Raid on 'al-Qaida safe house' kills six

US troops killed six people today during a raid on a possible safe house for al-Qaida in Iraq, the military said, while the death toll of American service members in Iraq rose above 3,000.

The attack occurred near the west Baghdad offices of Saleh al-Mutlaq, a senior Sunni Arab politician of the National Dialogue Front, the US military and Iraqi police said.