European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - June 16, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                              June 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 3 82nd airborne increases patrols in Adham Yah gis hoping to deter violence following bombing of shrine by Zeke Minaya stars and stripes Baghdad the Sun wasted Little time Early soon after it was already hinting at the triple digit scorcher to soldiers with the 82nd airborne Divi Sions 2nd brigade combat team huddled before launching the first of a Hal dozen patrols More than usual through the Eastern Baghdad District of soldiers typically leave the wire poised for the but on this Day they re minded themselves to be particularly Vigi they were venturing out on the third Day of a curfew imposed after the bombing of the Sakariya mosque in about 65 Miles North of there was Hope that the fragile Calm in the Wake of the at tack would we Are increasing our said 1st William a 28yearold from insurgents want to create a Divide with the bombing and we Are try ing to prevent that from breaking out into further sectarian few would be surprised if the attack on the shiite holy site incited the destruction in february 2006 of the mosques gilded dome touched off a wave of sectarian violence that has Only recently begun to according to David when the 2nd but arrived As the first of the Baghdad Security plans surge troops earlier this it was common to find be tween 200 to 250 murder victims a month in the that number has plunged to 20 to 40 a he now what the bombing of the Sakariya shrine is going to do to we dont he at least now we Are pre there have been reports of a handful of attacks against sunni mosques but nothing near the scale of what was seen after last years bombing of the As he left outpost War Eagle on lord said he wanted to enforce the curfew without a heavy people May be out shopping for food or getting something for their he we dont want to come Down on them too but we have to remind them that they cannot be on the the Roundt Hemlock curfew was imposed indefinitely by the iraqi government shortly after the bombing of the Sakariya after joining with iraqi Security lord led the unit to a popular open air mar Ket in a sunni Section of the Market was nearly lord approached a fruit Vendor and informed him that his goods had to be packed up earlier than the Vendor nodded knowingly and put up Little i was expecting More of a what the hell lord but these peo ple seem to he approached a group of iraqi seated in a Circle in front of a Row of what do you think about the lord asked through a one Gray haired Man spoke i think for for its a i cant get food and in not making he said through a lord i its not Good for business at All but we want to prevent any the unit made its Way a few streets away to the predominately shiite area of soldiers stopped traffic and began instructing Drivers to return coalition forces met with Little Dis soon they were returning to War the first patrol of the Day its just the lord were going to be out Here All email Zeke Minaya at  Zeke and stripes soldiers with the 82nd airborne divisions 2nd brigade combat team search Adham Yah area residents found in the streets on despite a curfew set in place wednesday in response to the bombing of a holy shiite iraqi soldiers left unscathed in bomb blast stars and stripes seven civilians were wounded thursday when a Roadside bomb struck a Brad Ley fighting vehicle As it was passing through Baghdad Adham Yah Accord ing to a multinational corp Iraq press two men were seriously in including one with severe cuts to his and an other who suffered a heart at the press release and iraqi soldiers treated the wounded at the scene and helped evacuate the casualties to a nearby no troops were the joint patrol of sol Diers from company 1st 26th infantry regi ment and iraqi troops from 1st 1st 11th army was trav Eling through a crowded area with shops and families min gling outside their Homes when the bomb according to the the most critical casualty was an elderly Man whose heart had stopped from the Shock of the the release Jonathan a believed the Man would die if he did not reach a Hospital i told the commander that he needed to be loaded up and gotten out of there in or he was going to die right there on the Hewett was quoted saying in the press military says five gis killed in Iraq by Lauren Frayer the associated press Baghdad five sol Diers died in the Mili tary announced a Day after extremists fired shells into Baghdad Green zone during a visit by the state depart ments 2 the prime minister imposed an indefinite curfew on Iraq second largest City and Gateway to the persian starting at 4 after bombers levelled a sunni shrine just outside the City earlier a similar ban Al ready in place in Baghdad was extended another until Dawn government spokesman a Aldabbagh gunmen armed with Rock a propelled grenades attacked the Talha bin a Zubair shrine about 13 Miles outside Basra late partially damaging the police they re turned Early planting bombs inside the Structure and exploding it police no injuries were a a top Basra Security said the bombers were disguised As cameramen who asked guards for permission to film inside the minutes after they a huge explosion rocked the destroying the dome and he the guards were detained after Ward for Almusawi three of the soldiers were killed when a bomb exploded near their vehicle thursday Dur ing operations in Kirkuk prov in Northern the Mil a Man surveys the destruction after a bombing at the Talha bin a Zubair shrine on Friday about 13 Miles outside Ohio based f16 goes Down in Iraq a air Force f16 deployed to the 332nd air expeditionary Wing crashed Friday in Iraq at according to United states Central command air Ohio air National guard officials confirmed that one of its sin Gle seater f16 fighter jets according to family and military the Pilot was but the military would not officially confirm that until the notification process was the aircraft was flying on a close air support Mission in support of operation iraqi Cental said in a Friday news re the cause of the Accident is under More than 300 airmen from the 180th fighter based out of were deployed to Iraq last it the first time the unit has deployed although pilots have flown support missions in Side iraqi airspace in the Ohio guard spokesman Mark Wayda said officials in Ohio have not yet received any details about the cause of the Only that personnel from the 180th were the unit has been conduct ing operations in Iraq with members of Oklahoma air National guards 138th fighting Wing out of Oklahoma National guard Public affairs officer Pat Scully says that their unit is operating out of but that the units pilots were in a transition and he did not know the pilots from staff reports itary said in a another Soldier was wounded in the a fourth Soldier was killed by Small arms fire the same Day in Dyala Northeast of another statement and another Soldier died wednes Day in a noncombat related Inci which the military said it was All were assigned to task Force and their names were withheld pending family no deaths in Iraq the associated press As of june at least members of the military have died since the beginning of the Iraq War in March according to an associated press the figure includes seven Mili tary at least died As a result of hostile according to the military the a count is three higher than the defense departments last updated thursday at 10 the British military has re ported 150 deaths 33 18 20 bulgar 13 11 seven Al five Slova four three and is two the latest deaths reported by the military no deaths the latest identifications re ported by the military air Force Glade Lake died monday at Al Deid air of unknown causes As signed to the 622nd aeromedical staging Robins air Force Marine Lance Cpl Johnny Texas killed tuesday in combat in Anbar province assigned to the 2nd 7th Marine regi 1st Marine Twenty nine army Damon leg died tuesday in bad Cuba of wounds from Small arms fire in Bagh dad assigned to the 571st Mili tary police 504th Mil itary police 42nd Mili tary police fort