It's starting to get uglier.
http://msnbc.com/news/870749.asp?0cv=CA01![](http://a799.g.akamai.net/3/799/388/2c04c13dad2016/msnbc.com/news/2044010.jpg)
Iraqi fighters battle with U.S. forces in the streets of Karbala, 50 miles south of Baghdad, on Friday. A midnight clash with Shiite militants in the same location left three U.S. military policemen and nine Iraqis dead.
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KARBALA, Iraq, Oct. 17 — Three U.S. military policemen were killed and seven were wounded in a midnight clash at a Shiite Muslim cleric’s headquarters in Karbala. Ten Iraqi policemen and militants also were killed. Separately, a bomb blast killed one U.S. military policeman and wounded two in the Baghdad area Friday morning, the U.S. military said.