U.S. soldiers on Tuesday captured one of Saddam Hussein's former bodyguards and an Iraqi general who was a senior Baath Party official, the U.S. military said. The total 14 suspects arrested in a sweep outside Saddam's hometown of Tikrit belonged to a single family that had been a key backer of the deposed dictator's regime - and was believed to be supporting guerrilla resistance to U.S. occupying forces. In the latest violence against American troops, a soldier was killed Tuesday when roadside bombs blasted a U.S. convoy west of the capital, Baghdad.

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