Security Summary: January 4, 2007

Iraqi children inspect a car used in a bombing yesterday in Baghdad

BAGHDAD - Three mortars hit the majority Shi'ite neighbourhood of Hurriya in Baghdad, wounding three people, police said.

MOSUL - A police colonel was killed in a drive-by shooting in Mosul, police said.

KERBALA - Gunmen killed Akrem al-Zubaidi, a member of the Kerbala city council, and three of his guards on the main road between Najaf and Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two car bombs near a petrol station killed 13 people and wounded 22 in Baghdad's western upscale Mansour district, an Interior Ministry source said. Police said it was a roadside bomb followed by a car bomb.

BAGHDAD - Clashes erupted between gunmen and residents of a mainly Sunni district after the gunmen attacked Baghdad's western Gazaliya district and killed two people and wounded 25 on Wednesday, an Interior Ministry source said.

HILLA - The bodies of four people were found shot dead in and around the city of Hilla, 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - A roadside bomb targeting a police check point killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded four in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

From Reuters/Alternet