In Baghdad's Tahariyat Square, a car bomb targeting an American convoy killed
one civilian and wounded nine, police Lt. Col. Abbas Mohammed Salman said. It
was not known if there were any U.S. casualties, but at least one Humvee was
seen on fire.
A second bomb targeting an Iraqi police patrol near the square killed one
person and wounded 10, including four police.
Elsewhere, a roadside bomb killed two police officers and wounded three
others in downtown Baghdad's Karradah district, while one man was killed and six
were injured when a bomb hidden in a minivan exploded.
The blast in Diyala pushed in the side of the white public bus and peppered
its blackened side with shrapnel holes. The bus, later inspected by U.S. Army
troops, was streaked in blood.
"We were transporting the workers from Baqouba to the Mujahedeen Khalq when
the roadside bomb exploded and killed all these people," one man who was on the
bus told APTN.
In other violence, gunmen killed two police officers when they attacked a
convoy in western Baghdad. Another group seriously wounded police colonels in
nearby Ghazaliyah. Two other police officers, identified as former Baathists,
were killed in Amarah, 180 miles southeast of Baghdad.
A roadside bomb killed two British soldiers in the southern Iraqi city of
Basra and injured two others, Britain's Ministry of Defense said Monday.
The explosion occurred Sunday night, a day after British and Iraqi forces
seized their largest-ever haul of bomb-making equipment and weapons in a bid to
improve the deteriorating security situation in the southern Iraqi city, the
ministry said.
Also late Sunday, a tribal chief who challenged Iraq's most feared terrorist
and sent fighters to help U.S. troops battle al-Qaida in western Iraq died in a
hail of bullets ¡ª the latest victim of an apparent insurgent campaign against
Sunni Arabs who work with Americans.
Sheik Osama al-Jadaan was ambushed by gunmen as he was being driven in
Baghdad's Mansour district, a predominantly Sunni Arab area. Al-Jadaan's driver
and one of his bodyguards also were killed, police Lt. Maitham Abdul Razzaq
said.
