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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Dec 23
23 Dec 2006 11:35:17 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

Dec 23 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1130 GMT on Saturday:

SAMAWA - Clashes between Iraqi security forces and a powerful Shi'ite militia left five people, including four policemen, dead and wounded 17 others in Samawa, police sources said.

HAWIJA - A roadside bomb killed two civilians as their car passed a road just outside the town of Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen killed an Iraqi intelligence officer in the southern Iraqi city of Diwaniya, police sources said.

DIWANIYA - Police said they found two bodies, blindfolded and with their hands tied, in Diwaniya on Friday, police said.

SAMARRA - A policeman was shot dead by insurgents in the town of Samarra, police said.

DOUR - An Iraqi soldier was killed by insurgents in the small town of Dour, near Saddam Hussein's hometown of Tikrit, north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen assassinated Wathaah Abid-Rabbuh, a tribal figure from the large mainly Sunni Jubour tribe, in the northern Iraqi city of Mosul, a hospital official there said. It was not clear why the tribesman was targeted.


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