A car bomb has exploded at an Iraqi police checkpoint, killing seven people and wounding 12.
The attack occurred about 50 kilometres south of Baghdad, near the town of Haswa.
The explosives-packed vehicle had been left by the side of the road, near the checkpoint, and was detonated remotely.
Police say all of those killed were civilians.
Three of the wounded are policemen.
Car bomb kills 7 in Iraq
July 31, 2005, 5:59 pmAC Milan 3, Chicago Fire 1
July 30, 2005, 1:47 pm
Italian powerhouse AC Milan pulled away in the second half to a 3-1 victory over the Chicago Fire in front of 21,954 fans at Soldier Field on Wednesday night.
After a 1-1 tie at halftime, AC Milan scored two second-half goals, including the winner by striker Alberto Gilardino, who was making his team debut.
AC Milan jumped to a 1-0 lead in the 21st minute. Veteran defender Paolo Maldini sent the ball to forward Christian Vieri in the center of the penalty area. Vieri shot the ball off Fire goalkeeper Zach Thornton's chest, recovered the rebound and sent it into the net.
One minute later, the Fire evened the score when Chris Rolfe put a left-footed shot past goalkeeper Valerio Fiori from 18 yards.
After halftime, AC Milan made five substitutions and scored the winner in the 76th when Clarence Seedorf dribbled around multiple defenders and crossed to Gilardino, who finished with his left foot from 6 yards.
"Good teams can make one play into something and they did," said Fire coach Dave Sarachan. "They made a play that made the difference for them."
The Fire also tweaked its lineup and pushed offensively, but could not score against Milan's strong defense.
AC Milan scored its final goal in injury time when a shot from Serginho hit the crossbar and bounced out, but the referee ruled it had crossed the goal line.
"We were in front of a team that had a great rhythm, was very fast and played a great game," said AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti. "Our group came with a little bit more experience and a little luck."
The Fire (11-7-3) is tied for first in the MLS Eastern Division with the New England Revolution.
After a 1-1 tie at halftime, AC Milan scored two second-half goals, including the winner by striker Alberto Gilardino, who was making his team debut.
AC Milan jumped to a 1-0 lead in the 21st minute. Veteran defender Paolo Maldini sent the ball to forward Christian Vieri in the center of the penalty area. Vieri shot the ball off Fire goalkeeper Zach Thornton's chest, recovered the rebound and sent it into the net.
One minute later, the Fire evened the score when Chris Rolfe put a left-footed shot past goalkeeper Valerio Fiori from 18 yards.
After halftime, AC Milan made five substitutions and scored the winner in the 76th when Clarence Seedorf dribbled around multiple defenders and crossed to Gilardino, who finished with his left foot from 6 yards.
"Good teams can make one play into something and they did," said Fire coach Dave Sarachan. "They made a play that made the difference for them."
The Fire also tweaked its lineup and pushed offensively, but could not score against Milan's strong defense.
AC Milan scored its final goal in injury time when a shot from Serginho hit the crossbar and bounced out, but the referee ruled it had crossed the goal line.
"We were in front of a team that had a great rhythm, was very fast and played a great game," said AC Milan coach Carlo Ancelotti. "Our group came with a little bit more experience and a little luck."
The Fire (11-7-3) is tied for first in the MLS Eastern Division with the New England Revolution.
Police question bombing suspects
July 30, 2005, 1:43 pm
Detectives are to begin questioning a group of London bomb suspects arrested in a series of dramatic armed raids in the capital and in Rome on Friday.
Police believe all four 21 July bomb suspects are now in custody following the raids - the first man was arrested in Birmingham on Wednesday.
They are trying to establish whether a fifth arrested man is linked to a device found in west London last week.
Police are urging the public to remain vigilant to the threat of more attacks.
CS gas
Roads were sealed off in west London on Friday as dozens of police, many armed and some wearing gas masks, surrounded properties, on Friday.
Residents were evacuated or told to stay indoors as police stormed a flat in Dalgarno Gardens, on the Peabody estate in North Kensington, where two men eventually surrendered to armed police.
Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, is the number 26 bus bomb suspect and Ramzi Mohammed is wanted over the failed attempt to bomb a Tube train near Oval station.
Footage taken by a resident of the Peabody estate raid showed the suspects standing bare-chested on a balcony outside a flat into which police had shouted warnings and apparently fired CS gas.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, of the Metropolitan Police, said "specialist tactics" were used after the men had failed to comply with police requests to surrender.
Witnesses reported three sounds like shots and a large explosion as officers wearing gas masks entered one of the properties.
A police source later said no shots had been fired and that the explosions were the sounds of officers blowing off the door to a flat.
The suspect arrested in Rome, who was named as Somali-born UK citizen Osman Hussain, 27, will be questioned over the bomb attempt at Shepherd's Bush station.
He had been staying with his brother, who was also arrested, Italian officials said.
Police apparently tracked him to the flat, on the outskirts of Rome, via Paris and Milan, by tracking his mobile phone calls, a BBC correspondent says.
Moves are under way to extradite Hussain to Britain from Italy, but it is not yet clear if he will face charges in the country where he was detained.
