'Safe house' bombed in bid to kill terror leader

US jets pounded a suspected safe house of terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi in Fallujah today, the latest in a series of strikes against the man suspected of masterminding deadly attacks and beheadings in Iraq.

The missile strike, which a doctor in the insurgent-controlled city said killed four people, came shortly before former dictator Saddam Hussein was to appear in an Iraqi court.