Security Summary: November 2, 2006

Mourners grieve after a Baghdad attack on a wedding Tuesday killed 23, including 9 children

FALLUJA - U.S. forces killed three gunmen after they killed an off-duty Falluja policeman, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds killed two people and wounded five when they fell on the district of Hussainiya in Baghdad's northern suburbs, police said.

BAGHDAD - A motorcycle bomb killed seven people and wounded 45 when it exploded in a crowded market in Baghdad's Shi'ite Sadr City district, an interior ministry source said.

BAQUBA - Gunmen killed Tariq Abid Ali, a judge in Baquba's Criminal Court, along with his son Ziyad as he headed home from work, police sources said.

BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds in Baghdad's Rahmaniya neighbourhood killed two people and wounded four, a police source said.

BAQUBA - Gunmen attacked a police patrol killing two policemen and wounding two others in the religiously mixed city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

NEAR BAQUBA - Gunmen set up a fake security checkpoint and killed the drivers of two fuel trucks and kidnapped three other people near Baquba, police said.

UDHAIM - Gunmen killed five people in two fuel trucks after they set up a fake checkpoint in Udhaim, 60 km (40 miles) north of Baquba, police said.

NEAR KIRKUK - U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested Nahidh Karker, the assistant leader of Ansar al-Sunna, on Wednesday in a village near Kirkuk, the Joint Coordination Centre for Iraqi and U.S. forces said. It was not clear how senior Karker was in the militant organisation.

MAHMUDIYA - A car bomb in a market killed a man and wounded four others in the town of Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen killed a guard of the Northern Oil Company in Kirkuk, police said.

KIRKUK - A sniper wounded a policeman near the police headquarters in Kirkuk, the Joint Coordination Centre said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a University professor along with his wife and son in northern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

MAHMUDIYA - The blindfolded bodies of four people were found in the town of Mahmudiya, just south of Baghdad, police said.

YUSUFIYA - Police found the bodies of three people with their hands tied in the town of Yusufiya, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb in a market killed a man and wounded 22 others in the eastern New Baghdad district of the capital, an Interior Ministry source said.

MOSUL - A mortar round landed on a house killing two people and wounding seven others in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked a police patrol and killed three policemen and wounded another in central Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.

RAMADI - U.S. forces conducted an air strike in the insurgent stronghold city of Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, and killed a local al-Qaeda in Iraq leader and his driver on Wednesday, the U.S. military said on Thursday. A U.S. statement said Rafa al-Ithawi, the Emir of Shamiya, frequently harboured foreign fighters who entered Iraq illegally.

KIRKUK - Gunmen attacked a pharmacy and killed the pharmacist on Wednesday night in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped police Colonel Khalid Ibrahim on Wednesday in the al-Selekh area in northern Baghdad, an interior ministry source said.

From Reuters/Alternet