Seven American soldiers killed in Iraq

BAGHDAD – Bombings killed seven US soldiers in Baghdad and a southern city, the US military said, and the country’s Sunni vice president spoke out against a proposed oil law, clouding the future of a key benchmark for assuring continued US support for the government.

Six of the soldiers were killed on Saturday in a bombing in western Baghdad, the military said in a statement on Sunday. Their interpreter was also killed.The other soldier died in a blast Saturday in Diwaniyah, a mostly Shi’ite city 80 miles south of the capital where radical Shiite militias operate.Two soldiers were wounded in that attack, the military said.Those deaths brought the number of American troops killed in Iraq since Friday to at least 15.Nampa-APTheir interpreter was also killed.The other soldier died in a blast Saturday in Diwaniyah, a mostly Shi’ite city 80 miles south of the capital where radical Shiite militias operate.Two soldiers were wounded in that attack, the military said.Those deaths brought the number of American troops killed in Iraq since Friday to at least 15.Nampa-AP