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Article: Truck bomb destroys key bridge in western Iraq
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- October 17, 2009
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A suicide bomber driving a dynamite-laden truck destroyed a key bridge Saturday on a highway used by the departing U.S. military, while separate attacks killed nine Iraqis, most of them security force members, police said.
There were no casualties in the blast that destroyed the bridge outside the city of Ramadi, which is about 70 miles (125 kilometers) west of Baghdad, said a local police officer. The highway is used heavily by the U.S. military to transport equipment out of the country. It is also a major roadway for civilian traffic.
The highway links Iraq to neighboring Syria and Jordan, where many Iraqis fled to escape sectarian violence.
Also Saturday, an attack on ...