TUZ KHORMATO, Iraq, July 08, SPA - A suicide truck bomber blasted a town north of Baghdad on Saturday, killing more than 100 people, police said, in a sign insurgents are pulling away from a U.S. offensive around the capital to attack where security is thinner. The top U.S. commander in Iraq, Gen. David Petraeus, told The Associated Press he expected extremists to try to "pull off a variety of sensational attacks and grab the headlines to create a `mini-Tet.' He was referring to the 1968 Viet Cong and North Vietnamese Tet offensive that undermined public support for the Vietnam War in the United States. The U.S. military on Saturday also reported that eight American service members were killed in fighting in Baghdad and western Anbar province over two days, reflecting the increased U.S. casualties that have come with the new offensives. A British soldier was killed in fighting with militias overnight in the southern city of Basra.--SPA www.spa.gov.sa/465670