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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 02 Oct 2009

Oct 2 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1330 GMT on Friday.

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* SHURUQ - A bomb planted under the podium of mosque killed a cleric and wounded three worshippers in the village of Shuruq, about 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* TIKRIT - An elite police unit arrested 15 suspected insurgents from al Qaeda and Saddam Hussein's outlawed Baath party at mosque in Tikrit, 150 km ( 95 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* MOSUL - Gunmen blew up a house belonging to a leader of Iraq's minority Yazidi sect, Faraj Khaeiri Bek, also a police colonel, in Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - A mortar or rocket attack killed a U.S soldier in the U.S. military's sprawling Camp Liberty, near Baghdad airport, on Thursday, U.S military said in a statement.