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BAGHDAD, Iraq - American troop deaths in Iraq hit their highest monthly total in a year on Thursday but as U.S. forces clamped down on the capital militants struck in a city to the north, where 30 police and gunmen were killed in a series of shootouts.
The latest U.S. deaths - a Navy sailor and four Marines - all were killed Wednesday in the volatile Anbar province west of Baghdad and a hotbed of Sunni resistance to U.S. forces and their Iraqi government allies.See the full content of this document
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October Deadliest Month for U.S. Troops Since 2005
At least 96 U.S. troops have died so far this month, equaling the level for the whole of October 2005 - a factor in rising anti-war sentiment in the United States that has prompted calls for President Bush to change strategy. There have been only three mont...
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