IRAQ : US SOLDIERS KILLED, BODIES FOUNDTwo US soldiers and a Iraqi were killed during a gunbattle on Monday in the northeast of Baghdad.
"Coalition forces and Iraqi army soldiers encountered and attacked terrorist forces in a remotely populated region east of Baghdad at about 4pm (1200 GMT) on 4 April," claims the military statement.
Another US marine died in an explosion in the troubled al-Anbar province as the military satement says, "The marine was killed by an explosion during combat operation.
A general of the Iraqi army was apparently abducted by a group of armed man in the Masur district of Baghdad.
The bodies of 10 executed Iraqi soldier were found in the Jurf al-Sakhr area, south of the capital.
al-Jazeera
Il Romanaccio at 12:02 PM