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Security Developments In Iraq, Jan 27
MOSUL - A car bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers, including an army major, and wounded three people, including two soldiers. 
Residents gather behind a police cordon at the site of a suicide car bomb attack in Baghdad
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Reuters
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Published: January 27, 2009 17:04h
Following are security developments in Iraq at 1545 GMT on Tuesday.
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BAGHDAD - Police Major General Ahmed al-Attiya, head of Iraqi customs, escaped unharmed after a roadside bomb exploded near his convoy in the Karrada district of central Baghdad, police said. Three of his security guards were wounded in the blast.
* MOSUL - A car bomb killed three Iraqi soldiers, including an army major, and wounded three people, including two soldiers, when it targeted an army patrol in eastern Mosul, 390 km (240 miles) north of Baghdad, police said.
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