October 15th in Iraq

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http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/IBO527368.htm

Oct 15 (Reuters) - Following are security and other developments in Iraq reported on Sunday as of 1615 GMT:

Asterisk denotes a new or updated item.

*BAGHDAD - Iraq's Central Criminal Court sentenced a "known member" of the al Qaeda group to death and convicted 64 others on charges of belonging to armed groups and other crimes, the U.S. military said on Sunday. It said some of those convicted were from Egypt, Syria, Libya, Sudan, Yemen, Saudi Arabia, Tunisia and Iran.

BALAD - Militiamen in pickup trucks set up fake checkpoints on Saturday, killing at least 31 people in the town of Balad, 80 km (50 miles) north of Baghdad, in retaliation for the slaying of 14 Shi'ite workers, police, doctors and locals said.

KIRKUK - Four car bombs, three of them suicide attacks, killed at least 10 people and wounded 60 shortly before midday in the northern oil city of Kirkuk, 250 km (155 miles) north of Baghdad, police said. Two car bombs exploded later in the day, wounding 14 people.

TAL AFAR - Five people were killed, including three policemen, in the northern town of Tal Afar when a man wearing a bomb vest detonated himself near a group of policemen walking in a street, police said.

LATIFIYA - Gunmen killed a Shi'ite family of eight after storming their house in the mostly Sunni town of Latifiya, 40 km (25 miles) south of Baghdad in the so-called "Triangle of Death". Police said the dead were three women, two children and three men.

NEAR FALLUJA - Police found the bodies of four people, with gunshot wounds and signs of torture, near the Sunni stronghold of Falluja, 50 km (30 miles) west of Baghdad, police said.

BAGHDAD - Three U.S. soldiers were killed on Saturday, when their vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb in southern Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Sunday.

MOSUL - Gunmen stormed a house and killed three women and two men in the northern city of Mosul, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb targeting the convoy of a Finance Ministry official killed four civilians and wounded six, including the official's bodyguard, in eastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry spokesman said.

BAGHDAD - A U.S. soldier died on Friday from wounds sustained when his vehicle was struck by a roadside bomb southwest of Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Saturday.

NEAR KUT - Clashes between gunmen and Iraqi police on Saturday night left three policemen wounded in an area between Baghdad and Kut, 170 km (105 miles) southeast of Baghdad, police said. Nine gunmen were also arrested. The body of a civilian was later found in the same area, police said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb wounded two civilians in eastern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed a man and wounded two in Amil district in southwestern Baghdad, an Interior Ministry source said.

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