A suicide bomber detonated an explosives-laden vehicle near the restive central city of Ramadi, killing 11 Iraqi police commandos and injured 14 other people including two U.S. Army soldiers, the U.S. military said Friday. The Thursday evening blast at a checkpoint on the eastern outskirts of Ramadi also wounded nine Iraqi security-force members and three civilians, bringing the list of victims to 25, U.S. Marine Capt. Jeffrey Pool told The Associated Press. The attacker also died in the explosion near the flashpoint Sunni Triangle city of Ramadi, 115 kilometers (70 miles) west of Baghdad. In an eastern Baghdad neighborhood, unidentified attackers killed five female translators working for the U.S. military late Thursday, said police Capt. Ahmed Aboud. The translators "were heading home when gunmen driving two cars sprayed them with machine-gun fire," said Aboud on Friday. Further details weren't immediately available.
