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US soldier, interpreter killed in Iraq ambush

REUTERS, Baghdad
A US soldier and an Iraqi interpreter have been killed in an attack in Baghdad, adding to a mounting toll of casualties that is putting pressure on Washington to scale back its role in Iraq.
They died as Iraq's week-old self-rule body wrestled again with the thorny issue of who will lead the US-appointed Governing Council. With many Iraqis also keen to be rid of the occupying forces and rule themselves now that Saddam Hussein is gone, the Council seems to many to be making slow progress.
A US military spokesman said the soldier, from the 1st Airborne Division, and the interpreter were killed when an improvised bomb went off and they were shot at on a highway.
A local journalist watched as a US military vehicle blew up in broad daylight in the capital. A Reuters photographer later saw
two burnt out Humvee vehicles there, 100 metres (yards) apart, apparently the aftermath of the fatal incident.
Five US soldiers, as well as the interpreter and an Iraqi driver for the UN, have been killed since Friday, bringing to 38 the number of US deaths at enemy hands since May 1, when President George W. Bush declared an end to major combat.
Local residents in the restive town of Ramadi, west of Baghdad, said US troops had come under fire there, too, on Monday and said at least one soldier may have been hit.
Bush's man in Iraq, Paul Bremer, said in Washington on Sunday that the attacks were the work of "professional killers" loyal to Saddam and that US forces would arm Iraqis to help fight them. Recruiting for a new Iraqi army began this weekend.
Bremer is in the United States to brief the president. Bush's domestic critics are calling for more rapid
signs of an exit strategy that will let the troops come home and leave behind the stable, democratic Iraq that the invaders promised.
"We have 60 to 90 days to get things straightened out," Joseph Biden, the senior Democrat on the US Senate Foreign Relations Committee, said on Sunday.
A Time/CNN poll found 51 per cent of US respondents had doubts about Bush as a leader, up from 41 percent in March.
US commanders have warned that it may be several months before they can lower their troop strength from 148,000.
There has been little sign that the Governing Council is close to taking on major responsibilities from the Americans.
The 25 members, many of them returned exiles with limited support from the local population and drawn from disparate and often fractious communities, are still discussing forms of rotating the presidency among themselves.
That means they are still some way from the sharing out of ministerial-style portfolios that would mark a real start to Iraqis taking back control of public services. "The important points on the agenda are the Council presidency and selecting a spokesman," Ali Abdul Ameer, spokesman for the Wifaq party.
Violent resistance to the occupation has been concentrated in Baghdad and areas to the west and north that are heartlands of Saddam's fellow Sunni Muslims and where US officials think Saddam himself is probably still in hiding.
However, many in the long-oppressed Shi'ite majority also voice complaints about a perceived failure on the part of the Americans to restore basic services after the war and to hand back power to a local administration.
Turkish Prime Minister Tayyip Erdogan was quoted as saying the United States had asked Ankara to send troops to Iraq.