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Body found in Iraq is Calif. soldier

(AP)
Updated: 2007-05-24 20:17

Lt. Col. Josslyn Aberle denied reports that a second body had been found and was being examined to determine if it was that of another of the missing soldiers. "The reports of a second set of remains being found is a false report," the spokeswoman said.

The US military also said two US soldiers were killed Wednesday during combat operations in Iraq's volatile Anbar province. Those deaths, along with the deaths of nine other troopers announced Wednesday, brought the American death toll for the month to at least 82. Last month, 104 US troops were killed in Iraq.

The increase in US deaths come at a difficult moment for Washington, where the Bush administration and Congress are struggling to agree on funding for the unpopular war. The search for the captured soldiers has also taken thousands of troops out of the pool of forces for the Baghdad security crackdown.

In other violence, a parked car bomb exploded Thursday morning in Fallujah, 40 miles west of Baghdad, as a funeral procession passed by for a man who worked against al-Qaida in Iraq.

The blast killed 26 people and wounded 45 others, police and medical officials said. The funeral was being held for Alaa Zuwaid, a 60-year-old restaurant owner who was part of a tribe that had formed an alliance with other tribal leaders against al-Qaida.

Zuwaid was killed earlier Thursday when unknown militants shot him in front of his house, police said. His 25-year-old son was killed by militants nearly a month ago as he walked down the street.

In Sulaiman Bek, 75 miles south of the northern city of Kirkuk, a roadside bomb hit an Iraqi police convoy and killed six police officers, police said.

Nationwide, at least 104 people were killed in sectarian violence or found dead Wednesday, including 32 who died in suicide bombings.

Insurgents in Baghdad attacked a convoy of US diplomats and their military escort with small arms fire on Wednesday, the US military said.

Apache helicopters fired at several of the armed attackers, the military said. US troops then arrived to secure the area and allow the convoy to leave, the military said.

Thousands of US and Iraqi forces have been involved in the search for the soldiers ambushed and captured May 12.

Maj. Gen. William Caldwell, the chief US military spokesman in Iraq, said the remains, later identified as those of Anzack, were recovered by Iraqi police.

Witnesses said police using civilian boats searched for other bodies on the river in Musayyib, about 40 miles south of Baghdad, and US troops intensified their presence on a nearby bridge as helicopters flew overhead, witnesses said.

Hassan al-Jibouri, 32, said he saw the body with head wounds and whip marks on its back floating on the river Wednesday. He and others then alerted police.

The remaining missing soldiers are Spc. Alex R. Jimenez, 25, of Lawrence, Mass., and Pvt. Byron W. Fouty, 19, of Waterford, Mich.

At Jimenez's father's home, a yellow ribbon also was tied on the front door. Ramon Jimenez, who speaks Spanish, said through a translator in a cell phone conversation that he has been helped by the support of friends and family.

"The hope is very high that God is going to give Alex back to him," said Wendy Luzon, a family friend who translated and has been serving as a spokeswoman.

Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki, meanwhile, asked parliament to approve six new Cabinet ministers, all independents, to replace a group that resigned last month on orders of radical Shiite cleric Muqtada al-Sadr.

Al-Sadr, who went into hiding in Iran at the start of the Baghdad security crackdown, ordered his ministers to quit the government over al-Maliki's refusal to call for a timetable for US withdrawal.

Al-Maliki was upset because there were not enough legislators to approve his choices on the spot, and was instead forced to delay the vote by three days.

In Washington, National Security Council spokesman Gordon Johndroe said US and Iraqi officials were planning to increase again the number of Iraqi security forces to help quell violence in the country.

About 337,000 Iraqi police and soldiers had been trained and equipped as of May 9, according to Defense Department statistics. Officials hope to have the currently planned 365,000 in place by the end of the year, Brig. Gen. Michael Jones, deputy director for political-military affairs in the Middle East for the Joint Chiefs of Staff, told lawmakers Tuesday.


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