Bombs kill two more U.S. soldiers

BAGHDAD, Iraq – A suicide bomber wearing a police uniform blew up his car at police headquarters in Tikrit, killing at least 15 people in Saddam Hussein’s hometown in the bloodiest of several attacks Thursday that claimed 30 lives. Two American soldiers were among the dead.

The U.S. command said the two soldiers were killed and two others were wounded in separate bomb attacks, one northeast of Baghdad in Qaryat, and a second near Samarra, west of Qaryat.

In the Sunni Arab stronghold of Tikrit, 80 miles north of Baghdad, a man dressed as a police lieutenant drove through the station’s gates and blew himself up just as dozens of policemen were arriving to relieve colleagues who had worked through the night, police Col. Saad Daham said.

“He waited until the shift change, then he exploded the car,” Daham said, adding the aim was “to kill as many as possible.” At least 22 people were wounded.