European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - March 29, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Page 6 stars and stripes thursday March 292007 two truck bombs kill at least 63 in Iraq the associated press Baghdad two truck bombs shattered markets in Tal afar on tuesday killing at least 63 people and wounding dozens in the second assault in four Days on a predominantly shiite mus Lim City hit by a resurgence in Vio Lence a year after it was held up As a Symbol of us Success after the bombings suspected sunni insurgents tried to ambush ambulances carrying the injured out of the Northwestern City but were driven off by police gunfire iraqi authorities said the carnage was the worst bloodshed in a Day of attacks across Iraq in Baghdad a us Soldier and an american working As a us government contractor were killed by a rocket attack on the heavily guarded Green zone us officials said another contract worker suffered serious wounds and three were slightly wounded a Soldier also was wounded a us Marine died during com Bat operations in Anbar province a hotbed of sunni Arab insurgents West of Baghdad the Mili tary said in a statement us soldiers meanwhile foiled two suicide truck bombers trying no 2 Man in car bomb network caught in Iraq american soldiers in Baghdad have captured a member of the leadership of a second Large car bomb network officials said tues Day soldiers of the Schweinfurt German based company a 1st battalion 26th infantry regi ment arrested a Man identified As Tea year Rashid Nasir a Sham Mari a Jafar on March 21 in the Adham Yah District of Baghdad Jafar is alleged to be the Sec Ond in command of a car bomb network in the District responsible for killing some 900 iraqis and wounding nearly 2000 others since november As part of the surge us Mili tary officials have placed an in creased emphasis on stopping car bomb attacks the Large scale at tacks Are among the most visible and devastating of the insurgent attacks in Iraq 63 insurgent suspects arrested in sweeps through six Days of Clearing operations in the once posh Man sour District of Baghdad us and iraqi forces have arrested some 63 suspected insurgents and seized 27 weapons caches of Vari Ous sizes officials said tuesday the operation called Arrow head strike 9 is part of the in creased Effort to tamp Down Sec tarian violence and insurgent Vio Lence some of the arrests and weapons seizures came As the result of tips from iraqis the officials said in one Case an iraqi woman provided information that led to the arrest of five men suspected of staging mortar attacks from staff reports to attack their base in a Small town 50 Miles West of Baghdad and killed As Many As 15 attack ers the military said it said eight soldiers suffered wounds All but one of them slight during the fire fight in Karma iraqi police reported at least 109 people killed or found dead nationwide two nearly simultaneous truck bombs including one detonated by Remote control ripped through markets in Tal afar on tuesday police said As violence surged outside the iraqi capital a suicide car bomber exploded his payload near ramada killing 10 people and another attacker detonated his explosives Laden car near a police patrol in Bayou a killing two policemen the attack sin Tal afar the Sec Ond in four Days occurred about five minutes apart at popular markets in the Northern and Central parts of the City 260 Miles North West of Baghdad one of the trucks was detonated by Remote control while peo ple gathered to buy the flour it was carrying in the Central shiite neighbourhood of muh you a local policeman said the other truck was loaded with vegetables and parked near a wholesale Market not far from a primary school that was closed for the Day on saturday a Man wearing an explosives Belt blew himself up outside a pastry shop in the Cen trial Market area in Tal afar kill ing at least 10 people and wound ing three it 0m part Cutey 30 a such 2007 a Hull is 70 1 Kwen Grarup Hyundai Apt  stand