Iraq Mortar Attack Kills 2 U.S. Soldiers

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By VIJAY JOSHI, Associated Press Writer

BAGHDAD, Iraq - A barrage of mortar fire struck a U.S. military encampment in central Iraq, killing two American soldiers and critically wounding a third, the military said Thursday.

In separate incidents, gunmen ambushed a vehicle carrying Iraqi women who worked in the laundry at a U.S. military base, killing three of them, and the security chief of Spanish troops was wounded during a raid south of the capital.

Also Thursday, gunmen firing from a van killed two Iraqi policemen and wounded three others in an attack on a checkpoint between Fallujah and Ramadi, and the 23-year-old son of a former senior official from Saddam Hussein's Baath party was slain by an unidentified attacker in the southern city of Basra, police said.

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