US general wounded by roadside bomb in Baghdad

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BAGHDAD, Oct 30 (Reuters): A US general was wounded by a roadside bomb that exploded beside his convoy in northern
Baghdad on Monday, the highest-ranking American soldier to be wounded since the start of the war, the US military said. Brigadier General Jeffrey Dorko, commanding general of the
Gulf Region Division of the US Army Corps of Engineers, had been evacuated out of Iraq for treatment, a spokesman said.