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   Insurgents kill four US soldiers, eleven Iraqis   
      
   BAGHDAD: Insurgents launched a fresh wave of attacks in Iraq, killing six   
   Iraqi national guardsmen in a suicide car bombing, four Iraqis working for a   
   French aid group and four US soldiers in separate incidents in Iraq.   
      
   A roadside bomb on Tuesday also killed a local police chief in Baghdad, just   
   hours before interim Prime Minister Iyad Allawi was due to return home after   
   trying to win support from neighbouring countries to stabilise Iraq.   
      
   The suicide car bomb blast at a checkpoint outside the town of Baquba   
   wounded six other Iraqi guardsmen, said National Guard Lieutenant Mohamed   
   al-Dulaimi at the scene.   
      
   Major Deborah Stewart of the US 1st Infantry Division said the wounded had   
   been evacuated to a nearby hospital.   
      
   The US military said two American soldiers were killed in a roadside bomb   
   blast overnight on Baghdad's western outskirts. And two US marines were   
   killed in action in the violent Anbar province in the country's west. One   
   died on Monday from wounds and the other on Tuesday, the US military said.   
   The four deaths raise to 681 the number of American troops killed in action   
   since the start of the war to oust Saddam Hussein in March last year.   
      
   Four Iraqis working for a French aid group in Samawa were killed while   
   travelling by car to Najaf further north, their employer and families said   
   Tuesday.   
      
   The Paris-based Agency for Technical Cooperation and Development (ACTED)   
   confirmed by telephone that four of its workers were killed in Iraq but   
   declined to provide further details.   
      
   The bodies of Ali Mutlaq, Ali Kamel Hadi, Ahmed Raji and that of their   
   driver were found in a cemetery in Najaf on Monday after they had left   
   Samawa three days before, according to Mutlaq's father. The men had been   
   stabbed several times and one of them had his eyes gouged out, said the   
   father, who was a colonel in the Iraqi army during the regime of Saddam   
   Hussein. Authorities in Najaf were not immediately able to confirm the   
   findings.   
      
   Early on Tuesday, a roadside bomb in Baghdad's upscale Mansour district   
   killed the head of a local police station and wounded two of his bodyguards,   
   police said. The bomb exploded as Colonel Moayad Mahmoud Bashar, chief of   
   the Mamoun police station, was driving past.   
      
   Meanwhile, talks to free seven foreign truck drivers threatened with   
   execution have stalled since Monday, mediators said. The three Indians,   
   three Kenyans and an Egyptian were seized last month.   
      
   A tribal sheik trying to win their release said on Tuesday he was waiting to   
   hear from the kidnappers, who have demanded their Kuwaiti employer leave   
   Iraq and compensate families who suffered in US air strikes on the   
   rebellious city of Falluja. "Negotiations are still stopped at the moment. I   
   have no idea on the fate of the hostages," Hisham Al Dulaymi said. agencies   
      
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