Continued killing in Iraq
The U.S. army admitted on Sunday the death of one of its soldiers because of wounds he had following the explosion of a bomb in his vehicle on Saturday in al-Anbar governorate.
The attacks in various parts of Iraq until Sunday afternoon, according to Iraqi security sources, killed 11 Iraqis, including 8 police and army members while other 20 were injured.
According to these sources three soldiers and one Iraqi army officers were killed in a bomb explosion in Karkouk. In al-Dalou'eya, 70 km North of Baghdad, three soldiers were killed and another was injured in a bomb explosion on Sunday at dawn targeting a vehicle for the Iraqi army. One soldier was killed and other three injured in an attack targeting an inspection point for the army at the western entrance for al-Ishaqi city, 100 km north of Baghdad.
In another incident, a source in the Iraqi police in Beji, 200 km north of Baghdad, announced the killing of two policemen and injuring other three in a bomb explosion targeting a vehicle for the north oil pipeline protection forces.
In al-Malah village, 150 km north of Baghdad, gunmen killed one Iraqi contractor early morning Sunday.
Iraqi parliamentarian Fares Nasser Hussein of the Kurdish coalition list was killed together with two of his guards, and his colleague Haidar Qasem Shanshou was seriously injured as they were attacked while they were in their way to Baghdad on Sunday morning.
In a separate incident, a source in the Ministry of Interior said that gunmen attacked a train carrying fuel in one of southern Baghdad quarters, in the second attack of its kind within two months.
In Basra, Shiite gunmen closed the streets of the city demanding the British forces, which dominate there, to release Sheikh Ahmad al-Fartousi, the commander of al-Mahdi militias which belongs to the Shiite leader Muqtada al-Sader. A spokesman for the British army stressed that the detention of al-Fartousi and his brother together with a third man came according to investigations made by the coalition forces which suspected the individuals of organizing "terrorist attacks" against the coalition forces.