Feb 17 (Reuters) - The following are security incidents in Iraq reported on Friday, Feb. 17, as of 0830 GMT.
U.S. and Iraqi forces are battling a Sunni Arab insurgency against the Shi'ite- and Kurdish-led government in Baghdad.
BAGHDAD - Gunmen wearing police uniforms abducted an Iraqi bank manager and his son after killing five of their bodyguards in southern Baghdad on Thursday, police said on Friday.
- Four bodies were found in western Baghdad blindfolded, hands bound and shot in the head, police said.
- An oil pipeline was sabotaged by gunmen in al Taji area to the north of Baghdad, police said.
- A policeman was wounded when a roadside bomb exploded near his car in Baghdad, police said.