Security Summary: June 16 & 17, 2007

Above: A bystander wounded in firefights between U.S. troops and insurgents in Baqubah is treated at a hospital today.

June 16, 2007:

BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi forces captured two top militants overnight including one from a gang that may have been involved in the abduction of five Britons in Baghdad in May, the U.S. military commander in Iraq said on Saturday.

MUQDADIYA - U.S. attack helicopters killed six suspected insurgents on Saturday who were spotted burying a makeshift bomb besides a road near Muqdadiya, 95 km (50 miles) north east of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed four suspected insurgents and detained 20 others during operations in Falluja, Mosul and Baghdad, the U.S military said.

FALLUJA - Two bullet-riddled bodies were found in Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

From Reuters/Alternet

June 17, 2007:

BAIJI - Three policemen were killed and seven others wounded by a suicide car bomb which targeted recruits near the city of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed 10 suspected militants and detained 20 others during raids in Baghdad on Saturday and Sunday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - The body of Filaih Wadi Mijthab, the managing editor of the state-run al-Sabah daily newspaper, has been found in Baghdad's Sadr City neighbourhood, his newspaper said. He was kidnapped on Wednesday.

NASIRIYA - Gunmen wounded a police commander and three of his guards in central Nasiriya, 375 km (235 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

KIRKUK - A car bomb killed three people, including two Kurdish security force members, and wounded four other people in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army has killed 10 suspected insurgents and arrested 79 others during operations in the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. attack helicopters and Iraqi army forces killed four suspected insurgents and wounded three others during joint operations south of Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

From Reuters/Alternet