Zarqawi groups claim responsibility for more attacks in Iraq

In a statement, al-Zarqawi group claimed responsibility for the attack which targeted on Wednesday a main inspection point on Baghdad's International airport highway to the west of the Iraqi capital.

The American army announced earlier that one suicide bomber detonated a booby trapped car at an inspection point on the airport's highway and this resulted in injuring 15 persons, noting that gunmen opened machine guns fire and other small weapons at the inspection point immediately following the explosion.

To the north of Iraq, three Iraqi soldiers were killed and other 6 were injured in two explosions in two booby trapped cars. The first explosion took place in one American - Iraqi joint vehicle near al-Taremeyah and this resulted in killing one soldier and injuring other three.

A second explosion took place in a booby trapped car led by a suicide bomber near one American- Iraqi military convoy at an oil refinery near Beiji city and this resulted in killing two Iraqi soldiers and injuring other three.

In Baghdad four Iraqis were killed, including three children, and one child was injured when one mortar shelling fell at the courtyard of their house in al-Doura quarters to the south of the city. A source at the Iraqi ministry of the interior said that the shelling seemed to have had targeted a joint military base for the Iraqi and American forces which is situated close to this quarters, adding that all victims are from one family.