Security Summary: November 9, 2006

BAGHDAD - Police in Baghdad found 26 bodies shot dead around the capital in the past 24 hours, an interior ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - In the Abu Ghraib district of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed five people and wounded six near a mosque, an interior ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Five mortars hit the neighbourhood Khadimiya in Baghdad, wounding 15 people, an interior ministry source said. Another seven mortars fell on the neighbouring district of Adamiya, killing three and wounding 15. Both districts have seen a string of mortar attacks in the past week.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeted a police commando patrol near a petrol station in central Baghdad and four people were wounded, an Interior Ministry source said.

TAL AFAR - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed four people, including a policeman, and wounded eight others, including a policeman, in Tal Afar, police said.

MOSUL - A total of six people were shot dead, including a police officer, in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a medical source said.

LATIFIYA - The bodies of four people were found, bound and gagged, in the town of Latifiya, in an area dubbed "The Triangle of Death" south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed two people and wounded 11 others in Qahira district in northern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

TAL AFAR - A rocket landed in a residential district and killed two policemen and wounded four civilians in the town of Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGDHAD - A car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed two people and wounded four others, both soldiers and civilians, near the college of Fine Arts in north central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two people and wounded 26 others in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed six people and wounded 28 in Karada in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAQUBA - A total of eight people were killed in different parts of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of five laborers were found in the southern Doura district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. They were abducted in the morning at a site where they usually gathered waiting to be hired.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded four people in the New Baghdad district of the capital, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb blew up wounding two policemen while they were trying to dismantle it in the eastern Zayouna district of the capital, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed a soldier and wounded four civilians in Palestine street in northeastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGDHAD - A roadside bomb wounded three people in southern Baghdad, police said.

NEAR BAGHDAD - Police arrested two insurgents when they raided a village south of Baghdad, police said. They found a corpse in the same area.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a police lieutenant colonel in Sadoun street in central Baghdad, police said.

KUT - A roadside bomb targeting a police rapid reaction force wounded four of them on Wednesday in Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.

BAIJI - A roadside bomb targeted a police patrol and killed a policeman and wounded three others on Wednesday in Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

TIKRIT - Gunmen killed a police officer on Wednesday in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed 38 suspected insurgents and wounded nine in a firefight in northern Baghdad that lasted nearly an hour-and-a-half on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

KIRKUK - U.S. forces backed by helicopters killed eight gunmen and captured 14, and one coalition force member was killed in a gunbattle on Tuesday after gunmen ambushed a joint U.S and Iraqi patrol south of Kirkuk, the U.S. military said.

From Reuters/Alternet