Also on Friday, UK police arrested a third man in Notting Hill, west London, and two women at the city's Liverpool Street station.
The as yet unnamed man, arrested in Tavistock Crescent, is said by police to be of "significant interest" in relation to the events of 21 July.
Map of West London raids
Detectives believe there may have been a fifth would-be bomber on 21 July, after a device was found last Saturday in a rucksack at Little Wormwood Scrubs, near the Peabody estate.
The suspect detained last Wednesday in Birmingham was Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, who is being questioned over a bomb attempt on the Tube near Warren Street.
Scotland Yard described Friday as their "best day yet" since 21 July.
But Mr Clarke insisted the public "must not be complacent" in assuming the threat of attacks had disappeared.
"The threat remains and is very real," he told reporters.
'Productive questioning'
Correspondents say police are making clear the period of intense security activity is far from over.
They say more raids can be expected, as police continue to collect evidence for possible future trials.
They also need to understand what kind of support network lay behind the 7 July and 21 July attacks and whether it still existed.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said Friday's arrests may have followed tip-offs from the public or informants; electronic interception; or the questioning of people who were already in custody.
"I understand that the questioning of those people they have in custody was very productive," he said.
He said the immediate priority for police was now to establish if there were any further bomb plots.
Officers would also want to know if there were any explosives lying around in warehouses and who the detainees knew.
He said: "Once the immediate danger is out of the way they will be looking further afield.
"Where were these people indoctrinated, did they go to other countries, was there somebody who came in from outside.
"One of the areas they might well be looking at I understand is the Middle East and there is an unconfirmed report that the Saudi authorities are investigating the possibility that the attacks on London were actually planned from a cell inside Saudi Arabia."
Police believe all four 21 July bomb suspects are now in custody following the raids - the first man was arrested in Birmingham on Wednesday.
They are trying to establish whether a fifth arrested man is linked to a device found in west London last week.
Police are urging the public to remain vigilant to the threat of more attacks.
CS gas
Roads were sealed off in west London on Friday as dozens of police, many armed and some wearing gas masks, surrounded properties, on Friday.
Residents were evacuated or told to stay indoors as police stormed a flat in Dalgarno Gardens, on the Peabody estate in North Kensington, where two men eventually surrendered to armed police.
Muktar Said Ibrahim, 27, is the number 26 bus bomb suspect and Ramzi Mohammed is wanted over the failed attempt to bomb a Tube train near Oval station.
Footage taken by a resident of the Peabody estate raid showed the suspects standing bare-chested on a balcony outside a flat into which police had shouted warnings and apparently fired CS gas.
Deputy Assistant Commissioner Peter Clarke, of the Metropolitan Police, said "specialist tactics" were used after the men had failed to comply with police requests to surrender.
Witnesses reported three sounds like shots and a large explosion as officers wearing gas masks entered one of the properties.
A police source later said no shots had been fired and that the explosions were the sounds of officers blowing off the door to a flat.
The suspect arrested in Rome, who was named as Somali-born UK citizen Osman Hussain, 27, will be questioned over the bomb attempt at Shepherd's Bush station.
He had been staying with his brother, who was also arrested, Italian officials said.
Police apparently tracked him to the flat, on the outskirts of Rome, via Paris and Milan, by tracking his mobile phone calls, a BBC correspondent says.
Moves are under way to extradite Hussain to Britain from Italy, but it is not yet clear if he will face charges in the country where he was detained.
Also on Friday, UK police arrested a third man in Notting Hill, west London, and two women at the city's Liverpool Street station.
The as yet unnamed man, arrested in Tavistock Crescent, is said by police to be of "significant interest" in relation to the events of 21 July.
Map of West London raids
Detectives believe there may have been a fifth would-be bomber on 21 July, after a device was found last Saturday in a rucksack at Little Wormwood Scrubs, near the Peabody estate.
The suspect detained last Wednesday in Birmingham was Yasin Hassan Omar, 24, who is being questioned over a bomb attempt on the Tube near Warren Street.
Scotland Yard described Friday as their "best day yet" since 21 July.
But Mr Clarke insisted the public "must not be complacent" in assuming the threat of attacks had disappeared.
"The threat remains and is very real," he told reporters.
'Productive questioning'
Correspondents say police are making clear the period of intense security activity is far from over.
They say more raids can be expected, as police continue to collect evidence for possible future trials.
They also need to understand what kind of support network lay behind the 7 July and 21 July attacks and whether it still existed.
BBC security correspondent Frank Gardner said Friday's arrests may have followed tip-offs from the public or informants; electronic interception; or the questioning of people who were already in custody.
"I understand that the questioning of those people they have in custody was very productive," he said.
He said the immediate priority for police was now to establish if there were any further bomb plots.
Officers would also want to know if there were any explosives lying around in warehouses and who the detainees knew.
He said: "Once the immediate danger is out of the way they will be looking further afield.
"Where were these people indoctrinated, did they go to other countries, was there somebody who came in from outside.
"One of the areas they might well be looking at I understand is the Middle East and there is an unconfirmed report that the Saudi authorities are investigating the possibility that the attacks on London were actually planned from a cell inside Saudi Arabia."
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