15 September, 2006

Iraq civil war update

More than 130 people were slain in two days — either killed in attacks or tortured and dumped in rivers or on the city's streets.The average number of weekly attacks increased 15% and Iraqi casualties increased by 51%, compared with the previous three months.

A U.S. Marine was killed in Anbar province. A U.S. soldier was declared missing after a suicide truck bombing a day earlier killed two other soldiers and wounded 30 west of Baghdad. There were six American deaths Thursday and Friday, raising the toll of U.S. service members killed in Iraq since 2003 to 2,678.

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