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U.S. Soldiers Reportedly killed In Iraq Attacks
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file photo for Iraqi attack on U.S. troops
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BAGHDAD,
September 29 (IslamOnline.net & News President) – Seven U.S.
soldiers were reportedly killed and seven others injured in attacks on
two U.S. convoys in Fallujah and outside the town of Khaldiyah, west of
Baghdad, as one Iraqi official in charge of drawing up the new
constitution of occupied Iraq escaped an assassination attempt on
Monday.
In
Khaldiyah, 80km west of Baghdad, Gassem Mohammad, 23, told Agence
France-Presse (AFP) that a convoy consisting of four Humvees and a tank
was targeted, noting that six dead U.S. soldiers were evacuated by
helicopters, which patrolled the areas.
The
U.S. military confirmed Monday, September 29, that one American soldier
was killed and one wounded in a bomb attack on a convoy near the town of
Fallujah, west of Baghdad.
A
military spokeswoman, who would not give her name, said the convoy was
attacked about 9:15 am (0515 GMT) by an "improvised explosive
device" in the town of Habbaniyah, near where the Americans have a
large base.
The
latest death brought to 91 the number of American soldiers killed in
Iraq since May 1, when Washington declared major combat over. AFP put at
85 the number of the dead.
Also
on Monday, a U.S. army spokesman confirmed that six U.S. soldiers were
wounded in Sunday's bomb attack on a convoy in the hotspot town of
Fallujah.
Colonel
Kevin Gainer said a convoy from the 82nd Airborne Division was hit by an
"improvised explosive device" on Highway 10 at 1:30 pm (0930
GMT) Sunday while traveling in the city.
Selwan
Adel Mohammad, 28, told AFP a convoy consisting of five Humvees was
targeted while traveling through the centre of the city. One Humvee was
hit by the explosion.
Iraqi
Official Attacked
In
another development, an Iraqi official working on how to draft a new
constitution for this occupied country escaped an assassination attempt,
the second attack on a political figure in nine days, Iraqi and U.S.
sources said.
They
said Jalal al-Din al-Sagheer, a prominent Shiite, escaped unhurt when
his car was fired upon at about 3:00 pm (1100 GMT) Sunday as he was
driving home, located in a Baghdad suburb.
"I
understand his bodyguard did lose his life," Charles Heatley, a
spokesman for the so called the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority
(CPA) that runs Iraq, told a news conference.
Muhannad
Abdul Jabbar, a press officer with Iraq's U.S.-installed Governing
Council earlier reported the attack on Sagheer.
"The
incident happened yesterday," said Jabbar. "He has not been
injured, he is okay."
Akila
al-Hashimi, the first member of Iraq's interim council to be
assassinated, last Thursday succumbed to gunshot
wounds suffered in an ambush in Baghdad on September 20.
Iraqi
Child Killed
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Iraqi
youths hold parts of a destroyed U.S. army truck and a framed
portrait of Saddam
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In
the meanwhile, U.S. forces killed on Monday, September 29, a 10-year-old
Iraqi child and wounded a 25-year-old man when they opened fire on
hundreds of demonstrators who pelted them with stones in Hawija, west of
Kirkuk.
While
at least one U.S. soldier was killed and six others wounded on Sunday,
September 28, in a bomb attack on a convoy in Fallujah, 50 kilometers
(30 miles) west of Baghdad, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).
Hussein
Dakhil Ahmad was killed by U.S. soldiers, said Dr. Jassem Abdullah
Jiburi at Hawija hospital, 50 kilometers (31 miles) from the northern
Iraqi city.
He
said that 25-year-old Meaad Abdullah was hit in the heart and
transferred to a hospital in Kirkuk. The U.S. army did not immediately
confirm the report.
The
casualties occurred when around 500 protestors carrying portraits of
ousted Iraqi president Saddam Hussein took to the streets of Hawija and
began pelting U.S. soldiers with stones, an AFP correspondent at the
scene said.
The
demonstrators called for US troops to pull out of Hawija, the holding of
fresh local council elections as well as the release of more than 750
"political prisoners" they claim are being held by the US
army, Jiburi said.
Meanwhile
an Iraqi police officer told AFP that unidentified assailants fired four
mortar rounds on Monday morning at a U.S. position in the centre of
Kirkuk, an Iraqi police station and an army rehabilitation centre.
Police
Colonel Khattab Abdullah said the mortars apparently failed to hit their
targets and caused no casualties or damage.
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