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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 13
13 Nov 2006 15:51:58 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

Nov 13 (Reuters) - Following are security developments and other developments in Iraq as of 1400 GMT on Monday:

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

* KERBALA - Three mortar rounds hit police headquarters in Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad, wounding three policemen, police said.

TIKRIT - Two U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded on Sunday when a car bomb exploded near their vehicle in Salahaddin province, the military said on Monday.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a policeman in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

NEAR KIRKUK - A roadside bomb exploded near the convoy of army general, Anwar Amin, and wounded three of his guards near Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen abducted police Major Muhammed Salim in the central Karrada district of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeted a U.S. military patrol and wounded two civilians in al-Ardun square in western Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen stormed a petrol station on Sunday and seized 18 men, killing four and releasing the others, said the Conference of Iraqi People party, one of the three Sunni parties forming the Iraqi Accordance Front.

BAGHDAD - An Interior Ministry source said gunmen attacked cars carrying guards of Vice-President Adil Abdul Mahdi, killing two and wounding a third. The vice president's office denied his guards were involved, and Abdul Mahdi was not present at the time.

BAGHDAD - U.S.-led troops killed eight suspected insurgents, believed to be linked to members of an al Qaeda cell in Iraq. The military said 41 suspects were also detained during raids in Baghdad.

BAGHDAD - A blast that police said was caused by a suicide bomber killed 11 people and wounded 18 more on a minibus in the northern district of Shaab in Baghdad.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed Mohammed al-Ban, a cameraman for the TV station al-Sharqiya, in Mosul, police said.

YUSUFIYA - Police found the bodies of five people between the towns of Yusufiya, 15 km (9 miles) south of Baghdad, and Mahmudiya, police said. Two had been beheaded, the others shot.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Kamil Salih, a traffic police brigadier, in north Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAQUBA - Police Lieutenant Colonel Amer Nisaif in Baquba, north of Baghdad, said police received reports on Sunday of many bodies dumped in a drainage ditch behind an electricity compound but after a thorough search only five bodies were found.

DIWANIYA PROVINCE - Gunmen matching the description of those who kidnapped a group of Shi'ite travellers in the town of Latifiya late on Saturday kidnapped 10 people in the town of Efeg on Sunday, police said. Police backed by U.S. forces were conducting a major search for the kidnappers around Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded in a park near the Iranian embassy in central Baghdad, near the international Green Zone, wounding one civilian and damaging 13 cars, police said.


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