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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Feb 8

Fri Feb 8, 2008 4:46am EST
Feb 8 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0930 GMT on Friday.

BAGHDAD - Four bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad on Thursday, police said.

HAWIJA - A bomb in a parked car wounded two policemen in Hawija, 70 km (45 miles) southwest of Kirkuk, police said.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed a university student in a bus terminal in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, on Thursday, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces arrested "a special groups leader" -- part of a group that has splintered from Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr's Mehdi Army militia -- and three others just south of Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said.



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