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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Jan 14
14 Jan 2008 12:30:28 GMT
Source: Reuters

Jan 14 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1230 GMT on Monday.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a member of Iraq's Supreme Judicial Council, Appeals Court Judge Amir Jawdat al-Naeib, as he drove to work in Baghdad's western Mansour district, police said. His driver was also killed.

BASRA - Gunman shot dead a senior official in Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr office in Basra. He was killed at a Shi'ite religious ceremony in the town of Zubair, 20 km (12 miles) south of Basra, police said.

BAGHDAD - A parked car bomb wounded six people, including three policemen, when it exploded near a police patrol in southern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
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