June 2, 2003	Monday	Rabi-us-Sani 1, 1424

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BAGHDAD, June 1: Two United States soldiers were wounded and two Iraqis killed on Sunday in a grenade attack here in front of a mosque, US troops and witnesses told AFP.

“Two soldiers were hurt in a grenade attack on an armoured vehicle,” said a US soldier on the scene.

Iraqi witnesses confirmed that a group of Iraqis threw a grenade at an American vehicle in front of the Abu Hanifa mosque in the Azamiya district of the capital.

“Then the Americans opened fire. Two people were killed, named Abdel Wahab Ouweid Attiyah and Omar Abbad Sheikh Al Zukhi, and three others were wounded. None of them took part in the attack,” claimed a witness, Jassem Mohammad Adhiyah.

Hundreds of angry Iraqis gathered outside the mosque and faced off the US troops but there were no immediate clashes.

#PLANES ATTACKED:# The US-led coalition said on Sunday that its planes were coming under regular fire when trying to land at airports across the country, especially in Baghdad.

“Many coalition planes carrying humanitarian aid to Iraqi cities, particularly Baghdad, Mosul and Tikrit, are regularly shot at as they approach airports,” it said on its Baghdad radio station.

“Those behind this deliberate fire are members of the former regime who want to undermine the rebuilding campaign,” it claimed said.—APP