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FACTBOX - Security developments in Iraq

Sat Feb 14, 2009 8:24am EST

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 8:15 a.m. EST Saturday.

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MOSUL - A roadside bomb killed two civilians and wounded another four people, including one soldier, when it exploded near an army patrol in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb in eastern Mosul wounded an Iraqi soldier, police said.

SAMARRA - Iraqi police found the bodies of two men just south of Samarra, 100 km (62 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. The men appeared to have been shot.



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