BAGHDAD,
October 29 (IslamOnline.net) - While five U.S. soldiers were killed
and three others injured overnight and Wednesday morning, October 29,
in fresh Iraqi resistance attacks, Baghdad's assistant mayor was
assassinated outside his house in the Iraqi capital.
Three
U.S. soldiers have been killed and two others wounded Wednesday in two
attacks on U.S. convoys in northern Baghdad and the town of
Abu-Ghuraib, some 35km west of Baghdad, IslamOnline.net quoted a U.S.
military spokesman as saying.
The
spokesman said a U.S. convoy was attacked by unknown armed men in
northern Baghdad, killing one soldier and wounding another, giving no
further details.
He
added that the two U.S. soldiers have been also killed and another
injured when their convoy came under an attack that also destroyed an
army vehicle at Abu-Ghuraib.
Two
U.S. soldiers were also killed overnight when their Abrams tank was
struck by a landmine or a roadside bomb during a patrol near Balad, 45
miles north of Baghdad, Aljazeera quoted Maj. Josslyn Aberle, a
spokeswoman for the 4th Infantry Division, as saying.
Before
today's U.S. fatalities, Aljazeera put at 116 the number of U.S.
soldiers killed since May 1, when U.S. President George W. Bush
declared "major combat" effectively over in Iraq.
The
U.S. fatalities came as unknown gunmen opened fire at Baghdad's
Assistant Mayor Farish Issam outside his house and immediately
vanished, eyewitnesses said without giving further details.
Spiral
Of Attacks
Meanwhile,
the buildings of Baghdad University on the eastern bank of Tigris came
under three rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs) early Wednesday,
eyewitnesses told IOL.
A
palace of ousted president Saddam Hussein in Fallujah, now a
headquarters of the American forces, had come under an RPG attack
overnight, eyewitnesses said.
They
told IOL correspondent that the attack inflicted damage on the palace
and U.S. army vehicles parked inside, but there was no report about
casualties.
Additionally,
an unknown armed group launched three mortar shells on the so-called
"Grand Saddam Bridge" southeast of Baghdad, causing a number
of injuries among car occupants, eyewitnesses said.
They
added that another armed group launched Tuesday, October 28, an RPG on
a U.S. military vehicle near the Rafidain Bank at the southern Baghdad
Al-Mashtal area, wounding at least one U.S. soldier and causing severe
damage to his all-terrain hummer.
Baghdad
Bombings Toll Up
