Security Summary: April 26, 2007

Members of the Stryker Brigade pass through a maze of concrete barriers at Camp Stryker in Baghdad today.

Falluja- Two members of a family an gunman were killed on Thursday afternoon in the western Iraqi city of Falluja while police patrols found two unidentified bodies in the city, a police source said.

Diala- Unknown gunmen on Thursday attacked and killed an Iraqi army officer in Diala province, 57 km northeast of Baghdad, a police source said.

Falluja- Unknown gunman on Thursday shot dead a member of the Sunni Iraqi Islamic Party in Falluja, 45 km west of Baghdad, a police source said.

Balad- Police patrols found an unidentified woman's body in Balad town, 70 km north of Baghdad, while three people were wounded when mortar rounds were fired onto the town, a police source said on Thursday.

Diala- Security forces arrested three persons suspected of having links to al-Qaeda in Iraq Organization in Diala, 57 km northeast of Baghdad, while police forces arrested two drug dealers in the province, a police source said.

Baghdad- At least one civilian was killed and three more were wounded on Thursday when a car bomb went off in al-Bayaa district, southwestern Baghdad, a police source said.

Baghdad- A policeman was wounded on Thursday when gunmen clashed with an Iraqi police vehicle patrol in a village near al-Madaen, 37 km southeast of Baghdad, a security source said.

Tikrit- Unknown gunmen killed Chemical Ali's sister-in-law along with her daughter after they stormed their house in Tikrit on Thursday, 175 km north of Baghdad, a police source said.

Baghdad– At least six persons were killed and 15 others were injured when a booby-trapped car went off on Thursday in al-Jadriya region in southern Baghdad, a police source said.

Baghdad– Three gunmen were killed by U.S. forces in Sadr city in eastern Baghdad on Thursday while conducting a security operation targeting a network that trains gunmen for operations in Iraq, the U.S. army said.

Baghdad- Iraqi security forces killed one gunmen and arrested 217 suspected militants in several areas in Baghda during the past 24 hours under the Baghdad law-imposing plan, the Baghdad operations command said on Thursday.

Baghdad– Two people were killed and 10 others were injured when an explosive device went off on Thursday in Shurja region in central Baghdad, a police source said.

Mosul – At least three were killed and 13 wounded on Thursday in series of blasts targeting a headquarters of the Kurdistan Democratic Party (KDP) in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a police source said.

Diala- At least eight people, including four policemen, were killed and 12 more were wounded on Thursday when a suicide bomber detonated a vehicle rigged with explosives near a checkpoint of the Iraqi national guard in Khalis district, 55 km north of Baghdad, a police source said.

From VOI