BAGHDAD: Guerillas stormed a police station here and ambushed an American patrol, killing a soldier and wounding nine, in daylight attacks yesterday, defying efforts to crush a Sunni Muslim revolt.
Hours after a US general acknowledged that it was hasty to claim this month's offensive on Fallujah had broken the back of the insurgency, rebels killed three policemen in a dawn strike on their station in Baghdad's Sunni Aadhamiya district.
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