At Least Six U.S. GIs Die In Iraq Violence
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BAGHDAD, Iraq — Sunni insurgents, resilient despite the five-week security crackdown in the capital, killed at least six more American troops over the weekend. A Sunni car bomber hit a largely Shiite district in the capital yesterday, killing at least eight people.
The American military said four American soldiers died and one was wounded when the unit was struck by a roadside bomb in western Baghdad. A fifth soldier was killed in an explosion in Diyala, an increasingly volatile province just northeast of the capital. A Marine died in fighting the same day in Anbar province, the vast, largely desert region that sprawls west of Baghdad to the Saudi Arabian, Jordanian and Syrian borders. The regions are controlled by the Sunni insurgency.
