Three car bombs went off west of Baghdad on Tuesday afternoon in an apparently well-coordinated string of attacks by resistance fighters in the Sunni town of Ramadi.
According to eyewitnesses, one bomb was detonated beside a US convoy as it passed through the town's center. Only minutes later, reported Reuters, a suicide truck bomber drove a truck of explosives into a building used by US forces, causing part of it to collapse.
Just as US troops arrived at the scene to help those injured in the first blasts, a third bomb that had been planted in a nearby car was detonated.
One US military vehicle was damaged and three Iraqis were injured in the blasts. US military sources have not released word of any Americans injured.
Ramadi has been the site of many such attacks since American forces arrived in the region.
