Reply #30: MSNBC: 825 U.S. military killed in Iraq in past year

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http://msnbc.msn.com/id/8202434/

The military announced the killing of four more U.S. soldiers over the weekend, pushing the American death toll past 1,700 -- more than double what it was a year ago.

Since last June 13 -- when 825 members of the U.S. military had died in Iraq -- the insurgency that took shape with the fall of Saddam Hussein has increased its toll on American forces and Iraqi soldiers and civilians alike.

Separately, Reuters reported that a senior U.S. diplomat survived on Monday when a suicide car bomber struck a U.S. military convoy in Baghdad. The report cited several police sources although the U.S. embassy said it was unaware of the incident.

A spokesman for the Iraqi Islamic Party, a major Sunni Muslim grouping, said the official had just left its compound in western Baghdad when the explosion went off.



U.S. soldiers cover the body of a comrade killed when a roadside bomb detonated as their patrol drove by in southern Baghdad on Saturday.