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Four die in latest Baghdad violence
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YOUR E-MAIL ALERTSBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- As U.S. Marines and Iraqi soldiers continued their offensive in western Iraq, insurgents attacked Iraqi officials and a U.S. convoy in Baghdad, killing at least four people within the last 24 hours, authorities said. Also, the U.S. military in the northern city of Mosul said a Task Force Freedom soldier died in action Thursday. The number of U.S. deaths in the Iraq war stands at 1,826, including 29 this week. In Baghdad, gunmen killed three officials and a bodyguard in attacks Friday night, a police official said. In one of the attacks, an Iraqi National Congress party official, Yassir Karim, and a representative from the Council of Ministries, Khalid Abdulmajid, died. A third man, whom police said is related to Deputy Prime Minister Ahmed Chalabi, was critically wounded. Ahmed Abass al-Chalabi is also a member of the Iraqi National Congress, police said. Gunmen also killed Kamal Sawadi, an Interior Ministry official, in the al-Zafaraniya neighborhood and Wa'ad Abdul Wahid, a guard for a National Assembly member, in the al-Khadra neighborhood. On Saturday morning, a car bomb wounded three civilians, two of them women, when it missed a U.S. military convoy in southeastern Baghdad, an Iraqi police official said. U.S.: Letter to al-Zarqawi seizedThe U.S. military in Mosul on Saturday said security forces last week obtained a letter from an insurgent to militant leader Abu Musab al-Zarqawi decrying the movement's leadership in the city, a hotspot in the war. The letter was written from an insurgent named Abu Zayd and seized in a July 27 raid on a safe house. Task Force Freedom issued a copy of the letter and a statement. Complaining that Mosul's emirs are incompetent, the letter writer said the collaboration among the insurgent leaders is not up to par. The writer said attacks aren't as diverse as they should be and that suicide bombings seem to be more on "quantity and not quality." Weapons caches foundIn western Iraq, American-led troops involved in the latest large-scale offensive in the restive Anbar province discovered weapons caches near Haqliniya, according to a U.S. Marines news release. The operation -- dubbed Quick Strike -- is one of several missions that have focused on the Euphrates River valley towns in the predominantly Sunni Arab province. U.S. and Iraqi troops are trying to crack down on enemy fighters in Haqliniya, Barwana and Haditha -- near where 14 U.S. Marines and a civilian translator were killed Wednesday in a powerful roadside bombing. On Monday, six Marines were killed near Haditha in a gunbattle. The Marines said Saturday that the weapons caches were in caves near the river and that the hideouts were big enough for one person and weapons. One hideout contained a rocket-propelled grenade launcher, medium machine gun, several assault rifles and bomb-making material. Another had a propane tank and 155 mm artillery rounds, commonly converted to homemade bombs. 
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