Scores of Iraqis killed in attacks

With the continued reaction of the files of hostages seized in Iraq and the implications of the phase after announcing the official results of the Iraqi legislative elections, some 57 Iraqis and two American soldiers were killed in various parts of Iraq.

The US army announced on Monday that two American marines were killed on Friday in a suicide attack by a booby trapped car in al-Haqlaneyah west of Baghdad.

In Baqouba four police men were killed including one officer and other nine injured in a bomb explosion. In al-Manzala village south of Karkouk, the body of Sheikh Ibrahim al-Ali al-Nueimi, chief of al-Nueim tribe and his son were found hours after their kidnapping by unidentified persons.

The police also found in Baqouba four bodies with bullets fire on their heads. In Beji three Iraqis were killed at the hands of the American forces, according to the Iraqi police wile the American forces said that they were armed.

In al-Nasereyah two detainees from al-Nasereyah camp were killed during a mass fleeing attempt from the prison. In Musil and al-Huweijah seven Iraqi police men were injured in two separate attacks by explosives.

On the other hand, the Iraqi police said it found 29 bodies in al-Nebai area and said that the bodies are for volunteers to work for the police from the people of Sameraa who were kidnapped within a 50 member group in al-Shahedaa area.