Security Summary: October 30, 2006

Iraqis hold up the bloodstained clothes of victims of a bomb attack on a market in the Shia Sadr City area of Baghdad

BAGHDAD - A sniper killed a member of the U.S. military police in east Baghdad, the military said in a statement. It was the 101st death in Iraq this month, making October the deadliest month for U.S. troops since January last year.

BAGHDAD - A bomb blast ripped through a crowd of poor labourers in a square in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City district, killing 28 people and wounding 60, Interior Ministry sources said.

*MOSUL - Police found four bodies, including that of a policeman, in different parts of Mosul, north of Baghdad, police said.

*MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army convoy injured one soldier in Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded in Baghdad's southwestern Amil district, killing three people and wounding six, Interior Ministry sources said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded in Baghdad's Hurriya district, wounding two people, Interior Ministry said.

IRAQI-SYRIAN BORDER - A suicide car bomber hit an Iraqi army checkpoint at a border pass near Syria, killing four soldiers and wounding one. An hour earlier, another suicide bomber attacked the same checkpoint, causing no casualties, army Colonel Nuri Hiyad al-Esawi said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded near Yarmouk hospital in southwestern Baghdad, killing one civilian and wounding five, Interior Ministry sources said.

KIRKUK - A suicide attacker blew himself up inside a police headquarters in Kirkuk, killing two policemen and a three-year-old girl and wounding 19, including 10 policemen. Police said the attacker was wearing a police officer uniform.

BAIJI - Gunmen attacked a police centre in the oil refinery city of Baiji 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, killing two policemen and destroying a police car, police said.

MOSUL - Mortar rounds slammed an electricity power unit in eastern Mosul wounding five people, police said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded in al-Harthiya district of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding five, Interior Ministry sources said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded in al-Bayaa district of Baghdad killing seven people and wounding 25, police said.

SUWAYRA - Police retrieved the bodies of six policemen bearing signs of torture and with bullet wounds from a river in Suwayra, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military death toll in Iraq in October reached 100 after a U.S. Marine was killed on Sunday in western Anbar province, the U.S. military said on Monday.

NEAR KHALIS - A roadside bomb struck a car carrying labourers, killing two and seriously wounding three, near the town of Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MAHMUDIYA - Police found six bodies bearing signs of torture, blindfolded and with bullet wounds, in Mahmudiya 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot dead Isam al-Rawi, head of the University Teachers' Association in Iraq, near his house in Baghdad, police said.

From Reuters/Alternet