U.S. soldiers in Iraq captured 10 suspected terrorists during operations near the northern city of Mosul, the U.S. military said today in a statement e-mailed from Baghdad. In Baghdad, gunmen shot dead an Iraqi police colonel, Abdul Karim Fahid, and his driver. Farid, chief of one of two main stations in the capital's southern Dura district, was one of 13 people, many of them security personnel, killed in violence around Iraq. A group led by Jordanian terrorist Abu Musab al-Zarqawi claimed responsibility for the killing of Farid in a message on an Islamist Web site. Troops from the 1st Battalion, 24th Infantry Regiment, arrested eight people in western Mosul yesterday suspected of attacking Iraqi security forces and ordering the March 20 assassination of General Waleed Kashmoula, the military said. Soldiers from the 2nd Battalion, 8th Field Artillery Regiment arrested two suspected terrorists yesterday during a cordon-and-search operation south of Mosul. The U.S. and Iraqi governments have blamed Zarqawi for organizing attacks on coalition soldiers and car bombings throughout Iraq.