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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 9
09 May 2007 10:09:45 GMT
Source: Reuters
May 9 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1000 GMT on Wednesday:

ARBIL - A suicide truck bomber killed 14 people and wounded 87 when he blew up his payload near the Kurdish regional government's interior ministry in Arbil, north of Baghdad, local officials said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of 25 people were found shot in different districts of Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked workers who were setting up concrete barriers in the Sunni Arab district of Adhamiya in Baghdad, killing one and wounding two others, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting police commandos wounded three policemen in Palestine Street in northeastern Baghdad, police said.

FALLUJA - A hospital received the bodies of five people shot and tortured in the city of Falluja, 50 km (35 miles) west of Baghdad, doctor Bilal Mahmoud said.

BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a general director in the Ministry of Housing and Reconstruction in northern Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed two men from the ancient Yazidi faith in the northern city of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

SHIRQAT - A roadside bomb killed two people in the town of Shirqat, 80 km (50 miles) south of Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two people and wounded six in Zaafaraniya in southern Baghdad on Tuesday, police said.
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Shi'ite cleric Abdul Aziz al-Hakim (C), the leader of the Supreme Council for the Islamic Revolution in Iraq, speaks during a news conference in Baghdad May 12, 2007. At the right of Hakim is Iraq's Vice President Adel Abdul-Mahdi, while the others are members of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq. The Arabic above reads" The higher committee for Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq holds its ninth session". The picture on the mural at left is Hakim's slain brother, Baqir Al-Hakim.



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