Four Iraqis killed in air strike, 5 U.S. soldiers wounded in ambush

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Baghdad, Dec 21, SPA -- Four Iraqis were killed in a U.S. air strike in central Iraq while five American soldiers andan Iraqi civilian were wounded in a car bomb explosionnorth of Baghdad, reports said Tuesday. The five Task Force Danger soldiers and the civilian weretraveling in a Humvee on Monday near Hawija, some 240kilometers (150 miles) north of Baghdad, when the blastoccurred, the U.S. military said. A suspected insurgent was detained at the site of theattack, the statement added. The injured were evacuated toMultinational forces medical facilities for treatment andare in stable condition, it said. Early Tuesday, U.S. aircraft bombed a target in the cityof Hit, west of Baghdad, killing four people and injuringseven, said Hamdi Al-Alosi, a doctor in the local hospital.The attack caused damage to several cars and two houses, hesaid.--SPA1100 Local Time 0800 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/226478

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