Truck bomb destroys key bridge in western Iraq

BAGHDAD ' A suicide bomber driving a dynamite-laden truck destroyed a key bridge Saturday on a highway used by the departing US military, while seven Iraqis ' most of them soldiers ' were killed in separate attacks, police said. There were no casualties in the Saturday morning blast that destroyed the bridge, said a police officer in the city of Ramadi, about 70 miles (125 kilometers) west of Baghdad. The highway is used heavily by the US military to transport equipment out of the country. It is also a...

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