ugnet_: SEVEN AMERICAN SOLDIERS KILLED IN IRAQ

[Mulindwa Edward]

7 US Soldiers Said Killed In Iraq Attacks Islam Online.net 9-29-3 BAGHDAD -- (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 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. Copyright � 1999-2003 Islam Online All rights reserved             The Mulindwas Communication Group "With Yoweri Museveni, Uganda is in anarchy"             Groupe de communication Mulindwas "avec Yoweri Museveni, l'Ouganda est dans l'anarchie"