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Increasing Iraqi death toll

August 26, 2004 islamoyankee

The number of US servicemen killed in 2004 exceeds the number killed in 2003.

We are fast closing in on a 1000 servicemen killed since the beginning of operations in Iraq. Almost all will have died after President Bush declared “Mission Accomplished.”

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