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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 10 July 2007
July 10 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0930 GMT on Tuesday:
* denotes new or updated item:
* SAMARRA - Gunmen killed five Iraqi soldiers and wounded three others when they attacked a military checkpoint near Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
* BALAD - Gunmen killed three policemen and wounded another officer at a fake checkpoint near Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
* DIWANIYA - Iraqi special forces detained 12 militants suspected of links to the Mehdi Army militia of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during two operations in Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. military said.
* BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained 17 suspected militants in raids in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.
* ISHAQI - Gunmen kidnapped three brothers at a fake checkpoint near Ishaqi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
* ISHAQI - Gunmen killed one person when they attacked the house of a tribal leader near Ishaqi on Monday, police said.
BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped army Brigadier-General Abdul Razaq Asel, director of a joint security centre in the northern city of Mosul, while he was visiting his family in the Adhamiya district in Baghdad on Monday, police said.
BAGHDAD - Police found the bodies of 26 people around Baghdad on Monday. Most had been shot, victims of sectarian death squads.
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military killed three insurgents in southern Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said.
AL MAJAR AL-KABIR - British forces killed three militants involved in the smuggling of weapons in southern Iraq, the British military said.
ISKANDARIYA - A woman was wounded when a mortar round landed on her house in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
NAJAF - Gunmen killed one person and wounded another near Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
July 10 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0930 GMT on Tuesday:
* denotes new or updated item:
* SAMARRA - Gunmen killed five Iraqi soldiers and wounded three others when they attacked a military checkpoint near Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
* BALAD - Gunmen killed three policemen and wounded another officer at a fake checkpoint near Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
* DIWANIYA - Iraqi special forces detained 12 militants suspected of links to the Mehdi Army militia of Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr during two operations in Baghdad on Sunday, the U.S. military said.
* BAGHDAD - U.S. forces detained 17 suspected militants in raids in central and northern Iraq, the U.S. military said.
* ISHAQI - Gunmen kidnapped three brothers at a fake checkpoint near Ishaqi, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
* ISHAQI - Gunmen killed one person when they attacked the house of a tribal leader near Ishaqi on Monday, police said.
BAGHDAD - Gunmen kidnapped army Brigadier-General Abdul Razaq Asel, director of a joint security centre in the northern city of Mosul, while he was visiting his family in the Adhamiya district in Baghdad on Monday, police said.
BAGHDAD - Police found the bodies of 26 people around Baghdad on Monday. Most had been shot, victims of sectarian death squads.
BAGHDAD - The U.S. military killed three insurgents in southern Baghdad on Saturday, the U.S. military said.
AL MAJAR AL-KABIR - British forces killed three militants involved in the smuggling of weapons in southern Iraq, the British military said.
ISKANDARIYA - A woman was wounded when a mortar round landed on her house in Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
NAJAF - Gunmen killed one person and wounded another near Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.