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Six killed; 12 bodies found tortured in Iraq
 Iraqi soldiers stand guard at a checkpoint during a citywide curfew in Baquba Friday. SPECIAL REPORT
• Interactive: Who's who in Iraq
• Interactive: Sectarian divide
• Timeline: Bloodiest days for civilians
YOUR E-MAIL ALERTSBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Within the last 24 hours, insurgents in Iraq killed five people; a roadside bomb killed an American soldier; and 12 bodies, all shot in the head and bearing signs of torture, were found in Baghdad. In one incident Saturday, a police officer and another man were kidnapped; they were later found shot to death, according to police. They had been abducted in the middle of the night from a house in al-Musayyib, about 37 miles (60 km) south of Baghdad. Three more police officers died in separate roadside bombings. The killings and discovery of the corpses coincided with the release of a U.S. State Department report that found attacks against Iraqi civilians doubled in 2005. It stated that Iraq remains a key battleground -- and haven -- for global terrorist networks, as well as for homegrown insurgents and those trying to incite sectarian violence. (Full story) The American soldier died around 4 p.m. southwest of Baghdad, according to the military. The death brings the number of U.S. troops and military civilian deaths in Iraq to 2,397. April, with 69 U.S. military deaths, marked the highest monthly death toll since November, when 84 U.S. military personnel died. In his weekly radio address, U.S. President George W. Bush acknowledged "more tough fighting ahead in Iraq and more days of sacrifice and struggle," but he said Iraqi lawmakers have "laid the foundations for a democratic government of, by, and for the Iraqi people." (Read his remarks) His remarks met with protests in New York, as demonstrators demanded the return of U.S. soldiers home and denounced the war whose support is fast eroding, according to polls. (Details) Other developmentsCNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq and Barbara Starr contributed to this report 
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