The following week a group of armed Muslims set fire to St. George Assyrian Church in the Dora neighborhood of Baghdad.

The suicide bombing against the police station, in the Dora neighborhood of southern Baghdad, was particularly brazen.

At a police station in the Dora neighborhood today, Iraqi officers said they had only learned the day before that an amnesty program for weapons was about to begin.

In the Dora neighborhood, prolonged fighting, which erupts almost nightly between militants and sometimes includes Iraqi Army and American forces, has also taken a large toll.

The family had recently fled their old home in the Dora neighborhood because of violence there.

Between late 2006 and May 2007, the ISI brought the Dora neighborhood of southern Baghdad under its control.

Interior Ministry officials provided these details: In the capital's southern Dora neighborhood, a bomb in a stationary car exploded, killing three civilians and wounding three others.

In the meantime, armored Stryker units were scrambled to the area to cover the base's area of control, which includes the troubled Dora neighborhood.

The violence continued Wednesday night when a mortar hit a house in the Dora neighborhood, killing three children and an adult, an Interior Ministry official said.

Later, another car bomb exploded in the dangerous Dora neighborhood of southern Baghdad, killing a policeman and 2 civilians and wounding 11.