July 14 (Bloomberg) -- A car bomb blew up today outside the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition in the Iraqi capital, Baghdad, an unidentified U.S. military policeman told Agence France-Presse.

Details of the attack weren't immediately available.

Coalition forces began a crackdown on Saturday aimed at armed groups opposed to the U.S.-led occupation, arresting 226 people, as one American soldier was killed and six were wounded today in the latest attack on a military convoy, the U.S. Central Command said earlier today in e-mailed statements.

U.S.-led troops are having trouble quelling sniper attacks and bombings. More than 30 U.S. soldiers have been killed and more than 100 wounded since President George W. Bush declared on May 1 that the main military operations of the war had ended. U.S. Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld yesterday said he's prepared to send more troops to pacify the country.

(AFP, 7-14)

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Last Updated: July 14, 2003 10:05 EDT