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British soldiers injured in Basra riot

Iraqis fed up with the slow pace of reconstruction have rioted in the British-controlled city of Basra.

The British military says seven soldiers and four Iraqi civilians were wounded.

The residents of Basra, tired of power outages and fuel shortages, hurled rocks and burned tires in the city's main streets.

Meanwhile, the United States military has taken another of the most-wanted members of Saddam Hussein's regime, into custody.

Officials say the former interior minister, Mahmud Dhiyab al-Ahmad, surrended to coalition forces on Friday.

He was number 29 of the 55 former Iraqi officials on the US most-wanted list.

And the U-S Federal Bureau of Investigation has been called in to probe the bombing of Jordan's embassy in Baghdad on Thursday.

At least 14 people were killed and more than 50 wounded when a car bomb exploded outside the embassy.

In other developments, the British Navy says it has intercepted a ship trying to smuggle more than 1000 tonnes of oil out of Iraq.

Royal Marines boarded the ship, the Navstar One, in the northern Arabian gulf earlier this weekend and arrested its captain and crew.

It's been described as the most significant seizure since the end of the war.

Commander Graeme Mackay from HMS Sutherland gave this account of the seizure.

"The boarding team went on board and arrested the crew and master and that crew, along with our coalition partners, has now been diverted back to Umm Qasr," he said.

"That very much demonstrates the Coalition's resolve to ensure that the Iraqi oil is there for the Iraqi people, it is not taken illegally from Iraq."