News From Iraq

The following are security incidents in Iraq reported on Sunday, Aug. 6, 2006:

BAGHDAD - Police say they have found 12 corpses around the capital, including the body of a woman from the mainly Shi'ite district of Shula in northwestern Baghdad. The bodies of the men bore signs of torture and all 12 were shot in the head.

TAZA - Gunmen attacked an army checkpoint, kidnapping a sergeant and seizing a number of weapons in the town of Taza, near Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

HAWIJA - Gunmen kidnapped a contractor in Hawija, 70 km (43 miles) southwest of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three Multi-National Division soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb on Sunday night southwest of Baghdad.

TIKRIT - A suicide bomber blew himself up at a mourning ceremony, killing at least 10 people and wounding 20 in Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

FALLUJA - Police said gunmen shot dead Sheikh Ali Hussein Shalash, a local preacher and member of the Sunni Association of Muslim Scholars.

BAGHDAD - One policeman was killed and five wounded in clashes with insurgents on the edge of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers kill a suspected militant during a raid near Baiji, 180 km (112 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. The raid was against a gang suspected of an attack on Saturday that killed five Iraqi soldiers.

BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers killed one militant and detained 11 others on Sunday during raids near Taji, 20 km (12 miles) north of Baghdad, U.S. forces said.

BAGHDAD - Police found two bodies in Dora, a southern district of Baghdad, and a third body in Ghazaliya, in west Baghdad, police sources said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb planted in a minibus killed a civilian and wounded the driver in Baghdad-Jadeeda, an eastern neighbourhood of the capital, police sources said.

BAGHDAD - Four more people died from injuries sustained in a bomb attack in the Baghdad district of Karada last Tuesday, taking the toll from the blast to 14, an Interior Ministry source said.

NEAR KIRKUK - Iraqi and U.S. army arrested 15 suspected insurgents in villages near Kirkuk, police said. ISHAQI - Four truck drivers were killed and their vehicles destroyed near Ishaqi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, when gunmen attacked a convoy transporting barbed wire to a U.S. military base.

SUWAYRA - Iraqi police said they had retrieved four bodies from the river Tigris. All were handcuffed and blindfolded and had been shot.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a police officer on Saturday in Baghdad, police said.

OTHER DEVELOPMENTS BAGHDAD - An Iraqi army medic described a scene of horror to a U.S. military hearing that will decide if four U.S. soldiers are to be court-martialled for the murder and rape of an Iraqi girl and the killing of her family.