A U.S. soldier was killed in a roadside bomb blast in Baghdad on Wednesday, the U.S. military said on Thursday. The military said the soldier was taking part in an operation in north-central Baghdad when he was killed. Rockets Hit Several Targets in Baghdad About half a dozen rockets slammed into central Baghdad Thursday in resistance attacks on several targets in the city, witnesses said, but there were no immediate reports of deaths. Rockets hit a hotel used by Westerners, an apartment block and the area where the headquarters of the U.S.-led administration is situated shortly after 6 a.m. The lift area between the eighth and ninth floors of the Ishtar Sheraton Hotel was struck. Debris and shattered glass littered the hotel's lobby. A manager at the hotel said there were no casualties. The hotel was hit in another attack late Wednesday, but once again there were no casualties. A U.S. military spokesman said three or four rockets struck in the vicinity of the U.S.-led Coalition Provisional Authority complex in the center of Baghdad on the western bank of the Tigris River. **PHOTO CAPTION*** U.S soldiers attend midnight Christmas mass at a Chapel in Baghdad International Airport, Iraq (news - web sites), Thursday Dec. 25, 2003. (AP Photo/Muhammed Muheisen)