EFP kills 1 US soldier and Iraqi interpreter in eastern Baghdad

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Source: AP

A sophisticated roadside bomb killed a US soldier and an Iraqi interpreter in eastern Baghdad, the US military said Wednesday.

Three other soldiers were wounded in the attack, the military said in a statement.

The soldiers were on a combat patrol Tuesday when they were struck by an explosively formed penetrator, or EFP, the military said in a statement. They had been returning to a US military base after conducting an escort mission, it said.


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1. Suicide bomb kills 6 in western Iraq

BAGHDAD - A suicide car bomb exploded Wednesday at a police checkpoint guarding a courthouse in Ramadi, killing at least six people in the largest attack on Anbar province's capital in months, police said.

The dead included three women, said Col. Jubair Rashid Naief, a provincial police official. Another 13 people were wounded, he said.

Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad, was once a base for Sunni insurgents but has seen a huge security improvement since many Sunni tribesmen began partnering with U.S. forces last year.

The U.S. military said a sophisticated roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier and an Iraqi interpreter and wounded three other soldiers on patrol Tuesday in eastern Baghdad. The soldiers were returning to a U.S. base after conducting an escort mission when they were struck by an explosively formed penetrator, or EFP, the military said.

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