Security Summary: December 1-2, 2006

An Iraqi policeman near the area where coordinated car bombings killed at least 50 people today in Baghdad

December 2, 2006

BAGHDAD - Police said they found 44 bodies in different parts of Baghdad, all apparent victims of sectarian violence.

BAGHDAD - Car bombs ripped through a fruit and vegetable market in a Shi'ite area of central Baghdad, killing 51 people and wounding 90, police and an Interior Ministry official said.

BALAD - Gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying Iraqi soldiers in civilian clothes, killing five and wounding one in the town of Balad north of Baghdad an Iraqi security source said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen opened fire on a police checkpoint outside west Baghdad's main Yarmouk hospital, killing at least one policeman and wounding two, an Interior Ministry official said. A security guard at Yarmouk gave a different account, saying three people were killed and seven wounded when gunmen in two cars tried to force their way into the compound, sparking clashes with hospital guards.

BAGHDAD - A Katyusha rocket killed two and wounded six from the same family when it landed on a home in the mainly Sunni Adil district of Baghdad, police said. Sunni politicians said they were conducting talks in a mosque nearby at the time.

KHALIS - Gunmen killed two Shi'ites and wounded three others when they attacked a funeral procession near the town of Khalis, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

ANBAR PROVINCE - A U.S. soldier was shot dead by insurgents in the rebel province of Anbar on Friday, the U.S. military said in a statement.

YUSUFIYA - A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded six when it exploded as a patrol for the electricity protection force passed by in the town of Yusufiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAQUBA - The U.S. military said a joint U.S.-Iraqi force raided insurgent strongholds of the religiously mixed city of Baquba, north of Baghdad. Police sources said they arrested 35 suspected insurgents and freed a number of hostages.

ISKANDARIYA - A small bomb killed one person and wounded another in a residential area of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, on Friday night, a police source said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed police Captain Hayder Mousa in the district of New Baghdad, police said.

MUSSAYAB - Police found the body of a young man in the town of Mussayab, about 60 km (37 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. The body had numerous gunshot wounds.

MOSUL - Insurgents killed a contractor in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb wounded three policemen in Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - A truck killed 18 people and injured eight when it ploughed into commuters waiting at a busy bus station south of Baghdad in what police described as an accident.

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December 1, 2006:

MOSUL - Fourteen labourers kidnapped from a farm near Sinjar, northwest of Mosul, on Thursday have been found dead in a wheatfield, a local official said on Friday.

BAGHDAD - Police said they found 20 bodies in different parts of Baghdad on Friday.

MAHMUDIYA - Three mortar rounds hit a residential area in Mahmudiya south of Baghdad, killing one person and wounding four, police said.

RASHIDIYA - Mortar rounds hit a residential area of Rashidiya north of Baghdad, killing four and wounding three.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed two suspected insurgents and detained 27 others in raids in towns north and south of Baghdad, the U.S. army said.

SAMAWA - At least two policemen and one civilian were killed and 31 wounded, including three policemen, in clashes between Mehdi Army fighters and police in Samawa, 270 km (168 miles) south of Baghdad, on Thursday. Police said the clashes continued on Friday.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded in northern Baghdad, killing two people and wounding 13, police said.

BAGHDAD - Clashes erupted between gunmen and the Iraqi army in central Baghdad in which one soldier was killed and nine people wounded, the Interior Ministry said. The Defence Ministry said 43 people had been captured and weapons seized.

KIRKUK - A suicide car bomber targeted a U.S. patrol, killing two civilians and wounding four in the northern city of Kirkuk, police and hospital sources said.

LATIFIYA - A roadside bomb exploded near a minibus, killing one person and wounding four in Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, on Thursday evening, police said.

BAGHDAD - At least three people were killed and 22 wounded when a car bomb blasted a crowded pet market in central Baghdad, police sources said.

BAGHDAD - A security detainee died on Thursday at Camp Cropper, a detention facility at Baghdad airport, from what appeared to be natural causes, the U.S. military said in a statement.

BAGHDAD - U.S. ground and air forces killed 14 insurgents and wounded two after they attacked their convoy with machinegun fire in southwest of Samarra 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said in a statement.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed in combat in Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said in a statement.

SAMAWA - Seven mortar rounds hit a residential neighbourhood in Samawa 270 km (168 miles) south of Baghdad, on Thursday, killing two people and wounding 13, police said.

JURF AL-SAKHAR - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol, killing one civilian and wounding three in the town of Jurf al-Sakhar 85 km (53 miles) south of Baghdad on Thursday, police said.

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