Guerrillas kill two US soldiers in Iraq

GUERRILLAS killed two American soldiers north of Baghdad, and US forces yesterday said they were holding two key members of Saddam Hussein’s Republican Guard and a paymaster for his feared Fedayeen militia.

An attack 15 miles south of Tikrit, Saddam’s hometown, killed one US soldier and wounded a second yesterday when their four-vehicle convoy hit a roadside bomb, according to Major Josslyn Aberle, spokeswoman for the 4th Infantry Division.

The military also reported a soldier killed and two wounded in a bomb attack on Tuesday near Taji, 12 miles north of the capital. The attack was in the same region where an oil pipeline fire sent flames 200 feet into the air.