Text of report by Iraqi privately-owned newspaper Al-Zaman on 11 September [Report by an unnamed Al-Zaman correspondent in Al-Nasiriyah, Falah al-Ma'muri in Babil, and Anwar Jum'ah in Baghdad: "Babil Council Demands Dismissing Health Director For Hiding Facts of Spread of Cholera"] Hasan al-Tufan, member of the Babil Governorate Council and head of the Services Committee, has said that "the number of infections with cholera has exceeded 50 at the Al-Hashimiyah and Hamzah hospitals." He added that the number of deaths has exceeded 15 cases.

A roadside bomb struck a convoy carrying the police chief of a predominantly Shiite province south of Baghdad on Sunday, killing him and two of his bodyguards, authorities said.

AT LEAST 22 people were killed and dozens more wounded when a suicide car bomber struck the centre of a major Shiite city in southern Iraq today.

A suicide bomber who penetrated layers of security blew himself up in the busy lobby of a leading Baghdad hotel on Monday, killing at least nine people, including a U.S.-allied tribal sheik, police reported.

By James Janega, Chicago Tribune May 24--BAGHDAD -- The search for three missing U.S. soldiers in Iraq focused Wednesday on the grisly discovery of a body pulled from the Euphrates River wearing what appeared to be U.S. military-style trousers and boots.