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detained more than 900 former regime loyalists, former Fedayeen and other criminals that are out there subverting our efforts," said the official.
On June 17, the US military had announced that 371 people in the Baghdad area and northern Iraq were detained as part of Operation Desert Scorpion aimed at rooting out armed resistance.
Away in Fallujah, two anti-tank rockets hit and burnt-out a US armoured vehicle overnight, witnesses told AFP yesterday, reporting casualties.
Unknown assailants staged the attack just after Friday midnight in the town, 50-km west of Baghdad.
Ambulances took away the wounded, according to the witness who were unable to say how many were hurt or of what nationality.
Residents also said there was an explosion around 6:00 am local time at the same location where the US vehicle had been attacked hours earlier.
US forces have stepped up their presence in Fallujah, carrying out intensive searches. US troops shot dead at least 16 people in the town during a demonstration in April.
Another report says, one US soldier was killed and four others wounded in Iraq overnight in the latest of a series of anti-American strikes.
The soldier was killed late Friday when a convoy was ambushed in Baghdad, Sergeant First Class Patrick Compton said. An Iraqi translator was also injured in the attack, he said, without providing any further details.
Almost daily ambushes and the rising death toll prompted US Secretary of State Colin Powell to urge Americans to be patient, as the tactics used by former Baathist militia showed worrying signs of diversifying.
US soldiers patrolling the country have regularly been targeted by snipers, gunmen and attackers using rocket-propelled grenades (RPGs).
Meanwhile, a group of policy experts left for Iraq Friday to provide Defence Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and US administrator Paul Bremer an independent assessment of the post-war state of the country, the Pentagon said.
The decision to turn to outside experts for advice comes amid growing concern over signs of organised armed resistance against the US-led occupation forces, as well as delays in moving toward Iraqi self-rule.
The Pentagon's chief spokesman portrayed the mission as providing independent expertise and ideas on how to go about building a new government in Iraq.
The five-member group is led by John Hamre, a former deputy defence secretary in President Bill Clinton's administration and now president of the Centre for Strategic and International Studies, a Washington think tank, the spokesman said.
In another incident, a fire swept through a Baghdad warehouse yesterday where school books were being stored, with a US soldier saying looters may have set the blaze.
The officer, who asked not to be named, said the fire had started at around midday, and an AFP reporter at the scene saw thick smoke still billowing from the site around one hour later.
US troops caught two young Iraqis trying to escape from the building and handed them over to Iraqi police, the officer said.
It was not known if the warehouse contained new school books which the US-led authorities are currently printing to replace text books which included references to Saddam Hussein and his ousted regime.