Security Summary: January 27, 2007

Men watch as a U.S. armored vehicle passes while on patrol today in Baghdad

BAGHDAD - Police found 40 bodies, most tortured and shot dead, in various parts of Baghdad, a police source said. Two of the victims were women.

ISKANDARIYA - Gunmen opened fire on a highway near Iskandariya, south of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding two more, police said.

TIKRIT - A U.S. soldier was killed on Friday by a roadside bomb in Diyala province, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed one U.S. soldier and wounded three more in Diyala province on Friday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - A rocket landed in the international Green Zone in Baghdad and a witness said it landed in the U.S. embassy grounds. A U.S embassy official said two people were lightly wounded but could not confirm where the rocket landed.

RAMADI - Saad Hussein al-Alwani, the head of the Ramadi branch of the Iraqi National Congress, was kidnapped on Friday and found dead on Saturday, police said. The INC is a secular party headed by Ahmed Chalabi.

BAGHDAD - Two suicide car bombers killed 13 people and wounded 43 others in a mainly Shi'ite area of eastern Baghdad, a police source said. Other police sources said only one car was triggered by a suicide bomber and the other was a parked car detonated by remote control.

DIYALA PROVINCE - U.S. forces killed 14 insurgents in an air strike in Diyala province near Baghdad after some of the militants had tried to escape approaching troops, the U.S. military said in a statement.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed five people from the same family and wounded another three when they stormed into a Shi'ite home in Baghdad's Amil district on Friday night, police and hospital officials said.

KIRKUK - A car bomb killed two people in a mainly Shi'ite neighbourhood in southern Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi soldiers killed three insurgents and arrested seven others in various operations in Baghdad on Friday, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.

BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds killed one civilian and wounded 10 in western Baghdad's Hurriya district, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen dressed in police commando uniforms abducted eight people from a central Baghdad computer store in the latest kidnapping to hit the capital, police sources said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar round wounded a civilian as it landed on a home in the mainly Christian area of Camp Sara in central Baghdad, police said. A second mortar wounded one person when it landed in Palestine Street, a major commercial road in Baghdad.

HAWIJA - A roadside bomb wounded four people travelling near Hawija, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

From Reuters/Alternet