Scores of Iraqis, children killed
Several Iraqi cities witnessed various attacks during the 24 past hours that resulted in killing 50 Iraqis including several Iraqi security men while other scores were injured.
The American army admitted the killing of soldiers who were injured earlier in two separate attacks in north of Baghdad, one was in Samera.
In Baghdad, gunmen killed nine Iraqis including two employees at the ministry of oil and three Iraqi soldiers in a series of attacks.
In Ltefeih south Baghdad, two Iraqi civilians were killed in an attack by a booby trapped truck that targeted a headquarters for the Iraqi army in Tikrit, north of Baghdad.
Seven Iraqi soldiers were killed and other 17 injured in an attack by a booby trapped truck that targeted the headquarters of the Iraqi army in Tikrit, north of Baghdad.
In al-Sharqat north of Baghdad, seven Iraqi civilians including three children were killed and other three including one child were injured in a bomb explosion in a small bus. In Musil 15 Iraqis were killed including five police men in various incidents in the city.
In Beji, one Iraqi soldier was killed and another civilian at the hands of gunmen who opened fire at a vehicle for the Iraqi army. One Iraqi truck driver was killed in a bomb explosion on the public road south of al-Touz city north of Iraq.
The police in Samera found the bodies of two officials from the Iraqi police killed by fire north of the city. One soldier was also killed and another injured in clashes between unidentified gunmen and a procession for the Iraqi army in the same city.
In Baqouba northeast Baghdad, one police man and one civilian were killed and other 4 injured in a bomb explosion targeting a police vehicle. In a separate incident in the same city three Iraqis were killed including two police men in a fire at unidentified gunmen targeted a police vehicle.
In Tel-Afer, two civilians were killed and other 11 injured in a bomb explosion in a police vehicle and the fall of artillery shelling at houses in the town.
Meantime, the American military operation in Haditha city ( west Iraq) continued since three days against gunmen had continued. News reports indicated that 6 civilians were killed in the city by the fire of the American forces.
In another development, one armed group calling itself al-Fursan ( knights) group issued pictures of three persons said to be Turks working with a Turkish company for transporting stuffs for the American forces, and threatened to execute them unless their companies stop dealing with the US forces.