Dec 6 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1930 GMT on Saturday. * denotes a new or updated item. * UDHAIM - One of Iraqi President Jalal Talabani's security guards was killed by a roadside bomb in Udhaim, 90 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The guard was off duty. * BAQUBA - A bomb exploded inside a cafe near Baquba on Saturday, killing one person and wounding 27 others, including eight members of a local Awakening Council, police said. Baquba is 65 km (40 miles) northeast of Baghdad. MOSUL - A roadside bomb wounded two policemen in western Mosul, 390 km (240 km) north of Baghdad, police said. TUZ KHURMATO - A bomb attached to a vehicle wounded an off-duty soldier and a civilian in central Tuz Khurmato, 170 km (105 miles), north of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - U.S. forces arrested 10 suspects in operations throughout central Iraq on Friday and Saturday, the U.S. military said in a statement. BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a pickup truck killed one person and wounded three people in southern Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded two people in the al-Qahira neighbourhood of northern Baghdad, police said. KIRKUK - A suicide bomber killed one policeman and wounded six people, including police and civilians, near a police academy on Saturday in central Kirkuk, according to Serhat Qader, a police brigadier based in Kirkuk. A hospital source in Kirkuk said one person was killed and nine were wounded. Kirkuk is 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad. BAQUBA - Armed men attacked the headquarters of an Awakening Council, a neighbourhood guard unit, east of Baquba before dawn on Saturday, killing three people and wounding four Awakening guards. MOSUL - Armed men shot and killed a civilian on Friday in eastern Mosul, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded in southern Baghdad on Friday near a patrol manned by police and neighbourhood guards, killing two people and wounding two others. BAGHDAD - Iraqi security forces, backed by the U.S. military, captured four suspected members of Iranian-backed militias the United States blames for bloodshed in Iraq. The first two arrests occurred on Dec. 2 in Baghdad, and the remainder took place in Kifl, south of Baghdad, on Dec. 3.
A demonstrator slaps an effigy of U.S. President George W. Bush with a sandal during a rally at Firdos square in Baghdad November 21, 2008. Followers of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr ...
