FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 3

Thu May 3, 2007 2:53pm BST
 
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(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1315 GMT on Thursday:

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* BAGHDAD - U.S. troops on Tuesday killed Muharib Abdul Latif al-Jubouri, a senior figure in al Qaeda in Iraq linked to the kidnappings of Americans Jill Carroll and Tom Fox and other foreigners, the military said. Iraq's Interior Ministry earlier said Abu Omar al-Baghdadi, another senior al Qaeda figure in Iraq, had been killed but the U.S. military said it had no knowledge of it.

* BAGHDAD - Gunmen killed the imam of a Sunni mosque when they stormed the mosque in the Mansour district of western Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Four U.S. government contractors, all from the Philippines, were killed in a rocket strike on the heavily fortified Green Zone compound in Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. embassy said.

BAGHDAD - Two suspected insurgents were detained during a raid in the Shi'ite Sadr City neighbourhood of Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said. Those detained were suspected of working for a cell helped transport bombs known as "explosively formed penetrators" from Iran to Iraq, it said.

 

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