Roadside bomb kills four Iraqi soldiers in Fallujah

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A roadside bomb attacked an Iraqi security forces patrol in Fallujah on Monday, killing four Iraqi soldiers, witness said

The bomb was detonated at around 7 a.m. (GMT 0300) when Iraqi security forces were patrolling in the center of the city, some 60 km west of Baghdad, witnesses told Xinhua.

US troops and Iraqi army immediately cordoned off the area of the blast.

Fallujah is one of several violent towns in Iraq's western Anbar province where insurgents have frequently attacked the US and Iraqi forces.

Poeple's Daily

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1. Civilians killed in suicide attack south of Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Aug 15 (KUNA) -- A suicide attack killed two Iraqi civilians and wounded five others yesterday south of Baghdad, an Iraqi police source said in a press statement on Monday.

The suicide bomber detonated an explosive belt near the municipal council of Al-Mahawil town in the Babil province, the source added.

The source who preferred anonymity, said the attack killed two Iraqis and left five others with various wounds who were taken to hospital for treatment.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=760611

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2. Three Iraqis killed in armed attack, Ministry of Interior shelled

BAGHDAD, Aug 15 (KUNA) -- Up to three Iraqis were killed Monday and two others were seriously injured in an armed attack in north east Baghdad.

An Iraqi security source said in a press release that unidentified insurgents attacked using small-arms fire an Iraqi army checkpoint in south Baqouba in Diyala province.

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Meanwhile, a mortar shell fell today in the Iraqi Ministry of Interior's compound in the Iraqi capital.

Eyewitnesses told KUNA strong explosions were heard after the attack.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=760627

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3. 18 wounded in Suicide bombing in Al-Karada area of Baghdad

BAGHDAD, Aug 15 (KUNA) -- Eighteen people were wounded when a suicide bomber blew up his belt of explosives inside a popular restaurant in the Al-Karada area of Baghdad on Monday, an Iraqi police source said.

The restaurant, added the source, is frequented by Iraqi policemen near a hospital at the entrance of Karada in central Baghdad.

The source said some of the explosives have not exploded, which limited the losses caused by the blast.

http://www.kuna.net.kw/Home/Story.aspx?Language=en&DSNO=760713

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4. Iraqi militants threaten Kuwait on border; Group vows attacks in Kuwait

BASRA, Iraq (AP): A previously unknown Shiite group warned Kuwait on Sunday to pull its troops back to the pre-1991 border or face attacks. The statement by Islamic Jihad, read by a masked man in a video obtained on Sunday by The Associated Press, came amid criticism by some Iraqi officials of Kuwaitis trying to encroach on Iraqi land. An Iraqi legislator who visited Kuwait last month said he saw “no real problem” between the two countries over the border that were redrawn by the United Nations after the 1991 Gulf War. “We call them to return to the pre-1991 border otherwise we will attack border posts, border patrols and carry out attacks inside Kuwait,” said the masked man sitting between two other masked gunmen.

“We will also attack Kuwaiti citizens in Iraq.” Hundreds of Iraqis who grow vegetables and date palms in the Umm Qasr part of the border have staged demonstrations against a metal barrier that Kuwait is building along the frontier. During one protest last month, shots were fired into Kuwait, but Kuwaiti border guards did not return fire. In 1993, two years after a US-led coalition drove the Iraqi army out of Kuwait, a UN border demarcation commission redrew the frontier. The upshot was that Kuwait received 11 oil wells, some farms and an old naval base that used to be in Iraq. Iraq and Kuwait resumed relations and reopened their border after the 2003 US-led invasion of Iraq.

http://www.arabtimesonline.com/arabtimes/world/Viewdet.asp?ID=5640&cat=a

[Roland99]

5. Umm...we eliminated problems in Falluja, right? I mean, we flattened it!

Why would there be more violence? The insurgents were eliminated and only good, peaceful folk have filtered back into the ruins.