Two Macedonians killed in Iraq

An armed group calling itself the Islamic army in Iraq said it executed two Macedonian persons accused to have had spied for the American forces.

The past 24 hours witnessed attacks and explosions that targeted the police and other positions in various parts in which 14 Iraqis were killed, other scores were injured.

Two Iraqis were killed in two separate explosions yesterday morning to the south and west of Baghdad.

In al-Ghadereyah quarters in Baghdad also seven persons were killed including four policemen and other 27 injured in an attack by bombs that targeted a gathering for the Iraqi police on Sunday evening.

In Musil to the north of Iraq, the American army announced that five Iraqis were killed and other 15 injured in a booby trapped car explosion in this city on Sunday. The body of one Iraqi that works as a translator for the American forces was found beheaded to the south of the same city.

News reports said that 8 Iraqis were hit by the bullets of the soldiers who are deployed on the roofs of buildings in Rawa city on which the American forces imposed a strong siege since Sunday and called on the citizens to stay in their houses.

In Baqouba, seven policemen and one woman and one child ( 3 year old) were injured in confrontations between gunmen and the Iraqi security forces in this city situated to the northern east of Baghdad.