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Three US soldiers shot dead in north Iraq, 16 die in Baghdad truck explosion
Summary from the United Kingdom, from articles in English
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Up to 18 people were killed and many more wounded today when a truck exploded near the house of a police commander in Baghdad, while three US soldiers were shot dead in northern Iraq. (article 1)
It was the deadliest explosion in Baghdad in more than two months, bringing down several two-storey houses in the nieghbourhood Lieutenant Colonel Steve Stover denied that the carnage had been deliberate. (article 1)
He is also going after al-Qaeda fighters who have been driven towards the main northern city of Mosul after being pushed out of the capital and the surrounding belts by a surge of US forces. (article 1)
A decision my thousands of Sunni Arab tribesmen to stop fighting the US military and turn against al-Qaeda also played a big part in this development. (article 1)
Demonstrating that the situation in Iraq, while improved, remains volatile, three US soldiers were killed in a small-arms fire attack in the town of Hawija, 130 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said. (article 1)
In May, the number of US soldiers killed in Iraq fell to 19, the lowest monthly death toll in the five-year-old war that has so far claimed the lives of 4,090 since the invasion in 2003. (article 1)
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- Three US soldiers shot dead in north Iraq, 16 die in Baghdad truck explosion (timesonline.co.uk, 06/04/2008, 561 words)
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