Sept 27 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1530 GMT on Saturday. * denotes new or updated item * NEAR BALAD RUZ - A roadside bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol killed two Iraqi soldiers and wounded 14, south of the town of Balad Ruz, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Baghdad in volatile Diyala province, police said. MOSUL - Iraqi soldiers killed two militants near a checkpoint in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad on Friday, police said. MOSUL - A bomb in a car killed a man in western Mosul, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded one policeman in the Mansour district in western Baghdad, police said. JALAWLA - One Iraqi policeman and one Kurdish security forces member were killed when the two sides clashed after a dispute at the headquarters of a Kurdish party in Jalawla, an ethnically-mixed town in Diyala province north of Baghdad. NEAR TAL AFAR - A Yemeni al Qaeda suicide bomber killed two other al Qaeda members on Thursday when the Iraqi Army conducted a raid near Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. Four other militants were arrested. BAGHDAD - U.S. forces arrested five militants accused of ties to Iran in the New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said. BAAJ - Gunmen wounded a member of Baaj local council and his wife when they attacked their car in a drive-by shooting in the town of Baaj, 375 km (230 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said. (Compiled by Aws Qusay; Baghdad newsroom)
Demonstrators display anti-U.S. military placards during a protest in Kufa, 120 km (75 miles) south of Baghdad September 26, 2008. Placards read, "Iraq will not become a U.S. colony". REUTERS/Ali Abu ...
