Iraqis, US soldiers, journalist killed in Iraq

The American army announced the killing of three of its soldiers in two separate attacks on Monday and Tuesday. It explained in a statement that one soldier was killed when one bomb went off on the roadside while he was on a foot patrol southern west of Baghdad.

The statement added that two members of the American air force were killed and another injured on Sunday in a bomb explosion placed on the roadside while they were escorting a convoy near al-Taji, a large air base north of Baghdad.

In other attacks on Monday, the Iraqi police said that two of its members were killed and other three injured when one booby trapped car went off in al-Doura quarters, south of the capital.

Two police members were killed together with a TV sport commentator when one booby trapped car led by a suicide bomber went off at an inspection point near the Green Zone in the center of Baghdad. A security source explained that the journalist is Hamzeh Hussein who works for the al-Deyar TV channel.

The police also said that one officer in the Iraqi army was killed and another injured when their vehicle was hit by a bomb on the roadside, east of Musil, north Iraq

Gunmen also killed an employee who works for a base to the American army in al-Dour town, 150 km north of the capital. The joint coordination center in Tikrit said that the woman who is Maarib Abdul Karim ( 42 year old), and that unidentified gunmen manning a car opened fire at her while she was with her daughter in one of the city's sides.

One Iraqi civilian was killed and other four injured by a booby trapped car explosion in al-Mahmoudeyah south of Baghdad, the aim of the explosion was not clear.