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12 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq attacks

By RAVI NESSMAN, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD - A roadside explosion outside the Iraqi capital on Sunday killed
six American soldiers and a journalist, the military said, among 12 U.S.
deaths reported on a day when two car bombs killed at least 44 Iraqis at a
Baghdad market and a police headquarters.

A car bomb in the capital, where U.S.-led forces are in the midst of a
crackdown on sectarian violence, killed at least 30 Iraqis. At the police
headquarters in Samarra, a volatile city in the Sunni heartland 60 miles
north of Baghdad, a car bomb and shooting attack killed 12 police -
including the police chief.

American soldiers racing to the headquarters to help also came under attack
by small arms fire and rocket-propelled grenades that left two soldiers
wounded, the military said.

Roadside bombings proved deadly for U.S. forces on Sunday. One in Diyala
province killed six Task Force Lightning soldiers and a journalist
accompanying them. Three soldiers were killed in separate roadside
bombings - two others on Sunday and one on Friday, the military said.

Two Marines were killed Saturday in combat in Anbar province, a Sunni
insurgent stronghold west of Baghdad, the military said, and a soldier died
Sunday in a non-combat related incident.

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