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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 04 Oct 2008

Oct 4 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1430 GMT on Saturday.

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* MOSUL - Gunmen entered a Christian-owned shop in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, and shot the owner dead, police said.

MOSUL - A roadside bomb killed two policemen and wounded another on Friday in central Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces killed a senior al Qaeda militant, along with one woman, on Friday in the Adhamiya district of northern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

MOSUL - The bodies of two people who had been kidnapped were found on Friday, bearing gunshot wounds, in southeastern Mosul, police said. Another body was found in western Mosul.

(Compiled by Aws Qusay)