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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Jan 25
25 Jan 2009 09:03:05 GMT
Source: Reuters
Jan 25 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0900 GMT on Sunday.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded four people, including two Iraqi soldiers, when it struck an Iraqi army patrol in Karrada district, central Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb killed a civilian and wounded two other people, including a policeman, when it blew up near a police patrol on Saturday in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Three people were wounded on Saturday by a bomb hidden in an oven on a wooden cart at the side of the road in southeastern Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army arrested six wanted men on Saturday who were caught trying to plant a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad, security spokesman Qassim al-Moussawi said. Moussawi said that under interrogation, they had confessed to a plan to assassinate Baghdad's governor Hussein al-Tahan with the bomb.


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