A top US official meanwhile accused Arab news networks of inciting violence against troops in Iraq, as the coalition announced it was poised to decide what to do with the bodies of Saddam's dead sons.

The soldier was killed early Sunday and another wounded in a grenade attack near a bridge in Al-Haswat, 30 kilometers (20 miles) south of Baghdad, a military spokesman said.

The coalition lost four US soldiers on Saturday, three of whom were killed in a grenade attack while on guard duty at a children's hospital in Baqubah, northeast of Baghdad.

The fourth was killed west of Baghdad in a small arms and rocket-propelled grenade attack, Central Command said.

Ten soldiers have now died in attacks since Saddam's sons Uday and Qusay were killed in the northern town of Mosul in a huge US swoop last Tuesday.

A senior coalition official dismissed the attacks as reflective of an extremist fringe. "What is clear are these are not disenchanted Iraqis. These attacks are taking place in banks and childrens' hospitals," the official said.

"These are people trying to destabilize the country ... They're trying to turn back the progress."

US Major General Ray Odierno said Friday the capture of as many as 10 Saddam bodyguards following a tip-off meant the coalition was tightening the noose around Saddam.

The coalition has warned that not accounting for the former Iraqi strongman and other top officials is fueling the resistance movement.

Arab news networks are also encouraging violence against US troops in Iraq, the US deputy secretary of defense charged Saturday, singling out the Qatar-based Al-Jazeera channel and Dubai-based Al-Arabiya which he said were "slanting news incredibly".

"We're talking to the owners of these stations and asking for some balance," Paul Wolfowitz said.

"What I'm complaining of are false reporting and very biased reporting that has the effect of inciting violence against our troops, and these governments should stop and realize that this is not a game, that they are endangering the lives of American troops," he added.

The coalition announced Sunday it would decide how to dispose of the bodies of Uday and Qusay -- both killed in a four-hour battle against overwhelming US force -- in the next 24 hours.

A senior official said the country's US-sponsored 25-member Governing Council and religious figures had been consulted.

Council member Samir Shaker Mahmud al-Sumaydi said the executive body had recommended the corpses be given to the family for burial.

Following continued US efforts to convince key allies to commit troops to Iraq, Turkey said Sunday it needed time to study Washington's request to participate in a stabilization force and take the issue before the cabinet.

"This is not an issue that can be resolved in a few days," Turkish Foreign Minister Abdullah Gul said following a three-day visit to the United States.

Britain's new envoy to Iraq Jeremy Greenstock meanwhile said in an interview with the BBC that Saddam, once captured, should be brought to trial and not killed like his sons.

"I would like to see him brought before a court, but that is in the hands of the military team looking for him," he said. "I would say it is quite important to do that."

Greenstock was backed in his call by prominent Governing Council member Ahmed Chalabi.

"He has to account for the mass graves of hundreds of thousands of people and for the wars he waged against Iran, Kuwait and the people of Kurdistan," Chalabi said.

Back in Baghdad, a conference of city council representatives voted to officially change the name of the Shiite Muslim shantytown northeast of the capital from Saddam City to Sadr City.

It was named after two prominent clerics, Mohammed Baqer al-Sadr and Mohammed Sadeq al-Sadr, cousins who were killed by Saddam's Baathist regime in 1980 and 1999 respectively.

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