Sean Rayment / London Telegraph | January 22 2006

Two separate attacks north of Baghdad killed nine people Sunday, including four children and four Iraqi police officers, police said.

In the first strike, two girls and two boys, age 6 to 11, died in a rocket attack on the home of an Iraqi police officer in Balad Ruz, about 15 miles east of Baquba, said an official with the police joint communications center.

The rockets also killed the police officer's brother and wounded the brother's wife, the official said. The police officer was not home at the time of the attack.

In the second attack, four police officers died after a roadside bomb targeting their patrol exploded about 3:50 a.m. in Tahrir Square in central Baquba, the official said. Nine police officers were wounded.

Amid the attacks, there have been no reports since Tuesday on the fate of abducted U.S. journalist Jill Carroll, who has been missing since January 7. (Watch international pleas to spare abducted reporter's life -- 1:01)

Representatives from an American Muslim group are in Iraq to persuade kidnappers to free her. (Full story)

An Arabic-language television channel broadcast video Saturday of another kidnapping victim, a son of a former Iraqi government official.

U.S. soldier convicted
A military jury said a U.S. Army interrogator committed negligent homicide when he put a sleeping bag over an Iraqi general's head and sat on his chest as the man suffocated. (Full story)

Jurors convicted Chief Warrant Officer Lewis Welshofer Jr. on Saturday during his trial at Fort Carson, Colorado. The jury spared Welshofer a murder conviction which could have sent him to prison for life, the Army said. Jurors also convicted Welshofer of negligent dereliction of duty.

Welshofer, 43, was accused of putting a sleeping bag over the head of Iraqi Maj. Gen. Abed Hamed Mowhoush, sitting on his chest and covering Mowhoush's mouth with his hand while interrogating him in November 2003.

Mowhoush was a major general in the former Iraqi Army's Air Defense branch and linked to former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.

A surgeon initially said Mowhoush died of natural causes, but a death certificate released months later by the Pentagon called the death a homicide by asphyxia.

Jurors acquitted Welshofer of assault, the Army said.

He faces a dishonorable discharge and as long as three years and three months in prison. Sentencing was set for Monday.

Captive appears on TV
Hussein Sabah Abdul-Karim, the kidnapped son of a former Iraqi government official, appeared in a video televised Saturday on Al-Arabiya. The Arabic-language channel reported that Abdul-Karim said his captors have threatened to kill him unless Iraqi security forces stop cooperating with the U.S. military.

Karim, son of Brig. Gen. Sabah Abdul-Karim, was kidnapped in Baghdad's Mansour neighborhood earlier this month, according to an Iraqi Defense Ministry spokesman. His father was a close aide to Iraqi Defense Minister Sadoun Dulaimi, who recently resigned.

Kidnappers abducted Abdul-Karim, who's about 18, after he departed high school classes, and forced him into the trunk of a car, the ministry spokesman said. Inside the trunk, he used a cell phone to call his father for help, the spokesman said. Abdul-Karim told his father he tried to resist the kidnappers but was shot, the spokesman said.

In the 19-second video, Abdul-Karim is alone and does not appear to be wounded. He announces his name, then says, "I am appealing to those who work with the Americans against their countrymen. We are paying a high price for that."

Arabic words are superimposed on the video that say, "The Punishment Brigade for the al-Jaafari government." Ibrahim al-Jaafari is Iraq's prime minister.

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