April 22 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1930 GMT on Tuesday. * denotes new or updated item: * BAGHDAD - A rocket attack in eastern Baghdad killed six people and wounded 10, police said. * BASRA - A U.S. Marine was killed by a roadside bomb in the southern city of Basra on Monday, the U.S. military said. One Marine was wounded in the attack. * BAQUBA - U.S. forces killed six gunmen in a firefight in Kalaf Al-Hasun village in Diyala province on Monday, the U.S. military said. * BAGHDAD - Police found three bodies in Baghdad. * BAGHDAD - A female suicide bomber killed eight people and wounded 17 when she blew herself up north of Baghdad, Iraqi police said. They said the attack took place outside a police station in Diyala province. RAMADI - Two U.S. Marines were killed and three Marines, two Iraqi police and 24 Iraqi civilians were wounded when a suicide car bomb blew up at a checkpoint near Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb targeting an Iraqi army patrol detonated in the al-Mansour district of western Baghdad, killing one and wounding two, police said. SALAHUDDIN PROVINCE - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed one militant, detained 23 suspects and discovered homemade explosives in a series of operations in Salahuddin province, north of Baghdad, on Monday and Tuesday targeting al Qaeda, the U.S. military said. MOSUL - A car bomb killed two people, including a soldier, and wounded 20 people when it exploded near a provincial government building in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BASRA - An aide to Iraq's top Shi'ite cleric Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, died on Monday of wounds sustained a week ago in a drive-by shooting in Basra, 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen wounded a reporter and cameraman from local television station Biladi and their driver on Monday in a drive-by shooting in the Zayouna district of eastern Baghdad, the Journalistic Freedoms Observatory, a Baghdad-based independent organisation, said. BASRA - The Iraqi army and police clashed with militants in northern Basra, Abdul-Karim Khalaf, the interior ministry spokesman, told Reuters. There were no reports of casualties. MOSUL - Gunmen killed a lawyer on Monday when they stormed his house in Mosul, police said. BAGHDAD - Four people have been killed and 40 wounded in Sadr City since Monday morning, hospital and police officials said. RAMADI - Twenty people were wounded, including seven women and six policemen when a water-tanker laden with explosives detonated near a police station in Ramadi, said Major-General Tariq al-Thyabi, police commander for Anbar province. BAGHDAD - U.S. soldiers in an M1 Abrams tank and Bradley fighting vehicle killed three militants late on Monday after a U.S. route clearance vehicle was hit by an improvised explosive device, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD - A U.S. Apache helicopter fired a Hellfire missile late on Monday at gunmen in Sadr City, eastern Baghdad, who were carrying rocket-propelled grenade launchers, killing two, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD - A U.S. air strike killed two militants firing on U.S. troops on Monday morning in New Baghdad district of eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. BAGHDAD - A U.S. drone aircraft fired a Hellfire missile at a vehicle loaded with RPGs and AK47s, killing two militants in New Baghdad on Monday, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed two armed militants after they attacked a U.S. observation post in Sadr city, eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Tuesday. (Compiled by Aseel Kami and Noah Barkin)
U.S. military commander in Iraq General David Petraeus salutes during the 77th Iraqi Air Force day celebration in Baghdad's Muttana air base April 22, 2008. REUTERS/Thaier al-Sudani (IRAQ) ...
