Roadside bombs and other attacks Friday killed 10 Iraqis and injured 26 people, including a U.S. soldier riding through Baghdad in a minesweeper.
Kidnappers, meanwhile, freed a United Arab Emirates diplomat who was abducted this week in Baghdad, his brother told The Associated Press.
In Friday's worst violence, a gunbattle between armed men and Iraqi police killed five civilians and injured eight in Jihad, a neighborhood of western Baghdad, said police Lt. Maitham Abdul-Razzaq.
Also on Friday, a bomb hit a U.S. convoy in Dora, wounding one U.S. soldier, the U.S. command said.
Police also found the bullet-ridden bodies of four Iraqis who had been kidnapped and tortured. One of the victims was an elementary school teacher. Two of the four bodies were found in Dora. Another beheaded, handcuffed body was found in Numaniya, 80 miles southwest of Baghdad, said Hadi al-Itabi, an official at a morgue in nearby Kut.
The 28-year-old envoy from the United Arab Emirates, Naji Rashid al-Nuaimi, was nabbed Tuesday night in Baghdad by gunmen who shot and injured his Sudanese driver. His brother, Mohammed al-Nuaimi, said the family had been told by the authorities that he was free. "The officials just told us that he was released and he was on his way to the embassy," al-Nuaimi said in a phone call from his home in Dibba, in the southern Emirates.
