An armed battle between Iraqi Resistance fighters in Tikrit on Sunday left one American aggressor wounded and three Iraqi Resistance fighters martyred. A spokesman for the American occupation forces said that the battle erupted between Iraqi Resistance fighters and the American invaders after the Resistance fighters set up an ambush for the US aggressor troops.

In Balad, 75km north of Baghdad, US aggressor troops reportedly opened fire on two Iraqi Resistance fighters who had shot at the occupation troops. According to the American occupation account, the Resistance fighters died as martyrs. Eleven persons were detained and 30 AK-47 Kalashnikov assault rifles were seized in the course of that battle, the American sources claimed.

In Mistal, 30km east of Tikrit, one Iraqi was killed by the American occupation forces, who suspected him of supplying Resistance fighters with weapons. The Iraqi patriot approached the American aggressors carrying a Kalashnikov, and the Americans shot him dead on the spot, according to the invader statement. Five other individuals were captured in the operation.

A former colonel in the Iraqi army who had been pursued by the American occupation forces was captured in Kirkuk on Saturday, according to an American aggressor statement.

In Mosul, northern Iraq, two Iraqis died, apparently as martyrs, and a Jordanian was injured on Saturday in a roadside bombing, according to a report by the Iraqi puppet police. Puppet police Lieutenant Samir Najm al-’Azzawi told Agence France Presse (AFP) that the two Iraqis died and the 25-year-old Jordanian, whose name was ’Izz ad-Din Ibrahim, was wounded in a blast in their Brazilian-made, German label car - a type of car used as taxi cabs. The explosion occurred in al-Ansar neighborhood in the east of the city. Al-’Azzawi said that the occupation authorities were interrogating the injured Jordanian, who had been taken to hospital, to learn more of the details of the case. The puppet police spokesman indicated that he believed that the explosion was the result of the detonation of materials being carried inside the car.