Number of GIs killed and wounded grows rapidly

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http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/14/iraq/main643404.shtml

219 GIs Wounded In Past Week

WASHINGTON, Sept. 14, 2004

< (CBS/AP) More than 200 U.S. troops were wounded in Iraq in the past week, the Pentagon said Tuesday, and the total since the invasion was launched in March 2003 is now 7,245.

Of the 219 wounded in the past week, 81 were returned to duty; the 138 others were not.

The number of Americans killed and wounded has grown rapidly amid an intensifying and increasingly effective insurgency. There were more wounded over the past five months — about 4,000 — than in the first 13 months of the war, when there were about 3,300, according to Pentagon reports. <snip>