Suicide Bomber Kills Three Iraqis, Amid Clashes

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SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Three Iraqis were killed on Wednesday when a suicide car bomber attacked a U.S. convoy in the northern city of Samarra, a local police official said.


In a separate incident, an Iraqi policeman was killed when insurgents opened fire on U.S. soldiers in the town that the Iraqi interim government said it had seized from guerrillas after a major offensive in early October.


There were no immediate reports of U.S. casualties.


In another restive Sunni Muslim town, Ramadi, two Iraqis were killed in shooting after a suicide bomber had attacked a U.S. military checkpoint, witnesses and a hospital official said.


An official at Ramadi hospital said the two dead Iraqis were civilians. There was no immediate word from the U.S. military on the fighting there.


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SAMARRA, Iraq (Reuters) - Three Iraqis were killed on Wednesday when a suicide car bomber attacked a U.S. convoy in the northern city of Samarra, a local police official said.



In a separate incident, an Iraqi policeman was killed when insurgents opened fire on American soldiers in the town that the Iraqi interim government has said it has seized from guerrillas.


There were no immediate reports of U.S. casualties

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[maddezmom]

1. Samarra attack kills child caught in crossfire

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2. Bomb Injures 2 U.S. Soldiers in Baghdad and more:

BAGHDAD, Iraq - Insurgents detonated a roadside bomb as a U.S. convoy passed in Baghdad and gunmen tried to storm the main police station in Samarra on Wednesday as Britain's defense minister arrived in southern Iraq (news - web sites) to meet with soldiers and officials.


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The bomb wounded two U.S. soldiers, who later returned to duty, said U.S. military spokesman Maj. Jay Antonelli. Another six civilians were wounded, Iraqi hospital officials said.


In Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad, police returned fire before the attackers fled, Maj. Sadoun Ahmed said. One policeman and a child were caught in the crossfire and died in the clash. Samarra has been the scene of regular clashes between U.S. forces and militants.


Police found the beheaded corpse of an Iraqi National Guardsman in the Hillah River, some 60 miles south of Baghdad, hospital official Hussein Madlol said Wednesday. It wasn't clear when he was killed.



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[maddezmom]

3. update: four civilians and two police killed,

As insurgents battled Marines in Ramadi, the death toll from clashes in the northern city of Samarra climbed to six, with four civilians and two police killed, a hospital official said.

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