Meanwhile, In Hell...

Lest we forget just how shitty life is in the land that Bush built:

BAGHDAD -- A suicide car bomber rammed into a convoy of U.S. and Iraqi vehicles accompanying the governor of the volatile Anbar province through the city of Ramadi today, leaving a number of casualties, police and hospital officials in the provincial capital said.

Gov. Mamoun Sami Rasheed's condition was unknown.

Meanwhile, violence took the lives of at least 30 others in Iraq, including at least one American soldier reported killed after a roadside bomb struck his vehicle south of Baghdad on Monday night.

The day's violence came as Iraq's squabbling Sunni, Shiite and Kurdish factions prepared to convene parliament tomorrow, in part to reopen potentially divisive talks on the constitution.

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The suicide bomber in Ramadi killed at least three Iraqi civilians, as well as some of those trapped inside several burning vehicles, police said. U.S. forces quickly cordoned off the area.

Witnesses claimed there were U.S. casualties, but there was no official confirmation. Several civilians were killed and injured in gunfire, witnesses said.

In other violent attacks, Iraqi police and witnesses reported that an American soldier was killed by a sniper north of Baghdad in the Mashada area. The military has not confirmed the death.