Marine, 3 Iraqis Killed; Turkish Captive Freed

An American assigned to the 1st Marine Expeditionary Force was killed in action Tuesday in Al Anbar province, the military said today, and two Iraqi police officers and a civilian died in bombings elsewhere.

No details were released on the Marine’s death.

The two policemen were killed and two others were wounded when a bomb exploded near a highway in the western part of Baghdad.

A bomb that exploded along a highway in the western Baghdad neighborhood of Ghazaliya killed the civilian and seriously wounded a policeman, an officer said on condition of anonymity.

Also Tuesday, a wealthy Turkish businessman who was released by kidnappers in Iraq arrived safely in Ankara.

Kahraman Sadikoglu, president of the Istanbul-based Tuzla Shipyard, was released late Monday after two months of captivity. He was flown to Istanbul via Jordan and Baghdad after spending the evening at a British base in southern Iraq, a Foreign Ministry official said.

“My health is very good,” a smiling Sadikoglu told reporters at the airport in Ankara, the Turkish capital.

Sadikoglu said he had been released because his kidnappers realized he was innocent.