Two US soldiers wounded in Baghdad bomb

Roadside bombs exploded near three US convoys in and around Baghdad today, wounding two soldiers.

In the worst attack, a roadside bomb exploded as a US military convoy drove through the Abu Ghraib area on the western outskirts of Baghdad, leaving two soldiers with minor wounds, said US Lt. Jamie Davis, a spokesman for the US army.

Iraqi police 1st Lt. Mohammed Khayon said the US forces then opened fire on people in the area, wounding an Iraqi civilian, but Davis couldn’t confirm that.

Roadside bombs also exploded today near two other US convoys in south-western Baghdad and in the Taji area north of the capital, but no soldiers were wounded, Davis said.

On Monday, a Diplomatic Security agent attached to the US State Department and three private American security guards were killed when their convoy was hit by a suicide car bomber in the northern city of Mosul, the U.S. Embassy in Baghdad said.

US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice, in a statement issued in New York, identified the Diplomatic Security officer as Stephen Eric Sullivan.