BASRA, Iraq - Three masked men shot dead an officer in the new Iraqi army as he was having dinner in the southern city of Basra, an army spokesman said on Friday.
The gunmen burst into a restaurant where Major Mahmoud Hassan al-Yasiri was eating on Thursday evening and shot him twice in the head and three times in the back, said Captain Firas al-Tamimi.
The same night, four US soldiers were wounded in Shurgat in northern Iraq when insurgents hurled a hand grenade at them, a US military statement said.
In another attack, seven Turkish truck drivers were wounded as their convoy travelled between Kirkuk and Arbil on Thursday, reported Turkish television, adding that six tankers were burnt.
A separate US military statement on Friday said a US Marine was killed two days ago in a vehicle accident during combat operations in the former rebel stronghold of Fallujah, west of the capital.
04/08/2005 10:21 GMT