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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 30 Mar 2008

March 30 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 2100 GMT on Sunday.

* denotes new or updated items.

NAJAF - Iraqi Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr called on his followers to stop battling government forces after six days of fighting in Iraq's south. The statement was read to journalists by his aides in Najaf.

HILLA -Iraqi security forces arrested 101 suspected militants during several raids and clashes across Hilla on Saturday, police said.

DHULUIYA - Gunmen attacked a police patrol killing five policemen and wounding two civilians in Dhuluiya, 70 km (45 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* BAGHDAD - One U.S. soldier was killed by roadside bomb attack targeting his vehicle north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

* MOSUL - Three policemen were killed and four others wounded in an ambush targeting their checkpoint in southern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, Nineveh province security spokesman Brigadier-General Khalid Abdul-Sattar said.

* MOSUL - Police said they found a decapitated body in western Mosul.

* BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb attack killed one Iraqi soldier and wounded two others when it struck their vehicle in the Adhamiya district of northern Baghdad, police said.

SANIYA - A suicide car bomber killed seven people, including three U.S.-allied neighbourhood patrol volunteers, and wounded eight in an attack on a checkpoint in Saniya, west of Baiji in northern Iraq, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three people were killed and 13 wounded after a mortar bomb hit a barber shop in Baghdad's Karrada district, police said.

BAGHDAD - Five bodies were found in different districts of Baghdad on Sunday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. helicopter airstrike killed 12 suspects in clashes in northern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. helicopter airstrike killed two gunmen responsible for a roadside bomb attack in the Fadaliya area of Iraq's New Baghdad district, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - Six people were wounded, including four civilians, in clashes between Iraqi security forces and Mehdi Army gunmen in Baghdad's Ur neighbourhood, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three police officers were wounded when their police station was attacked by gunmen in the New Baghdad neighbourhood, police said.

HAWIJA - Three U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrol members were wounded by a roadside bomb attack in Hawija, 60 km (40 miles) south of Kirkuk, police said.

NEAR SAADIYA - Ibrahim Bajlan, the head of Diyala provincial council, escaped an assassination attempt near Saadiya, 80 km (50 miles) north of the provincial capital Baquba, police said. Two of his bodyguards were killed in the attack.

KIRKUK - A roadside bomb targeting a police patrol wounded two people in central Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - Two policemen, including a police Colonel, Ziyad Qasim, were killed in clashes with gunmen in western Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Two bodies were found in Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

NAJAF - A roadside bomb killed one Iraqi army officer and wounded two soldiers when a it struck their vehicle in northern Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad on Saturday, security source said.