FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Jan 6
Source: Reuters
Jan 6 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 2030 GMT on Saturday: * Indicates new or updated items *BAGHDAD - Police recovered the bodies of 71 people around Baghdad in the 24 hours to Saturday evening, an Interior Ministry source said. These included 27 bodies found in the Haifa Street area of central Baghdad. ISKANDARIYA - Iraqi police special forces with U.S. backers captured four suspected insurgents on Friday in Iskandariya, the U.S. military said. BAGHDAD - U.S. forces said they had detained an al Qaeda cell leader on Friday in southern Baghdad, who, a U.S. statement said, was "allegedly responsible for coordinating and conducting kidnapping, torture and murders of Iraqi civilians and security forces". NAJAF - Gunmen killed two former members of the Baath party in two separate incidents in Najaf, police said. MOSUL - Police in the northern city of Mosul found four bodies with signs of torture and gunshot wounds, police said. BAGHDAD - Iraqi police clashed with gunmen near Haifa Street in central Baghdad when they went to investigate a report that local police had found 27 bodies near a cemetery, police and interior ministry sources said. A prominent Sunni Arab politician accused militias of attacking residents. State television later said the Iraqi army had killed 30 insurgents in the same area and detained eight, including several foreign Arabs. It was not clear how the incidents were related. BAGHDAD - Two people were killed and four wounded by a car bomb in Doura in southern Baghdad, an interior ministry source said. TAL AFAR - Three policemen were killed on Friday while searching a house that was booby-trapped with explosives in Tal Afar, 420 km (260 miles) northwest of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - Police in Baghdad found 47 bodies, many shot and tortured, in the 24 hours to Friday night, an interior ministry source said. MOSUL - Gunmen killed a Kurdish labourer working for the government in Mosul, police said. MOSUL - Iraqi soldiers killed two suspected insurgents and found a cache of weapons in Mosul, the Iraqi Army said. KIFL - A former Baath party member was killed in a drive by shooting in Kifl, a town about 150 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. ISKANDARIYA - A man was found dead, shot in the head, on the main road in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. DIWANIYA - A policeman and a former Baath party member were shot dead in two separate incidents in Diwaniya, 180 km (112 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. BASRA - A British soldier was wounded when his convoy was hit by a roadside bomb but his injuries were not thought to be life threatening, Major Charlie Burbridge said. BASRA - Two men found shot dead in Basra may be Iraqis who went missing on Friday along with an American contractor, police said. The U.S. embassy said it was still checking reports of an American kidnapped. BAGHDAD - The chief of Baghdad police, Major General Ali Yasser, survived a car bomb attack on his motorcade in Baghdad, police sources said. BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed four suspects and detained a fifth in a raid targeting insurgents involved in making roadside bombs in Baghdad, the U.S. military said.
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