Iraq attack kills three US soldiers

A ROADSIDE bomb killed three US soldiers south of Baghdad yesterday and coalition forces shot to death three insurgents in Samarra — the site of the bombing of a Shi’ite shrine in February that set off a wave of sectarian killings in Iraq.

The violence came as a videotape showing the most wanted terrorist in Iraq, Abu Musab al-Zarqawi, wearing US tennis shoes and struggling to fire a US-made machine gun was repeatedly broadcast on television.

The video — released on Thursday by the US military to undercut al-Zarqawi’s image — was seized in a raid last month.