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    FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, Feb 23

    Fri Feb 23, 2007 11:42am EST

    (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 1500 GMT on Friday:

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    * ANBAR - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in combat on Thursday in Iraq's volatile western Anbar province, the U.S. military said in a statement.

    * BAGHDAD - A boy aged around 12 was killed and two more wounded during a gunbattle while U.S. troops were pursuing two suspects in Zaafaraniya in southern Baghdad, a Reuters photographer embedded with a U.S. patrol on the scene said.

    * KIRKUK - Four bodies were found in Kirkuk, police said.

    BAGHDAD - Police said 14 bodies were found in Baghdad on Thursday.

    MOSUL - Police and hospital officials said 10 bodies were found in the northern city of Mosul on Thursday. The dead included a police captain. All had been shot in the head.

    CAMP TAJI - A U.S. aircraft killed five insurgents when it destroyed a vehicle north of Baghdad on Tuesday, the U.S. military said. It said the insurgents had fired from the vehicle at the Camp Taji military base.



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