One year on, Iraq plagued by death and chaos

BLOODY turmoil reigned in Iraq yesterday, the first anniversary of Saddam Hussein's fall.

Sunni and Shi'ite rebels battled US-led forces and held three Japanese and other foreign hostages.

Fierce fighting that has convulsed the Sunni cities of Falluja and Ramadi reached the western fringe of Baghdad, where insurgents killed nine people in an attack on a US fuel convoy, and said they had seized four Italians and two Americans.