A bomb exploded west of Baghdad killing at least six people, a day after the Iraqi capital was rocked by a wave of car bomb attacks that killed at least 43 people, prompting US President George W. Bush to vow his forces would not be intimidated by attacks on civilians. Tuesday's car bomb exploded near a police station in Fallujah, a flashpoint town 50 kilometers west of Baghdad, an AFP correspondent at the scene reported. At least six severely charred and mutilated bodies, including those of schoolchildren; lay on the ground after a pick-up truck blew up about 150 meters from the police station. Another eight people were wounded, according to hospital sources. The attack came as police cleared the rubble after Monday's car bombings in Baghdad which devastated the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) office and four police stations. It marked the bloodiest attack in the city since it was seized by US troops in April. It also delivered a defiant message as the killers targeted a humanitarian agency, dedicated to Iraq's reconstruction, and the police, considered the very backbone of US plans to restore law and order. Fresh attacks on Tuesday in the capital also claimed the life of a US soldier and Baghdad's deputy mayor, according to coalition officials. In a rare White House press conference, Bush said the United States would not be intimidated by attacks on civilians in Iraq or Afghanistan, where another US-led coalition smashed the Taliban regime in late 2001. The blasts came after guerrillas hit the Rashid Hotel with rockets Sunday in the coalition's fortress-like Baghdad compound, where US Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz was staying. A US officer was killed and 17 other people wounded in that attack. On the diplomatic front, meanwhile, Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul charged the United States had been inept in handling a request for Turkish troops to be sent to neighboring Iraq to help its forces there. "Of course, there is ineptitude here. First they came, very enthusiastic, and said 'please do not be late' and then they saw that there are many different issues. They have many hesitations themselves," Gul was quoted as telling reporters. Faced with mounting casualties in postwar Iraq, Washington asked Ankara for military help, but then appeared to back-pedal on the idea in the face of unabating opposition from Iraq's interim leadership. The Ankara government, in the meantime, won parliamentary approval for its plans to dispatch troops, braving the ire of public opinion which is overwhelmingly opposed to extending military help to the United States in Iraq. Jordan also said it would warn Iraq's neighbours, notably Turkey, against sending any troops to the war-ravaged country, at a regional meeting on Iraq in Damascus this weekend. **PHOTO CAPTION*** An Iraqi man puts his hands on his head next to empty coffins outside a morgue in Baghdad. (AFP/Patrick Baz)