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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Sept 15
15 Sep 2007 11:23:19 GMT
Source: Reuters
Sept 15 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1100 GMT on Saturday.

* denotes new or updated items.

* BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi forces killed 14 suspected insurgents and arrested 17 others during operations in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.

* BAQUBA - Gunmen in police uniforms and driving an ambulance killed Khalid Rasheed, a former Iraqi army brigader-general, and two others outside his house in Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* KIRKUK - A roadside bomb wounded two people on the road between Kirkuk and Mosul in northern Iraq, police said.

* MOSUL - Iraqi soldiers arrested a Libyan national in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, the Iraqi army said.

ISKANDARIYA - Five soldiers were wounded by a roadside bomb targeting their patrol on Friday in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

BALAD RUZ - Seven people were wounded by a roadside bomb which exploded in a fuel station in the town of Balad Ruz, 50 km (30 miles) southeast of Baquba, police said.

BAQUBA - Two bodyguards were killed and three others wounded when gunmen attacked Colonel Adil Abdul-Kareem, the chief of intelligence for police in Diyala province, in Baquba, police said.
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Iraq's Vice President Tareq al-Hashemi speaks during an interview with Reuters in Baghdad September 20, 2007.



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