Iraqi resistance fighters attacked a freight train west of Baghdad and exploded a bomb near a convoy in a northern city, injuring a U.S. soldier, on Thursday.
The freight train was carrying military supplies near Fallujah west of Baghdad, when an improvised bomb set four containers ablaze. No casualties were reported, but the attack sparked a frenzy of looting by Iraqis who carried off computers, tents, bottled water and other supplies, The AP reported.
Elsewhere, an American soldier was slightly wounded when a bomb exploded near a U.S. convoy in the northern city of Mosul, the military said.
Meanwhile, an aide to Iraq's interim foreign minister Hoshyar Zebari on Thursday said the latter's office was destroyed in an explosives attack two weeks ago.
"Our new minister escaped an assassination attempt when a bomb exploded near his office, but he was fortunately not there as he was attending the UN General Assembly in New York," said Mohammed Hamoud, who heads the ministry's legal department.
"The timebomb was planted in a garden right next to his office, which is located on the first floor and was completely destroyed," said Hamoud, according to international news agencies.
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