Three U.S. troops killed in Iraq

Source: reuters

http://www.reuters.com/article/newsOne/idUSL0667667620071114

Three U.S. troops killed in Iraq
Wed Nov 14, 2007 1:51am EST




By Paul Tait

BAGHDAD (Reuters) - Three U.S. soldiers were killed in two separate incidents in northern Iraq, the U.S. military said on Wednesday, the latest casualties in what has been the deadliest year of the war for U.S. forces.

In Baghdad, a roadside bomb killed one civilian and wounded two just outside the heavily fortified Green Zone compound that houses the U.S. embassy and government ministries, police said.

The explosion in central Baghdad shook buildings in the Green Zone, and was one of the loudest heard in the capital in weeks after a lull in attacks that had become almost a daily occurrence earlier this year.


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Their deaths took the total of U.S. soldiers killed in Iraq to 3,863, according to the independent Web site icasualties.org, which tracks military and civilian casualties in Iraq.

U.S. military and Iraqi civilian casualties dropped sharply in the previous two months, with a boost of 30,000 extra troops, improving Iraqi security forces and the growing use of neighborhood police units being credited for the declines.

However, about 860 U.S. troops have been killed so far this year, the worst annual total since the U.S.-led invasion to topple Saddam Hussein in 2003. The previous worst yearly total was in 2004, when 849 U.S. soldiers were killed.

U.S. President George W. Bush sent the extra troops to Iraq in a last-ditch bid to stop Iraq from spiraling into sectarian civil war between majority Shi'ites and minority Sunni Arabs who were dominant under Saddam.

is slowly disappearing, not that it was prevalent, from the msm. The current administration is good at keeping it off the front pages........... :shrug: what to do?