13 American soldiers injured in two explosions in Sameraa and Baghdad

A series of explosions hit different places in Iraq during the few past hours, the most violent of which took place in Sameraa city where at least 11 soldiers were injured.

News reports said that four Iraqis at least were killed and more than 20 others injured in the same explosion which was carried pout by a booby trapped car that targeted one American military vehicle near a kindergarten in the downtown of Sameraa.

The American army cordoned the place and announced through loudspeakers curfew between 7 o'clock evening and seven morning.

In another attack, a group calling itself the al-Jihad Qaida organization in Bilad al-Rafeydeen ( Mesopotamia) claimed responsibility for blowing up a booby trapped car against one American convoy in the airport street in Baghdad. This was expressed in a website on the Internet.

Two American soldiers were injured in the same attack and also two Iraqi police members. One American military spokesman said that one suicide attacker detonated the booby trapped car when a joint vehicle for the American and Iraqi forces was running by the place.

The body of one Iraqi slaughtered three days earlier in Salah Eddine governorate to the north of Iraq was found. One witness said that the killed man was working for the American forces.

In Falluja, six Iraqis were killed from one family including four children in an American air bombardment that targeted a house in al-Wahda quarter in the downtown of the city.

During the few past hours, the American planes raided twice Falluja city which has been exposed repeatedly to raids under the charge of targeting shelters for Abu Musab al-Zarwaqi groups; the existence of whom is denied by the people of the city.