Death Toll 09/05 - 09/11/03

U.S. Civilian Worker Fatally Shot in Iraq


September 5, 2003

HOUSTON -- A civilian affiliated with oilfield services giant Halliburton was shot and killed in Iraq, the second person connected to the firm to die in an attack in a month.

The employee, who was not identified, worked for Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg Brown & Root and was assigned to a team supporting Army mail delivery, said Halliburton spokeswoman Wendy Hall.

"The employee was fatally shot this morning in Baghdad," Hall said Wednesday. "Our employee was driving a vehicle that was escorted by military personnel. The employee was evacuated to a nearby combat support hospital, where he was pronounced dead on arrival."

The U.S. military in Baghdad confirmed that a U.S. civilian contractor was killed Wednesday in Iraq, but would not offer any details.


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Bomb expert killed in Iraq


5 September, 2003

A 53-year-old British bomb disposal expert has been killed in a roadside ambush in northern Iraq.

Ian Rimell, from Kidderminster, Worcestershire, died near the city of Mosul.

The married father-of-three was killed and his local bodyguard seriously injured when they were attacked on Thursday afternoon, as they drove along a main road to the northern Iraqi city.

Mr Rimell, who was working for the British-based charity Mines Advisory Group (Mag), was driving in a vehicle with the distinctive Mag emblem when the gunmen struck.


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Two dead in Nablus gun battle


5 September, 2003

An Israeli soldier and a senior Palestinian militant have been killed during an army raid in the West Bank town of Nablus.

Shooting broke out after Israeli forces tracked a group of wanted men to a seven-storey building in the town, the Israeli army said.

Troops ordered residents from the apartment block which was then blown up.

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The Israeli army said the dead man was Mohammed Hanbali who they described as the leader of the armed wing of Hamas in Nablus and involved in organising numerous suicide bombings.

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Soldiers Kill at Least 25 in Colombia[br />

Sep 6, 8:11 PM EDT

BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) -- Soldiers killed at least 25 suspected rebels and paramilitary fighters Saturday in three military operations in central Colombia, authorities said.

Meanwhile, police captured 50 suspected rebels, some of whom are allegedly responsible for the killing of 10 hostages including a state governor during a botched rescue attempt in May.

Government troops fired on guerillas, allegedly from the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, in their rebel camp in the mountains of Casanare state. Sixteen rebels were killed and more than 100 fled, the army said.

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The army also killed three suspected rebels from the National Liberation Army, or ELN, in a rural area outside Cocorna, some 90 miles north of Bogota. Authorities claimed one of those killed was responsible for the brutal murder of teacher Ana Cecilia Duque in April.


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9 Killed in Escalating Kashmir Violence


Sep 6, 1:59 PM EDT

SRINAGAR, India (AP) -- Violence surged sharply in Indian-controlled Kashmir Saturday with a series of separatist attacks across the Himalayan region. At least nine people were killed and more than 40 wounded, police said.

In the deadliest attack, a bomb exploded in a busy wholesale market on the outskirts of Srinagar, killing six people and wounding 34, said Tirath Acharya, a spokesman for the Border Security Force.

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Army spokesman Lt. Col. Mukhtiar Singh told The Associated Press three soldiers also were wounded. Singh would not comment on Chopra's injuries.

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Also Saturday, an army officer was killed and four soldiers were wounded in a shootout with guerrillas in the village of Dangiwacha, about 45 miles north of Srinagar, police said.


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9 Killed in Escalating Kashmir Violence


Sep 6, 1:59 PM EDT


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Paramilitary police also killed two suspected rebels after raiding their hide-out in Kellar, 40 miles south of Srinagar, Acharya said.

At least two policemen were killed when their jeep was ambushed by suspected guerrillas in Gursain, 135 miles northwest of Jammu, the winter capital.

Another soldier was killed and three others wounded in a rebel ambush in Haamray, a village north of Srinagar, police control room officials said.

Elsewhere, a villager was killed in crossfire between security forces and suspected rebels.

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Police dead in India blast

Monday, 8 September, 2003


A landmine explosion in the north-eastern Indian state of Bihar has killed 12 people, 10 of them policemen.

Police say they suspect communist rebels of the People's War Group were behind the attack.

