An Iraqi police car burns after it was attacked by gunmen

BAGHDAD, Nov 29 (IslamOnline.net & News Agencies) – At least thirty one Iraqis and two US soldiers were killed Monday, November 30, in separate attacks across occupied Iraq, as Iraqi interim prime minister Iyad Allawi claimed attacks were receding after the Fallujah onslaught.

Twelve Iraqis, including several policemen, were killed when a car bomber plowed into policemen waiting to collect their salary at a police station west of Ramadi, reported Reuters news agency.

More than 10 people were wounded in the blast, said Nazar al-Hiti, a doctor in the town of Hit, around 155 miles west of Baghdad, where the dead and wounded were taken.

Meanwhile, four Iraqis were killed and two wounded Monday when a roadside bomb exploded some 10 miles east of the Samarra, north of Baghdad, reported Agence France-Presse (AFP).

“Four people, two men, a child and a woman, were killed, and two women wounded in the blast, which occurred at 3:00 pm (1200 GMT),” police commander Saadun Hamad said.

It was not clear what was the target of the blast.

Fallujah Bombardment

In Fallujah, 15 Iraqis, including women and children, were killed when US forces bombed their house in Al-Karma district.

The forces bombed the house in response to gunfire targeting their military base, reported Aljazeera news channel quoting witnesses.

On November 8, some 10,000 US marines and army forces, alongside some 2,000 Iraqi national guardsmen, unleashed a long-expected onslaught on the densely-populated western Baghdad city.

The offensive capped long nights of massive US raids that wrecked havoc on the city, with dead bodies still littering the streets.

Most of the city's 300,000 residents fled before the offensive, which according to a top Iraqi security official left more than 2,000 people dead.

Receding

Allawi, however, claimed that violence had decreased since US and Iraqi forces launched a massive operation against the western Baghdad city of Fallujah.

“The level of criminal operations has receded and is continuing to drop following the operation in Fallujah,” he said on the state-owned Iraqiya television.

“The cleansing in Fallujah of terrorist elements is continuing and we are preparing for the residents to return to their city,” added the US-backed interim premier.

The massive assault on Fallujah drew fury among most Iraqis, scholars and even among the ranks of the US-backed interim government itself.

Protesting the onslaught, 47 Sunni, Shiite, Turkoman and Christian bodies and movements have declared their boycott of the upcoming election, scheduled for January.

US Soldiers

US marines evacuate a wounded comrade (AFP)

In the capital Baghdad, a roadside bomb exploded as an American patrol went past, killing two US soldiers and wounding three, capping one of the deadliest months for the US army since the start of the invasion-turned occupation in March 2003.

“Two Task Force Baghdad soldiers were killed when their patrol struck an improvised explosive device at about 11:30 am (0830 GMT) in northwestern Baghdad,” the army said in a statement.

Another US soldier was killed and two more injured Monday in a road accident southeast of Baghdad, the military added.

A day earlier, six US soldiers breathed their last, including five marines killed in clashes with Iraqi resistance fighters.

At least 968 US troops have been killed in action in Iraq, according to a Reuters tally.