Reply #228: USA Today: Pace of troop deaths up in Iraq

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Pace of troop deaths up in Iraq

More lost since hand-over than in the year before it

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By Rick Jervis
USA TODAY

BAGHDAD — U.S. military deaths in Iraq increased by about one-third in the past year, even as Iraq established its own government and assumed more responsibility for battling the insurgency.

At least 882 U.S. troops died in the 12 months through Thursday, up from 657 in the preceding year, according to a USA TODAY analysis of Defense Department numbers. Iraqis assumed sovereignty a year ago this week, part of a U.S. strategy to lessen the visibility of U.S. troops and shift more responsibility for security to Iraq forces.

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“The insurgency is shifting all the time,” Maj. Gen. William Webster, commander of U.S. troops in Baghdad, said recently. “This is a learning enemy.”

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