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BAGHDAD, Iraq - Three American soldiers were killed and 13 injured in a mortar attack and a bombing in the volatile region of central Iraq (news - web sites), the U.S. military reported Sunday. The deaths followed an assassination attempt against a member of Iraq's Governing Council.
Two soldiers from the 205th Military Intelligence Brigade were killed when mortars hit a U.S. base near the Abu Ghraib prison on the western outskirts of Baghdad about 10 p.m. Saturday. Thirteen other soldiers were injured in the attack. No prisoners were injured.
Shortly before the Abu Ghraib shelling, a soldier from the 3rd Armored Cavalry Regiment was killed when his Humvee was hit by a roadside bomb near Ramadi, about 60 miles west of the capital, the military said.
The latest deaths brought to 303 the number of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq.
The Governing Council president, Ahmad Chalabi, blamed Saddam loyalists for the shooting (al-Hashimi).
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