(Reuters) - Brig. Gen. Mark Hertling of the U.S. Army's 1st Armored Division said one attacker captured in the bombings that killed 34 Monday was "a foreign fighter. He had a Syrian passport and the policemen claim that as he was shot and fell that he said he was Syrian." Hertling said suicide attacks were not typical of supporters of Saddam Hussein. "There are indicators that certainly these attacks have a mode of operation of foreign fighters," he said.
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