Three Americans killed in action in western Iraq

Thursday, August 10, 2006

BAGHDAD, Iraq -- Three American soldiers were killed Wednesday in the Sunni insurgent area west of Baghdad, and Iraqi officials said about 1,500 people died violently last month in the capital -- many shot execution-style by sectarian death squads.

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