15 Iraqi soldiers were shot dead southwest of Baghdad, Iraqi police said on Saturday. The attack took place on Friday near the town of Latifiya, some 50km southwest of Baghdad, police in the nearby town of Mahmudiya said, according to Reuters.
The police said the soldiers were being transported in a truck that was forced off the road by the armed men.
In Baghdad, thousands of supporters of Shi‘ite cleric Moqtada al-Sadr marched on Saturday to denounce the U.S. occupation of Iraq and call for a quick trial of Saddam Hussein on the second anniversary of his overthrow.
Chanting "No, no to the occupiers," thousands of people gathered in the poor Shi‘ite district of Sadr City to start a planned peaceful march to Firdos Square, the central Baghdad spot where Saddam‘s statue was torn down two years ago.
