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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, June 29
29 Jun 2008 12:43:15 GMT
Source: Reuters
June 29 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1230 GMT on Sunday:

* denotes new or updated item

* DHULUIYA - A suicide car bomber killed seven policemen and wounded three in an attack on a patrol in Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Gunmen shot dead the head of intelligence services for the southern city of Basra, Brigadier-General Jabar Mujhid, in a drive-by shooting in eastern Baghdad, where he was visiting relatives, Iraqi police and military sources said. Mujhid was in his car at the time.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb wounded six people when it narrowly missed hitting a police patrol but exploded by a minibus in Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed an off-duty policeman on Saturday outside his house in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed two militants and detained 15 suspected militants while targeting al Qaeda in Baghdad, Mosul and the town of Sharqat on Saturday and Sunday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces destroyed weapons, seized money and detained nine suspected al Qaeda militants in various places in the Tigris River Valley in an operation ending on Thursday, the U.S. military said.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay, editing by Tim Cocks)
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