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Updated: September 13, 2007 - 7:53 PM

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Kurdish villagers in Raniyah, in the far northeastern corner of Iraq, have endured a monthlong, punishing barrage of rockets and artillery shells from Iranian troops across the border. The shelling has burned acres of orchards and grassland, damaged homes, killed livestock and driven about 2,500 people to abandon about two dozen villages. The attacks are a reminder that the self-sufficient Kurdish region could provoke invasions by Iran or Turkey.

A fatal attack against the headquarters garrison of the U.S. command on Tuesday was carried out using a 240 millimeter rocket -- a type of weapon Maj. Gen. Kevin Bergner said Iran provides to Shiite extremists. No Americans were killed, but a foreign contract worker died and 11 were wounded in the attack on Camp Victory.

U.S. troops arrested an Iraqi Army battalion commander suspected of ordering militia attacks on American forces and removing Sunni families from neighborhoods in western Baghdad, the U.S. command said. The commander's name and rank were not released.

One soldier was about to go home to his baby girl and two others had just arrived in Iraq when they were killed in Baghdad on Easter Sunday. The remains of Army Staff Sgt. Harrison Brown, Pfc. David Simmons and Sgt. Todd Singleton -- best friends -- were buried together Thursday at Arlington National Cemetery in a single silver, flag-draped casket. They died in the same armored vehicle.

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