Fatal Bomb Blasts End Relative Calm in Iraq Azhar Shallal/Agence France-Presse - Getty Images A crane removed the debris of a vehicle following a car bomb in the center of the city of Ramadi, Anbar provincial capital, in western Iraq on May 13, 2012. BAGHDAD - Bomb blasts aimed largely at security forces in western and central Iraq killed six people and wounded several more on Sunday, a relatively violent day after a few weeks of calm across the country. Just a few years ago, the day's toll would have been a footnote in the relentless killing roiling Iraq, when it was not uncommon for 100 people to be killed in one day of bombings, assassinations, and fighting between militants and Iraqi and American forces. So far this month, 60 people have died in attacks, according to United Nations statistics, and 320 were killed in April. In Falluja, once a violent core of anti-American militancy, a car bomb aimed at an Iraqi Army patrol killed two soldiers and wounded three others. In Ramadi, another heavily Sunni Muslim town in western Anbar Province, two police officers were killed by a bomb near a marketplace. In the Shiite city of Hilla, two civilians were killed when an improvised bomb exploded in a residential neighborhood, according to local security forces. The United States Embassy in Baghdad also released a statement on Sunday expressing support for a police-training program - one of the largest and costliest endeavors by the United States here after the military withdrawal - in response to a report by The New York Times a day earlier saying that the program had been scaled back and could be scrapped after facing resistance from Iraqi officials. In the statement, embassy officials said they had no plans to shut down the training program. In an April report to Congress, the special inspector general for Iraq reconstruction said that the program had faced "an array of challenges since its inception."