Security Summary: March 5, 2007

Smoke billows from a car bomb set off in a crowded book market in Baghdad today. At least 30 died, and scores more were injured.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting a police patrol killed a policeman and wounded another in the western Adel district of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near pilgrims heading to the holy city of Kerbala, killing at least two people and wounding 10 others in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces killed 10 insurgents and arrested 68, including five of Arab nationality, over the past 24 hours in and around Baghdad as part of Operation Imposing Law, the Joint Operation Centre for the plan said.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed a former member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party in Diwaniya on Monday, police said.

TIKRIT - The U.S. military said its forces detained 36 suspects in raids near the Syrian border, Tikrit, Falluja and Baghdad targeting foreign fighter and al Qaeda networks.

BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb exploded in Mutanabi Street, a Baghdad district lined with book shops, killing up to 26 people and wounding 54, a Reuters witness and police said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of six people, including children, were found in Adhamiya district of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen killed a policeman while he was driving in the city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

ISHAQI - Gunmen killed five policemen in a drive-by shooting in the town of Ishaqi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

ISHAQI - Gunmen wounded four policemen on Sunday while they were gathered in the garden of a friend in Ishaqi, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen opened fire on pilgrims heading to the holy city of Kerbala, killing five and wounding 17 others in two separate incidents in southern Baghdad, police said.

SULAIMAN BEK - The bodies of four people, shot and tortured, were found in the town of Sulaiman Bek, 90 km (55 miles) south of Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of 20 people were found shot dead and some showing signs of torture on Sunday in the western half of Baghdad known as Karkh, police said. Baghdad has become increasingly divided into Shi'ites on the east and Sunni Arabs on the west side of the Tigris, though there is a crossover.

KERBALA - Iraqi security forces, with U.S. advisers, captured a suspected militiaman in Kerbala, 110 km (70 miles) south of Baghdad, during operations targeting what the U.S. military called rogue elements of the Mehdi Army militia.

DHULUIYA - Iraqi forces arrested Muharib al-Jubouri, a local leader of an al Qaeda linked group called the Islamic State of Iraq, along with five of his aides on Sunday in the town of Dhuluiya, 40 km (25 miles) north of Baghdad, Interior Ministry spokesman Abdul-Kareem Khalaf told Reuters.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed a former member of Saddam Hussein's Baath Party in front of his house on Sunday in the city of Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

From Reuters/Alternet