An overnight ambush just north of Baghdad killed four American soldiers late Tuesday. The incident occurred near Baiji. Six soldiers were also wounded in the attack.
The soldiers were from Task Force Liberty and were sent to investigate a rocket-propelled grenade incident when an anti-tank mine exploded and hit an armored Humvee according to a U.S. military spokesman in Mosul.
The mine was altered to increase shrapnel damage according to the military spokesman.
The total number of American service members killed since the war in Iraq began has now reached 1,840 according to published reports.
On Wednesday morning, a suicide car bomb exploded in northwestern Baghdad near an Iraqi police patrol. Three Iraqi policemen were killed and a fourth was wounded.
Elsewhere in Baghdad, a mortar attack killed an Iraqi traffic officer and wounded another in the Adhamiya district of the capital.
The United States is now claiming that it has confiscated weapons that were made in Iran. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld told reporters that seized weapons were 'clearly, unambiguously from Iran.' A spokesman for the government in Tehran has denied the claim.
Rumsfeld refused to say whether or not the Iranian government was involved in getting the weapons into Iraq but added, 'it's notably unhelpful for Iranians to be letting those weapons cross the border.'
