FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq

Fri Dec 21, 2007 8:43am GMT
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 0830 GMT on Friday.

BASRA - A suspected roadside bomb exploded next to a British military armoured vehicle east of Basra International Airport, where British forces in Iraq are based, but there were no casualties from the blast, a British military official said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of two people were found across Baghdad on Thursday, police said.

BAQUBA - Gunmen killed two members of an anti-al Qaeda force and a policeman late on Thursday when they attacked a joint patrol of police and members of a local neighbourhood watch in the city of Baquba, 65 km (40 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

(Baghdad newsroom)

 
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