Death Toll 08/14 - 08/18/03

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British soldier killed in Basra


August 14, 2003

A British soldier was killed and two were wounded Thursday when an improvised explosive device went off as their ambulance passed by in the southern Iraqi city of Basra, British military officials said.

The three were driving on the outskirts of the town center when the incident occurred. They said the bomb, hidden next to a lamp post, was apparently detonated by remote control.

The injuries sustained by the wounded soldiers are not considered life threatening, British officials said.

They said the ambulance was clearly marked with a red cross. It was on its way to a hospital in Shaibah.


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Heat apparent cause of soldier’s death[br />

August 15, 2003


EAST ALTON -- Preliminary results of an autopsy performed on a local soldier who was found dead in Iraq last week reveal that he probably died from extreme heat, the family told The Telegraph Thursday.

Pvt. Matthew Bush, 20, was found dead Aug. 8 in his barracks near Kirkuk, Iraq, by a bunkmate who tried to wake him. He served in the first squad of the Fourth Infantry Division’s 10th Cavalry.

His father, Randy Bush, said Thursday that his ex-wife, Barbara Bush, spoke with a U.S. Army medical examiner who explained that the cause of their son’s death has not been determined officially, but the preliminary results show sweltering temperatures in the Iraqi desert were the likely reason.


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Two days of armed struggles in Afghanistan leaves 115 dead


15-Aug-2003

Kabul, Aug 15, IRNA --Armed struggles, bomb explosions, and chaotic conditions in various parts of Afghanistan during the past 48 hours have so far claimed at least 115 lives, and led to critical injuries of about another 100 individuals, in addition to lots of material damage.

According to IRNA correspondents in various parts of Afghanistan, the past 48 hours' deadly incidents have been quite unmatched during the past two years.

One of such fatal clashes occurred between the supporters of the former, and the newly appointed governors of Kajran township, Abdurrahman, and Amanollah, in Afghanistan's Arzegan Province that started on Wednesday morning and lasted for 48 hours. It has claimed 75 lives, tens of casualties, and lots of material damages.

According to official Afghan sources, 20 of the government forces were killed and 30 more of them injured during the clashes, while 55 of Amanollah's forces, got killed and tens of them were injured.

Those statistics are yet besides the number of civilians and defenseless neighboring areas citizens, including some women, children, and elderly folks, who got killed or injured in those deadly clashes.



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Insurgents Hit Afghan Police HQ, Kill 22


KABUL, Afghanistan Aug. 17 — Hundreds of insurgents in a convoy of trucks attacked a police headquarters in southeastern Afghanistan, triggering a gunbattle Sunday that killed 22 people, officials said. It was one of the largest shows of anti-government force in over a year.

The fierce fighting in Paktika province was the latest in a wave of violence that has underscored just how unstable Afghanistan still is after U.S.-led forces toppled the Taliban in late 2001.

The assault began shortly before midnight Saturday when about 400 guerrillas traveling in trucks drove across the border from Pakistan and attacked the police headquarters in the province's Barmal district, about 200 kilometers (125 miles) southeast of Kabul, said provincial Gov. Mohammed Ali Jalali. It wasn't clear how he knew the men came from Pakistan.

Firing rockets, heavy machine guns and grenades, the attackers easily took over the office. About 15 to 20 Afghan police were in the compound at the time and seven of them including the district police chief were killed, Jalali said. The rest, realizing they could put up little resistance, fled.

Jalali said between 15 to 20 insurgents were also killed. Provincial police chief Daulat Khan said the attackers retreated with the bodies.


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Six Afghan Soldiers Killed in Latest Bloodshed


August 17, 2003

KABUL (Reuters) - At least six Afghan soldiers were killed in a clash near the Pakistani frontier this weekend in the latest cross-border insurgency blamed on the Taliban and al Qaeda, officials said on Sunday.

A Defense Ministry official in Kabul told Reuters that al Qaeda militants crossed into Paktika province in Afghanistan from neighboring Pakistan at around midnight on Saturday (1930 GMT on Friday) and launched an attack on a local district building.

"Six Afghan troops were killed and another nine to 12 are missing," said the official, who had just spoken to Afghan commanders involved in the clashes.

"The main group slipped back into Pakistan, but three al Qaeda suspects have been captured." He could not confirm reports that several of the assailants had also died.


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Reuters Cameraman Shot Dead in Iraq


Sun August 17, 2003 01:52 PM ET

Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana was shot dead on Sunday while working near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, witnesses said.

A spokesman for Iraq's U.S.-led administration confirmed a journalist had been killed and said an investigation was under way.

Witnesses said Dana, a Palestinian who has worked for Reuters for a decade, was filming outside Abu Ghraib prison in western Baghdad when he was shot.

Journalists had gone to the prison after the U.S. military said a mortar bomb attack there a day before had killed six Iraqis and wounded 59.


