Last week we heard that the death toll in the Iraq War may be as high as 600,000 people. And now it looks like October may be the deadliest month yet.
Ten more American soldiers were killed in Iraq in the past 24 hours, raising the death
toll for October to 69. The Muslim season of Ramadan has been violent
in each of the four years U.S. troops have been in Iraq. We never hear the daily Iraqi civilian death toll but we can only imagine…
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this year, as American troops get more involved in the struggle for
control of Baghdad, they are increasingly caught in a crossfire between
Shiite and Sunni militias gunning for one another.The
deadliest month for American troops in the war was November of 2004,
when 137 died, most of them fighting to recapture Falluja.But
as a more complex battle rages within the Iraqi capital, military
analyst John Pike says October may see casualties again approaching
that level."October, at the rate we’re at now," Pike
says, "it looks like there will be well over 100 Americans killed in
action and well over one-thousand wounded this month."
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