Continued killings in Iraq

The American army announced on Wednesday that it had lost one of its soldiers from the second reconnaissance unit of the American Marines on Tuesday near al-Ramadi city. No details were given to that. This was after the army admitted the killing of one of its soldier in bomb explosion to the west of al-Rheila city in the west of Iraq.

Two members of the Iraqi police were killed in a bomb explosion that targeted their procession in al-Maden area to the south of Baghdad on Wednesday.

In the downtown of Baghdad, two Iraqi civilians were injured when one explosive went off when one American convoy was running.

Meantime, the chairman of the Turkman's front in the northern city of Karkouk, Saad Eddine Arkaj, survived an assassination attempt when one booby trapped went off targeting his procession. The incident resulted in injuring other four persons, three of them are in critical health conditions.

The Iraqi ministry of defense announced that the American forces found three unidentified bodies to the south of Baghdad on Tuesday. The Iraqi government said it detained in Musil city two members of al-Qaida organization in Bilad al-Rafeydeen (Mesopotamia.)