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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 19
19 Nov 2006 21:38:32 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

Nov 19 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 2030 GMT on Sunday:

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

*BAGHDAD - Police in Baghdad recovered 45 unidentified bodies in the 24 hours to Sunday evening, an Interior Ministry source said. Most had been bound, tortured and shot.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen in camouflage uniforms seized Iraqi deputy health minister Ammar al-Saffar from his home on Sunday evening, his aide and a neighbour said. Saffar is a member of Shi'ite Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's Dawa party.

BAGHDAD - U.S. military announces the death of a soldier from the 89th Military Police Brigade who was wounded by a roadside bomb in southeastern Baghdad on Saturday evening.

BAQUBA - A total of 11 bodies were brought to Baquba hospital, the victims of assassinations and executions in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, hospital and police sources said.

HAWIJA - A mortar round landed on a residential district and killed three boys and wounded another in Hawija, 70 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

BAQUBA - Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint and wounded a policeman in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

RAMADI - U.S. forces killed eight suspected insurgents and arrested two on Saturday in Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed two suspected insurgents in an air strike on Saturday afternoon near Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement on Sunday.

KIRKUK - A suicide car bomb near a funeral procession killed three people and wounded 22 in the northern Iraqi city of Kirkuk on Sunday, police said.

HILLA - At least 22 people were killed and 49 wounded when a suicide bomber blew up his vehicle among day labourers waiting to be hired in Hilla, 100 km (62 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three near simultaneous explosions, at least two of them car bombs, killed at least six people and wounded 30 at a bus station in the eastern Mashtal district of Baghdad, police and Interior Ministry sources said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed three civilians and wounded three policemen in eastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen in four wheel-drive vehicles killed police colonel Yassin Ibrahim along with his guard and kidnapped his driver in eastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen opened fire at a gathering of people in the northern oil city of Kirkuk and killed two, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed an Iraqi soldier in Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped a judge named Mudhafer al-Ubaidi in western Baghdad, police said.

HADITHA - A suicide car bomb at a police checkpoint in Haditha, west of Baghdad, killed one policeman and wounded another on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

BAGHDAD - The Iraqi army killed one suspected insurgent and arrested 45 others over the last 24 hours in different parts of Iraq, the Defence Ministry said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded six people in Baghdad's southern Saidiya district, an Interior Ministry source said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed Lieutenant Colonel Mohammed Ganim from the Facility Protection Services (FPS) along with his driver in a drive-by shooting in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, a hospital source said.


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