Eight Iraqis were killed, occupation forces admit the killing of four soldiers

The American occupation forces announced that two members of the Iraqi national guards were killed and other 14 injured in an attack by explosives that took place yesterday in Baghdad.

In a statement, the occupation forces said that the two Iraqi soldiers who work within the lines of the forces known as the civil defense forces were killed while they were on a foot patrol in Baghdad.

In al-Musil, four Iraqi civilians were killed and other three injured in a bomb explosion when one occupation vehicle was running in al-Qeyyara area to the south of al-Musil to the north of Baghdad.

In Karkouk, a source in the Iraqi police said that two Iraqis were killed yesterday and many others wounded in Karkouk, in northern Iraq in clashes that took place to the south of the city between the Arab citizens and the Turkmans. The source said that the clashes are over differences on agricultural lands.

These incidents took place following the killing of four American soldiers in an attack launched by Iraqi resistance men to the west of Baghdad. Witnesses said they saw the bodies in a building site in al-Ramadi area. The occupation forces admitted the killing of the four soldiers who are working in the reconnaissance force of the marines.

In Falluja, hundreds of the city's people demonstrated in protest of the American raid which resulted in killing 26 persons and wounding 8. The occupation forces alleged that the attack targeted a group for the leader of presumed al-Qaida leader in Iraq Abu Mus'ab al-Zirqawi.