In a dispatch posted at 11:07am Baghdad time Wednesday morning, the Aswat al-'Iraq news agency, which was set up by Reuters and the U.N. Development Agency, reported that a bomb exploded by a puppet police patrol north of al-Khalidiyah, 80km west of Baghdad on Wednesday morning.

Aswat al-'Iraq reported an official source in the al-Khalidiyah puppet police as saying that the bomb went off in the al-Jazirah area two kilometers north of al-Khalidiya. The blast killed one puppet policeman and wounded a second.

Afterwards puppet policemen closed off the area and arrested three men as "suspects."

In a dispatch posted at 11:09pm Baghdad time Wednesday night, the Aswat al-'Iraq news agency, which was set up by Reuters and the U.N. Development Agency, reported that the Iraqi puppet police recovered the bodies of seven more victims of sectarian murder in various parts of Baghdad on Wednesday.

Aswat al-'Iraq reported a source in the puppet "Interior Ministry" as saying that the victims had been shot to death.

In a dispatch posted at 8:38pm Baghdad time Wednesday night, the Aswat al-'Iraq news agency, which was set up by Reuters and the U.N. Development Agency, reported that at least one car bomb exploded in a market in the al-Bayya' section of Baghdad before sunset on Wednesday.

Aswat al-'Iraq reported an eyewitness as saying that the explosives-laden car was parked by the side of 20 Street in the al-Bayya' area of southern Baghdad at about 6:40 pm local time. The blast destroyed storefronts and the facades of several houses.

In a dispatch posted at 10:28pm Wednesday night, Aswat al-'Iraq reported that the there were in fact two car bombs involved in the attack and that 32 people had been killed and 28 more wounded, some of them severely, in the twin bombing.

A source in the puppet "Interior Ministry" said that two explosives-laden cars that had been parked on 20 Street near a popular marked in al-Bayya' blew up simultaneously shortly before sunset.

In a dispatch posted at 5:23pm Makkah time Wednesday afternoon, Mafkarat al-Islam reported that the US military admitted that one more of its soldiers had been killed in a light arms attack that took place in eastern Baghdad on Tuesday.

Mafkarat al-Islam reported the American statement as saying that the detachment to which the dead US soldier belonged was on a mission to remove bombs from the side of roads in the area when the deadly attack took place.

US admits two more American soldiers killed in occupied Iraq.

In a dispatch posted at 10:35am Baghdad time Wednesday morning, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that the US military admitted that two more of its occupation troops had been killed.

The AMSI reported an American statement as saying that an explosion went off in Diyala Province northeast of Baghdad. That blast killed one American.

AMSI reported a second US statement as admitting that a US soldier who had been wounded in a Resistance attack in Salah ad-Din Province had died.

In a dispatch posted at 2:pm Baghdad time Wednesday morning, the Aswat al-'Iraq news agency, which was set up by Reuters and the U.N. Development Agency, reported that two car bombs exploded one after the other in the town of ash-Shuraqat, about 250km north of Baghdad, at midday Wednesday.

Aswat al-'Iraq reported an official source in the local puppet police force who asked to remain anonymous as saying that two puppet policemen died in the attacks in which five other people were also killed. Five people were wounded in the twin car bombing.

In a dispatch posted at 8:08pm Baghdad time Wednesday evening, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that Iraqi Resistance fighters assaulted all the checkpoints manned by the puppet "Lion Brigades" in the city of al-Mada’in, 25km southeast of Baghdad, killing 15 of the members of the notorious sectarian puppet force.

The AMSI reported eyewitnesses as saying that the Resistance men mounted their local offensive at midday Wednesday, targeting all the checkpoints manned by the puppet "Iraqi Interior Ministry Lion Brigade" troops.

The "Lion Brigades" are believed responsible for acts of sectarian mass murder in the city of al-Mada’in.

In a dispatch posted on its Arabic website at 4:23pm Wednesday afternoon Beijing time, the Xinhua News Agency reported that US forces carried out an airborne landing in the village of Bahbahan in the Jurf as-Sakhr area near al-Musayyib, about 70km south of Baghdad at dawn on Wednesday.

Xinhua reported a source in the al-Musayyib puppet police as saying that after the American raid, the police found the bodies of nine people, all members of one family who had been killed when an American helicopter gunship blasted their home.

The source said that the US troops also raided the Nawwaf al-Wakka' Mosque in the Jurf as-Sakhr area. There the Americans killed the Imam, Shayh Hasan Muhammad al-Jannabi, the source said without offering any further details. The source added, however, that the Americans also demolished another house during their raid, but since that building was vacant at the time, there were no casualties.

Xinhua indicated that as of the time of reporting the Americans had made no official statement regarding the raids.

In a dispatch posted at 10:42pm Baghdad time Wednesday night, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that a bomb exploded by a puppet police patrol in the city of al-Huwyajah, about 200km north of Baghdad on Wednesday evening.

The AMSI reported a source in the puppet police who asked to remain anonymous as saying that the blast killed one officer in the puppet police and wounded three more of them when it went off on the main road in al-Huwayjah.

In a dispatch posted at 8:27pm Baghdad time Wednesday night, the Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq (AMSI) reported that two explosives-laden cars and one truck bomb exploded in the city of al-Mawsil on Wednesday.

The AMSI reported sources in the Ninwa Province puppet police as saying that four people were killed and 50 more wounded in the three vehicle bomb attacks.

In a dispatch posted at 11:43am Baghdad time Wednesday morning, the Aswat al-'Iraq news agency, which was set up by Reuters and the U.N. Development Agency, reported that a car bomb exploded in the village of Umm adh-Dhiban, 18km west of Sinjar, west of al-Mawsil in northwestern Iraq, on Wednesday morning.

Aswat al-'Iraq reported Dr. Kifah Muhammad of Sinjar General Hospital as saying that the explosion killed 10 people and wounded another nine, all of them civilians. Four of the injured people are in serious condition.

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