Iraqi police man killed, al-Sader demands the evacuation of the Americans

Gunmen assassinated yesterday a senior official in Musil city police. This was in an operation which targeted the directorate of administrative corruption fighting and resulted in killing several persons.

Police sources said that Maj. Gen. Walid Kashmoula, the chairman of the corruption fighting administration, was killed upon blowing of the headquarters of the administration which is located in al- Faisaleyah quarters in the downtown of al-Musil ( 370) Km to the north of Baghdad, Several persons were injured in the incident.

Meantime, the American army said its forces killed on Sunday 24 gunmen and injured 7 in a fight that took place after gunmen attacked an American position at the outskirts of Baghdad. The American forces explained in a statement that the attack of the gunmen resulted in wounding 6 persons.

In another development, the American army announced that one of its troops was killed and three others injured when one bomb went off in their patrol near Karkouk city.

On the hand, the Babel city police said that Babel's governorate intercepted three booby trapped cars in al-Seeb city ( 60 Km to the south of Baghdad) and detained two suicide attackers and chased the third who was killed while detonating his car. No casualties were reported.