The U.S. military announced Tuesday that 10 American soldiers were killed in Iraq on Memorial Day, making May the deadliest month for U.S. troops in 2 1/2 years, as insurgents continued attacks on official and civilian targets.Gunmen dressed in police uniforms staged a well-coordinated kidnapping at Iraq's Finance Ministry and abducted five people whom the British Foreign Office identified as British citizens. Two vehicle bombings in Baghdad left at least 44 people dead and 74 wounded. And the bodies of 32 men -- all shot and tortured, some handcuffed and blindfolded -- were found in two locations north and south of the capital on Tuesday, a senior Iraqi security official said.
U.S. officials have warned that a strategy of putting more U.S. troops on the streets and in small combat outposts, part of a new security plan launched in February, would lead to higher casualties. But Tuesday's carnage suggested that the plan has yet to create a safer security environment.
Also, the complex operations launched against U.S. and coalition forces Monday and Tuesday demonstrated that the insurgency also is adopting more sophisticated tactics and weapons.
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