An attack against the police in al-Ramadi wounds 6; occupation forces kill 6 Iraqis
Two Iraqi citizens were killed and other 6 wounded in al-Ramadi area, while both the occupation forces and partisans of Moussa al-Sader denied that Ammar al-Yasiri, who was detained on Monday, to be one of al-Sader aides.
The American forces announced it had killed two Iraqis, and detained more than 60 others during the past 24 hours in al-Ramadi area, to the west of Baghdad.
An American statement read that a vehicle was exposed to "an attack by RPJ fire to the north west of al-Khaledeyah, and the soldiers returned fire by artillery," while an Iraqi police center in the downtown of al-Ramadi was exposed to an attack by machinegun, and this resulted in wounding 6 police members. One American soldiers vehicle was burnt yesterday, after it was hit by an explosive to the south of Baghdad, and the US forces blocked roads leading to the place of the vehicle.
A spokesman for the American forces, in al-Sader city to the north of Baghdad, said yesterday that Ammar al-Yasiri, who was arrested under the charge of taking part in attacks, resulted in killing two American soldiers in the area "has no links to Muqtada al-Sader," adding that "detaining him is linked to attacks that resulted in killing or wounding members in the coalition and Iraqi civilians. He was not detained over having links with al-Sader."
An American military spokesman said that 13 men including 6 suspected to be extremists Islamists, suspected to be members to the Wahhabi sect, were detained to the west of Baghdad, and the Iraqi police showed a grenade said to have been confiscated from the detainees.
One American spokesman said that also among the detainees, the former lt. Gen. in the Iraqi republican army, Dahham al-Muhammadi, was arrested in the city of al-Falouja. The occupation said that 19 persons were detained in al-Huseiba city near the Syrian borders over suspicion of belonging to the Fedayee Saddam group.
The occupation forces continued the campaign of arrests in al-Musil city, in the north of Iraq, in search of the official responsible for the assassination group in the former Iraqi intelligence, Fawzi Qattan, according to the Iraqi police, which also said that Qattan also had a personal relations with Izzat Ibrahim al-Douri," the deputy chairman of the Iraqi Revolution Leadership Council in the former regime.
The Tunisian embassy in Baghdad was exposed yesterday to an attack by mortar thrown by attackers who broke into the street, and threw the bomb at the entrance of the embassy, and this resulted in wounding one guard of the building.
