Iraqi PM Wants Rape-Slay Investigation

U.S. military secure the area of a car bomb attack, Wednesday, July 5, 2006, in the northern city of Mosul, Iraq. A suicide car bomb struck an Iraqi police patrol on Wednesday in Mosul, killing at least two people and wounding four, police said. (AP Photo/Mohammed Ibrahim) (Mohammed Ibrahim - AP)

Raghad has lived in Jordan since fleeing Iraq in 2003. Jordanian Prime Minister Marouf al-Bakhit said earlier this week that Raghad her children live in Jordan for humanitarian reasons and are guests of the royal family. He said Jordan had not received any official request from Iraq regarding Raghad.

In continuing violence, gunmen in a car opened fire on a Shiite family as they walked in a southwestern Baghdad neighborhood, killing a 12-year-old boy and wounding his brother and two other relatives.

A bomb struck the busy Tayaran Square in central Baghdad, killing two people and wounding 10.

Elsewhere in the capital, an employee of the Dora oil refinery was killed in a drive-by shooting, and an intelligence capital in the Interior Ministry was seriously wounded when gunmen opened fire on his car. Police found the body of a man who was shot in the head in eastern Baghdad.

In the northern city of Mosul, a suicide car bomb struck a police patrol, killing two people and wounding four.

In Kirkuk, north of Baghdad, a roadside bomb struck a car carrying members of a private security company, killing one person and wounding three. Firefighters arriving to help also were hit by a roadside bomb, and two were wounded.

About 1,500 Iraqi soldiers, meanwhile, fanned out near Muqdadiyah, a volatile town in Diyala province about 60 miles northeast of Baghdad, to clear the area of insurgents, Brig. Gen. Ahmed al-Awad said.

The commander said four cars and a motorcycle packed with explosives had been seized and 14 suspected insurgents detained since the operation began Tuesday. Al-Awad also said two kidnapped civilians had been released.

U.S. and Iraqi forces also raided a hospital that was suspected of being used as an insurgent base in the western city of Ramadi. The Saddam Hospital has been used as a launching pad for mortar and sniper fire against coalition forces, as well as violence against civilians, the military said.

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Associated Press reporter Diana Elias in Kuwait City and Shafika Mattar in Amman, Jordan, contributed to this report.