Iraqi insurgents have launched a number of attacks ahead of today's trial of Iraqi President Saddam Hussein's in Baghdad.
Three Iraqis and two coalition soldiers - one American and one British - were killed in this morning's attacks.
A British soldier was killed by a roadside bomb in southern Iraq, according to the British Ministry of Defence.
Shortly before Saddam's trial was to begin in Baghdad's highly secured Green Zone, suspected insurgents shot and killed Hakim Mirza, one of several municipal directors of the capital, and his driver, in the southern neighborhood of Dora, said police Maj. Falah Al-Mohamadawi.
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Gunmen also killed a lieutenant colonel in the Iraqi army that U.S. forces disbanded after invading Iraq in 2003