FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 22
Source: Reuters
Nov 22 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 2100 GMT on Wednesday: Asterisk denotes new or updated item. *BAGHDAD - A bodyguard working for parliamentary speaker Mahmoud al-Mashhadani was shot dead while driving on a private journey in Baghdad, a source at the Interior Ministry said. A car from the speaker's motorcade was damaged in a small blast on Tuesday outside parliament after an apparent security breach. Mashhadani, a Sunni Muslim, is an outspoken and controversial figure. In May one of his bodyguards survived an attempt to kill him. TIKRIT - A U.S. soldier was killed and three wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near their vehicle in Salahaddin province on Tuesday, the U.S. military said in a statement. MOSUL - Police said they recovered 14 bodies, including three women, in different areas of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad. KERBALA - Police said they found the body of police Major Basim Hasan al-Hasnawi with gunshot wounds to the head in central Kerbala, 110 km (68 miles) south of Baghdad. He had been abducted by gunmen two days earlier. KERBALA - Tribal leader Ahmed al-Allawi was seriously wounded when gunmen opened fire on his car, police said. BAGHDAD - Two roadside bombs exploded in quick succession, wounding two policemen when they went to retrieve the bodies of three people in Haifa street in central Baghdad, police said. NEAR RAMADI - Police found the bodies of three people near Ramadi, 110 km (68 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. FALLUJA - Gunmen killed a policeman in Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, police said. NEAR MUQDADIYA - A car bomb near an Iraqi army checkpoint and an attack by gunmen killed four people -- a university professor, a traffic police officer and two soldiers -- and wounded three civilians, near the town of Muqdadiya, 100 km (60 miles) northeast of Baghdad, police said. ISKANDARIYA - A roadside bomb planted near members of the Facility Protection Services (FPS) killed seven and wounded another on Tuesday in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. MOSUL - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded three policemen in Mosul. MOSUL - Clashes between gunmen and police on Tuesday wounded six people, including three women, police said. LATIFIYA - U.S. forces arrested 45 suspected insurgents on Tuesday in Latifiya, in an area dubbed "the Triangle of Death" south of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. BAQUBA - Gunmen attacked a police patrol and killed three policemen in the religiously mixed city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. FALLUJA - U.S. Marines rescued two hostages and detained 13 suspected insurgents on Monday north of Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS: A U.N. report said 3,709 civilians were killed in October, a record high, and 3,345 were killed in September. Iraq's health minister said the real figures were about a quarter of that and said the U.N. may have obtained data "illegally" from his staff. The U.N. stood by its report. It also said 418,392 people were displaced within Iraq due to sectarian violence since the February bombing of a Shi'ite shrine in Samarra. Nearly 100,000 more were fleeing to Syria and Jordan every month.
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