FACTBOX: Security developments in Iraq, April 13

Sun Apr 13, 2008 12:10pm EDT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 10:15 a.m. EDT on Sunday.

BALAD - U.S. forces detained an Iraqi citizen suspected of being an Iranian-trained intelligence operative along with three other suspects near Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

NORTHERN IRAQ - U.S. forces killed one militant and detained 11 others while targeting al Qaeda in separate operations Baiji and Rabiyah, both in northern Iraq, on Saturday and Sunday, the U.S. military said.

BASRA - The Iraq Army arrested Abu Hudaifa, a local al Qaeda leader, near Basra, 550 km (340 miles) southeast of Baghdad, an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman said.

TIKRIT - Five al Qaeda members were killed and two others wounded when U.S. and Iraqi forces staged a joint air assault on a desert camp near Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. Iraqi police said 13 suspected al Qaeda members had been killed and five others detained in the operation.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. Apache helicopter shot two missiles at militants in the capital's New Baghdad district on Saturday. The first missile killed two militants, while the second overshot its target, hitting a U.S. vehicle and wounding two soldiers and three civilians, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

BAGHDAD - Three bodies were found in different districts across Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

MOSUL - A stick bomb on an oil truck detonated, killing two people and wounding ten others on Saturday near an Iraqi Army checkpoint in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

NEAR KIRKUK - A roadside bomb killed one member of U.S.-backed neighborhood patrol unit and wounded another near Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay, editing by Noah Barkin)

 

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