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Archive Home > 2009 > January > 01 > U.S. deaths down 65% in Iraq since early 2008

U.S. deaths down 65% in Iraq since early 2008

By The Associated Press / The Bulletin
January 1, 2009

BAGHDAD — U.S. military deaths in Iraq plunged by two-thirds in 2008 from the previous year, a reflection of the improving security following the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency campaign and al-Qaida’s slow retreat from the battlefield.

By comparison, the war in....

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