Awful news. "Nine U.S. soldiers were killed and 20 were wounded Monday in a suicide car bombing" in Diyala province, the AP is reporting. That has to make it one of the deadliest bombings against American forces since the war began.
Meanwhile, Nineveh's provincial government has imposed "a ban... on large vehicles and water tankers" in Mosul after a car bombing there. "Unaccompanied drivers will be 'shot on sight,'" says Iraqslogger.