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Ambush in baghdad kills two american soldiers Original Source Link: (May no longer be active)    http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=11850070-89D7-476E-AD0D8EFD6519DE37 http://www.voanews.com/article.cfm?objectID=11850070-89D7-476E-AD0D8EFD6519DE37 Deadly Attacks Claim More Lives in Baghdad VOA News 10 Oct 2003, 08:24 UTC U.S. military officials in Iraq say two American soldiers have been killed in an ambush in Baghdad, just hours after a suicide bombing in the same section of the capital killed eight Iraqis. The attack on a military patrol late Thursday in Sadr City, the main Shi'ite area of Baghdad, also wounded four U.S. soldiers. Local supporters of an outspoken Shi'ite cleric, Muqtada al-Sadr, opposed to the U.S. occupation of Iraq say at least one member of the group was killed and others wounded in gunbattles with U.S. soldiers around the time of the ambush. Earlier in the day, suicide bombers in a car filled with explosives sped into the police station compound in Sadr City, setting off a huge blast. In addition to the eight dead, more than 40 people were wounded. There has been no claim of responsibility for either incident in the Shi'ite neighborhood. Six other people were killed in other attacks in Iraq Thursday, exactly six months after U.S. troops drove Saddam Hussein from power. A gunman killed a Spanish diplomat near his home in Baghdad. Northeast of the capital, a U.S. soldier died when a rocket-propelled grenade hit his military convoy. And in the Kurdish city of Arbil, police say gunmen killed two Iraqi policemen and two civilians. In another development, U.S. officials said Thursday that military police are holding a suspected leader of a resistance movement believed responsible for several attacks on coalition forces. In Washington, a U.S. congressional committee approved President Bush's request for $87 billion to rebuild and stabilize Iraq and Afghanistan. The move, by the Appropriations Committee, sets the stage for the full House of Representatives to consider the request next week. Mr. Bush again defended his Iraq policy as a crucial part of the war on terrorism. Speaking on Thursday, The president said he acted in Iraq because he was not going to leave the security of the American people in what he called "the hands of a madman." Some information for this report provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.

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