Security Summary: July 10, 2007

Above: An Iraqi boy stands today near two cars destroyed in an overnight raid by U.S. and Iraqi troops in Sadr City. Police said two were killed and four injured in the raids.

BAGHDAD - Three Iraqi soldiers and four policemen were killed on Monday when a suicide car bomber rammed their checkpoint in south Baghdad, U.S. military said on Tuesday.

BAGHDAD - Two people wounded by a car bomb near a police station in al-Khadhra, south western Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Iraqi police found two bodies near Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. They had been tortured and shot.

BAGHDAD - One detainee died at Camp Cropper after being assaulted by other detainees on Saturday, the military said.

ARAB JABOUR - Coalition forces detained 13 suspected insurgents during operations in the Arab Jabour area in southern Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi soldiers killed 37 militants, arrested 51 and detained 65 other suspects during the past 24 hours in Iraq, the Defence Ministry said in a statement.

SAMARRA - Gunmen killed five Iraqi soldiers and wounded three others when they attacked a military checkpoint near Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BALAD - Gunmen killed three policemen and wounded another officer at a fake checkpoint near Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

DIWANIYA - Iraqi special forces detained 12 militants suspected of links to the Mehdi Army militia of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during two operations in Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained 17 suspected militants in raids in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

ISHAQI - Gunmen kidnapped three brothers at a fake checkpoint near Ishaqi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

ISHAQI - Gunmen killed one person when they attacked the house of a tribal leader near Ishaqi on Monday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped army Brigadier-General Abdul Razaq Asel, director of a joint security centre in the northern city of Mosul, while he was visiting his family in the Adhamiya district in Baghdad on Monday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Police found the bodies of 26 people around Baghdad on Monday. Most had been shot, victims of sectarian death squads.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military killed three insurgents in southern Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said.

AL MAJAR AL-KABIR - British forces killed three militants involved in the smuggling of weapons in southern Iraq, the British military said.

ISKANDARIYA - A woman was wounded when a mortar round landed on her house in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

NAJAF - Gunmen killed one person and wounded another near Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

From Reuters/Alternet