Security Summary: December 3, 2006

Iraqi's at the site of yesterday's Baghdad car bomb, which killed over 50 people.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded at an intersection near a bakery in the northern Baghdad district of Qahira, killing three people and wounding 10, an Interior Ministry source said.

KERBALA - Three people were killed and two wounded when a car was shot at by a passing vehicle near Latifiya in the so-called Triangle of Death south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two U.S. soldiers on patrol in Iraq's volatile western Anbar province on Saturday, the U.S. military said in a statement.

MOSUL - Six bodies were found in and around Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. All had gunshot wounds.

MOSUL - A suicide car bomb exploded near a police patrol in Mosul, killing two and wounding four, police said.

BAGHDAD - Police found the body of Hidaib Mejhoul, a member of the national Iraqi Football Association, in Baghdad's Yarmouk district on Saturday, relatives said. Mejhoul, who had been kidnapped from his home on Thursday, had been shot twice in the head and his body had signs of torture.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed when a roadside bomb struck his convoy on Saturday near Taji, 20 km north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed an official of the Mandaeans, a pre -Islamic gnostic religious group, after they dragged him from his house on Saturday in northern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed an insurgent and wounded 90 in different parts of Iraq during the last 24 hours, the Defence Ministry said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar round landed on a secondary school, wounding 10 students in Bab al-Muadham district in north-central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

NEAR GARMA - U.S. air strikes destroyed two foreign fighter safe houses west of Baghdad on Saturday night, killing five insurgents, two women and a child, the U.S. military said on Sunday. Neighbours told a local Iraqi journalist that nine members of the same family were killed -- three boys, three girls and three women -- when their home was levelled. The details could not be independently confirmed.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded six people near al-Shaab Stadium in east-central Baghdad, police said.

NEAR KIRKUK - A suicide bomber blew up a car near the convoy of a senior police officer, killing three of his guards and wounding two others near the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk, police said. The police officer was wounded in the incident.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped Haitham Yassin, an adviser to the electricity minister, on Saturday in Baghdad's northern Shaab district, police said.

BAQUBA - U.S.-Iraqi forces launched an offensive in the town of Baquba north of Baghdad, killing three insurgents and detaining 44. Three Iraqi soldiers were wounded in the operation, the U.S. military said in a statement. U.S. and Iraqi troops also captured a suspected insurgent leader during a raid on Friday near Baquba, the military said.

RAMADI - U.S. and Iraqi forces captured a member of an insurgent cell on Saturday south of Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad. They also arrested three other suspects during the raid, the U.S. military said in a statement.

BASRA - A roadside bombing targeting British military patrol in the southern oil city of Basra wounded three university students, police said.

From Reuters/Alternet