Jan 2, 2007, 4:31 GMT
Baghdad - A US aircraft bombed the premises of the Iraqi National Dialogue Front in southern Baghdad Monday, killing six Iraqis, the state al-Iraqiya TV reported.
Among the six killed were two children, a woman and two security guards, the report said.
The Iraqi National Dialogue Front, a secular coalition occupying 11 seats in the Iraqi parliament, is headed by Saleh al-Mutlaq.
Meanwhile, six suspected terrorists were killed when the US-led coalition forces raided a number of buildings in Baghdad Monday morning, the US military said.
The six suspected terrorists were killed after a heavy gun battle, during which US forces were fired at from a house belonging to al- Mutlaq.
A terrorist suspect was also arrested during the raid.
The house was a possible safe house for the al-Qaeda terrorist network in Iraq, the US military statement said.
Two US soldiers were killed and another two were wounded on Sunday in an explosion in Diyala Province, the multinational corps said Monday. The number of US troops who have died during nearly four years in Iraq has reached 3,000, according to a count kept by a casualty monitoring organization and released Sunday.
Meanwhile, followers of executed former Iraqi dictator, Saddam Hussein, were protesting at his execution in his home province of Tikrit Monday, witnesses said.
In Duluiyah, 100 kilometres north of Baghdad, dozens were demonstrating against the execution, according to the witnesses.
The former dictator, who ruled with an iron fist for 24 years before being ousted in 2003 in a US-led invasion, was hanged a day earlier in Baghdad for crimes against humanity in connection with the killings of 148 people in 1982 in the Iraqi Shiite town of Dujail.
The provincial capital of Tikrit, 170 kilometres north of Baghdad, where a curfew was imposed on the day of the execution, was quiet, according to police.
Several hundred people had protested in Tikrit Sunday, but crowds dispersed soon after security forces fired shots in the air, police said.
Witnesses said Monday that police had stopped supporters of Saddam from reaching the grave of the former president, who was buried in his home village of Awja, five kilometres from Tikrit.
In other parts of Tikrit province, supporters of Saddam were said to be meeting to consider what action to take.
Speakers were suggesting that Saddam's execution was an act of revenge by the Shiite-dominated government against the Sunnis, who were favoured during Saddam's regime.
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