Security Summary: November 7, 2006

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber walked into a cafe in the Shi'ite Greyat district and blew himself up after dark, killing 17 people and wounding 20, police and Interior Ministry sources said. In nearby Adhamiya, dominated by Sunnis, mortars killed five people and wounded 26.

BASRA - A bomb attack in the oil-rich southern city of Basra killed one person and wounded seven others, police said.

SUWAYRA - Police retrieved the bodies of eight people from the Tigris river in the town of Suwayra, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. The victims had gunshot wounds and signs of torture.

BASRA - A British soldier on sentry duty at a base in central Basra was shot and killed on Monday, the British military said on Tuesday.

FALLUJA - A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. military patrol killed three civilians, including a student, and wounded eight others, including three students, in the city of Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, doctor Mohammed Abdul Kareem said. A police source said seven were killed and 10 wounded.

SAYAFIYA - Police arrested a local al Qaeda leader called Ali Hamid al-Dulaimi in the town of Sayafiya, 75 km (40 miles) north of Kut, police said.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier died on Monday night from wounds sustained in a roadside bomb attack on his vehicle in northwest Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

MAHMUDIYA - Police found the bodies of two people and a decapitated head in the town of Mahmudiya, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi police and army arrested 13 people they described as terrorists and 88 suspected insurgents during the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the General Command of armed forces office said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen killed a policeman in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A total of 10 bodies were found with gunshot wounds during the last 24 hours in different districts of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. Some of the victims showed signs of torture.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked a Civil Defence Centre and kidnapped four employees, two of whom were later released, in a southeastern suburb of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAIJI - U.S. forces killed two suspected insurgents and detained two more in a raid the U.S. military said was linked to a suspected senior leader of al-Qaeda in Iraq near Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad.

From Reuters/Alternet