Today Baghdad's eastern Jadida district market was attacked by a suicide car bombing that killed 40 people and injured 16, the Iraqi Interior Ministry said.

Ministry spokesman Adnan Abdelrahman said in a telephone interview from the capital they could not immediately clear out all the details of the incident.

Three other incidents of bombing took place today in eastern Baghdad, one of them near a police station, U.S. Master Sergeant Greg Kaufman said. The second blast in western Baghdad injured five civilians.

The analysts consider these cases to be forced by the supporters of the ousted Sunni Muslim-dominated regime of Saddam Hussein and al-Qaeda-linked militants, which are trying to destabilize the new government of Prime Minister Ibrahim al- Jaafari.

Three separate bombings in the northern city of Kirkuk today killed one person and injuted five others.

Two U.S. Marines were killed and 14 wounded in the yesterday’s desert operation as their vehicle was bombed 4 miles east of the town of Husaybah, Marine Captain Jeffrey Pool said.