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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Sept 30
30 Sep 2007 09:32:35 GMT
Source: Reuters
Sept 30 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0900 GMT on Sunday.

* denotes new or updated items.

* MOSUL - A member of the Nineveh provincial council and his three guards were killed when gunmen sprayed their car with bullets in southeast Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained 15 suspects believed to be members of Iraqi Special Groups, which the United States says are linked to Iran, during a combined operation in Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Four bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

DIWANIYA - Police said they found the body of an Iraqi soldier shot in Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad. The soldier was kidnapped on Saturday.

MOSUL - Police said gunmen killed two imams of mosques in separate incidents on Saturday in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, bringing the total number of imams killed in the city on Saturday to three.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed two women and one man in a drive-by shooting on Saturday in Mosul, police said.


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