A U.S. soldier was shot to death Saturday during fighting northeast of Baghdad, and another was killed by a roadside bomb the day before, the military said according to The Associated Press. The Multinational Corps _ Iraq soldier died at about 1:30 p.m. while conducting operations in Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, the military said in a statement. It gave no more details. Some 700 extra American troops have been sent to Baqouba to help carry the security campaign against sectarian violence in Baghdad to the Baqouba area, where Sunni Arab insurgents fled ahead of the crackdown in the capital. The military also said a roadside bomb also killed a Multinational Division _ Baghdad soldier and wounded three others on a foot patrol Friday south of Baghdad. It said the attack occurred as the soldiers were conducting patrols with Iraqi security forces as part of a month-old security operation to end the sectarian violence in the capital. The unit that the soldier was with has found numerous roadside bombs that were detonated by explosive ordnance disposal teams in the last few weeks, according to the statement. Iraqi security forces and division soldiers have successfully found 437 roadside bombs and 162 weapons caches since the security crackdown started, it said. The deaths raises to at least 3,210 members of the U.S. military who have died since the Iraq war started in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
