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Factbox - Security developments in Iraq, 19 Feb 2007

Feb 19 (Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq as of 0830 GMT on Monday:

* denotes a new or updated item.

* RAMADI - Two suicide car bombs exploded in Ramadi, west of Baghdad, killing 11 people and wounding four, police and witnesses said. The bombs exploded outside the house of a tribal leader who has led a government-backed campaign to fight al Qaeda militants in Sunni-dominated Anbar province, police said.

* BAGHDAD - Twin roadside bombs targeting a police patrol killed six people and wounded 40 in the Zaafaraniya district in southern Baghdad, police said.

* NEAR BAQUBA - Gunmen killed Sabah Bajilan, the head of al-Saadiya municipality, on Sunday in the town of al-Saadiya, 90 km (55 miles) northeast of Baquba, police said. Bajilan's bodyguards killed two of the attackers.

* MUSSAYAB - Police found the bodies of two people shot dead in the town of Mussayab, about 60 km (40 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

* TIKRIT - U.S. forces detained seven insurgents and destroyed an unexploded car bomb during a raid east of Tikrit, the U.S. military said.

* BAGHDAD - Iraqi soldiers backed by U.S. advisers captured two suspected members of radical Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al- Sadr's Mehdi Army militia on Sunday in southern Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

* DHULUIYA - A suicide car bomber targeting the house of the army chief in Dhuluiya, 40 km (25 miles) north of Baghdad, killed five people, including a soldier, and wounded 10, police said.

BAGHDAD - A bomb in a minibus in central Baghdad killed four people on Monday, witnesses said. A Reuters photographer saw four bodies in the street after the explosion blew off the top of the bus in the Karrada district. Police said the bomb was planted inside the bus.

ANBAR PROVINCE - A U.S. Marine was killed in combat in the western province of Anbar on Saturday, the U.S. military said.

BAGHDAD - The bodies of three people were found shot dead on Sunday in Baghdad, police said.

MAHMUDIYA - A car bomb killed a man and wounded two in Mahmudiya, 30 km (20 miles) south of Baghdad, police said.

NEAR TIKRIT - Gunmen attacked a police checkpoint, killing three people and wounding four, on Sunday near Tikrit, 175 km (110 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.

MOSUL - The bodies of eight people were found shot dead in the northern city of Mosul.