U.S. Military Policeman Killed in Iraq

By SLOBODAN LEKIC, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A U.S. military policeman died in ongoing attacks on coalition troops and their allies, the U.S. command said Monday, as the Army intensified operations to root out the growing insurgency.

In Sadr City, a poor, mainly Shiite quarter of eastern Baghdad, witnesses Monday said that a U.S. soldier shot and killed the head of the district's U.S.-appointed municipal council in a weekend altercation.

In the town of Iskandariyah, 40 miles, south of Baghdad, guerrillas attacked a patrol with a rocket-propelled grenade, killing a military policeman, a statement said.

The death brought to 37 the number of American soldiers who have died in Iraq this month.

U.S. Military Policeman Killed in Iraq

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