The director of police training at the Iraqi Interior Ministry was shot dead in front of his home in a western neighborhood of Baghdad, as he waited for a ride to work. Maj. Gen. Adnan Abdul Rihman died on the spot, said local police commander Maj. Musa Abdul Karim.
The U.S. military said, according to The AP, a soldier was killed in a roadside bombing before dawn Sunday while on patrol near Samarra, 60 miles north of Baghdad. Two soldiers were injured.
In the southern city of Basra, Iraqi police Capt. Mushtaq Kadim said one British soldier died and two were injured when a roadside bomb went off near their convoy.
Meanwhile, the assault on the northern town of Tal Afar entered its second day. Iraqi Interior Minister Bayan Jabr reported late Saturday that 141 "insurgents" had been killed since the operation started. Five government soldiers also died and three were wounded, he said.
According to The AP, Col. Billy J. Buckner, a U.S. military spokesman, said Iraqi and U.S. troops had captured 211 "terror" suspects and confiscated nine weapons caches.
