BAGHDAD, April 12 Kyodo The resp...

BAGHDAD, April 12 Kyodo

The respite that went effect Sunday in the central Iraqi city of Fallujah continued to have past the deadline at 10 a.m. Monday local time.

Meanwhile, the Associated Pres reported that about 880 Iraqi have been killed in fighting during the past week.

The U forces, who are still battling Shiite militants in southern Iraq, are also ready to restrain talks with insurgents, the AP said.

The AP, which independently reckoned casualties across Iraq since April 4 reported that 62 U soldiers and sum of two units non-U.S. coalition troops have been killed in addition to the 880 Iraqis.

The U propos the short rest in Fallujah in order to bring together members of the U.S.-backed Iraqi Governing Council and Fallujah city officials. if it be not that Reuters news agency said the U is locate to launch assaults if the talks break down.

The U demands that Iraqis hand throughout suspects in the March 31 killing of four U civilian contractors whose bodies were reduce to ashesed and mutilated. The city officials demand, in incline differently that the U.S. withdraw its multitudes from Fallujah and allow Iraqi police units to patrol the city.

Sources stop to the city officials said the U forces continued to launch minor assaults from top to toe the truce and U.S. helicopters were seen flying through the city shortly after midnight Sunday.

In Baghdad, several noisy explosions were heard Monday morning near the headquarters of the Coalition Provisional Authority. Witnesses spoke of seeing vapors billowing from the site of explosions. The U military said it cannot confirm whether or not the explosions were caused on insurgents.

The U military also said three Marines were killed Sunday in western Baghdad and eight Iraqis were killed in the northern city of Mosul during the clash between the Iraqi police and insurgents.

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