The police officers were travelling in hills to the west of Bihar's capital, Patna, when their vehicle drove over the mine.

As well as the policemen, two civilians died in the blast.



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Rebels clash with Macedonian troops


Monday September 8, 2003


Macedonia faced its most serious security crisis for more than a year yesterday, when ethnic Albanians clashed with security forces on the border with Kosovo in fighting that left several gunmen dead.

Macedonian police said a routine border patrol came under fire yesterday morning from suspected Albanian militants. The troops called for support and police then launched an operation to take control of two villages, Brest and Malina Mala.

A number of armed Albanian militants were killed, police said. There were no casualties among security forces, though clashes were continuing last night.

The incident is one of the most serious to have taken place since the 2001 conflict between the rebel ethnic Albanian movement the National Liberation Army and the security forces, dominated by ethnic Macedonians.



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Two US soldiers wounded in Afghanistan, US confirms 124 militants dead

Article submitted at 4:05 PM (CST) on 9/8/2003


AFP) - Two US soldiers were wounded in weekend clashes with suspected Taliban in eastern Afghanistan, the US military said, as its troops hunted militants fleeing the biggest anti-Taliban offensives in more than a year.

The US military also confirmed reports on Monday from Afghan officials that 124 militants had been killed one of the offensives, the nine-day old Operation Mountan Viper against rebel hideouts in the Daychopan mountains in southeast Zabul province, 300 kilometres (190 miles) southwest of Kabul.

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He added that one US soldier was wounded Sunday in a firefight with around five militants near Shkin in Paktika province, near where two US soldiers were killed in August.

Another US soldier was shot and wounded in a separate clash in the northeast border town of Barikot, Kunar province some 240 kilometres (150 miles) northeast of Kabul, Davis said.


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Israel vows to react as seven die in bombing[br />

09/09/2003 - 18:05:28

A suicide bomber targeted off duty Israeli soldiers at rush hour tonight, killing at least seven people, in at attack that the country had been braced for.

More than 30 people were injured, most of them seriously, in the bombing at a bus stop near both the Assaf Harofeh hospital and the Tsrifim army base in the Tel Aviv suburb of Rishon Letzion.

Security officials said there were many soldiers at the bus stop. Ambulances, apparently dispatched from the nearby hospital, quickly lined up at to pick up the wounded.

The bodies of the dead lay scattered on the pavement and street. Police said they believed the suicide bomber was among them.

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Earlier today, Israeli troops killed two Hamas militants and a 12-year-old boy in a raid in the West Bank town of Hebron.


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Several Injured in Iraq Car Bombing


Tue Sep 9, 6:57 PM ET


ANKARA, Turkey - A car bomb exploded Tuesday outside an office used by U.S soldiers in northern Iraq (news - web sites), private CNN-Turk television reported. Several people were wounded, but it was unclear if Americans were among them.

The wounded included Iraqi Kurdish guards and children from nearby houses. Firefighters were at the scene of the blast in Irbil, the largest city in Kurdish-controlled northern Iraq.

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Witnesses said two people were killed and ten injured, but hospital officials could not confirm those reports, the Turkish reporter said.




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US soldier killed in attack on tanker convoy


2003-09-09

TAJI CROSSING, Iraq & BAGHDAD - A US soldier driving a tanker full of liquefied petroleum gas was killed Tuesday when an explosion hit his convoy as it passed between two underpasses on the main road north out of Baghdad, said an Iraqi policeman on the scene.

The blast happened shortly after 5:00 pm (1300 GMT), 15 kilometres (10 miles) north of the capital on the road towards the northern city of Mosul, said Sergeant Dhaser Farhan.

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US soldiers in Iraq suffer 14 wounded in 24 hours




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Boy is among 3 killed by Israel

Wednesday, September 10, 2003

HEBRON (West Bank) — A Palestinian boy was killed yesterday by shrapnel from an Israeli missile in the West Bank town of Hebron while two other Palestinians were found dead in a building besieged by the army in the same operation.

Thaer Al Siouri, 13, died after being struck in the face by shrapnel, a spokesman for Al Ahli Hospital said.

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Israeli military sources said two bodies were recovered from one of the buildings besieged by the army in the operation. The identity of the pair could not be immediately established and troops were searching the eight-storey building, they said.

