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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Feb 24
24 Feb 2007 16:37:50 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

Feb 24 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1620 GMT on Saturday:

* indicates new or updated item

* BAGHDAD - Mortar rounds killed three and wounded four in Amil, in southwest Baghdad, a police source said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen in two vehicles stormed an Iraqi police checkpoint near Baghdad airport, killing eight police officers and wounding two, the U.S. military said. Two militants were also killed.

BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb killed one person and wounded four in Jadriya, in southern Baghdad, a police source said. The bomb exploded at a traffic circle near the homes of Iraq's president Jalal Talabani and leading Shi'ite politician Abdul- Aziz al-Hakim.

BAGHDAD - A rocket round killed two people and wounded three, all in the same family, when it hit their home in Adil in western Baghdad, police and residents said.

KIRKUK - Samir Menshed Shaheen, the owner of the weekly newspaper Al Aryaf in Kirkuk, in northern Iraq, was killed by gunmen, police said.

BAGHDAD - Five bodies were found in different parts of Baghdad on Friday, a police source said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi troops supported by U.S. aircraft killed "tens" of militants at a base just north of Baghdad early on Saturday, the Interior Ministry said. Spokesman Brigadier Abdul-Kareem Khalaf said a large Iraqi force clashed with insurgents at the base in a rural area of Mashahda at dawn and U.S air strikes destroyed the base.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed two people and wounded seven near a bus terminal in Alawi in central Baghdad, a police source said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed two people and wounded three more when it exploded as an Iraqi army patrol passed by in Jamia in western Baghdad, a police source said.

BAGHDAD - Mortars wounded 10 people in Abu Dshir in southern Baghdad, a police source said.

FALLUJA - U.S. forces detained 12 suspected al Qaeda militants during raids in Falluja, Mosul and near Amiriya on Saturday, the U.S. military said.


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