One American soldier, several Iraqis killed in attacks in Baghdad

At a time when Sharm al-Shiekh conference, in Egypt, is attracting the attention of many, security conditions in all parts of Iraq started to deteriorate with the continued military operations for the American forces and armed attacks.

In Baghdad, the American army announced the death of one soldier because of his wounds including an attack which took place to the south west of Baghdad. In another attack one Iraqi child was killed and other four persons injured when one mortar shelling fell in Bab al-Sheikh quarters in the downtown of the capital.

Two Iraqis were killed one of them is the personal guard for the Iraqi minister of the interior Falah al-Naqib by the bullets of two person believed to be British in an incident in Baghdad.

Sources of the Iraqi police said the two foreigners were detained after opening fire at the guard who approached their car over suspicion, and it was found out from their passports that one of them was carrying a permit to enter the American embassy in Baghdad. Another guard for the Iraqi minister was injured whose car had not yet approached the place of the fire launching.