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REFILE-FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Oct 1

Thu Oct 1, 2009 1:39pm EDT

(corrects spelling of district in second item to Karrada from Karana)

Oct 1 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1315 GMT on Thursday.

* Indicates a new or updated item.

* BAGHDAD - An elite Iraqi police unit arrested Khalid Masur Ismail, an alleged financer of the Shi'ite militia group Kata'bi Hezbollah in northeastern Baghdad's Sadr City slum, the U.S military said in a statement.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting Iraqi oil police wounded three oil police and three civilians in central Baghdad's Karrada district, police said.

FALLUJA - A bomb planted on a car killed one civilian and wounded another in Fallujah, 50 km (32 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

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