Apparent suicide attacker’ targets US military base
“There was some kind of event, it may have been a suicide attack,” the official told reporters in Baghdad when queried about reports of a suicide attack on US forces there. There was no immediate word on casualties. Ramadi, about 60 miles west of Baghdad, lies in a swathe of territory north and west of the capital where US troops have faced persistent attacks from guerrillas they call loyalists of ousted President Saddam Hussein.
US forces were hoping to steadily withdraw from Ramadi and hand the majority of security and policing operations over to Iraqi forces by January. A suicide car bomb attack on a military base in the northern city of Mosul earlier this week wounded nearly 60 US soldiers, several of them seriously.
