Some 32 Iraqis were killed in al-Najaf, two American soldiers in al-Falluja
Iraq-USA, Politics, 5/24/2004

News reports said that two American soldiers were killed and other five wounded in an attack in an area near Falluja when missile shelling were used.

Soldiers in the area said that a car loaded with explosives collided with a marines vehicle and then unidentified persons fired missile shelling. The attack resulted in large humanitarian losses inflected on the American forces since the end of the attack it had launched on Falluja on April in revenge of killing of 4 Americans and mutilating their bodies in the city.

In Baghdad, members of al-Mahdi army fighters clashed with the American forces in al-Sader city. The clashes came after one American military vehicle was attacked by missile shelling and light weapons at the city's police center and attack inflected large material damages in certain adjoining building, while no casualties were reported in the lines of the two sides.

One American military spokesman said that the occupation forces killed 32 members of al-Mahdi army and hit other 50 in clashes in al-Najaf on Sunday evening. The spokesman added that one American patrol was exposed to fire from inside a mosque and the vehicle retaliated. Some people in Koufa said that the occupation forces broke into al-Sahla mosque in the city and killed three men and detained three women.

In Baqouba, news reports said, that two Iraqis, one is a police officer, were killed and a third was injured in an area close to the city today after fire was opened on their car.

A medical source in the city said that unidentified persons opened fire on the car of officer Haidar Hadi who was accompanied by one university student, while they were on the highway in al-Hadid area towards Baghdad. The incident resulted in killing the officer and the student and wounding another army officer.

Meantime, part of the last group of the Spanish forces in Iraq arrived in Almeria airport.

The remaining part of the soldiers, currently in Kuwait, are expected to arrive later today. The Spanish government had taken a decision to return back its forces in Iraq following the success of the left, led by the current prime minister Jose Thabateiro in the recent parliamentary elections.

In Kuwait, some 110 Japanese soldiers arrived in Kuwait in the operation of replacing the Japanese forces deployed in southern Iraq. A force composed of 230 soldiers left Iraq via Kuwait back to Japan in the context of the same operation.

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