U.S. forces destroy truck bomb in Iraq : By HAMID AHMED, Associated Press Writer

U.S. forces used fighter jets to destroy a truck bomb discovered in Anbar province, and conducted a raid south of Baghdad that netted weapons that insurgents apparently had imported from neighboring Iran, the military said Saturday. But deadly attacks by suspected insurgents continued in the capital, with a drive-by shooting killing four Iraqis, a mortar attack killing three children, and a roadside bomb killing a city street cleaner, police said. The truck loaded with explosives was found early Friday near Fallujah, a city in Anbar province, when Marines were tipped off about it by a suspected insurgent they detained during a routine combat operation in the area, the military said. Loaded with eight large barrels of an unidentified liquid, the truck contained hidden detonation wire and explosives, the statement said. After cordoning off the area and evacuating nearby citizens, the Marines called in U.S. fighter jets that destroyed the truck, causing an explosion large enough to damage some nearby buildings, the military said.

No civilian or coalition injuries were reported.

In Mahmoudiya, about 20 miles south of Baghdad, U.S. and Iraqi forces detained eight suspected insurgents and confiscated three caches of weapons during a raid on an apartment complex on April 22, including mortars, rockets and ammunition. The weapons appeared to be new and "were stamped with recent dates and Iranian markings," the military said. The United States has frequently accused Iran of allowing insurgents to enter this country carrying weapons such as roadside bombs used to attack U.S. and Iraqi convoys. Saturday's deadliest attack in Baghdad occurred when gunmen opened fire on a vehicle driving in a Sunni-Shiite neighborhood, killing four of the seven people aboard, police said. A police officer identified one of the fatalities as an employee of the Iraq Red Crescent Society, but the relief agency said it could not immediately confirm that. The gunmen traveling in two cars began their 7 a.m. attack in Baiyaa, western Baghdad, by blocking a road to stop the SUV carrying the seven people, then opened fire on it, the police officer said on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to talk to the media. He said the victims apparently were heading to neighboring Syria. At about 11:20 a.m., two mortar shells hit another residential area in western Baghdad, killing three Iraqi children between the ages of five and seven, and wounding 10 Iraqis, including seven adults and three children, police said. Elsewhere, a roadside bomb exploded Saturday morning near city street cleaners working in Zafaraniyah, a mostly Shiite area of eastern Baghdad, killing one of them and wounding eight, police said.