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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 18
18 Nov 2006 13:55:45 GMT
Source: Reuters
•  Iraq in turmoil

Nov 18 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1330 GMT on Saturday:

* indicates a new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - Police found 20 bodies in different areas of western Baghdad, an interior ministry source.

* BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot dead a man and his wife as they travelled through Baghdad's Yarmouk district, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Insurgents killed one guard and wounded another as they attacked the residence of Iraq's science and technology minister in eastern Baghdad's Zayouna district, police said. It was not clear if the minister was present during the attack.

* BAQUBA - Police imposed a total curfew in Baquba, north of Baghdad, the scene of frequent sectarian bloodshed.

ISHAQI - Gunmen killed seven people, including Shi'ite tribal leader Asif al-Khazraji, near the town of Ishaqi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, on Friday, police said. Khazraji was heading to his hometown of Dujail.

TIKRIT - A car bomb wounded 20 people near a restaurant in the town of Tikrit on Friday, a police source said. The source said U.S soldiers had initially blown up the car after cordoning off the area but the car's fuel tank blew up as fire-fighters attempted to douse the flames.

NEAR LATIFIYA - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol, killing one civilian and wounding two policemen near the town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

KUT - Gunmen attacked alcohol sellers in Kut, 170 km (105 miles) south of Baghdad, wounding a nine-year-old passerby, police said.

KUT - Gunmen killed Sultan Salman, a tribal leader, in the town of Muwafaqiya, 25 km (15 miles) south of Kut, police said.

MOSUL - A suicide car bomber wounded seven Iraqi soldiers when he attacked an army checkpoint on the northern outskirts of Mosul, an ethnically mixed city in northern Iraq, an army major said.

FALLUJA - Gunmen killed Omar al-Falahi, a mosque preacher in Falluja, on Friday, policeman Mahmoud Abdullah said. Mosque preachers in the area have been killed by extreme Sunni militants after they have called for calm and unity.


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