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FACTBOX-Security developments in Iraq, May 19

May 20,2008  From:news/reuters

(Reuters) - Following are security developments in Iraq at 4 p.m. EDT on Monday:

* denotes new or updated item

* BA'AJ - Gunmen killed 11 police recruits in an attack on a minibus near the northern Iraqi town of Ba'aj, the town's mayor said.

* TIKRIT - Abdul Khaleq al-Sabawi, head of al Qaeda's military organization in Mosul, was arrested near Tikrit, in Salahuddin province, a Defense Ministry spokesman said.

* BAGHDAD - Lieutenant-Colonel Ahmed al-Nori, head of police intelligence in the Rusafa area of northern Baghdad, was killed by gunmen who attacked his car on Sunday in Sadr City, in Baghdad, police said. His driver was wounded.

* BAGHDAD - The head of a police station in the Qouds area of Baghdad was wounded in a roadside bomb attack, police said.

* ZAAFARANIYA - A police captain based in the Ministry of Interior was wounded by gunmen in Zaafaraniya, south of Baghdad, police said.

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