European Stars And Stripes (Newspaper) - May 14, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                May 2007 stars and stripes Mideast edition Page 3 Ai Aida group says it captured american troops by Thomas Wagner the associated press Baghdad an Al Aida front group said sunday that it had captured several sol Diers in a saturday attack South of Baghdad that killed five and left three the said troops were searching the farming area South of the capital for any sign of the three missing american in a statement posted on an islamic web the islamic state of claimed responsibility for the attack in Mahmud Yah on sat urday and said it held an unspecified number of the group offered no proof to Back up its but promised More details deaths in Iraq the associated press As of at least members of the military have died since the beginning of the Iraq War in March according to an associated press the figure includes seven military at least died As a result of hostile according to the military the a count is nine higher than the defense depart ments tally last updated Fri Day at 10 the British military has re ported 148 deaths 33 18 20 bul 13 11 six five four three two each and one death the latest deaths reported by the military a Soldier was killed Fri Day in an explosion hear Iskan four soldiers were killed saturday during a patrol South of the latest identifications re ported by the military no identifications report the associated press correction May 13 Story and  a Shlos  president Bush was getting Reg ular updates on the missing sol Gordon a spokes Man for the White houses nation Al Security said in Wash the search for the missing americans began after insurgents attacked a patrol of seven soldiers and an iraqi inter Preter before Dawn saturday near the military said saturday that five people were dead and three were on spokesman William Caldwell con firmed that the iraqi interpreter was among the dead and that All the missing were he said about troops were involved in the Caldwell said the bodies of the three slain soldiers and the iraqi interpreter had been but the military was still working to identify the everybody is fully the commanders Are intimately focused on every asset we have from National assets to Tacti Cal Are being to locate these three missing sol Caldwell Mahmud Yah is about 20 Miles South of Baghdad in an Alsaid dominated area known As the Triangle of two soldiers were found Massa cred there last year after they Dis appeared at a with violence on the Cald Well also announced that an additional forces have been sent to Dyala scene of heavy last the top com Mander in the Benjamin said the didst have enough troops to re store order in Dyala but More had been there is a recognition clearly that up in Dyala there has been an uptick in the Cald Well said at a news conference in Khaund soldiers and iraqis Survey the scene following a car bomb attack sunday in Central a parked car bomb exploded near a killing at least 17 wounding 46 and damaging police blast kills 50 in kurdish area the associated press Baghdad a suicide truck bomber crashed into the offices of a kurdish political party on killing at least 50 people and wounding including a officials it was the second suicide attack in kurdish areas of the North in four a parked car bomb also exploded near a Market in Central Baghdad on killing at least 17 wounding 46 and damaging police the suicide truck bomb attack in 30 Miles South of badly dam aged the office of the Kurdistan democratic party of Massoud Leader of the autonomous kurdish Region in North Ern Makh Mur is just South of the autonomous kurdish con trolled but it has a sub Stantial kurdish the blast also killed the police chief and damaged the mayors Miryan the health minister of the kurdish regional said at least 50 peo ple were killed and 115 were including the cites Abdul Rahman who also is a prominent kurdish and the director of the Kip cars were charred and crushed by the with some flipped the tires of one appeared to have been incinerated by the blast most of the Small Kip building appeared to have been reduced to a pile of other buildings had Walls blown out Herish a 42yearold kurdish taxi said he was parking his car in the when the thunderous explosion of setting the Kip building on shattering the windows of his car and injuring his Chest and right Many of the 115 wounded were brought to the Hospital in wounded men with bandages on their Heads and arms wan dered the while doctors worked on a Security guards closed the Hospital to visitors and read a list containing the names of the wounded who had been hearing the names of his son and Qassim a thanked god that they had not been both Are employees at the Kip party he Makh Mur is an peace Ful and Al Aida is trying to destabilize it by causing fight ing Between arabs and Amin in the parked car exploded near a popular Market in the Center of the City on killing at least 17 people and wounding police the blast occurred at on the Watha Square near the Sabriyah one of the main commercial areas in the a television news footage showed a Crater in the ground filled with splintered Metal Anda a White truck appeared to be crumpled by the iraqi and soldiers were securing the also iraqi gunmen drove into the Dyala capital of pulled two hand cuffed men out of the trunk and shot and killed police and witnesses this is the destiny of Trai the gunmen yelled As they shot their three other civilians also were killed execution style in a Market in the City police Almalik agrees to give sunnis larger Security role the associated press minister Nouri Almalik agreed to give sunnis a bigger role in Security operations in their lawmakers said in a Deal that Staves off a threatened sunni walkout that could have toppled the Shi Ite leaders embattled the Deal reached with Iraq sunni vice pres ident could help assuage longstanding sunni complaints that shut dominated Security forces unfairly target sunni areas but avoid crack ing Down on shiite militias linked to the Bush administration has been pushing Almalik for months to reach out More to the once dominant sunni Arab giving them a genuine role in the running of the coun try As part of a wider drive toward National Unity that officials Hope will reduce the coun try rampant the lawmakers said the Deal was reached in talks last week Between Almalik and vice president Tariq who had threat ened to withdraw his bloc from the govern ment if sunni demands were not his bloc controls 44 of the 275 parliament under the a Hashemi will have an executive role in the fight against insurgents in sunni areas inside and outside the capital of the lawmakers Almalki re Mains the armed forces commander in they the agreement was described by lawmakers As an understanding rather than a formal and similar arrangements have broken Down in the