FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 27
Source: Reuters
Nov 27 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 2100 GMT on Monday. Asterisk denotes new or updated item. *MUQDIDIYA - Gunmen shot dead the owner of a mobile telephone shop in Muqdidiya 90 km (50 miles) northeast of Baghdad and then planted bombs. When onlookers gathered, the bombs exploded, killing four and wounding 25, police said. BAGHDAD - Police captain Abdul-Qadir Abbas was kidnapped outside the Sheikh Zayid hospital in central Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BALAD RUZ - Iraqi soldiers arrested the imam of a Shi'ite mosque in the village of Bani Tamim near Balad Ruz, in Diyala province north of Baghdad. Four others were arrested with the imam, Hassan Attiya, an Interior Ministry source said. FALLUJA - A U.S. F16 warplane crashed northwest of Baghdad with one pilot on board, the U.S. military said. A spokeswoman said she had no information on the fate of the pilot or the cause of the crash. Residents said they saw the pilot eject but that he was killed, and television footage filmed by a local journalist appeared to show the pilot dead near the crash site. BASRA - France's Defence Ministry said a French intelligence officer was killed by a local militia during an inspection at a checkpoint in Basra on Nov. 21. BAGHDAD - Baghdad police retrieved 39 bodies in the 24 hours to Monday evening, most apparently victims of death squads and kidnap gangs, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed a man in the mainly Shi'ite Talbiya district of east Baghdad and kidnapped four of his brothers, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - A police commando was killed and another wounded when gunmen attacked their patrol in west Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - A policeman was killed and four were wounded when gunmen attacked their checkpoint in west Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - An Interior Ministry source said five people were killed and at least eight wounded during a U.S. raid in Husainiya, a mainly Shi'ite area on the northern outskirts of Baghdad. The U.S. military said it was checking the reports but made no further comment. A Shi'ite politician, Nassar al-Rubaie from the anti-American Sadr movement, said 15 civilians were killed and 20 wounded by U.S. forces in the area. BAGHDAD - Three mortar rounds landed on a residential district, killing three people and wounding 15 in Baghdad's southeastern Diyala Bridge area, an Interior Ministry source said. MOSUL - Gunmen killed an off-duty policeman and his mother in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. It was his wedding day and he was heading for his bride's house. TAL AFAR - Clashes erupted between gunmen and police during the night, killing three policemen and one gunman in Tal Afar, about 420 km (260 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - The bodies of five people were found with gunshot wounds and bearing signs of torture just north of Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAIJI - A police major was killed while trying to dismantle a roadside bomb in the oil refinery city of Baiji, 180 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen attacked a municipal office in central Baghdad and killed a guard and abducted three, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said three U.S. soldiers were killed and two wounded by insurgents in Baghdad on Sunday. RAMADI - U.S. forces killed two suspected insurgents on Sunday after observing them loading weapons from a cache into a vehicle in the insurgent stronghold city of Ramadi, 110 km (70 miles) west of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. DUJAIL - Gunmen attacked a checkpoint near Dujail, 90 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad, and kidnapped eight policemen, police said. A ninth policeman was wounded but escaped. A policeman was killed and another wounded when their patrol arrived at the scene and was ambushed. RAMADI - Mortar bombs fired by U.S. forces at insurgents wounded four Iraqi civilians, three of them boys aged six, 13 and 16, the U.S. military said.
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