BAGHDAD (AP) - Captive Iraqi president Saddam Hussein's loyalists rioted in the capital Baghdad, ambushed a U.S. patrol in Samarra, stormed the office of a U.S.-backed mayor in Fallujah and battled U.S. troops in Ramadi - making it clear Saddam's capture has not quelled violence in Iraq.
As guerrilla attacks continued Monday night and Tuesday, the U.S. 4th Infantry Division snared a leader of the insurgency and 78 other people in a raid north of Baghdad, not far from where Saddam was captured three days earlier.
A roadside bomb wounded three U.S. soldiers in Saddam's hometown Tikrit and a pro-Saddam demonstration in the northern city Mosul ended in violence, with a policeman killed and a second injured.
The chairman of the U.S. joint chiefs of staff, Gen. Richard Myers, said in Baghdad on Tuesday military planners are preparing for U.S. troops to stay in Iraq for up to two more years, despite capturing the Iraqi leader.
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