Security Summary: December 11, 2006

An Iraqi firefighter hoses down damaged cars after a parked car bomb detonated near al-Maamoun college in west Baghdad today

Al ASAD - Eighteen people were injured when a Marine Corps CH-53E Super Stallion helicopter carrying four crew and 17 passengers made a hard landing in al Anbar province, the U.S. military said in a statement. It said the incident did not appear to be the result of enemy action.

BAGHDAD - Five people were killed and at least seven wounded when mortar rounds landed on a restaurant in Dora in southern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.

BALAD - Eight farmers were kidnapped on the road between Dujail and Tikrit north of Baghdad, the U.S.-Iraqi Joint Coordination Centre (JCC) in Salahaddin province said.

BALAD - Gunmen in a car shot dead a man standing at a railway station, the JCC said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a policeman in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed four brothers driving in their car in Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen wearing Iraqi army uniforms ambushed a security vehicle and stole $1 million in cash, police and Interior Ministry sources said. Four private security guards were kidnapped in the daylight robbery.

NEAR BAQUBA - Gunmen opened fire at a family, killing three of its members and wounding three others while driving near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded by a roadside bomb in Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. military said on Monday.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded in a parking lot of Mahmoun University in Baghdad, killing one person and wounding four others, including two policemen.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb went off in Palestine Street in western Baghdad, killing one person and wounding six, police said.

TUZ KHURMATO - Gunmen stormed a house, killing six members of the same family and wounding the father in a village near Tuz Khurmato, 70 km (40 miles) south of Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a U.S. military patrol killed a soldier and wounded another on Sunday west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber blew himself up near a house used as a base by police commandos, killing a policeman and wounding five others in Doura district in southern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded a man in the Shorja area in central Baghdad, police said.

RAMADI - U.S. forces killed two insurgents and wounded two others on Saturday night in the city of Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested on Sunday six men suspected of committing sectarian killings and of planting roadside bombs in Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi forces arrested four suspected insurgents on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

From Reuters/Alternet