More violence in Iraq

Well, it was nice while it lasted:

Insurgents launched fresh attacks, killing 21 Iraqis and two U.S. soldiers, while Iraqi militant group Army of Ansar al-Sunna said it shot dead seven abducted Iraqi National Guards and posted an Internet video of the killings on Saturday.

Meantime, in the latest violence:

-Four Iraqi National Guardsmen died in a roadside bombing early Saturday in Basra, Iraq's second largest city. And two Iraqi troops died from a blast that hit a patrol in the central city of Samarra.

-The two American soldiers from Task Force Danger were killed in a roadside bombing Friday night near Beiji, 155 miles north of Baghdad, the U.S. military said Saturday. The military had said a second roadside blast in the same area killed two more American soldiers, but later said that report was wrong.

-A member of the Baghdad city council, Abbas Hasan Waheed, was killed Saturday in a drive-by shooting, police said.
Assailants also killed a member of Iraq's intelligence service in a drive-by shooting in Baghdad, an Interior Ministry official said.

-In the northern city of Mosul, gunmen overran a police station, killing five officers, police officials said.

-The brother of the police chief for Mosul and the surrounding Ninevah province was kidnapped Saturday, police officials said. The kidnapping came three days after the chief, Gen. Mohammed Ahmed al-Jubouri, had threatened to destroy rebel sanctuaries if insurgents did not surrender their weapons within two weeks.

-Three Iraqi National Guard soldiers were also killed in clashes in the city of Tal Afar on Friday night, hospital officials said.

-West of the capital, a U.S. convoy in the insurgent stronghold of Ramadi was rocked by a roadside bomb that killed two Iraqi bystanders, a hospital official said. It wasn't clear if there were any American casualties.

-On Baghdad's western outskirts, several mortar rounds exploded with thunderous booms, sending up a cloud of black smoke. It wasn't clear exactly where they struck or if there were any casualties.