March 19 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at GMT 1245 on Thursday. * denotes new or updated item * BASRA - The decayed remains of at least three bodies were found in a grave near Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, Mehdi al-Tamimi, the head of the city's human rights office, said. He said he thought they dated back to the brutal suppression by Saddam Hussein of a Shi'ite uprising in 1991. * MOSUL - Police found the body of a man shot in the head and chest in a town near Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. * MOSUL - Gunmen killed the mayor of a village east of Mosul, police said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot and wounded two Interior Ministry personnel during an attack on their vehicle in central Baghdad, on Wednesday, police said. BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a car wounded a police officer in Baghdad's northeastern neighbourhood of al-Shaab on Wednesday, police said. KIRKUK - Gunmen killed a man and his wife when they stormed their house just south of Kirkuk, 255 km (155 miles), north of Baghdad, on Wednesday, police said. MOSUL - Gunmen killed a civilian in a drive-by shooting, south of Mosul on Wednesday, police said. MOSUL - A roadside bomb wounded two civilians when it struck a U.S. patrol in eastern Mosul on Wednesday, police said. The patrol escaped unharmed. MOSUL - Gunmen shot and wounded a government employee in a drive-by shooting in southern Mosul on Wednesday, police said.
People form a human chain during a rally in Madrid March 17, 2009. The rally was held ahead of the sixth anniversary of the start of the Iraq war, which began ...
