A U.S. soldier was killed and another was wounded Monday when their convoy was attacked north of Baghdad, the U.S. Central Command said.
Earlier, one American serviceman was reported killed and another injured in southern Iraq when a munitions dump they were guarding exploded, military officials said Monday.
The blast, which occurred Sunday morning near the town of Diwaniya, 95 miles south of the Iraqi capital city, was not thought to be a result of hostile action, U.S. Central Command said, according to AP.
Meanwhile, British Prime Minister, Tony Blair has appointed MP Ann Clwyd as a special envoy to Iraq on human rights. Clwyd is expected to travel to Iraq on Tuesday and will visit sites where the victims of Saddam Hussein's regime were buried.
She will also have talks with Iraqis who hope to form part of the interim government to lead the country. Clwyd, a long-standing supporter of Kurdish rights in northern Iraq, has campaigned for human rights in Iraq for 25 years and was one of the few left-wing Labour MPs who supported military action against Saddam Hussein's regime.
In the past, she said the regime should be indicted for war crimes, crimes against humanity and genocide, and it was her great regret that Britain had not led the way to regime change in Iraq when it had the chance during the first Gulf war.(Albawaba.com)
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