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Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Weekly Casualty Lists: Week 12, Yr OEF+7

Last week's casualty list updated, with names now having been released by DoD.

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: MNF-IRAQ

-------Name, AgeSrv BranchHometown

Rank, Unit

Location; Circumstance of Death

Name Not Released YetU.S. Armyn.a.
Not reported yet, Multi-National Division - Baghdad
Baghdad (north of); 17-Mar-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

Name Not Released YetU.S. Armyn.a.
Not reported yet, Multi-National Division - Baghdad
Baghdad (north of); 17-Mar-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

William D. O'Brien, 19U.S. ArmyRice, TX
Specialist, 1st BN, 28th Infantry Reg, 4th Brigade Combat Team, 1st Infantry Division
Baghdad; 15-Mar-08; Hostile - hostile fire - small arms fire

Juantrea T. Bradley, 28U.S. ArmyGreenville, NC
Staff Sergeant, 7th Special Troops BN, 7th Sustainment Brigade, (Light Infantry) 10th Mountain Division
Tallil; 12-Mar-08; Hostile - hostile fire - rocket attack

Dustin C. Jackson, 21U.S. ArmyArlington, TX
Specialist, 350th Adjutant General Company
Tallil; 12-Mar-08; Hostile - hostile fire - rocket attack

Tenzin L. Samten, 33U.S. ArmyPrescott, AZ
Private 1st Class, 7th Special Troops BN, 7th Sustainment Brigade, (Light Infantry) 10th Mountain Division
Tallil; 12-Mar-08; Hostile - hostile fire - rocket attack

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: ISAF-AFGHANISTAN

------Name, AgeSrv BranchCountry

Rank, Unit

Location; Circumstance of Death
Name Not Released YetCzech Armyn.a.-Czech
Not reported yet, Not reported yet
Girishk; 17-Mar-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Sonny Kappel Jakobsen, 45Royal Danish Armyn.a.-Denmark
Senior Sergeant, Not reported yet
Girishk; 17-Mar-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Christian Jørgen Grundt Damholt, 33Royal Danish Armyn.a.-Denmark
Captain, Not reported yet
Girishk; 17-Mar-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Jason Boyes, 32Canadian ArmyLake Lynn-Canada
Sergeant, 2nd Battalion Princess Patricia's Canadian Light Infantry (2 PPCLI)
Panjawayi; 16-Mar-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack
Collin J. Bowen, 38U.S. Army National GuardMillersville, MD
Staff Sergeant, 1st BN, 175th Infantry Reg, Maryland Army National Guard
Brooke Army Medical Center, San Antonio, Texas; 14-Mar-08; Hostile - hostile fire - IED attack

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: IRAQI CIVILIAN, counted by large event

Counted Civilian Casualties: 219 this week; 197 last week; 197 prior week.
Counted bodies found: 60 this week; 96 last week; 96 prior week.
Tuesday 18 March: 28 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 2, Shaab; roadside bomb kills 3, Al-Binook; 5 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: car bomb kills 3; 2 bodies.
Diyala
Abu Saida: roadside bomb kills 3 policemen.
Salahuddin
Al-Athia: gunmen kill policeman.
Baiji: 2 Sahwa members shot dead; 2 bodies.
Basra
Basra: 2 fishermen shot dead by Iranian patrol while fishing; gunmen open fire on sheikh, kill his driver.
Babil
Iskandariya: roadside bomb kills member of neighbourhood watch; roadside bomb kills woman.
Monday 17 March: 92 dead
Baghdad: 3 are killed in minibus explosion, Karrada; roadside bomb kills policeman, Mansour; mortar attack kill 5 at soccer field (2 of them children), Ghadeer; mortars hit house, kill 6 children, Sawmar; 7 bodies.
Karbala
Karbala: suicide bomber kills 52 near shrine.
Basra
Basra: gunmen kill policeman; woman's body found.
Anbar
Haditha: gunmen attack checkpoint, kill policeman.
Diyala
Abu Saida: roadside bomb kills 1.
Ninewa
Mosul: roadside bomb kills 1; 10 bodies.
Kirkuk
Udhaim: 3 bodies of neighbourhood patrol found.
Sunday 16 March: 26 dead
Baghdad: car bomb kills 1, Mansour; 5 bodies.
Diyala
Hwedir: 5 policemen die in clashes.
Khanaqeen: roadside bomb kills Kurd.
Muqdadiya: 2 bodies.
Ninewa
Mosul: gunmen kill 2 policemen; roadside bomb kills 1; 3 bodies -one beloning to 11-year-old boy.
Basra
Basra: 4 bodies.
Wassit
Kut: 2 bodies.
Saturday 15 March: 19 dead
Afghanistan:A secondary school in Kandahar attended by 1,200 students was burned to the ground by suspected Taliban terrorists.
Baghdad: 2 bodies.
Diyala
Al-Huwayder: gunmen kill civilian.
3 bodies
Ninewa
Mosul: truck bomb kills 1 at checkpoint; 3 bodies of 3 brothers found.
Wassit
Kut: 6 die in clashes; gunmen kill 1 during house raid.
Numaniya: body found.
Babil
Iskandariya: gunmen kill civilian.
Friday 14 March: 15 dead
Baghdad: football coach is shot dead, Al-Yarmuk; street sweeper killed by roadside bomb; 2 bodies.
Wassit
Kut: 2 policemen are killed in clashes; motorcycle bomb kills 1; chieftain's son is killed in clashes; bomb strikes minibus, kills 2.
Babil
Hilla: rockets kill 4.
Ninewa
Rabiya: suicide bomber kills interpreter at Syrian border.
Thursday 13 March: 39 dead
Afghanistan:A suicide car bomber detonated near a convoy carrying US troops close the Kabul airport killing at least six civilians and wounding 18.
Baghdad: car bomb kills 18, Bab al-Sharki; gunmen kill journalist; 3 bodies.
Diyala
Baquba: civilian killed by gunman.
Salahuddin
Al-Hajaj: 3 Sahwa killed by gunmen.
Tikrit: gunmen kill policeman.
Baiji: gunmen kill 2 at checkpoint.
Samarra: 15-year-old girl is shot dead by police who open fire on family car at checkpoint.
Najaf
Najaf: policeman killed in drive-by shooting.
Kirkuk
Al Zab: suicide bomber kills 3.
Kirkuk-Rashad highway: car bomb kills 1.
Wassit
Kut: 2 killed by rockets during clashes.
Ninewa
Daybaka: 1 body found.
Mosul: abducted Archbishop Paulos Faraj Rahho is found dead.
Wednesday 12 March: 24 dead
Baghdad: roadside bomb kills 2, Amin; 4 bodies.
Diyala
Bazaiz Buhrz: US forces fire warning shot and kill 10-year-old girl.
Benizad: 5 Sahwa shot and beheaded at checkpoint.
Dali Abass: 1 body.
Kanaan-Balad Ruz: 1 body.
Imam Habash: 2 bodies.
Muqdadiya: 2 bodies.
Salahuddin
Baiji: policeman is shot dead.
Samarra: 3 fuel truck drivers killed by roadside bomb.
Basra
Basra: gunmen kill ex-Baath member; gunmen kill Sadrist.

WEEKLY CASUALTY LIST: JOURNALISTS IN IRAQ

NameDate
Circumstances
Qassim Abdul-Hussein13-Mar-08
Gunmen killed Qassim Abdul-Hussein, the head of the circulation department for al-Muwatin newspaper, in a drive-by shooting in central Baghdad's Karrada district, said Jabbar Tarrad, the head of the Iraqi journalists' syndicate.

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