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US postwar death toll in Iraq hits new milestone: report

The number of US soldiers killed incombat in postwar Iraq has climbed past the number killed before May 1 when US President George W. Bush announced the over of majormilitary campaign in Iraq, the British Guardian newspaper reported Thursday.


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The number of US soldiers killed in combat in postwar Iraq has climbed past the number killed before May 1 when US President George W. Bush announced the over of major military campaign in Iraq, the British Guardian newspaper reported Thursday.

Two US soldiers were killed Wednesday by a roadside bomb about 75 miles north of Baghdad, bringing US combat fatalities to 116 since May 1, the paper said. Between March 20, when coalition forces invaded Iraq, and May 1, 115 US troops were killed in combat.

According to the paper, the almost daily causalities, many of them aged 21 or younger, are beginning to impact on the US domestic agenda and, with the presidential election looming next year, could put pressure on Bush to get out of Iraq as soon as possible.

The paper quoted an official from the US-British coalition headquarters in Baghdad as saying that the coalition was urgently looking at ways to transfer some security responsibilities.

The source admitted that the pattern of attacks on Iraqis working for or allied with the US-led occupying forces, such as police officers, was a blow to efforts to persuade more Iraqis to join in administering the country and playing a greater role in providing security.

Iraq has seen a spate of deadly attacks this week. In the flashpoint Iraqi town of Falluja, west of Baghdad, a suicide bomber on Tuesday blew up a car, killing himself and at least five civilians near a police station.

It came after at least 34 people were killed and more than 220 people wounded Monday when a series of explosions rocked central Baghdad, with one on the headquarters of the International Committee of the Red Cross.


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