BAGHDAD, Iraq — While Sunni politicians pressed for inclusion in the new government despite their boycott of last Sunday's election, the Sunni-fueled insurgency continued unabated yesterday.

A U.S. Marine was killed during "security and stability operations" in Babil province south of Baghdad, the U.S. command said. Two U.S. soldiers were killed in a roadside bombing late Friday near the town of Beiji, about 155 miles north of Baghdad.

The deaths brought to at least 1,447 the number of U.S. service members who have died in Iraq since the war began in March 2003.

A roadside bomb killed four Iraqi national guardsmen early yesterday in Basra, Iraq's second-largest city. Gunmen stormed a police station in the northern city of Mosul, killing five officers, police said. Elsewhere, insurgents assassinated a member of the Baghdad City Council, Abbas Hasan Waheed, and a member of Iraq's intelligence service in separate drive-by shootings.

Bombs and clashes killed seven Iraqis in Samarra and Tal Afar, north of Baghdad, and in Ramadi, to the west.

Eight bodies were found yesterday in Anbar province: five in Ramadi and three in the town of Baghdadi. Residents said they were thought to be Iraqis who worked for the Americans or Iraqi security services.

The extremist Ansar al-Sunnah Army posted a video on an Islamist Web site showing seven people being shot. The group said the seven were Iraqi national guardsmen captured two days ago in an ambush west of Baghdad.

Meanwhile, in a bid to avoid marginalization, a group of Sunni Arab parties that refused to participate in the election said yesterday it wants to take part in the drafting of a permanent constitution, a chief task of the new national assembly.

"The representatives of these political bodies that did not participate in the elections have decided in principle to take part in the writing of the permanent constitution in a suitable way," a statement from the group said.

The parties are mainly small movements, and it was not clear whether they represent a major portion of the Sunni Arab community.