Iraq: Some 11 killed in Deyali, UN security council discusses Washington's plans

Two explosions hit today two police centers in Baqouba city and the nearby Khan Bani Saad in Deyali province and this resulted in killing about 11 people and wounding many others.

Witnesses said that a booby trapped car blew up near a police center in Baqouba city to the north of Baghdad and the explosion resulted in heavy damages in several cars and in killing at least 6 persons today morning.

In another explosion, an officer in the Iraqi police said that five Iraqis were killed and nine were at least injured also today in a booby trapped car explosion in Khan Bani Saa to the north of Baghdad.

At the same level, an American military statement said that one American soldier died because wound he had suffered in a bomb explosion near baqouba on Thursday.

In Irbil to the north of Iraq, security sources said that an explosion took place outside the office of a British headquarters for landmine dismantling in the city yesterday evening but still immediate reports did not specify the losses.

In another development, the American occupation forces destroyed a house in al-Khaledeyah town, to the west of Iraq, under the pretext that it is used by the Iraqi resistance forces.

In Baghdad, 4 persons were killed and other 20 wounded in an attack by mortars yesterday evening at a shop for alcohol selling to the south of Baghdad.

Moreover the Palestine and Sheraton- Ishtar hotels, and the complex of the Iraqi ministry of oil in Baghdad, were exposed to attacks by missiles against the two buildings from a platform which was based on a carriage run by a donkey, and this resulted in wounding two persons. A missile launcher was also found near the Italian embassy.

Meantime, both of Germany and Russia called for quick handing over of sovereignty and power to the Iraqis and of holding an international conference about Iraq.

This came during a session held by the UN Security Council yesterday during which it listened to a report from the occupation authority in Iraq on various aspects of the situation there, and steps to be taken to return back the authority to the Iraqis according to the agreement signed by the Iraqi governing council earlier this month.