Violence escalated in Iraq
The Iraqi Red Crescent society on Monday withdrew from Falluja at the orders of the American forces in the city.
One official in the society said that the request to the withdrawal came for security reasons. The spokeswoman for the organization Fardous al-Abbadi said earlier that the society decided to withdraw from Falluja as from Sunday because the city is empty of population and that it will launch a campaign to help the refugees in the areas and villages they were held in.
In Lteifeh to the south of Baghdad, one member of the Iraqi national guard was killed and others were injured in an attack launched by fighters in the city after the end of "Plymouth Rock" operation launched by the American and British forces with the aim of chasing gunmen there.
Witnesses said that gunmen stuck banners on the government building and shops in al-Mahmoudeyah -- 30 Km to the south of Baghdad -- in the name of the Islamic secret army threatening members of the police and national guards with death.
Some 20 Iraqis working in an American base near Tikrit and other 18 were injured while heading for work in the base, situated to the north of Baghdad on Sunday.
In Bejim Iraqi police sources said that a leader in the Iraqi national guards and three of his guards were killed in a booby trapped car on Sunday near the city. A spokesman for the American army said that 14 members of the Iraqi police were injured in the accident which is presumed to be a suicide attempt followed by confrontations.
In Musil, the American forces broke into one mosque and inspected it for more than one hour under the allegations of searching for gunmen but no one was arrested. The Imam of the mosque said that two armored vehicles were escorting the soldiers broke the fence of the mosque on its walls were written words deploring the government of the Interim prime minister Eyad Allawi and the Americans. This came after two American soldiers were killed and other four injured in an ambush targeting their vehicle on Saturday.
In Karkouk, the leader of the Iraqi national guards in the city survived the assassination attempt by blowing up one explosive that targeted his procession but no casualties were reported.
Violent clashes took place in Baghdad between the American forces and the Iraqi police forces on the one hand, and gunmen on the other in the two quarters if al-Doura and al-Azameyah. This came after two attacks in a booby trapped car in the north and east of the city resulted in killing four American soldiers.