Police and medical officials say 16 people were injured. Four of the dead were Iraqi soldiers.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to the media.
Iraqi security at points of control or on patrols are often targeted by Sunni insurgents who see their collaborators with the Shiite government.
Baghdad - Iraqi lawmakers approved a $ 400 million settlement controversial Saturday for the Americans, who claim that they have been abused by the regime of Saddam Hussein during the invasion of Kuwait by 1990.
The regulation is part of an agreement concluded between Baghdad and Washington last year to end years of legal battles by the citizens of the United States who claim they were tortured or traumatised, including held hundreds as human shields.
Many Iraqis considered victims of the regime of Saddam Hussein and the invasion led by the United States in 2003 and ask why they should pay for the faults committed by the ousted dictator.
Legislators approved the regulations, by a majority, after listening to abroad and the Finance Ministers so that the head of the Central Bank describe why it is necessary, said Abbas al-Bayati of the block of the State of political right.
Another legislator, Mahmud Othman, said by approving the settlement, Iraq would be to protect themselves from prosecution more in the future which could be well over $ 400 million which was agreed to.
"They very well explained what was the colony and how it will be negative if we do not approve it," he said. "This is why people have been convinced."
Anti-American cleric Muqtada al-Sadr affiliated legislators rejected the settlement, said one of the legislators of the block, Hakim al-Zamili. Al-Zamili, stated that he was surprised that so many legislators who had been arguing against the legislation before the session of reversed the course at the last minute Saturday.
"It is better compensate the Iraqi martyrs and prisoners as Americans," he said.
Saddam's regime has held hundreds of Americans during the period that preceded the war in the Gulf, their use as human shields in an attempt to stave off an attack by the United States and their allies hostage. Most of the Americans had been living and working in the Kuwait and after having been taken hostage are dispersed sites around Iraq.
Many Americans continued legal proceedings for years against the Government of Saddam Hussein and maintained their legal fight after Saddam was overthrown in 2003 and a new Government came to power.
Also, some former American soldiers who were captured by the army of Saddam Hussein during the Gulf war and repeatedly tortured and abused continued as relatives of the American oil workers who were working at the Kuwait when they were picked up by the Iraqi guards along the border.
We know exactly who will be entitled to the money under the regulations. When asked who would receive the money, a spokesman for the Embassy of the United States in Baghdad, David Ranz, said: "We are not able to confirm whether specific cases or claims by specific persons are covered by the agreement." He refused to comment further on.
The Iraq was under a tightening of the time to approve the regulation before 30 June, when Iraq will assume the responsibility of overseeing its oil revenue account. Since 2003, the country's oil revenues were held in an account based in New York, it houses claims of international creditors. United Nations-backed protection expires when oil revenues are transferred to Iraqi control and Iraq could face international creditors like any other country.
According to the site Web of Parliament, Minister for Foreign Affairs Hoshyar Zebari told legislators that the Iraqi Government still had the right to submit his own requests for compensation for the US Government.
Many Iraqis harbor deep resentment toward the United States for the bloodshed triggered after the overthrow of Saddam. Eight years later, violence is still rife the country.
In the northern city of Mosul a suicide bomber jump himself Saturday near a point of the Iraqi army, killing seven people. Police and medical officials said 20 people were injured in the explosion. Five of the dead were Iraqi soldiers.
The officials spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not allowed to speak to the media.
KARLSRUHE, Germany (Reuters) - three suspected al Qaeda members planned a bomb attack in Germany then four months that they were arrested, federal prosecutors said.
Rainer Griesbaum, a Federal Prosecutor, said at a Saturday press conference that the trio, headed by a Moroccan aged 29, had planned to blow up their device in a populated area but had not yet taken a target.
"They were still at the experimental stage," Griesbaum said. "They have been planned to explode a device packed with metal in the middle of a crowd".
The German authorities said the suspects, arrested Friday, had discussed the bomb in a bus or at a bus stop.
The three were arrested in Duesseldorf police raids and the nearby town of Bochum, 6: 30 p.m. Friday after the authorities, who had been followed by the group, decided that they could receive close to carry out an attack.
Prosecutors, said that the public had not been in danger.
Newspaper Bild reported that the Eurovision Song Contest, watched by more than 100 million viewers, was a possible target. The competition will be held in the Western City of Düsseldorf on 14 May.
The alleged ringleader, a stall 29-year-old college identified as Abdeladim El - k., was charged with planning a terrorist attack in Germany and be a member of a foreign terror organization. The other two suspects are still interviewed.
Griesbaum, said the Moroccan 29 years old had been involved in a terror of al-Qaeda camp in Pakistan's Waziristan region near the Afghan border in 2010. He returned to Germany in May 2010 and sought to build a network of terror here with an estimated seven to eight members.
"But it might also be more than that," said Joerg Ziercke, President of the Federal Office of Crime (BKA), at the press conference in the Office of the Federal Prosecutor in Karlsruhe. "We'll learn more with our investigation.".
The suspects have applauded Thursday bombing in Marrakech where 15 were killed, Griesbaum said.
IS NOT A SUICIDE ATTACK
The other suspects are a 31 year old electrician, identified as Jamil s., which has the dual German and Moroccan nationality and one aged 19 with citizenship German and Iranian, Amid c, which was about to get their high school diploma.
S. Jamil was responsible for organizing the financing of the attack and to obtain the identity for Abdeladim El papers - k. In c has been tasked to ensure encrypted communications.
German news magazine Der Spiegel reported Saturday that CIA developing than the Morocco Intelligence Agency had collaborated with the German authorities for investigation.
Ziercke said the three had inspected the buildings public and downloaded information on explosives on the internet.
"But we have all indications that they were planning a suicide attack," said Ziercke.
The authorities said that they had decided to launch the Friday raid when suspects discuss doing a "detonator of the bomb" by extraction firelighters hexamine barbecue, and mixing with peroxide of hydrogen and citric acid.
Last year, a Duesseldorf Court sentenced four militants who admitted planning "a monstrous blood bath" with the bombings of car on the U.S. objectives. They were known as the "Sauerland group" after the Western region of the Germany where they were captured.
European countries have taken with militant threats for years, regularly arresting individuals or groups suspected of planning any fear attacks may reflect the attacks in Madrid in 2004 and London in 2005, which killed more than 200 people.
Berlin considers Germany as a potential target because it has almost 5,000 members stationed in Afghanistan, the third largest contingent of the international force of 150,000 fight against the insurgency led by the Taliban.
