Two Iraqi civilians were killed and four Iraqi National Guardsmen wounded in Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, when a car bomb was activated next to the taxi the soldiers were riding in. A car, which happened to be passing by at that moment, absorbed the brunt of the explosion, killing its two occupants, said Maj. Neil O'Brien, according to the AP.
North of Fallujah, a body of an Iraqi national guardsman was found in the Thira'dijlla area with a handwritten note pinned to it saying: "This is the fate of those who collaborates with the occupation forces."
Meanwhile, American forces detained 49 suspected Iraqi resistance fighters near near Tikrit on Friday.
