13 DIE IN IRAQ, "US TROOPS TO BLAME FOR MORE VIOLENCE

THIRTEEN PEOPLE INCLUDING EIGHT POLICE OFFICERS
AND TWO SUICIDE BOMBERS WERE KILLED IN SEPARATE INCIDENTS IN IRAQ,
POLICE SAID SATURDAY, ACCORDING TO DPA.
THREE POLICE OFFICERS DIED IN CENTRAL BAQUBA, 60 KILOMETRES EAST
OF BAGHDAD, AND THREE POLICE OFFICERS AND THREE CIVILIANS WERE
WOUNDED WHEN A ROADSIDE BOMB DETONATED AS THEIR CONVOY WAS PASSING ON
SATURDAY.
IN OTHER DEVELOPMENTS SATURDAY, THREE GUNMEN WERE KILLED DURING
CLASHES WITH IRAQI TROOPS NORTHEAST OF MOSUL, 400 KILOMETRES NORTH OF
BAGHDAD, AN IRAQI POLICE SOURCE SAID.
THREE MEN TRAVELLING IN A VEHICLE OPENED FIRE ON AN IRAQI ARMY
CONVOY AND WERE KILLED WHEN THE TROOPS RETURNED FIRE. FORGED IDENTITY
CARDS, WEAPONS AND EXPLOSIVES WERE FOUND IN THE MILITANTS' CAR, THE
SOURCE SAID.