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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 26 Jan 2008

Jan 26 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1100 GMT on Saturday.

BAGHDAD - Two bodies were found in different areas of Baghdad on Friday, police said.

SAMARRA - U.S. soldiers killed three suspected al Qaeda fighters near Samarra, 100 km (60 miles) north of Baghdad, on Friday, the U.S. military said. Two suspected al Qaeda militants were also arrested during operations near the northern cities of Tikrit and Mosul on Friday and Saturday, it said.

NAJAF - Gunmen killed Yasir Khadim al-Mudhafer, a sheikh loyal to Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, outside his house on Friday in Najaf, 160 km (100 miles) south of Baghdad, a Najaf governorate spokesman said.