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  In new violence Thursday, a car bomb that exploded in southern Baghdad killed a U.S. soldier and at least one Iraqi civilian and wounded two other American soldiers, the U.S. military said. Another U.S. soldier was killed when insurgents attacked his patrol south of Balad, about 40 miles north of Baghdad, the military said.

At least 1,110 members of the U.S. military have died since the beginning of the Iraq war in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

The killings of the 11 Iraqi National Guardsmen were claimed by a group called Ansar al-Sunnah Army.

In the video posted on the group's Web site, each man is seen reading out his name and his unit. One man was then forced to the floor, and a militant pulled his head by the hair and cut off his head. A gunman then shot the others one by one as they knelt on the ground, their arms bound. Some of the men cringed as they heard the shots. The gunman then emptied a full clip into the bodies.

Insurgents have regularly targeted Iraqi security forces, blaming them for working with Americans. Saturday, insurgents ambushed and killed 50 unarmed Iraqi soldiers as they headed home from a U.S. training camp northeast of Baghdad.

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