: car bomb kills 1.
Friday 29 February: 16 dead
Afghanistan:The Talban raided towns in the Arghandab district in Zabul province and conducted kidnappings, beatings, vandalism, and theft.
Baghdad: 2 bodies.
Salahuddin
Samarra: teenager is killed in US air strike.
Ninewa
Mosul: roadside bomb kills father and 11-year-old son; gunmen abduct Chaldean Archbishop, kill his 3 companions in the process; gunmen kill judge and lawyer.
Diyala
Baquba: gunmen kill 2.
Al Guba: 2 bodies.
Kirkuk
Kirkuk: 2 bodies.



WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

NameDate
Circumstances
None counted this week.

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