Baghdad - At least two Iraqis were killed and two others
wounded in a blast in Baghdad, while a US marine was killed in Anbar
province, sources said Tuesday.
An explosive charge went off Tuesday near a well-known restaurant
in the upper-middle class neighbourhood of Mansur in west Baghdad,
killing at least two civilians and wounding three national guards,
independent Voices of Iraq (VOI) news agency reported.
The charge was planted close to an area where Iraqi employees wait
for buses to take them to their workplaces, witnesses were cited by
VOI as saying.
Police and military forces sealed off the area, while the wounded
were ferried to hospital.
Meanwhile, a US marine was killed Monday while conducting combat
operations in Anbar province, the US military in Iraq said Tuesday.
So far 79 US soldiers have been killed in Iraq during July.
In other news, US-led coalition forces detained nine suspected
terrorists during operations targeting the al-Qaeda terrorist network
in central and northern Iraq Monday and Tuesday, the US military
said.
In the autonomous Kurdistan region, Kurdish security forces in
Dohuk city arrested 50 Kurds for waving the Iraqi flag to celebrate
the victory of the Iraqi national football team, a police source said
Monday.
The source, who spoke on condition of anonymity, said, 'Kurdish
security forces seize anybody carrying the Iraqi flag, even
for one hour.'
The region's president Massoud Barzani had earlier ordered that
the Kurdish flag would replace the Iraqi one in all the cities of the
autonomous region.
On Sunday, the Iraqi national football team won the Asian Cup
title for the first time in its history.
© 2007 dpa - Deutsche Presse-Agentur 
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