Six persons killed in Iraq, occupation expects more attacks

A military source in the American occupation forces in Iraq expressed fears that the Iraqi resistance will intensify its attacks in the first days of the new year.

The commander of the first armored contingent in charge of security in Baghdad, Martin Dimpsy, said that it is likely that the resistance wishes to send a message saying that it will continue its campaign to expel the occupied forces, despite the capture of the former President Saddam Hussein last month.

Dimpsy's statement came after a violent night in Iraq, with the first hours of the new year that resulted in killing 6 persons and wounding other 27th.

A spokesman for the Iraqi ministry of the interior said that the outcome of the explosion, which took place in one restaurant in Baghdad, in al-Karrada area, reached five killing and 24 wounded including three foreigners.

An official in the ministry said that investigations continue to find out the culprits. One of the Ibn al-Nafis hospital doctors indicated that they had received 24 wounded persons, including one American and two British. They are correspondents from the American Los Angeles Times, and then they were admitted to Ibn Sina hospital at the headquarters of the American leadership, which bans the entry of journalists.

A medical source indicated that 7 out of the wounded 24 are in critical condition, noting that the majority of the hits are in the face, the heads, and the chest.

In Karkouk, the chairman of the city's police said that one policeman was killed, and other three wounded, one in a critical condition in an attack that targeted a patrol in one of the city's quarters.