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Iraq's new governing council says it will send a delegation to the United Nations to show it is the legitimate Iraqi authority during the country's transition to democracy.

The 25-member council made the decision Monday during its second day of talks in Baghdad. The group also formed three committees to work out organizational issues and outline its political charter.

But the Governing Council did not elect a leader, as had been expected. U.S. President George W. Bush says freedom is on the way to the Iraqi people as they begin to take more responsibilities in governing themselves.

Outside the council's meeting and the U.S. Central Command, an unknown assailant threw a grenade into a parking lot used by journalists, destroying a car. Witnesses say no one was inside the vehicle hit by the blast, and no injuries were reported.

Earlier, one American soldier was killed and six were wounded in an attack on their convoy in central Baghdad. The U.S. Central Command says the convoy was hit by a barrage of rocket-propelled grenades during an ambush in the upscale and normally quiet Baghdad district of Mansour.

Separately, eyewitnesses say at least one American soldier was wounded by a rocket-propelled grenade outside Baghdad. The U.S. military has yet to comment on that attack.

At least 32 U.S. soldiers have died in attacks in Iraq since President Bush declared an end to major combat May 1.

Some information for this report provided by AP and AFP.