Death Toll 08/07 - 08/08/03

Bomb attack on Jordan's Iraq embassy


Thursday, 7 August, 2003

At least 11 people have been killed and more than 50 wounded in a lorry bomb outside the Jordanian embassy in Baghdad.

The force of the explosion sent a car hurtling onto a rooftop and left body parts and debris strewn across the street.

Jordanian officials said all the identified dead were Iraqis.

The attack comes a week after Jordan granted refuge to two of Saddam Hussein's daughters and their children, angering some Iraqis.



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Bomb attack on Jordan's Iraq embassy[br />

Thursday, 7 August, 2003


Elsewhere in Baghdad, US troops were involved in a fierce gun battle with Iraqis after an American Humvee vehicle was destroyed in an attack. At least one Iraqi bystander was killed.

A US army spokeswoman said two American soldiers were wounded.

On Wednesday night, two American soldiers died in a firefight in the al-Rashid district of Baghdad. It took to 55 the number of US troops killed by hostile fire since the US declared the war largely over on 1 May.




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Escaped Philippine militant killed


Thursday, 7 August

A Muslim extremist who recently escaped from jail with convicted bomb-maker Fathur Rohman al-Ghozi has been killed by Philippine soldiers, the military said on Thursday.

Abdulmukim Edris was apprehended with another suspected militant at an army checkpoint in southern Lanao del Norte province. Both were shot after a scuffle with soldiers, the military said.

Edris was thought to be a member of the brutal kidnapping group Abu Sayyaf, which operates in the southern Philippines.


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Grenade attack in Kashmir


Thursday, 7 August

At least two Indian soldiers have been killed and five others injured in a grenade attack in Indian-administered Kashmir.

Suspected militants are said to have lobbed the grenade at a truck carrying the soldiers in the state's summer capital, Srinagar.

The vehicle caught fire immediately after an explosion which took place in a busy square in the city centre.

The authorities say the condition of some of the injured soldiers is serious.


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'Taleban' kill Afghan soldiers

Thursday, 7 August

Officials in Afghanistan says that suspected Taleban fighters have killed five Afghan soldiers in the southern province of Helmand.

An Afghan driver working for an American aid agency, Mercy Corps, was also killed in the attack.

A provincial spokesman in Helmand told the BBC that about 40 suspected Taleban fighters attacked the soldiers in the remote district of Deshu.

He said that the Taleban group had crossed the border from Pakistan.


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Colombia car bomb kills five


8 August, 2003

Five people have been killed and three injured in a car bomb explosion in north-eastern Colombia, police have said.

A Colombian army patrol was passing by when a bomb exploded in the town of Saravena, Arauca State, they said.

The blast killed three adults and two children, the mayor of the town, Jose Trinidad Sierra, told the BBC.

Arauca State is one of Colombia's hottest war zones where rebels and paramilitary forces have been fighting each other over oil resources.


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DR Congo aid hostages killed

Friday, 8 August, 2003


It has emerged that an aid worker and 10 civilians died two weeks ago after being taken hostage in south-east Democratic Republic of Congo.

A UN spokesman disclosed that the group had been working on a water supply project supported by a British charity, Tearfund, when they were taken captive by Rwandan and Burundian rebels.

Congolese hydraulic engineer Maheshe Chishagala Evariste and local civilians had been trying to provide water to the town of Baraka since February this year.

Rebel groups are still fighting in many eastern parts of Congo, despite reaching peace deals with the government in Kinshasa.


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Helicopter crashes in Chechnya


8 August, 2003

The Russian military has confirmed that one man was killed and two seriously injured after a helicopter came down in Chechnya on Thursday evening.

Unconfirmed reports suggest it was shot down by Chechen rebels.

Meanwhile the conflict between Russian troops and separatists in Chechnya has spilled over the border once again.

An ambush on a military convoy in neighbouring Ingushetia has left six Russian soldiers dead and seven injured.


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Hamas vows revenge after Israeli troops kill two militants


09 August 2003

The five-week-old Israeli-Palestinian truce was in jeopardy yesterday after Hamas vowed revenge for the killing of two of its fighters by Israeli commandos in a Nablus refugee camp. An Israeli sergeant was also killed in the exchange of fire.

A Hamas leaflet threatened to "teach the Zionist enemy a hard lesson". Abdel Aziz al-Rantisi, the Islamist movement's political leader, said in Gaza: "The Zionist enemy bears responsibility for liquidating the ceasefire. They have struck it a fatal blow."


Brigadier-General Gadi Eizenkot, Israel's West Bank commander, said that troops had raided the Askar refugee camp after receiving intelligence that the Hamas pair were planning an attack inside Israel. The Israelis have accused Hamas of exploiting the truce to rebuild its arsenal.

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Troops returned fire with small arms and an anti-tank missile, which set off a series of explosions, apparently from the laboratory. The blasts destroyed the third floor and killed Abu Salem and Fayez al-Sader, whose body was thrown into a neighbouring building. Israeli troops later blew up the rest of the building. The lab had contained dozens of kilograms of explosives, according to the Israelis.


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US army snipers kill three men in Iraqi street market


08 August 2003

US snipers killed three men and wounded another today in a raid on market in Saddam Hussein's home town of Tikrit.

In other developments, an Amerrican soldier died in a gun battle and the official death toll from yesterday's bombing of the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad was raised to at least 19.

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Dr Mohammed al-Jubori, chief physician at the Tikrit Teaching Hospital, said two men died in the market and a third, shot in the head, died while being treated at the hospital. He said five were wounded, including a 10-year-old boy shot in the leg and hit in the head with shrapnel.

The soldier died in a gun battle in western Baghdad, the third to die in such circumstances in the past two days. Military authorities said the soldier died last night in the al-Mansour neighbourhood.


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Ali, an Iraqi boy wounded when US troops opened fire in a market place in Tikrit, lies in a hospital. Five Iraqi men and a child were killed by US gunfire according to the hospital director.




Family members of Wilfredo Perez Jr. react as they place roses on his casket during his burial service in New York Friday, Aug. 8, 2003. Perez was killed July 26 in Iraq.





Kevin Kamps, left, and Matthew Zawisky, right, members of Essential Action, a Washington-based anti-war organization, hold down an inflatable tombstone with the names of the U.S. servicemen who have been killed in the 100 days since President Bush (news - web sites) declared an end to major combat in Iraq (news - web sites), during a demonstration in front of the Capital Building, Friday, Aug. 8, 2003 in Washington. Since Bush announced an end to major combat in Iraq on May 1, 56 soldiers have died in combat. The total combat casualties in the war has climbed to 170, 23 more than died in the 1991 Gulf War.

Things are not getting better in Iraq.

http://news.independent.co.uk/world/middle_east/story.jsp?story=431746

<In other developments, an Amerrican soldier died in a gun battle and the official death toll from yesterday's bombing of the Jordanian Embassy in Baghdad was raised to at least 19.>


Thanks for the update.

had an apocalyptic vision if Bush was in, they had no idea how close it was.

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