Two American soldiers killed in an ambush in Baghdad

The American occupation forces in Iraq announced that two of its soldiers were killed and four others wounded in an ambush in al-Sader city inhabited by the Shiite in Baghdad on Thursday evening. The military sources gave no other details about the attack.

One Iraqi belonging to the group of the Shiite leader, Muqtada al-Sader, was killed and other two wounded in a fire exchange with the US forces which tried to enter al-Sader city on Thursday evening while American helicopters flew over the area.

Director of al-Sader office said that the clashes took place when the American occupation forces tried to break into the office. The clashes came following the attack which targeted yesterday a police center in al-Sader city. An American military spokesman said it was a "suicide" attack carried out by a booby trapped car that resulted in killing three members of the Iraqi police and five civilians as well as the executor of the operation.

Also in Baghdad, a Spanish diplomat was assassinated by the bullets of unidentified persons. The Spanish government denounced the assassination of its military attache in Iraq, stressing keeping its embassy open in Baghdad "so as not to continue to be open to terrorist blackmailing."