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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 14 Sep 2008

Sept 14 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1245 GMT on Sunday.

* denotes new or updated item.

* MOSUL - Gunmen opened fire on a publishing house, wounding three workers there, including a member of the Iraqi Islamic Party, and one passer-by in central Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

* MOSUL - The bodies of two brothers were found bearing gunshot wounds in eastern Mosul, police said.

* HAWIJA - Three civilians were wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near a passing U.S. military patrol in Hawija, 210 km (130 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

SAADIYA - Two roadside bombs killed five policemen in the town of Saadiya, 110 km (70 miles) north of Baghdad, security officials said. Five other policemen were wounded.

MOSUL - Gunmen killed two policemen and wounded another in an attack on a police checkpoint on Saturday in Mosul, police said.

ISKANDARIYA - Gunmen killed a guard from a U.S.-backed neighbourhood patrol at their checkpoint in the town of Iskandariya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad, on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki ordered a committee be established to investigate the killing of three journalists and a driver from Iraq's independent Sharqiya TV station in Mosul on Saturday. Police say they have arrested five suspects.

NEAR KHANAQIN - A roadside bomb killed seven members of a Kurdish security patrol and wounded two others on Saturday, south of Khanaqin, 140 km (100 miles) northeast of Baghdad, the town's mayor Mohammed Mulla Hassan said. Initial reports by police on the day said four were killed.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of two people with gunshot wounds were found in Baghdad on Saturday, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb attached to a car carrying U.S.-backed neighbourhood guards wounded three of them and three civilians on Saturday in the Adhamiya district, northern Baghdad, police said.

(Compiled by Aseel Kami)