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Article: Suicide truck bombing destroys key bridge in Iraq
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- The Boston Globe (Boston, MA)
- Article date:
- October 18, 2009
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BAGHDAD - A suicide bomber driving a dynamite-laden truck
yesterday destroyed a key bridge on a highway used by the departing
US military, while separate attacks killed nine Iraqis, most of them
security force members, police said.
No one else died in the blast that ruined the bridge outside the
city of Ramadi, which is about 70 miles west of Baghdad, a local
police officer said. The highway is used heavily by the US military
to transport equipment out of the country. It is also a major
roadway for civilian traffic.
The highway links Iraq to Syria and Jordan, where many Iraqis
fled to escape sectarian violence.
Also yesterday, an attack on an Iraqi Army convoy just outside of
the city of ...