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A U.S. soldier is in critical condition after being shot at Baghdad University Sunday.

Witnesses say the soldier was in a cafe when a lone gunman opened fire, hitting the soldier in the head. The assailant fled the scene, and the soldier was evacuated to a military hospital.

U.S. forces have sealed off the campus to search for the gunman, who witnesses say used a handgun in the attack.

Attacks on U.S. forces in Iraq have killed at 26 soldiers since May first, when President Bush declared major combat in Iraq to be over. U.S. officials blame the frequent attacks on forces loyal to the ousted Saddam Hussein regime.

On Saturday, a British journalist was shot dead in Baghdad, just hours after a remote-controlled bomb killed seven recruits from a new, U.S.-backed Iraqi police force.

A co-worker says the freelance journalist's killer apparently walked up and fired a single shot into the base of his skull from close range, then disappeared in a crowd outside the Iraqi National Museum. The 24-year-old Briton, Richard Wilde, was researching a story about the museum.

The seven police recruits were killed in Ramadi, 100 kilometers west of Baghdad, at their graduation ceremony. U.S. military officials say the bomb injured 13 other recruits. Iraqis say dozens of other people were also hurt by the blast.

In another development, U.S. military officials say they have completed a week-long roundup, which they call Operation Sidewinder, aimed at rooting out Saddam Hussein loyalists and others involved in attacks on coalition forces.

A Central Command statement says the operation ended Saturday, resulting in the detention of 282 people and seizure of a variety of weapons.

Some information for this report provided by AP, AFP and Reuters.