FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 9
Source: Reuters
March 9 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 2015 GMT on Friday: * indicates new or updated item * BAGHDAD - Ten bodies were found shot dead in different parts of Baghdad on Friday, apparent victims of sectarian death squads, a police source said. * BAGHDAD - A senior leader of an al Qaeda-linked group has been arrested in Iraq, state television Iraqiya said. It did not say whether U.S. or Iraqi troops had arrested Abu Omar al- Baghdadi, leader of the self-styled Islamic State in Iraq. U.S. and Iraqi officials could not immediately confirm the report. FALLUJA - A U.S. marine was killed in combat in Anbar province in western Iraq, the U.S. military said. HIBHIB - Ten Iraqi policemen were missing after insurgents attacked a police station north of Baghdad, killing one policeman and wounding three more, a police source said. The source said a group of insurgents stormed the police station in Hibhib, in Diyala province. BAGHDAD - The U.S. military said an Apache attack helicopter killed 12 insurgents who were planning to ambush a U.S. patrol on a highway west of Baghdad airport on Wednesday evening. The air strike also destroyed a truck mounted with an anti-aircraft heavy machine gun, a U.S. statement said. MOSUL - U.S. forces in Mosul killed one suspected insurgent and captured six more, including a man the U.S. military said was an al-Qaeda linked militant known as "The Butcher", thought to be responsible for kidnappings, beheadings and bombings in the Mosul and Ramadi areas. FALLUJA - U.S. forces captured two suspected insurgents during a raid in Falluja, in western Iraq, the U.S. military said. KARMA - U.S. forces captured eight al Qaeda suspects, including one described as a "media emir" northeast of Karma, which is near Falluja, the U.S. military said.
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