*ISHAQI - A roadside bomb killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded three others in Ishaqi, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad.
*BAGHDAD - Police said they found more than a tonne of explosives at an electronics company in Baghdad’s Karrada district after a gunbattle in which three men guarding the premises were killed. Brigadier Khaled al-Obeidi said an al Qaeda leader, Abu Jaafer al-Libei, narrowly escaped. A car bomb exploded in the street as police were leaving, killing three and wounding 14 people, mostly policemen.
FALLUJA - The chief of traffic police in Falluja, Brigadier Ahmed Diraa, was ambushed and shot dead in his car by gunmen, police said.
BAGHDAD - Three people were killed and 15 wounded when a bomb exploded in a popular market in Bab al-Sharji in central Baghdad, police said.
BAQUBA - Clashes between two Sunni and Shi’ite districts in the town of Baquba 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad killed five people and wounded 14, police said, adding that mortars had been fired during the violence.
BAQUBA - Gunmen killed police General Majeed al-Mani and two of his bodyguards while he was on a shopping trip in Baquba, police said.
FATHA - Iraqi soldiers killed four insurgents when they repelled an ambush on a road near the town of Fatha southwest of Kirkuk on Saturday, the Iraqi army said.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol, wounding two policemen in eastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
MOSUL - Gunmen killed a barber in the northern city of Mosul on Saturday, a hospital official said.
FALLUJA - One civilian was killed and another wounded in an exchange of fire between insurgents and a U.S. patrol in Falluja, local police said