IRAQI RESISTANCE

Independent: '40 dead' as blasts rock Baghdad

International Red Cross headquarters and police stations targeted in fresh wave of attacks

Up to 40 people are feared dead after a a wave of bomb attacks in Baghdad today, including a huge blast at the headquarters of the International Red Cross.

At least 12 people are thought to have died after an ambulance packed with explosives rammed into security barriers outside the aid agency's offices.

Three other bombs are reported to have exploded in the Iraqi capital, leaving dozens more victims after two police stations were hit on the first day of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan.

It was also announced that three American soldiers were killed and four wounded in further attacks. Two soldiers were killed and two others wounded yesterday in Baghdad after their patrol was targeted by a roadside bomb. In nearby Abu Ghraib, one soldier was killed and two wounded after an attack on their Military Police unit.

Independet: Wolfowitz survives hotel rocket attack

In a daring attack anti-American guerrillas yesterday fired a barrage of rockets at the al-Rashid hotel, a symbol of the US occupation, in the heart of Baghad, killing one US soldier and wounding 15 other people, mostly Americans