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BAGHDAD, Iraq - In their boldest and deadliest ambush yet, insurgents waylaid three minibuses carrying U.S.-trained Iraqi soldiers heading home on leave and massacred about 50 of them — forcing many to lie down on the ground and shooting them in the head, officials said Sunday. Some accounts by police said the rebels were dressed in Iraqi military uniforms. The killing of so many Iraqi soldiers — unarmed and in civilian clothes — in such an apparently sure-footed operation reinforced American and Iraqi suspicions that the country's security services have been infiltrated by insurgents. A claim of responsibility posted on...

BAGHDAD, Iraq — A State Department security officer was killed Sunday during a mortar or rocket attack at a U.S. base near Baghdad International Airport, the U.S. Embassy announced. Ed Seitz (search), an agent with the State Department's Bureau of Diplomatic Security, was killed about 5 a.m. at Camp Victory (search), embassy spokesman Bob Callahan said. Camp Victory is the headquarters of the U.S.-led coalition's ground forces command. An undetermined number of people were injured in the attack but none with life-threatening injuries, Callahan said. Secretary of State Colin Powell, who is on a tour of Asia, said, "The Department...