From Washington Post:
BAGHDAD, Dec. 28 -- A roadside bomb killed a U.S. soldier in Baghdad's Shiite slum of Sadr City on Sunday, and an Iraqi was killed when a suicide bomber riding a bicycle blew himself up amid a mass rally against Israel's airstrikes on Gaza.
The two attacks were demonstrations of the violence that still flares up in Iraq as the government prepares to take responsibility for security from the U.S. military in a few days.
A spokesman for the U.S. military, Army Capt. Charles Calio, said the soldier was killed by a roadside bomb that targeted an American convoy. He said there were no other casualties and the name of the soldier was being withheld pending notification of family.
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