Security Summary: August 20, 2007

Left: A child peers out the broken window of the family apartment after a mortar attack on a neighborhood in Baghdad today.

BAGHDAD - At least five people were killed and 20 wounded when a parked car bomb exploded in the Shi'ite Sadr City district of northeastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S forces killed three suspected insurgents and detained 28 others during operations around Iraq on Sunday and Monday, the U.S military said.

BAGHDAD - At least five people were wounded when two roadside bombs detonated in the Zaafaraniya district in southern Baghdad, police said.

BAIJI - Gunmen killed two police officers in a drive-by shooting in Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The officers were brothers, they said.

TUZ KHURMATO - One Iraqi soldier was killed and another wounded by a roadside bomb in Tuz Khurmato, 80 km (50 miles) south of Kirkuk, police said.

BAIJI - Gunmen kidnapped five truck drivers on the road between Baiji and Tikrit, police said.

SAMAWA - The governor of the Shi'ite southern Iraqi province of al-Muthana was killed by a roadside bomb which hit his convoy on Monday, provincial officials said. One of his bodyguards was also killed and two others wounded.

BAGHDAD - At least three people were killed and 11 wounded when a bomb on a parked motorcycle exploded in a busy commercial area in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S forces killed eight gunmen and captured a cell leader and a weapons smuggler with suspected ties to Iran during a raid near Qasirin, north of Baghdad, the U.S military said.

MOSUL - The bodies of two policemen with gunshot wounds to the head were found in different areas parts of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Two policemen were seriously wounded by a roadside bomb in central Mosul, police said.

HAWIJA - Gunmen killed a civil servant in Hawija, 70 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

BAGHDAD - At least five Iraqi soldiers were killed when a roadside bomb hit their armoured vehicle in Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, on Sunday, an Iraqi army source said.

From Reuters/Alternet