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62 killed in Iraq attacks

BAGHDAD: About 4,000 U.S. soldiers scoured Iraqi insurgent territory on Sunday for three comrades as Al-Qaeda claimed it had captured the missing troops in a deadly pre-dawn ambush.

Backed by jets and helicopters, the U.S. force threw up checkpoints among palm groves and farmsteads in rural areas south of the Iraqi capital, one day after the attack killed four U.S. soldiers and an Iraqi interpreter.

Meanwhile, insurgent bombers carried out two more deadly assaults, killing at least 45 persons in a suicide attack on administrative offices in a northern town and 17 more as they spread carnage in a crowded Baghdad market. ``In the U.S. military we have a thing called the soldier's creed, and it says `I will never leave a fallen comrade','' U.S. spokesman Major General William Caldwell told reporters in Baghdad.

— AFP

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