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* A drive-by shooting also killed a manager of oil wells in the northern city of Kirkuk, and American ground and air forces attacked two towns near the Syrian border, killing at least 10 militants, the military said. Witnesses said some of the victims were civilians.
* A land mine killed a US soldier and wounded four early on Saturday near Beiji, 250 kilometers (155 miles) north of Baghdad, the military said. Two other US Army soldiers died in south Baghdad on Saturday when their patrol struck a roadside bomb, the military said.
* On Saturday, US ground forces conducted a series of raids on suspected insurgent safe houses in the nearby town of Husaybah, killing at least 10 militants, the military said. Gun battles also broke out with insurgents, and US warplanes attacked them with precision guided munitions, the US command said. It said one of the attacks struck a house where Abu Mahmud, a senior Al Qaeda in Iraq militant, was meeting with other insurgents, but it was not known if casualties resulted.
* In Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, Mikhail Eros, deputy director general for oil wells, was shot and killed in front of his home, said police Capt. Ferhad Talbani. Oil pipelines in the region often are attacked by insurgents with explosives to interrupt the shipment of oil from wells to refineries in Kirkuk.
* Two police officers died when their patrol hit a roadside bomb in the oil-rich city of Kirkuk, 290 kilometers (180 miles) north of Baghdad, said police Brig. Sarhad Qader.
* In the capital, a drive-by shooting in the Dora neighborhood killed a police officer.
* In a town near Baqouba, 60 kilometers (35 miles) northeast of Baghdad, gunmen opened fire on an Iraqi army checkpoint, touching off fighting that killed 3 Iraqi soldiers and three militants, police said. Seven Iraqi soldiers also were wounded.