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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Aug 8
08 Aug 2007 18:52:28 GMT
Source: Reuters
Aug 8 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1900 GMT on Wednesday:

* denotes new or updated item.

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said about 30 suspected militants were killed in raids in Baghdad's Shi'ite slum of Sadr City. Hospital sources said 13 people were killed while police put the toll at 11, including women and children.

* BAGHDAD - The bodies of 11 people were found dumped around Baghdad in the past 24 hours, police said.

* BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier was killed and four others wounded by a roadside bomb attack on their patrol in western Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S. military said.

* BAGHDAD - One person was killed and two others wounded when gunmen opened fire on pedestrians in the Doura district of southern Baghdad, police said. Also six people were wounded in a mortar attack.

* BAGHDAD - One female child was killed and two people wounded by a mortar attack in the Shi'ite Abu Dshir neighbourhood of southern Baghdad, police said.

* BAQUBA - A suicide bomber blew himself up in a barber shop, killing five people and wounding eight others in the Gatoon neighbourhood in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* DUJAIL - Gunmen killed a police officer in a drive-by shooting in the Sada village in Dujail, 90 km (55 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

SAMARRA - Mortar rounds killed seven people in a residential area of the Sunni town of Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb killed one policeman and wounded six others when it exploded near their patrol car in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BASRA - A British soldier was killed by small arms fire in the southern city of Basra on Tuesday, Britain's Defence Ministry said.

NAJAF - A sanitation director was wounded and his driver killed in an assassination attempt near the holy Shi'ite city of Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

NAJAF - A gunman on a motorbike killed a lawyer outside his home in Najaf, police said.

HAWIJA - A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded two others near a petrol station in the town of Hawija, 60 km (40 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

* HAWIJA - A mortar round landed on a house in Hawija, killing a child and wounding four other members from the family, police said.

MAHAWEEL - Gunmen killed a person in a drive-by shooting in the town of Mahaweel, 75 km (50 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Gunmen killed one person and wounded another in an ethnically mixed neighbourhood of Kirkuk, police said.

JURF AL-SAKHAR - Gunmen killed one civilian in Jurf al- Sakhar, 85 km (55 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

KIRKUK - Police said they found the body of a person shot in Kirkuk bearing signs of torture.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. air strike killed one suspected Mehdi Army militiaman in Baghdad's southern district of Amil, the U.S. military said. Five others were detained.
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Shi'ite pilgrims chant slogans on a truck in Baghdad August 26, 2007, as they travel to Kerbala to attend next week's ceremony marking the 9th century birth of Muhammad al-Mahdi, the last of 12 imams Shi'ites revered as saints. Thousands of Shi'ite pilgrims set off for Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Sunday, demonstrating their political power but aware of the threat of bomb attacks ahead of one of Shi'ite Islam's holiest days.



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