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Mortar attack kills six Iraqi prisoners

Sun August 17, 2003 08:58 AM ET

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Six Iraqis were killed and 59 were injured in a mortar attack on Abu Ghraib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

"Three mortar rounds impacted the scene. Three prisoners died on impact and three others died in hospital," a U.S. Army spokesman said. "The incident is under investigation."



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Fifteen die in rebel massacre


17/08/2003 12:23


Kampala - Ugandan insurgents massacred up to fifteen people and abducted several dozen others in a raid Saturday on a village in the northern district of Lira, officials said Sunday.

"They attacked at dawn. People were sleeping and they hacked them to death using machetes because the rebels do not usually use guns. They use machetes and cutlasses. I am sure over ten people were hacked to death but the number is believed to have reached fifteen," Lira district chairman Franco Ojur said on Sunday.

Lords Resistance Army (LRA) guerillas who have been fighting the Ugandan government for the past 17 years carried out the Saturday attack on the village of Bata, about 250km north of the Ugandan capital Kampala.

Ojur said that the rebels abducted up to 40 people, mostly children below the ages of 15.



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Baghdad blast kills US soldier


Monday, 18 August, 2003

An American soldier has been killed by an explosive device in Baghdad.

US Central Command said a soldier from the 1st Armoured Division died after the incident in the Karradah district of the Iraqi capital at 1400 (1000 GMT) on Monday.

The soldier was medically evacuated to a combat support hospital, where he was pronounced dead about an hour later. No further details about the explosion were given.

Before the latest incident the US Army said 60 of its troops had been killed in Iraq since President George W Bush announced the end of major combat on 1 May.


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Battle rages in Nigeria's Delta


Monday, 18 August, 2003

Street battles have continued for a fourth day in the southern Nigerian town of Warri between heavily armed gangs from two rival communities.

Scores of buildings have been burnt and more than 30 people are now known to have died since the fighting began on Friday.

The army is being deployed on the streets, but local residents say there are parts of the town where the clashes have continued without intervention from the security forces.

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One resident, who asked not to be named for fear of reprisals, said that more than 30 people from his community had been killed.


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Ten dead in Colombia clashes


Sunday, 17 August, 2003

The military authorities in Colombia say at least three leftist guerrillas and seven right-wing paramilitaries have been killed in separate incidents in the northeast of the country.

The regional commander, General Edgar Ceballos, said that his troops had clashed with guerrillas of the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia, or FARC.

He said that drugs as well as arms and ammunition had been seized.

The general added that another unit engaged the paramilitaries of the United Self-Defence Forces and killed seven men.


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Mosul police chief shot


Saturday, 16 August, 2003

The chief of police in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul has been shot and critically wounded.

Two of General Mohamed Khairi Al-Barhawi's guards were killed in the shooting, which took place near the general's home.

A third guard was injured. Reports from elsewhere in Mosul say 10 people were killed or wounded in a raid on the barracks of the new Iraqi army in the city.



It is not yet known who was behind the attacks. American forces have been carrying out search operations in the Mosul area for Saddam Hussein and his defence minister, Sultan Hashem.



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One killed in Tel Aviv blast


Monday, 18 August, 2003


One woman has been killed and at least three people injured in a suspected bomb blast at a popular restaurant in Tel Aviv.


Two devices seemed to have been planted at the scene, Israeli radio reported - one in the restaurant and one in the lift behind Ahim steak restaurant on Hamasget Street.

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Police suspect a criminal motive to the blast and are investigating whether there is any link with the office of a known criminal on the fourth floor of the building, Haaretz newspaper reports.



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'Taleban' storm Afghan security post


Monday, 18 August, 2003

Suspected Taleban militants have killed three Afghan soldiers in violence overnight in the south-east, the authorities say.

Up to 200 fighters are said to have taken part in the attack on a district headquarters at Terwah in Paktika province near the Pakistan border.

"They set the police station on fire, took four of our men and fled to Pakistan," provincial police chief Dawlat Khan told the Associated Press.




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The casket of Army Pvt. Kyle C. Gilbert is carried from St Michael's Church in Brattleboro, Vt., Monday, Aug. 18, 2003. Gilbert was buried with full military honors at the Locust Ridge Cemetery. Gilbert, 20, was killed earlier this month when an Iraqi vehicle opened fire on his unit in Baghdad. (AP Photo/Paul Franz)






Reuters cameraman Mazen Dana films in the West Bank city of Hebron, October 18, 2001. Dana was shot dead August 17, 2003 while working near a U.S.-run prison on the outskirts of Baghdad, witnesses said. A spokesman for Iraq 's U.S.-led administration confirmed a journalist had been killed and said an investigation was under way. (Nayef Hashlamoun/Reuters)




A US doctor checks a wounded Iraqi detainee at a US military hospital in Gurf al-Sakher, 45km west of Baghdad after six Iraqi detainees were killed and 59 others wounded in a mortar attack on Abu Gharib prison on the outskirts of Baghdad.(AFP/Karim Sahib)

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