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Death Toll For Iraqis Reaches New High
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The attack on Mashhadani's bodyguards occurred as two of them drove to work on Wednesday. A group of armed men in a car chased them, killing one and critically wounding the other.
A day earlier, a bomb inside a car used in Mashhadani's motorcade exploded not far from the convention center where parliament meets inside Baghdad's heavily fortified Green Zone. U.S. forces detonated a second bomb found in another car in his motorcade. A U.S. military spokesman said Wednesday that investigators are still trying to determine how the explosives made it into the fortress-like compound.
Speaking before parliament on Wednesday, Mashhadani called for the creation of a special police force for legislators by next year. They currently are guarded by foreign troops and private security contractors.
Also Wednesday, a spokesman for the Interior Ministry said Iraqi forces had captured Ibraheem Kareem Ahmed, the commander of a Sunni Muslim insurgent group known as the Omar Army, southwest of Baghdad, along with 13 other members.
The U.S. military reported the deaths of two U.S. soldiers on Tuesday. One was killed by a roadside bomb and the other died of a noncombat injury.
[Early Thursday, the U.S. military said three U.S. Marines died Wednesday from wounds sustained in combat in Iraq's volatile western Anbar province, Reuters reported.]
Special correspondents Saad al-Izzi and Waleed Saffar contributed to this report.
