COMBINED LANGUAGE ASSESSMENT (CLA)

 

 PATROL REPORT

On 25th of June 2011 at about 1530 hrs an unknown phone caller informed to ISF (International Stabilization Force) station in Baghdad Headquarters that there was a bomb blast incident happened in Southern Baghdad area. The duty officer of the station was 1st lieutenant Hans Muller a German national. After receiving the information, he informed the matter- to the station commander Lt. Colonel Roser Muller the same nationality. He directed the duty officer to send a patrol team immediately to the incident area. Five minutes after the initial report, the duty officer dispatched a patrol team consisting of ten NATO military personnel headed by Major Ramos a German national excluding the military driver with an APC.

Follow-up Report #1

The team reached the scene after forty-nine minutes of their departure from the station. It is only twenty five minutes way but due to heavy traffic jam and off road they needed that time. As the team reached the scene, they cordoned the certain area with red tape and called for five ambulances from the ISF headquarters through their military radio. At 16.35 hours, the ambulances arrived at the scene. They picked the injured persons and sent them to ISF military hospital, Baghdad. They picked 93 persons including one-third women and children. Even short time operation around the incident place was conducted but no criminals were spotted. At about 20.20 hrs, while they were coming back to their station one third ways, they became attacked by some snipers.

Follow-up Report #2

The snipers fired towards NATO military personnel by using automatic rifles, light machine guns and threw some grenades. NATO personnel also backed fired to the snipers by using APC's machine gun. After fighting fifteen minutes, the snipers also lunched a rocket to their APC, and it damaged of the right front side. Two NATO soldiers died on the spot and three were injured. The team leader also sent this message to their station. Two NATO helicopters also came there to protect them and fired three missiles to the sniper's building at GR 256-459. The building fully damaged and got fired. Later, NATO ground forces searched the area and saw five dead bodies of the snipers. There were two women there. But it was unknown how many snipers were hiding in the building.

Follow-up Report#3

The injured NATO personnel were also sent to NATO military hospital in Baghdad by helicopter. After that the team moved back to their station at 22.20 hrs to make a report of those two incidents. According to Major Ramos, about the first incident, first of all one eyewitness informed to the team that a suicide attacker blew up a bomb­ filled car at a police station south of Baghdad, killing 51 people including more than 20 policemen on the same day, as Iraqi forces braced (prepared) for Al-Qaeda revenge attacks after Osama bin Laden's death. The attack, which also wounded at least 51 policemen, was the worst and deadly attack in Iraq, and pushed security chiefs to install new checkpoints, tighten access to key roads and restrict movement between provinces. The bombing left a two meter crater (hole) and badly damaged the police station in the center of the mainly Shiite sector area in Baghdad town, in addition to several nearby houses and shops, just days after US Special Forces killed Bin Laden at Attobabad in Pakistan. "The suicide bomber took advantage of the police station's guards changing shift to attack," said Haider al Zazour, head of the Baghdad provincial council security committee. The suicide bomber managed to drive through the main gate and blew up his vehicle four meters inside the station's perimeter.

Follow-up Report #4

On the following day, the chief of ISF hospital put the toll from yesterday's suicide bombing at 51 dead and 93 wounded, out of total dead 2 I was policemen. Of the wounded, 30 were in serious condition, the doctor Alim al­ Ali said, speaking on condition of anonymity. The death toll was confirmed by a list of the fatalities posted inside the hospital. Later, at midnight eight people died in the hospital that was serious injured including three policemen. Iraqi Taliban leader Mustafa Omar claimed from an anonymous place that, they were responsible for those two attacks. One day after the incident, at about 0800 hrs of the incident, local police discovered two dead bodies of policemen. both bodies were covered half with the sand, one from the Ist scene and the other from the second scene.

 

QUESTIONS:

I. How many police personnel lost their lives in the bomb blast incident?

2.  Who was the ISF patrol team leader and when they were attacked by the snipers?

3.  How many women and children were wounded in both attacks?

4.  When did the duty officer of ISF dispatch the patrol team to the scene and when they reached there?

5.  Where the bomb blast incident happened and how many NATO personnel attended the scene?

6.  Who was Haider al Zazour?

7.  When did police discover other two police person dead bodies?

8.  Who was the chief of ISF hospital and how many NATO personnel died in this incident?

9.  How old was Mustafa Omar and what was the nationality of the NATO duty officer? I 0. Where is the building in which snipers were hiding located?