Reply #116: Seven soldiers wounded in roadside bomb attack

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http://www.navytimes.com/story.php?f=1-292925-619914.php

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"A pair of car bombs struck U.S. military convoys Wednesday on the dangerous road leading from Baghdad International Airport as insurgents appear to be stepping up attacks on American forces before Sunday’s crucial national elections in Iraq.

U.S. military officials said seven soldiers were wounded in the attacks, which came on the same day that 30 Marines and a sailor died in a helicopter crash in western Iraq."

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"About 10 minutes after the second blast Wednesday afternoon sent a ball of gray smoke mushrooming into the sky, soldiers already had evacuated wounded troops from the scene, leaving behind a Humvee wrecked by the explosion.

The front section of the vehicle had been destroyed, its hood blown off by the blast and wheels burned off. Bits of metal parts lay on the highway, mixed with bottles of Diet Pepsi apparently scattered by the blast."