One Iraqi killed, cooperation forces collaborate with Baathists, Israel

One Iraqi was killed by a bomb explosion while he was implanting it on the main road trodden by the American vehicles in the downtown of Musil in the north of Iraq.

The incident took place following the killing of one American soldier and wounding others in an attack on their vehicle in the city. An officer in the Iraqi police said unidentified persons opened fire at the two policemen and wounded them, noting that their condition is not serious and is stable.

In Baghdad, witnesses said that a vehicle and one American Hummer patrol of were destroyed by an explosion on Sunday evening. The incident took place on the highway to the west of Baghdad.

The witnesses said that the American forces clashed with unidentified armed men at the site of the incident and this resulted in destroying two sedan cars.

In Baqouba the occupation forces broke into the house of one Iraqi citizen suspected to work in weapons. The American soldiers detained the suspect man on charge of anti- occupation activity dealing with weapons.

US army sources reported that it suspect that the detained man ( 65 year old) is linked to relations with senior officials in the dissolved Baath party, accused of leading military operations which target the American occupation in Iraq.

However, the situation was different in northern Baghdad, where the occupation forces rebuilt Goughrot Khan village, 300 Km to the north of the capital, said to have been bulldozed by the toppled regime after expelling its occupants, the majority of them Kurdsish Iraqis, some 15 years before. The reopening of the village was supervised by Lt. Gen, David Peteraws, commander of the airborne 101 contingent.

In the framework of the international American cooperation, the New Yorker magazine issued an unprecedented report in which it said that the American special forces in Iraq are getting secret aid from Israel, and using former members in the Baath Party.

The article. which quoted unidentified source of American and Israeli intelligence. said that the occupation forces worked closely with Israeli intelligence during preparations for the war against Iraq. The article said that the American administration and the Israeli government decided to keep secrecy over this cooperation. The article said that among the prominent Baathists collaborating with the American forces is Farouk Hijazi, the former official for external operations for the Iraqi intelligence.

The article quoted a former CIA official that Hijazi finalized an agreement with the Americans after he was detained in April. The source explained that the Americans used him to reactivate the former Iraqi intelligence departments.