On Other Fronts
A U.S. soldier was killed yesterday in fighting in Baghdad. At least 32 U.S. troops have died in Iraq this month.
A U.S. soldier was killed yesterday in fighting in Baghdad. At least 32 U.S. troops have died in Iraq this month.
Sectarian attacks continued. Gunmen stopped the car of a Sunni tribal leader in Diyala Province, seizing him and a bodyguard. The manager of a refugee charity office in Basra was also kidnapped, presumably for ransom or leverage with rival forces.
In Baghdad, 18 bullet-riddled bodies, presumed to be of victims of death squads, were found yesterday morning.
Iraqi judicial authorities said the third trial against former officials with Saddam Hussein's ousted regime would begin on Aug. 21.
Hussein's cousin Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as "Chemical Ali," and 14 other defendants will face charges in the brutal crushing of a Shiite uprising after the 1991 Persian Gulf War.
- Inquirer wire services
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