Confrontations expanded in Iraq, vagueness overwhelms Falluja

Medical sources in al-Ramadi city to the west of Baghdad said that the outcome of confrontations that took place in the city between the American forces and gunmen reached three killed men and 12 wounded.

News reports said the American forces and the Iraqi national guards detained on Wednesday evening in Zouba' village near Baghdad Sheikh Abdul Karim al-Odeh, one of the chieftain of Zouba' tribe and his son Ammar Abdul Karim, member of the Muslim Scholars Commission, and the Imam and preacher of Omar Bin Abdul Aziz mosque and his other son Muhammad Abdul Karim.

In Khan Dari area to the west of Baghdad, four Iraqis were killed and other 12 injured in an attack by a booby trapped car that targeted one American military procession passing the area.

In the north east of Baghdad, medical sources and eye witnesses said that one Iraqi police officer was killed on Wednesday near Baqouba.

In Musil in the north of Iraq, two American soldiers were killed yesterday and five others injured in an attack by a booby trapped car that targeted one American military convoy in the city. This came after the announcement that four American soldiers were killed in two explosions to the east of Baghdad.

In Basra to the south of Iraq, a medical source said yesterday that two oil installations guards were injured in a mortar attack at Basra refinery in al-Shueibeyah area.