Attackers lobbed two grenades into a US Army compound Today, wounding seven soldiers just hours after the Americans had fired on Iraqi protesters in the street outside, a US intelligence officer reported. The incident — the latest in a series of clashes and deadly shootings involving invading US troops in Fallujah — came as President Bush prepared to address to the American public from a homeward-bound aircraft carrier, declaring that major combat in Iraq is finished. None of the injuries to soldiers of the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment in Fallujah was life-threatening, said Capt. Frank Rosenblatt. The troops inside the walled compound — a former police station — opened fire on men fleeing the area, but no one was captured or believed hit, said Rosenblatt, whose 82nd Airborne Division is handing over control of Fallujah to the Armored Cavalry. Officers said the attackers' identities were unknown. The attack, at 1 a.m. Thursday, came after soldiers in the compound and in a passing Army convoy opened fire Wednesday on anti-American demonstrators massed outside. Local hospital officials said two Iraqis were killed and 18 wounded. Some Fallujah residents said they had heard relatives of victims vow to avenge Wednesday's shootings — and many in the city have declared they want the American troops to leave. US military officials met Wednesday with local religious and clan leaders on the security situation. "We asked the commanding officers for an investigation and for compensation for the families of the dead and injured," said Taha Bedaiwi al-Alwani, the new, US-recognized mayor of Fallujah. Residents told reporters they were troubled by soldiers looking at Fallujah women, and some believed the Americans' goggles or binoculars could "see" through curtains or clothing. Despite the clashes in Fallujah, US military commanders in Baghdad said the overall situation in Iraq is improving. "If you look at the country as a whole, it is stable," said Brig. Gen. Dan Hahn, the Army V Corps chief of staff. However, he said the massive amount of arms and ammunition being uncovered daily across Iraq posed a major problem. "The entire country is almost like an ammunitions and weapons dump. And they've placed them in places you would not expect," he said. "There are weapons here from every country in the world that makes weapons." In the northern city of Mosul, 153 arms caches had already been found, one containing 1.2 million mortar rounds and 65,000 artillery shells. Some 150 arms and ammunition sites have been discovered in Baghdad, officials said. In a radio broadcast Thursday, the commander of US ground forces in Iraq urged citizens to help move the country forward by going back to work, stopping looting and cooperating to improve postwar security. Lt. Gen. David McKiernan made the statement through Information Radio, the US-led coalition's station, which is being broadcast across Iraq. "I call for putting an end to all acts of sabotage and criminal acts including plundering, looting and attacking coalition forces," he said in remarks read by an announcer in Arabic. Information Radio has been running frequent announcements exhorting Iraqis to accept US forces, and warning any foreign fighters in Iraq to leave or face arrest. McKiernan also said that any checkpoints not supervised by coalition forces are unauthorized. **PHOTO CAPTION*** A US Army officer pushes off a man from a gas-oil separation plant during a fire at the plant in southern Iraq Rumeila oil fields outside Baghdad Thursday, May 1, 2003. (AP Photo/Alexander Zemlianichenko)