Print

Email story

Comment

Email editor

10 U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq over weekend

By ASSOCIATED PRESS
Published April 9, 2007

BAGHDAD - The U.S. military announced the weekend deaths of 10 American soldiers, including six killed on Sunday.

On Sunday, three soldiers were killed by a roadside bomb while patrolling south of Baghdad, one was killed in an attack south of Baghdad and two died of combat wounds sustained north of the capital, in Diyala and Salahuddin provinces. On Saturday, the military said, four U.S. soldiers were killed in an explosion near their vehicle in Diyala.

South of Baghdad, a truck bomb exploded near the Mahmoudiyah General Hospital, killing at least 18 people and wounding 23.

At least 47 people were killed or found dead in violence Sunday, including 17 execution victims dumped in the capital.

U.S. forces captured a senior al-Qaida leader and two others in a raid Sunday morning in Baghdad, the U.S. military said.

Weapons stash found in lawmaker's home

BAGHDAD - U.S. and Iraqi troops found a huge stash of weapons in a raid on the home of Sunni lawmaker Khalaf al-Ilyan and detained at least a dozen men for questioning, officials said Sunday.

Ilyan is one of the three leaders of the Iraqi Accordance Front, which holds 44 seats in parliament. He was believed to be in Jordan at the time of the raid.

The U.S. military said the raid occurred Tuesday. Among the weapons found were 33 Kalashnikov rifles, three pistols, one hand grenade, 4.4 pounds of TNT and thirteen 82-mm mortar rounds, the officials said.

The U.S. military said eight 57-mm rockets and 5,000 rounds of ammunition were also seized, along with photos of burning British soldiers and American flag-draped coffins.

Top Democrat says war will be funded

WASHINGTON - The Senate will not stop paying for the war or relent from insisting that President Bush keep pressing the Iraqi government for a negotiated end to the violence, Sen. Carl Levin, D-Mich., said Sunday.

Levin, the Senate Armed Services Committee chairman, took issue with an effort by Majority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada to cut money for the war next year.

"We're not going to vote to cut funding, period," Levin said on ABC's This Week. "But what we should do ... is continue to press this president to put some pressure on the Iraqi leaders to reach a political settlement."

The House and Senate have approved more than $100-billion to pay for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan this year, but the bills include time lines for troops to come home, which Bush will not accept.

[Last modified April 9, 2007, 01:28:30]