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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, March 4
04 Mar 2007 20:07:06 GMT
Source: Reuters

March 4 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 2000 GMT on Sunday:

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

* FALLUJA - Two marines and one sailor were killed in combat in western Anbar province in recent days, the U.S. military said in a statement.

BAGHDAD - More than 1,000 U.S. and Iraqi troops began major clearing operations in Sadr City, a Shi'ite militia bastion in Baghdad, meeting no resistance as they searched homes and patrolled as part of a major security plan for Baghdad.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed two policemen when they attacked a police station in Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - Police found 10 bullet-riddled bodies, including two policemen and four brothers, in different parts of Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - A car bomb exploded in Karrada district of Baghdad, killing two people and wounding four, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained three suspected militants during a raid at a mosque in Baghdad, the U.S. military said. A woman was wounded during the operation.

NEAR BAQUBA - A roadside bomb exploded near an Iraqi army patrol in a village near Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed one person and wounded three others in al-Kifah street in central Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A total of 10 bodies were found shot dead on Saturday in different districts of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A total of nine bodies were found shot dead on Saturday in different districts of Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - A journalist was shot dead outside his home in a Sunni neighbourhood in western Baghdad, neighbours and colleagues at his newspaper said. Mohan al-Dhaher was a senior editor at the independent al-Mashriq daily newspaper.

NEAR TIKRIT - The bodies of two people were found shot dead east of Tikrit, police said.

TIKRIT - U.S. and Iraqi forces detained more than 50 suspected insurgents in three days of operations near Tikrit, the U.S. military said.
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A pilgrim bound for Kerbala carries a Shi'ite flag in Hilla, about 100 km (60 miles) south of Baghdad, March 7, 2007. More than a million Shi'ite Muslim pilgrims poured into Iraq's holy city of Kerbala on Wednesday, defying insurgents who killed 155 people in two days in attacks blamed by the government on Sunni militants.