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Two other Palestinians, a man and a young woman, were also injured during the operation, medical sources and witnesses said.



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Afghanistan aid workers killed


Wednesday 10 September 2003

Four aid workers were killed in an ambush in eastern Afghanistan, according to refugee officials.

The Danish Committee for Aid to Afghan Refugees (DACAAR) sent five employees to Ghazni province on Tuesday when they were attacked by armed men.

The ambush occurred on a road in the district of Ab Band, about 150km south of the capital Kabul.

The unidentified assailants pulled the passengers out of the car before shooting them, but the fifth passenger escaped with injuries.



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Bomb Strapped to Horse Kills 8 Colombians


Thursday September 11, 2003 12:59 AM


BOGOTA, Colombia (AP) - A bomb strapped to a horse exploded in a plaza in a small town in northeast Colombia on Wednesday, killing at least eight people, including a toddler, and injuring 20 others, the army said.

Authorities blamed rebels of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC, for the attack. The rebels have tied bombs to animals, mainly donkeys and horses, in the past.

The residents of Chita, 150 miles northeast of Bogota, were preparing for the town's weekly market when the bomb exploded, army Sgt. Luis Hernandez said.

The army captured a suspect who allegedly led the horse into the plaza, Hernandez said.


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Zahar escapes Israeli attack 2 killed in Gaza attack


RAMALLAH: Palestinian Parliament Speaker Ahmed Qorei, named by Palestinian President Yasser Arafat to be the next prime minister, agreed to accept the post while an Israeli warplane narrowly failed in an attempt to assassinate top Hamas leader Mahmud Al Zahar but killed his son and a bodyguard in Gaza on Wednesday.

Subsequently, Hamas threatened to target Israeli homes and claimed responsibility of the bombings in Israel that killed 15 people on Tuesday.

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Zahar, 58, had been standing in the doorway of the house when the missile hit and was thrown clear by the force of the explosion, witnesses said. He sustained only slight injuries to his head and back but his wife was seriously hurt, medics said. His son and a bodyguard were killed.

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A Hamas militant wounded in a shooting in the Gaza Strip on Tuesday died on Wednesday after the Israeli army prevented him from being taken to hospital, Palestinian medical and security sources said.

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Hutur Najremaldeen, 18, who was injured in Tuesday's explosion is treated by Finnish nurse Maija Liise in Irbil, 350 km (200 miles) north of Baghdad, Iraq, Wednesday, Sept. 10, 2003. (AP Photo/Misha Japaridze)




An Israeli who was injured in an explosion receives help from emergency workers in Jerusalem, September 10, 2003. A Palestinian suicide bomber killed at least four people and wounded dozens in a blast in a Jerusalem cafe on Tuesday, medics and police said.The explosion tore through the Hillel cafe in Jewish west Jerusalem just hours after a Palestinian suicide bomber killed six people at a bus stop near an army camp outside Tel Aviv. REUTERS/David F FURST/Flash90 (ISRAEL OUT)




Relatives of Ahmed Tahaynah, 15, killed by Israeli forces Wednesday, mourn over his body at the hospital of the northern West Bank town of Jenin prior to his funeral procession Thursday Sept. 11, 2003. Tahaynah from the nearby village of Al-Seelat was shot and killed by Israeli forces Wednesday near the security wall Israel had built to prevent infiltrators from the West Bank. Palestinians say he was going to his work in Israel. (AP Photo/Mohammad Ballas)

One of the articles linked above reports this happened on Sept. 9th, I believe.
Q U E R Y
Why in hell was a soldier driving a truck full of liquified petroleum? This is not the same as driving a tanker of gas to fuel military vehicles. Some poor soldier was driving a truck for the private corporate oil profiteers. So first Bush awards vast billions through no bid contracts to privatize the army; then he assigns enlisted men to work for the civilian contractors! ! ! !
What the hell do we call this? Reverse privatization ! !

thanks for the gathering of info.

while changing a tire that exploded, wounding 2 others?

I'm trying to collect one story for every incident and with so much going on, it's hard to keep up. I do appreciate it, if anyone wants to add stories to this thread that I might have missed.

Thanks.
DYEW

It is good to see this thread again! :thumbsup:


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