Oct 30 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1215 GMT on Friday. * denotes a new or updated item * BAGHDAD - A senior police officer on a team investigating two high-profile blasts was found shot dead in his office, police said. But Baghdad security spokesman Major-General Qassim al-Moussawi denied that the officer was part of the investigation team, and said that it was an accidental shooting. MOSUL - Police found the bullet-ridden body of man carrying a Kurdish police badge west of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. MOSUL - Gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi checkpoint killing three policemen and wounding an officer in western Mosul on Thursday, police said.
A U.S. soldier plays pool at a recreation room at Kandahar airfield in Afghanistan October 29, 2009. Soldiers that salsa or croon to karaoke will soon be disappointed in Afghanistan, as ...