The New Nation - Internet Edition

AP, Baghdad

The U.S. military says an American soldier has died from wounds sustained when his vehicle was destroyed in a roadside bombing. The statement Tuesday said the blast happened Monday night at about 9:30 p.m.

Eleven U.S. soldiers have been reported killed in Iraq since Sunday. Insurgents have killed six US soldiers in Iraq, the US military reported Tuesdayunday and Monday in attacks in the capital Baghdad, while two others were killed by a bomb in the city of Balad to the north of Baghdad. Suspected al-Qaeda terrorists killed a clan chief and his three sons Monday evening near the village of Khalis to the north-east of Baghdad, Aswat al-Iraq news agency reported.

Sheikh Aziz Mohammed Faraj, head of the Obaid clan, was a brother- in-law of the former vice president, Isset Ibrahim al-Duri, who went into hiding five years ago.