US death toll reaches 3,000 in Iraq
Grim milestone highlights difficult choices facing Bush with no let-up in violence.
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“I believe that we need to pull out and let Iraq handle their government.” Herring, Arizona, USA |
The mark was reached as Bush weighs options, including a short-term increase in forces of up to 30,000, to help control the deteriorating situation in Iraq where daily violence plagues Baghdad and much of the country.
Armed groups killed at least seven people, including three Iraqi soldiers, a day after his hanging.
On Sunday, a group of armed in vehicles attacked an Iraqi army checkpoint in Hawijah, west of the northern oil hub of Kirkuk, killing three soldiers and wounding another two, local police said.
Four more people were killed in several attacks in Baghdad.
Two were killed and another two wounded when an armed group fired a Katyusha rocket in the capital’s northwest Shia district of Kadhimiyah where Saddam was hanged.
Car-bomb attack
Another Iraqi was killed and six others wounded in a car bomb attack in the northern neighbourhood of Hurriyah, a day after 37 people died in a triple car bomb attack in the same area.
In yet another attack, one person was killed and five wounded in a car bomb explosion in the Shawaqha neighbourhood in Baghdad.