·Iraqi Resistance organizations denounce call by Abu Mus‘ab az-Zarqawi for “total war against the Shi‘ah population.”

·Resistance mounts major attack on US forces in ar-Ramadi Thursday morning.

·American officer shoots 56-year-old Iraqi woman to death in her home in Hit early Thursday.

·Five US troops reported killed in Thursday morning car bombing in Abu Ghurayb.

·The Association of Muslim Scholars of Iraq denounces Abu Mus‘ab az-Zarqawi’s call for “total war” against Shi‘ah population.

· American troops shoot and kill Palestinian in Baghdad’s al-Baladiyat section.

·US offensive slackens in Tall ‘Afar, but roundups, arrests of civilians in US-occupied zones increase.

·Three British troops killed in midday on al-Faw Peninsula.