Soldiers arrest 50 after bloody day in Iraq

US soldiers arrested nearly 50 people and confiscated weapons in several raids in Iraq’s volatile Sunni Triangle today after a series of bombings that killed six US soldiers.

An American soldier died today of wounds suffered in a grenade attack on his Bradley vehicle that was patrolling a central Iraqi town of Beiji yesterday, said Major Josslyn Aberle, a spokeswoman for the 4th Infantry Division.