Oct. 29 (Bloomberg) -- Iraq, the world's second-largest holder of oil reserves, said its neighbors must prevent people crossing its borders to attack U.S. and Iraqi targets as the country struggles to restore security.

Several of those who carried out five coordinated suicide bombings on Monday, killing 34 people and injuring more than 200, entered Iraq from neighboring countries, Iraq's U.S.-backed Governing Council said in statement received by e-mail.

The council, whose 25 members are drawn from the country's different religious and ethnic communities, didn't identify which neighbors it's concerned about.

The Iraqi council and the U.S.-led military coalition are struggling to restore security since attacks started mounting in June. The U.S. is offering $20 billion to help rebuild Iraqi infrastructure as concern among foreign companies and aid organizations sending or keeping people in Iraq grows.

Iraq is bordered by Iran in the east, Syria and Jordan in the west, Saudi Arabia and Kuwait in the south, and Turkey in the north. Iraq's foreign minister, Hoshyar Zebari, will repeat the call to its neighbors at an Arab ministerial meeting in Syria next week, the council said.

A man wounded and captured on Monday after failing in an attempt to carry out a sixth bomb-attack is a Syrian national of Yemeni origin, Agence France-Presse reported, citing Iraq's interim health minister, Khodair Abbas.

Syria, Iran

The chief U.S. administrator in Iraq, Paul Bremer, has said people are crossing from Syria and Iran to help insurgents. Syria, which is a run by a Baath Party government, and Iran, a theocratic Islamic state, deny this. Ousted Iraqi President Saddam Hussein also ran a Baathist regime, though his government and Syria's were rivals.

Attackers have killed 115 U.S. soldiers in Iraq since President George W. Bush said major combat was over on May 1. That's more than died in the fighting during the war to oust Hussein that started on March 20.

Two U.S. soldiers of the Fourth Infantry Division were killed north of Baghdad yesterday, a U.S. Central Command spokeswoman in the Iraqi capital, who asked not to be identified, said. A third was wounded when their tank hit an explosive device, she said.

Last Updated: October 29, 2003 07:58 EST