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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 23
23 Nov 2006 08:36:46 GMT
Source: Reuters

Nov 23 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 0820 GMT on Thursday:

ANBAR PROVINCE - Three U.S. marines died on Wednesday from wounds sustained due to enemy action while operating in Al Anbar Province, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded five people in al-Nahdha area in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded four police commandos in the southwestern Bayaa district of Bagdhad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded two policemen and two civilians in Palestine street in northeast Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAQUBA - Gunmen opened fire at two men selling black market gasoline containers, killing the two of them and one customer in regiously mixed city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
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Faleh Hasan Shanshal, a senior official in Moqtada al-Sadr's movement, speaks during a news conference in Baghdad's Sadr City November 24, 2006. Radical anti-U.S. Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's political bloc, a key player in Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's government, threatened on Friday to withdraw from the cabinet and parliament if Maliki met U.S. President George W. Bush as planned in Jordan next week.