FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Dec 20
Source: Reuters
Dec 20 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq as of 1700 GMT on Wednesday: * denotes new or updated item. *BAGHDAD - Iraqi police found 76 bodies around Baghdad, all with gunshot wounds and most with signs of torture, the Interior Ministry said. *BAGHDAD - Two U.S. soldiers were killed in two separate roadside bomb attacks in southern Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement. *MOSUL - Police said they found 11 bodies, all with gunshot wounds, in the northern city of Mosul. BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed university professor Muntathar Mohammed Mehdi in his car, along with his brother and cousin, relatives and hospital sources said. Relatives said Mehdi was a member of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's political movement. BAGHDAD - A car bomb in the parking lot of an Interior Ministry office charged with issuing identity cards killed four people and wounded eight in Adhamiya district in northern Baghdad, police said. BAIJI - A roadside bomb killed two motorists and wounded three north of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomber rammed his vehicle into a police checkpoint near Baghdad University in the southwestern Jadriya district, killing 11 people and wounding 31, including some students, an Interior Ministry source said. MOSUL - U.S. forces said they captured a senior al Qaeda leader and five insurgents in a raid in the northern city of Mosul. It said the main suspect, whom it did not name, was responsible for the deaths of hundreds of civilians. MAHMUDIYA - Two bodies with gunshot wounds and signs of torture were found in the town of Mahmudiya, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb wounded two people in Bayaa district in southern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said. BAGHDAD - A car bomb wounded two people in Camp Sara district in eastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.
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