Nov 12 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1500 GMT on Thursday. * denotes a new or updated item. * MOSUL - Iraqi police found the body of a man with gunshot wounds in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. * MOSUL - Gunmen in a speeding car shot dead a teenager in western Mosul, police said. * MOSUL - Gunmen shot dead a government employee in northern Mosul, police said. * MOSUL - A militant hurled a hand grenade at a police patrol in eastern Mosul, wounding two policemen, police said. * BAGHDAD - Gunmen in a speeding car killed the headmistress of a secondary school in central Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three people when it exploded near a bank in central Baghdad, police said. BALAD - Gunmen killed a policeman and wounded three others at a checkpoint near Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a car wounded four people in eastern Baghdad on Wednesday, police said. KIRKUK - Gunmen wounded a policeman in a drive-by shooting on Wednesday in southern Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BASRA - Three prisoners accused of carrying out militant attacks escaped on Wednesday from a prison in central Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.
A U.S. soldier stands while watching the arrival ceremony of "Nasir 701" Iraqi navy flagship in Umm Qasr's port near Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, November 12, 2009. ...
