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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Jan 21
21 Jan 2009 15:46:31 GMT
Source: Reuters
Jan 21 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1545 GMT on Wednesday.

* QAIYARA - Police said they arrested 13 suspected militants at a funeral wake for Hassan Zaidan al-Lihebi, deputy head of the Iraqi National Dialogue Front, who was killed this week by a suicide bomber. The arrests took place in Qaiyara, 290 km (180 miles) north of Baghdad, police said, and three of the suspects were caught wearing suicide vests.

BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a vehicle in the convoy of a Baghdad University dean, Ziyad al-Ani, killed four people and wounded 10 others in north Baghdad's Adhamiya district, police said. A university professor in the convoy was amongst the wounded, police sources said.

DOUR - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol killed five policemen and wounded three in Dour, near the city of Tikrit, about 150 km (95 miles) north of Baghdad, police Captain Anwar Mohammed said.

ZUBAIR - Police found the body of a national border guard in the town of Zubair, near Basra, 420 km (260 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said.
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United Nations special representative in Iraq Staffan de Mistura (L) and Faraj al-Haydari, chairman of the board of commissioners (R), hold a joint press conference in Baghdad January 31, 2009. REUTERS/Thaier ...



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