Continued clashes, killing in Iraq
A source in the Iraqi police said that 300 mortars shelling were found, used for booby trapping cars, in an old camp in al-Dayneh area in al-Azizeyah southeast of Baghdad, near the Iraqi-Iranian borders.
In Safwan near the border with Kuwait in the south of Iraq; one advisor in the Iraqi defense ministry said that three gunmen and one Iraqi soldiers were killed and another gunmen was detained during a breaking in operation by the Iraqi army and intelligence against a farm.
A statement by the American army announced that an American soldier was killed in a tank accident south of Baghdad on Thursday.
In Baghdad, scores of relatives for Sheikh Kazem Sarhid, chieftain of al-Batawi tribe which is branch of al-Dalim tribe, demonstrated on Friday over his murder and four of his sons at the hands of gunmen wearing uniforms of the Iraqi national guards.
The demonstration started from the house of Sheikh Sarhid in al-Hurrieh area north of Baghdad towards the headquarters of the national guards area in al-Amereyah, raising the pictures of the killed men and banners deploring the Iraqi defense ministry and security departments.
