Five killed in a new American raid in Falluja

News reports said that five persons were killed and other five injured in a new raid launched by one American jet yesterday late evening at a house to the north of Falluja city and this resulted in complete destruction of the house.

Medical sources in Falluja public hospital said that the killed are civilians and no statements were so far made by the American army concerning the raid.

The bombardment came hours after the American forces bombarded al-Sader city in Baghdad and the eruption of violent clashes with the supporters of the Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sader.

Sameraa city witnesses a bloody day when the American forces announced it had killed 109 armed men during a military operation launched on the city yesterday morning resulted also in killing one American soldier and wounding four.

The minister of state for security affairs in the Interim Iraqi government Qasem Dawoud said that the American forces supported by the Iraqi forces detained 37 persons in the city which is situated to the north of Baghdad.

Meantime gunmen opened fire at the representative of the Republican Army, Hussein Sayed Jabbar al- Battat, and his nephew in al-Amara city yesterday evening and they were killed immediately.

One official in the Iraqi police said the gunmen opened fire at the party's representative -- which is led by the director of the Iraqi intelligence Abdullah al-Shahwani -- while he was getting out of his car in front of the house in the downtown of the city.