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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 13
13 Nov 2006 22:13:33 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Following are security developments and other developments in Iraq as of 2130 GMT on Monday:

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

*BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed at least five people and wounded 15 in a raid on the Shi'ite enclave of Shula in mainly Sunni west Baghdad, sources at Baghdad police headquarters said. An Interior Ministry source said six were killed and three wounded in what he described as a U.S. air strike. State television Iraqiya said there were nine dead and "many casualties" in a U.S. air raid on Shula. A U.S. military spokesman declined to comment on ongoing operations.

*BAGHDAD - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded in a bomb attack in Baghdad, the military said in a statement.

BAGHDAD - Police recovered 46 bodies around Baghdad in 24 hours to Monday evening, an Interior Ministry source said. Most had been tortured and were apparent victims of sectarian death squads.

BAGHDAD - Police Major Muhammed Salim from the central Karrada district of Baghdad was abducted and later found dead, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen stormed the house of police Major Maher Moussa, commander of the Rashad police station in eastern Baghdad, and took him away, an Interior Ministry source said. His fate is unknown.

BAGHDAD - Five employees of the state-owned North Oil Company, one of them a women, were ambushed and killed in the northern outskirts of Baghdad as they drove into the capital, an Interior Ministry source said.

KUT - A police officer was shot dead in front of his home in the centre of Kut, 170 km (110 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police in the mainly Shi'ite city said.

BAGHDAD - Mortars injured two people in the northern Baghdad suburb of Husseniya, police said.

KIRKUK - Four male primary school teachers were killed while in a vehicle in the oil city of Kirkuk in the north.

TIKRIT - Two U.S. soldiers were killed on Sunday when a car bomb exploded near their vehicle in Salahaddin province, the military said on Monday. Two more soldiers were wounded.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a police officer in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

NEAR KIRKUK - A roadside bomb exploded near the convoy of army General Anwar Amin and wounded three of his guards near Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeted a U.S. military patrol and wounded two civilians in al-Ardun square in western Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen stormed a petrol station on Sunday and seized 18 men, the Conference of Iraqi People party, one of three Sunni parties forming the Iraqi Accordance Front, said. They killed four and released the others, the source added.

BAGHDAD - An Interior Ministry source said gunmen attacked cars carrying guards of Vice-President Adil Abdul Mahdi, killing two and wounding a third. The vice-president's office denied his guards were involved. Abdul Mahdi was not present at the time.

BAGHDAD - U.S.-led troops killed eight suspected insurgents the military said were believed linked to members of an al Qaeda cell. The military said in a statement 41 suspects were also detained during raids in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD - A blast that police said was caused by a suicide bomber killed 11 and wounded 18 on a minibus in north Baghdad.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed Mohammed al-Ban, a cameraman for the TV station al-Sharqiya, in Mosul, police said.

YUSUFIYA - Police found the bodies of five people between the towns of Yusufiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad, and Mahmudiya, police said. Two had been beheaded, the others shot.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Kamil Salih, a traffic police brigadier, in north Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAQUBA - Police Lieutenant Colonel Amer Nisaif in Baquba, north of Baghdad, said police received reports on Sunday of many bodies dumped in a drainage ditch behind an electricity compound but after a thorough search only five bodies were found.

DIWANIYA PROVINCE - Gunmen matching the description of those who kidnapped a group of Shi'ite travellers in the town of Latifiya late on Saturday kidnapped 10 people in the town of Efeg on Sunday, police said. Police backed by U.S. forces were conducting a major search for the kidnappers around Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded in a park near the Iranian embassy in central Baghdad, near the international Green Zone, wounding one civilian and damaging 13 cars, police said.


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