American soldier killed in Ramadi
A US soldier assigned to the 2nd Marine Division was killed in a suicide car bomb attack near the western city of Ramadi, the US military said today.
It said the soldier was killed yesterday during combat operations near the restive city of Ramadi, 70 miles west of Baghdad. The name of the soldier was withheld pending notification of next of kin.
The soldier was the eighth American service member killed by hostile fire in the Baghdad area since Thursday.
That brought to at least 2,143 the number of US military members who have died since the war began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
