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Mastermind of Prison Assault Captured, U.S. and Iraqis Say
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A number of fighters were wearing flak jackets, which Davis said was unusual for Iraqi insurgents and reflected the influence of foreign fighters.
On Sunday, two U.S. soldiers were killed by a roadside bombing near Khaldiyah, 50 miles west of Baghdad; a third was killed by a roadside bombing near Samarra. U.S. military officials said Sunday that three Marines and a sailor were killed Saturday during an attack by insurgents who used a hospital in Haditha as cover from which they fired small arms and rocket-propelled grenades.
A senior official in Iraq's Transportation Department, Zoba Yass, was assassinated along with his driver as they drove to work Sunday morning in the Doura neighborhood of Baghdad.
Two Americans killed Saturday when two explosives-laden cars plowed into their convoy were employed by CTU Consulting, a Fayetteville, N.C.-based security firm, the Associated Press reported. The company identified them as Brandon Thomas and Todd Venette, but did not give their home towns.
The militant group al Qaeda in Iraq asserted responsibility for the attack, saying it detonated a booby-trapped car as a "convoy of CIA passed," according to a statement posted Sunday on a radical Web site. The authenticity of the claim could not be verified.
On the political scene, the cabinet of Prime Minister Ibrahim Jafari was almost filled out with the swearing-in of five new ministers. A sixth appointee, Hashim Shibli, a Sunni Arab named as human rights minister, refused the post, saying he had never been asked to take the position and learned of his appointment from a television report.
Shibli also said that he did not want to be chosen because of his religious and ethnic background. "I would like to serve my country not in the sense of being a Sunni but in the sense of being a political democrat to serve all the country," he said in an interview.
Correspondent Ellen Knickmeyer in Ubaydi and special correspondents Khalid Saffar, Omar Fekeiki and Naseer Nouri in Baghdad contributed to this report.
