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Oil refinery workers gunned down in IraqKidnappers release journalist Jill Carroll
RELATEDYOUR E-MAIL ALERTSBAGHDAD, Iraq (CNN) -- Eight workers from Iraq's main oil refinery in Baiji were shot and killed after their minibus was stopped by gunmen on Thursday, according to authorities in Salaheddin province. They were among 14 people killed in Iraq from ambush attacks and roadside bombings on Thursday. Three were working at a bakery, two were other civilians and one was a U.S. military member. The U.S. military also reported Thursday that a U.S. soldier died from wounds received Tuesday. In another development, kidnappers released U.S. freelance reporter Jill Carroll unharmed Thursday after nearly three months in captivity. (Full story) At least one worker was injured in the minibus attack. The refinery where the victims worked is north of Baghdad. It is the largest in Iraq, with a daily production level of about 8.5 million liters (2.2 million gallons) of gasoline, 7.5 million liters (2 million gallons) of diesel and 6.5 million liters (1.7 million gallons) of white oil. Insurgents frequently attack the refinery and threaten workers there. The deadly attack on the Amin bakery shop in the Dora neighborhood of southern Baghdad Thursday morning also involved gunmen, emergency police said. It came a day after an ambush on another business, a Baghdad trading company, in which gunmen dressed as Iraqi commandos killed eight employees. (Full story) The two other civilians killed Thursday died in separate bomb attacks. One bomb exploded near an Iraqi police patrol in southeastern Baghdad in the morning; the other exploded near Baquba, about 37 miles north of Baghdad. A third roadside bomb exploded near a fire department in northern Baghdad, wounding six civilians. And a suicide car bomb wounded at least five Iraqi police commandos on patrol near their compound in Baghdad's Yarmouk neighborhood. About five other people were wounded in the morning blast as well. The U.S. military member was killed, and one wounded, near Baghdad, when a bomb detonated during military operations Thursday, according to the U.S. Central Command's Air Forces Forward statement. Both men were assigned to the 447th Air Expeditionary Group, according to the military. The victims' names have not been released. The U.S. military also reported Thursday the death of a U.S. soldier from wounds he received in enemy action in Anbar province west of Baghdad on Tuesday. The military said he was assigned to the 9th Naval Construction Regiment. The deaths brought the U.S. troop death toll in the Iraq war to 2,326. 'Undeclared' detention facility foundMilitary forces in Baghdad found an "undeclared" detention facility holding 17 foreign nationals, a U.S. military official disclosed Thursday. The discovery was made during a Sunday night raid, conducted after the military received intelligence and shared it with Iraqi authorities, said Maj. Gen. Rick Lynch at a press conference. Inside the facility were 16 Sudanese and one Egyptian, Lynch said. "They weren't being tortured. They were, indeed, well cared for. But it was an undeclared detention facility of 17 foreign nationals. Those individuals were taken away for medical care to make sure," he said. Interior Ministry personnel at the site were questioned, Lynch said, and an inspection found overcrowding but no signs of abuse. Authorities have conducted unannounced inspections of Interior, Justice and Defense Ministry detention centers after reports of detainee abuse at detention facilities operated by the Shiite-led government. CNN's Mohammed Tawfeeq and Mike Mount contributed to this report. 
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