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FACTBOX-Security Developments in
Iraq
Reuters
Iraq
January 25, 2007
*BAGHDAD - Police in Baghdad recovered the bodies of 40 unidentified
people, most shot and tortured and apparently the victims of death
squads, in the 24 hours to Thursday evening, a police source said.
*BAGHDAD - A mortar round exploded in the Ur district of northeastern
Baghdad, killing one person and wounding four, police said.
*BAGHDAD - An Iraqi soldier was killed and were three wounded in a clash
with gunmen in the Yarmouk district of western Baghdad, a police source
said. Officials at the Defence Ministry were not immediately available
for comment.
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a U.S. patrol northwest of
Baghdad, killing one soldier and wounding three, the U.S. military said
in a statement.
BAGHDAD - A car bomb killed 26 people and wounded 64 in a shopping
district in the Karrada district of central Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - One person was killed and 13 were wounded by a car bomb in
Mureidi market in Sadr City, a Shi'ite stronghold in northeastern
Baghdad, a police source said.
BAGHDAD - Two rockets hit the international Green Zone in Baghdad,
prompting alarms to sound and warnings urging people to take cover. The
U.S. military said six people had been wounded, five of them slightly,
but little damage was caused to buildings.
GARMA - U.S. forces arrested 12 suspected insurgents in the town of
Garma, near Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, the U.S. military
said.
MOSUL - U.S. forces arrested a suspect they said was a foreign fighter
facilitator with ties to a senior al Qaeda leader responsible for
bringing large numbers of suicide bombers into Iraq in the city of Mosul,
390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
TAL AFAR - A suicide car bomber blew himself up near a U.S. military
patrol and wounded four civilians in the town of Tal Afar, 420 km (260
miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said.
FALLUJA - A motorcycle exploded near a high school and killed a boy and
an elderly woman in Falluja, police said.
NEAR MOSUL - Gunmen killed Hussein Abdul Aziz, a member of the city
council of al-Gayara, a town near Mosul, police said.
MOSUL - The bodies of two people were found shot dead in the city of
Mosul, police said.
HASWA - Several mortar rounds landed in a residential district and
killed a man and wounded a girl on Wednesday in the town of Haswa, south
of Baghdad, police said.
NEAR HASWA - Gunmen wounded two people on Wednesday near Haswa, police
said.
BAGHDAD - U.S. forces and Iraqi police captured five members of an
illegally armed militia and detained seven others on Wednesday south of
Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
BAGHDAD - At least four people were killed and 20 wounded when a
motorcycle blew up in a market in Baghdad, police said.
BAGHDAD - Three people were killed and 10 wounded in a roadside bomb in
Baya'a district in west Baghdad, police said.
DUJAIL - Police found two bodies shot in the head in the streets of
Dujail, 90 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
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