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The U.S. military also announced Tuesday that a Marine was killed Monday by small-arms fire in Ramadi.
An Italian helicopter crashed Tuesday in the south, near Nasiriyah, killing four soldiers. The crash appeared to have been an accident, Italy's ANSA news service quoted an Italian military spokesman as saying. Italy has about 3,000 troops in Iraq.
In the northern city of Mosul, gunmen shot and killed Jerges Mohammed Sultan, a correspondent for Iraq's al-Iraqiya state TV. North of Baghdad, a suicide car bomber killed two Iraqi soldiers at an army checkpoint near Buhriz, news agencies quoted police as saying.
Bombings, ambushes and other attacks have killed more than 700 people in accelerated insurgent attacks since Iraq's Shiite-led government took office April 28.
In Washington, President Bush called Iraq's new leaders "plenty capable" of defeating the insurgency.
Iraqi President Jalal Talabani told CNN that Iraq expected to put ousted leader Saddam Hussein on trial in the next two months on charges of crimes against humanity.
Humam Hamoudi, a leading Shiite religious lawmaker in the new National Assembly, said Hussein's execution would help demoralize and defeat the insurgency, as would the death of Zarqawi, who was reportedly wounded in a recent firefight. "These will be two gifts to the victimized," Hamoudi said in an interview.
Special correspondent Omar Fekeiki in Baghdad contributed to this report.
