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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Dec. 1
01 Dec 2007 20:36:04 GMT
Source: Reuters
Dec. 1 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2030 GMT on Saturday.

* denotes new or updated items.

* BAGHDAD - One U.S. soldier was killed and three wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their patrol in eastern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Five bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a policeman in front of his house in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Three bodies were found in different areas of Mosul, police said.

GHALBIYA - Four tribal sheikhs were wounded in a roadside bomb attack in Ghalbiya near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The attack targeted the convoy of the Khalis police chief but he was unhurt.

RAMADI - Iraqi police detained 15 suspected gunmen south of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained two men they described as "special groups weapons facilitators" during operations in Baghdad on Friday, the U.S. military said. The military uses the term "special groups" to describe Shi'ite militiamen it accuses of links with Iran.

NEAR BAQUBA - Suspected al Qaeda militants killed 12 civilians and abducted 35 in an attack on a Shi'ite Muslim village north of Baghdad early on Saturday, police said.

BAQUBA - One U.S. soldier was killed by a roadside bomb which struck his patrol near the city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, on Friday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb left in a taxi wounded the driver and another person in the New Baghdad district of the capital, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded three police commandos when it targeted their patrol in the Shaab district of northern Baghdad, police said.

SALMAN PAK - A suicide attack killed one civilian and wounded five others in Salman Pak, 45 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. (Baghdad newsroom; Editing by Paul Tait)
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An Iraqi soldier walks with U.S. soldiers during a joint patrol in Jisr Diyala, on the outskirts of southeastern Baghdad December 4, 2007. The mainly Shi'ite district, near where the Diyala river flows into the Tigris on the southeast outskirts of the capital, is an example of a developing pattern in Iraq. With violence dropping across much of the country, Iraqis are drawing up a new list of demands: instead of asking Iraqi and U.S. forces for protection, they want jobs and improvements to basic services. Picture taken December 4, 2007. To match feature IRAQ/NEIGHBOURHOOD REUTERS/Erik de Castro (IRAQ)



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