Security Summary: November 15, 2006

Wreckage from a car bomb which killed at least 33 people today in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD - Police recovered 55 unidentified bodies, most of them tortured and shot, around Baghdad in the 24 hours to Wednesday evening, an Interior Ministry source said. Of these, 40 were found west of the Tigris river.

MOSUL - An aide to Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri, the most senior member of Saddam Hussein's aides still at large, was captured at a security checkpoint in the northern city Mosul, police said. Mohammed Saeed Rasheed was carrying incriminating documents, they said, giving no details about him or his links to Ibrahim.

MOSUL - Gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying a group of construction workers, killing two and wounding three. Police said the victims had been working at a police station.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded in the northern Baghdad district of Shaab, wounding three people, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two U.S. soldiers were killed on Tuesday night when their vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in northwest Baghdad, the military said.

BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb exploded near a funeral in south Baghdad on Wednesday, killing at least three people and wounding 15, police and Interior Ministry sources said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked the convoy of Salama al-Khafagi, a former member of the governing Council, wounding a bodyguard and killing a passer-by in the western Jamiaa district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

NEAR DIWANIYA - Gunmen abducted 12 workers at a brick factory on Tuesday in a town near Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - The morgue in Mosul received the bodies of four people shot dead including two policemen, hospital sources said.

BAGHDAD - The Interior Ministry announced the arrest of Abdullah al-Jouburi, a suspected leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq, in a raid in southern Baghdad which had U.S. air support.

SAMARRA - Police retrieved the body of a woman from the Tigris river in Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. She had gunshot wounds in her head and was bound.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said U.S. forces detained 18 suspected insurgents in several raids in northern Baghdad province and Anbar. It said the targets of the raids were believed to have ties to al Qaeda in Iraq cells.

BASRA - British forces killed an insurgent who fired at them from a house in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) south of Baghdad, said Captain Tane Dunlop, a British forces spokesman. The insurgent wounded a British soldier and killed an Iraqi woman, he said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen killed a traffic police officer in the oil city Kirkuk, 255 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed 12 people and wounded 33 outside a fuel station near Iraq's Interior Ministry in central Baghdad, police and Interior Ministry sources said.

MOSUL - Fadia Mohammed Ali, a reporter at Al Masar newspaper, and her driver were killed by gunmen as she was driving to work in Mosul, in northern Iraq, police said.

FALLUJA - One U.S. soldier and three Marines died on Tuesday from wounds sustained in combat in western Anbar province, the military said.

LATIFIYA - Police said they found 10 bodies in Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, and were trying to find if they were those of 10 Shi'ite travellers kidnapped at the weekend.

From Reuters/Alternet