FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Nov 3
Source: Reuters
Nov 3 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq as of 1800 GMT on Friday: * indicates new or updated item * BAGHDAD - Television journalist Ahmed Rasheed was killed in the Sunni district of Adamiya in Baghdad, an interior ministry source said. His brother told police his car and pistol were stolen. * BAGHDAD - A Greek woman who was kidnapped in Baghdad around a week ago has been released, an interior ministry source said. The source said the woman had been working for a non-governmental organisation in Iraq. FALLUJA - Three U.S. Marines died of wounds sustained in combat in the western Anbar province on Thursday, the military said. FALLUJA - Iraqi police backed by U.S. Marines arrested three bodyguards working for the mayor of Falluja and five other people after they came under attack from a government building, the U.S. military said. NUMANIYA - Police clashed with three gunmen at a police checkpoint, wounding two and arresting a third, in Numaniya, 120 km (72 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. MADAEN - Four police were killed and their car destroyed by a roadside bomb in Madaen, 45 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said. KUT - Two boys tending sheep were killed by a landmine and three more were wounded in Kermashia, around 110 km (75 miles) east of Kut in southern Iraq, border troops said. BAGHDAD - Police in Baghdad found the body of freelance journalist Abdul Majeed Ismael Khalil bearing bullet wounds, police said. He was abducted in eastern Baghdad on Oct 18. BAGHDAD - Gunmen in a car shot dead a taxi driver in the southern district of Dora in Baghdad, Interior Ministry sources said. BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol, wounding three civilians in the southern district of Dora in Baghdad, Interior Ministry sources said. NEAR NAJAF - Gunmen shot dead a bodyguard of Shiite cleric Sadiq al-Hakim in the town of Manathira near Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution sources said. BAGHDAD - U.S.-led forces killed 13 suspected insurgents, detained one more and seized explosives in two raids near Mahmudiya, about 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, the military said. It said one of the dead was wearing a suicide-bombing vest and several appeared to be foreign fighters linked to al Qaeda. BAGHDAD - Three U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb in Baghdad and a Marine was killed by enemy action in Anbar province on Thursday, the U.S. military said. Another soldier died from non-combat injuries north of Baghdad. BAGHDAD - Police found 56 bodies and a severed head in different parts of Baghdad over the last 24 hours, an Interior Ministry source said. The bodies showed signs of torture and bullet wounds. BAGHDAD - Two mortar rounds slammed into a house in the southern district of Dora in Baghdad, killing three family members and wounding six, Interior Ministry sources said. BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed Resan al-Sayab, a local singer, in western Baghdad on Thursday, police said. KIRKUK - Gunmen killed a fuel station employee in the town of Zab, 70 km (40 miles) southwest of the northern city of Kirkuk, police said. KIRKUK - Gunmen shot dead a Sunni mosque preacher in the northern oil city of Kirkuk on Thursday evening, police said. KIRKUK - A roadside bomb exploded near a police patrol, wounding two policemen in central Kirkuk, police said. OTHER DEVELOPMENTS * BAGHDAD - Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki meets the director of the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) John Negroponte in Baghdad.
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