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FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq

Thu Mar 20, 2008 10:42am EDT

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 10:30 a.m. EDT on Thursday.

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SULAIMANIYA - Iraqi Kurdish security forces arrested 10 people, including one woman, suspected of involvement in the bombing of the Sulaimaniya Palace Hotel in the northern city of Sulaimaniya on March 10 that killed three people, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen attacked a police patrol in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, killing two policemen, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb killed a policeman when it exploded near his patrol in Mosul, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed an Iraqi soldier and wounded another when they targeted their patrol on Wednesday in Mosul, police said.

DIWANIYA - Gunmen wounded two soldiers in an attack on an Iraqi army base in Diwaniya, 180 km (110 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.
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