Five U.S. Soldiers Killed in Attack on Iraq Base
http://news.excite.com/article/id/256517|top|04-24-2004::08:45|reuters.html
Apr 24, 8:43 am ET
By Michael Battye
BAGHDAD (Reuters) - A least 13 Iraqis were killed when rockets slammed into a Baghdad market on Saturday and insurgents killed five soldiers north of the city in the bloodiest month for U.S. troops since deposing Saddam Hussein.
An apparent suicide car bomb exploded in Saddam's hometown of Tikrit north of Baghdad, killing three Iraqi police and wounding 16 other people -- 12 of them police.
Officials said at least six other Iraqis were killed on Saturday in violence in Baghdad's Sadr City area and in Kerbala, south of the capital.
It was not clear who fired rockets into the chicken market in the Ourfalli neighborhood of Sadr City, powerbase of fiery Shi'ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr, wanted by U.S.-led forces.