Booby trapped car series in Iraq
Iraq, Politics, 5/11/2005

In the context of the series of booby trapped cars in Iraq, seven persons were killed and other 26 injured including three American soldiers were killed in two booby trapped cars explosions, one near an American military procession in al-Sadoun street in the downtown of Baghdad and the other is in Abu Nawas a street near al-Sadoun street at one hour difference targeting a police center.

In the North of Iraq, gunmen attacked a complex for oil pipeline near Karkouk oil fields. A spokesman for the north oil company said that the emergency team are trying to put off the fire which will delay the resumption Iraqi oil exports from the northern oil fields to Turkey. Operations which have been blocked since two years because of the attacks.

In Najaf, one explosive was found near the office of the Shiite clergy Ayatullah Ali al-Seistani. The city's police said that the bomb is of 4 kg TNT and several mortars placed in a box filled with Benzene left 200 m from al-Seisatni office.

These developments came after members of the Iraqi parliament composed on Tuesday a committee for the formulation of a permanent constitution for the country composed of 55 parliamentarians including 28 members of the Iraqi Shiite united coalition list; 15 for the Kurdish alliance, 8 from the Iraqi list led by Eyad Allawi and 4 from other social strata of the Iraqi people.

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