Wednesday, November 5, 2008

pln 7

In the article “suicide bomber” by the Denver post. A suicide bomber rammed his car into a police patrol on the road Wednesday killing six people and wounding 12 others. The heavily secured highway leading from central Baghdad to the capital's airport was once among the most dangerous stretches in Iraq. Insurgents staged almost daily attacks with roadside bombs and automatic weapons on U.S military convoys and civilian vehicles traveling to and from downtown Baghdad. But security has improved markedly on the highway in the past 18 months ago. Also Wednesday, two U.S. soldiers were wounded in a roadside bomb attack near the town of Karmah as they responded to reports of a bomb in the area, the U.S. military said. Two Iraqis were killed, while an Iraqi interpreter, two Iraqi Army soldiers and 11 civilians were wounded in the bombing. An Iraqi security official said the U.S. troops were injured as they rushed to the site of an earlier roadside bomb attack that killed a prominent leader. The term for mostly Sunni groups that have joined forces with the Americans against al-Qaida in Iraq. Elsewhere, one policeman died and three more were wounded when their patrol hit a roadside bomb in Amarah southeast of Baghdad, police said. Wednesday's violence follows a series of bombings in Baghdad this week that have killed more than 30 people, and underscore that insurgents still pose a threat. Meanwhile, the U.S. military said an American soldier died of non-combat related causes. I think they should have armored car or something to where there would only be miner injures. Or be more cautious about their surroundings in Iraq. And make security allot better than it is.

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