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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Sept 2
02 Sep 2008 10:02:51 GMT
Source: Reuters
Sept 2 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1000 GMT on Tuesday.

MOSUL - A suicide car bomber killed four people and wounded six others in an attack on an Iraqi army checkpoint in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police and hospital sources said.

SUWAYRA - Two handcuffed bodies with gunshot wounds were recovered from the Tigris river in Suwayra, 50 km (30 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said. One body was in Iraqi army uniform.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two people and wounded 11 others including three policemen in the Nahda district of central Baghdad, police said.

TARMIYA - A teenage suicide bomber killed one member of a U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrol group and wounded seven others on Monday in an attack on a tribal sheikh's residence in Tarmiyah, 25 km (15 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said in a statement.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two people and wounded ten others in the district of Harthiya, in western Baghdad, police said.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay)
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Residents play dominoes as a U.S. soldier of 3rd Squadron, 3rd Armoured Cavalry Regiment stands guard in Tal Kayf in the outskirts of Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad ...



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