6 Die in Attack on U.S. Jail Facility in Iraq

BAGHDAD, June 9, 2007 — -- A mortar attack on a U.S. detention camp killed six Iraqi detainees and injured 50 more in southern Iraq on another violent day Saturday.

Camp Bucca, near the southern Iraqi port city of Umm Qasr, is located in a Shiite region, but both Sunnis and Shiites are among the 13,000 prisoners being held at Camp Bucca.

No American service members were killed in the attack.

Elsewhere, the military continued to report higher American troop casualties as the recent buildup of troops in Baghdad and elsewhere continues.

In restive Diyala province in central Iraq, a U.S. Army soldier died of his injuries after being shot by small arms fire during an operation there on Saturday. The soldier's name was being withheld pending notification of relatives.

The soldier's death is the 27th announced by the Pentagon in a little more than one week in June. The total number of American troops killed in the war in Iraq surpassed 3,500 this week.

South of the capital, a suicide truck bomber killed a dozen Iraqi soldiers and injured dozens more at a checkpoint.

As the U.S. military has sought to quell sectarian bloodshed between Sunni and Shiite religious extremists in Baghdad with a "surge" of U.S. and Iraqi forces, insurgents appear to have moved their attacks outside the city, increasing violence elsewhere in central Iraq.

As U.S. and Iraqi troops contend with an anti-American insurgency and a bloody civil conflict between Sunnis and Shiites, Iraqi officials protested an unwelcome incursion on yet another front.

Iraq's foreign ministry condemned cross-border attacks by Turkey into Kurdish northern Iraq. The foreign ministry delivered a letter of protest to Turkey's envoy in Baghdad, accusing Turkey of "intensively shelling" aimed at groups Turkey considers Kurdish nationalists just across the border. A foreign ministry statement said the shelling caused enormous damage on Wednesday and Thursday between the Iraqi cities of Dohuk and Irbil.