A US soldier from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment has drowned in the Euphrates River and another died from "non-hostile gunshot" wounds, the US Central Command said in a statement Sunday. It said that the soldier who drowned died at around 8:30 p.m. (local time) Saturday near Hadithah Dam, west of the Iraqi town of Ar Ramadi. "After a thorough search of the area the soldier's body was found and positively identified at approximately 11 a.m. August 24," the statement added. Earlier, Central Command said another 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment soldier had died from "non-hostile gunshot" wounds Saturday, but without stating how the soldier was injured or where the incident took place. Elsewhere, a bomb ripped through the home of one of Iraq's most important Shiite clerics in the city of Najaf on Sunday, killing three guards and injuring family members, a relative of the cleric and member of the Iraqi Governing Council said, according to the AP. A gas cylinder wired to explode was placed along the outside wall of the home of Mohammed Saeed al-Hakim. It blew up just after noon prayers. The cleric suffered scratches on his neck, according to Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim, a member of Iraq's U.S.-picked Governing Council and leader of what was the armed wing of the Supreme Council for Islamic Revolution in Iraq, or SCIRI, headquartered in Iran before the war. The two men are part of an influential family in the Shiite community. Abdel-Aziz al-Hakim is the brother of Ayatollah Mohammed Baqir al-Hakim, the leader of SCIRI. "Obviously terrorist groups who belong to the former regime are behind this incident," Abdel-Aziz Hakim told The Associated Press. He added Najaf residents rushed to the ayatollah's house after the explosion, which shattered windows and damaged a wall. **Al-Kubeysi: Turkey's Sending Soldiers To Iraq Can Be Discussed If U.S. Decides To Withdraw From Iraq*** Prof. Dr. Mohammad Al Kubaysi, the Chairman of the Iraqi Ulama Delegation, the authority organ of Iraqi Sunnis, said on Sunday that ''if the U.S. decides to withdraw from Iraq and if Iraq can't ensure its inner security, then Turkey's sending soldiers within a multinational force under the auspices of the U.N. can be discussed.'' Speaking in the news conference held by Humanitarian Aid Foundation of Human Rights and Freedoms, Al Kubaysi said that the U.S. could not ensure security in Iraq and it searched for other ways due to that reason. Al Kubaysi said that the security issue of Iraq was a problem that needed to be sorted out by the Iraqi people first of all, adding that the U.S. forces didn't have the right to ask for troops from other countries. ''If the U.S. decides to withdraw from Iraq and if Iraq can't ensure its inner security, then Turkey's sending soldiers within a multinational force under the auspices of the U.N. can be discussed. But if this is not the case, we can't accept coming of Turkish soldiers to Iraq and their being a shelter for occupier forces,'' said Al Kubaysi. When asked what would happen if Turkish soldiers were sent to Iraq although those conditions were not met, Al Kubaysi said that ''they will be in the position of the U.S. They can be the target of Iraqi resistants, because the U.S. soldiers want to drive Turkish soldiers forward.'' Upon a question about the incidents in Kirkuk, Al Kubaysi claimed that the U.S. forces started those incidents, adding that ''the U.S. wants Iraqi people or sects to fight between them.'' **PHOTO CAPTION*** U.S. soldiers check the identification papers of two men trying to enter a location near the destroyed United Nations headquarters in Baghdad, August 24, 2003. Reuters