Feb 15 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1800 GMT on Sunday. * denotes a new or updated item. * BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed by an improvised explosive device in southern Iraq, the U.S. military said. No further information was provided. FALLUJA - Police captured a suspected al-Qaeda militant, named as Sadi Nayif, near the town of Falluja, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police Major Mohammed Ahmed said. Ahmed said the suspect confessed to the murder of 15 people, including the Imam, or preacher, of a mosque. MOSUL - Gunmen shot and killed an off-duty Iraqi soldier in western Mosul, police said. MOSUL - Gunmen killed a man in western Mosul, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded six others in Sadr City, the vast Shi'ite district of north-eastern Baghdad, police said. Another police source said one person was killed and 19 were wounded. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb planted near a home in Sadr City wounded two pedestrians, police said. MOSUL - A member of al-Hadba, a mainly Sunni Arab party, was wounded in Mosul by a bomb planted in his car, police said. The politician ran in last month's provincial elections as part of the Hadba list in Nineveh, where the bloc received almost half votes cast. MOSUL - Three civilians were wounded when militants threw a hand grenade at a police patrol in central Mosul, police said. MOSUL - One policeman was wounded by a roadside bomb in southern Mosul, police said.
U.S. Major General Michael Oates shakes hands with U.S. soldiers from the Mountain Company after he awarded them for finishing their deployment in Iraq, in Baghdad February 12, 2009. REUTERS/Saad Shalash ...
