Four marines killed, car explosions

The American army in Iraqi announced today at dawn the killing of four marines on Tuesday during a fighting in al-Anbar governorate to the west of Baghdad.

A military statement said that the soldiers who belong to the first contingent of the marines were killed while they were carrying out what they described as "operations to fix security." The American army admitted yesterday that two mariners were killed and that a third died because of his wounded in al-Anbar province.

Within the same context, one booby trapped car went off yesterday on the main road linking between Abu Ghreib area and Falujja to the west of Baghdad and the attack resulted in destroying a weapon- loaded armored vehicle.

Iraq witnessed yesterday several attacks that resulted in several killings and wounding, mainly the blowing up of a booby trapped car in al-Khales city near Baqouba in Deyali governorate to the east of Baghdad, resulted in killing some 14 persons and wounding other 70.

Police director in the area said that the car targeted members in the Interim Iraqi government and Deyali governor who came for the eulogy of the brother of al-Khales governor and that it broke into the council's headquarters, just half an hour after the Iraqi officials left.