Aug 27 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1630 GMT on Wednesday. * denotes a new or updated item. * TAL AFAR - A suicide car bomber wounded 22 people in Tal Afar, some 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, according to Sabih Hussein, chief physician at the Tal Afar government hospital. A police source in nearby Mosul said that only two people had been wounded. BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces arrested at the Baghdad airport a man suspected in a June bomb attack that killed 10 people, including two U.S. government employees and two U.S. soldiers in the Shi'ite stronghold of Sadr City, said Major-General Qassim Moussawi, spokesman for the Iraqi military in Baghdad. MOSUL - Gunmen shot dead a civilian in a shop in the al-Nur area of eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A bomb in a parked car killed one person and wounded seven others when it exploded in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier died of wounds received following a roadside bomb attack on his vehicle on Tuesday in northeastern Baghdad, a U.S. military statement said. BAGHDAD - Three suspected militants died and six more were detained in U.S. operations in Diyala province northeast of Baghdad, a U.S. military statement said. NUMANIYA - Iraqi police found the body of a woman in the town of Numaniya, 120 km (72 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. (Compiled by Khalid al-Ansary)
Five-year-old Iraqi Hussein poses at the King Hussein Cancer Centre in Amman August 19, 2008. Hussein, who is suffering from leukaemia, is one of the few Iraqis to have had the ...
