Iraqi resistance activists detonated a roadside bomb as a U.S. convoy drove by in central Baghdad on Tuesday morning, killing one Iraqi and wounding another, reports said.
No U.S. troops were injured, witnesses said. A U.S. military Humvee was parked in the middle of the road shortly after the blast in the Karrada neighborhood, beside a shattered concrete median where the bomb appeared to have been planted.
Elsewhere, American forces captured three suspected members of an al-Qaeda linked group and detained three former army and intelligence officers. The raid took place in Baqouba, north of Baghdad. According to The AP, soldiers blew up the entrance to the house to surprise the occupants.
"We had a report of a terrorist cell which has been conducting terrorist attacks on coalition forces," David Wicklund, Sgt. 1st Class of the 649th Military Police, told Associated Press Television. "We came here in the early morning hours and caught them while there were sleeping." The men appeared to be middle-level officials of the former regime, with the highest ranking a major. (Albawava.com)
