Security Summary: December 14, 2006

Smoke billows after the al Dora refinery in southern Baghdad took a hit from a mortar shell today

NEAR MUSSAYAB - A roadside bomb exploded close to an Iraqi army patrol, killing one soldier and wounding four near the town of Mu3ssayab, 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

KHALLISA - Police found the bodies of 15 men, shot and tortured, near an irrigation canal in Khallisa village, 35 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed a civilian and wounded another in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

NEAR MOSUL - A hospital received the bodies of three off-duty Iraqi soldiers shot dead in the main road between Tal Afar and Mosul, a hospital source said.

MOSUL - Six bodies, all with gunshot wounds, were found in different districts of Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded near an Iraqi army convoy and killed two people, including a policeman, and wounded seven, including three soldiers, in Nafaq al-Shurta in western Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

MAHAWEEL - A car bomb killed two people and wounded six in Mahaweel, a town 75 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BASRA - A roadside bomb targeting a British military patrol wounded a soldier in the southern city of Basra, British military spokesman Captain Tane Dunlop said.

AL-LIJ - Police found the bodies of two people, shot and tortured, in al-Lij village, 35 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A hospital received the bodies of five people on Wednesday in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. They all had gunshot wounds.

KIRKUK - A policeman was killed and three others wounded when they tried to defuse a car bomb on Wednesday in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed an Iraqi explosives expert along with his assistant when they were trying to dismantle it on Wednesday night in Sadr City in eastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

From Reuters/Alternet