September Among Deadliest Months for U.S. in Iraq
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September was one of the deadliest  months for U.S. troops in the 18-month-old war in Iraq, and the  death toll for the first time has risen four straight months.
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WASHINGTON -- Conditions in Iraq will not improve sufficiently by September to justify a drawdown of US military forces, the top American commander in Iraq said yesterday.
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WASHINGTON -- Iraq is a nation gripped by fear and struggling to meet security and political goals by September, US officials cautioned from Baghdad yesterday, dashing hopes in Congress that the country will show more signs of stability this summer.
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September was supposed to be the decisive month, when either antiwar sentiment pushed Republicans to back Democratic calls for troop withdrawals, or progress in Baghdad won President Bush time to pursue his counterinsurgency strategy. It would all be clearer, lawmakers on both sides of the debate...
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Roadside bombs in Iraq escalated to record levels this summer -- to  about four times the number of January 2004 -- as tips from Iraqi citizens warning of the bombs and other attacks have dropped sharply amid a flaring of sectarian violence, according to a senior U.S. defense official.
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Thirty-one U.S. troops died in a  helicopter crash in Iraq and five more were killed in insurgent  attacks Wednesday, the deadliest day for American forces since  they invaded the country 22 months ago.
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Sixteen American troops died in Iraq in the first three days of June, marking a bloody start to the month as the U.S. military presses on with its crackdown on sectarian violence in Baghdad.
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The American death toll in Iraq topped 1,000 on Tuesday nearly 18 months after President Bush launched the war that has become a central issue in the November U.S. presidential elections.
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Six U.S. soldiers were killed in five separate attacks across Iraq on Saturday, the U.S. military said on Sunday, days after it recorded its deadliest monthly toll in more than two years.
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Thirty-one U.S. troops died in a  helicopter crash in Iraq and six more were killed in insurgent  attacks on the deadliest day for American forces since they  invaded the country 22 months ago.
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Tens of thousands of Iraqis have been  killed in violence since the U.S.-led invasion last year,  American public health experts have calculated in a report that  estimates there were 100,000 "excess deaths" in 18 months.
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Ten US troops are killed in Iraq, officials say, making May the deadliest month this year for the US military.
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The number of civilians killed in Iraq jumped to nearly 2,000 in May, the highest monthly toll since the start of a U.S.-backed security crackdown in February, according to figures released on Saturday.
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HILLA, Iraq  - The top U.S. military commander in Iraq on Thursday promised the truth from a progress report on the country that he will deliver to Washington in September.
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Gunmen in police uniforms kidnapped five Britons in Baghdad on Tuesday and the deaths of 10 U.S. soldiers were announced, making May the deadliest month for the U.S. military in more than two years.
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An aide of the head of al-Qaida in Iraq was arrested last week, and U.S. and Iraqi forces killed or captured more than 600 suspected members of the terrorist group in September, the top U.S. military spokesman in Iraq said Wednesday.
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Thirty-one U.S. troops died in a  helicopter crash in Iraq and six more were killed in insurgent  attacks on Wednesday, the deadliest day for American forces  since they invaded the country 22 months ago.