Baghdad, Sept 27, SPA -- U.S. jets pounded suspected Shiite fighters' positions in the Baghdad slum of Sadr City onMonday, killing at least five people and wounding 46, asinsurgents detonated a car bomb and fired rockets inseparate attacks across the country targeting Iraq'sbeleaguered security forces. The U.S. military said the strikes in Sadr City, a hotbedof insurgents loyal to renegade Shiite cleric Muqtadaal-Sadr, struck several "positively identified" rebel hideouts. Residents said explosions lit up the night sky for hoursbefore dawn. Mangled vehicles, debris and shards of glasslittered the streets. Dr. Qassem Saddam of the Imam Ali hospital in Sadr Citysaid five people were killed and 40 were wounded _including 15 women and nine children. At least two childrenwrapped in bloodstains bandages could be seen lying inhospital beds and one man suffered burns from head-to-toe. Lt. Col. Jim Hutton, a U.S. Army spokesman, saidinsurgents also fired three mortar rounds at a nearby U.S.Army base, but that the shells fell short and exploded in acivilian neighborhood. It was not immediately known ifthere any casualties. In Mosul, insurgents set off a car bomb as a seven-vehicleIraqi National Guard patrol was passing by, killing atleast four guardsmen and wounding three others, policesaid.--SPA1432 Local Time 1132 GMT www.spa.gov.sa/206021