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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 19 Dec 2008

Dec 19 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 1400 GMT on Friday.

BAGHDAD - A bomb wounded six people, including three policemen, when it exploded near a police patrol in eastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Iraqi police discovered seven decomposing, severed heads and two decomposing bodies in an half-built house in the Ur district of eastern Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - U.S. forces on Thursday and Friday detained 11 suspected militants with links to Sunni Islamist al Qaeda in central Iraq, the military said in a statement.