Reuters: Security incidents in Iraq, Aug 15

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...BAGHDAD - Lieutenant Colonel Khaled Badran of the Iraqi army was shot dead as he drove in central Baghdad with his brother, police said. The brother was wounded.

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LATIFIYA - Police said a civilian car was shot at by a U.S. convoy in Latifiya, south of Baghdad, killing its driver and wounding another two people. The U.S. military had no immediate comment on the incident.

BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber on a motorcycle wounded 11 people when he blew himself up in a central Baghdad restaurant popular with police officers, police sources said. The attack on Abu Ahmed's restaurant in the bustling Karrada district took place at lunchtime.

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TIKRIT - Mahir Younis, an Iraqi contractor working with the U.S. army, was abducted for the second time in al-Qadissiya area, north of Tikrit, a police source said.

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