Three Marines and 40 militiamen die in gunbattles

THREE American soldiers and over 40 fighters loyal to a radical cleric were killed in another day of widespread bloodshed in Iraq yesterday.

Three Marines and 40 militiamen die in gunbattles

The US seized the governor’s office from fighters loyal to Muqtada al-Sadr and killed an estimated 40 insurgents in battles east of the holy city, a US official said.

In Baghdad, a suicide attacker detonated a car bomb outside the so-called Green Zone that houses the US headquarters, killing five Iraqi civilians and an American soldier.

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