US troops surge into Iraq as death toll mounts
by Daniel Howden
The Independent
Published: 22 January 2007
The first troops in President George Bush's "surge" arrived in Baghdad yesterday to the news that America had suffered its deadliest day in Iraq for nearly two years.
As 3,000 of the expected 20,000-plus new troops deployed in Baghdad, the Pentagon announced that four soldiers and a marine had been killed on Saturday in Anbar province raising that day's toll among American forces to at least 24.
The number of British troops killed also inched up as the Army announced that a soldier was killed and four wounded yesterday by a roadside bomb in Basra. [...]
Read more via The Independent.
The Independent
Published: 22 January 2007
The first troops in President George Bush's "surge" arrived in Baghdad yesterday to the news that America had suffered its deadliest day in Iraq for nearly two years.
As 3,000 of the expected 20,000-plus new troops deployed in Baghdad, the Pentagon announced that four soldiers and a marine had been killed on Saturday in Anbar province raising that day's toll among American forces to at least 24.
The number of British troops killed also inched up as the Army announced that a soldier was killed and four wounded yesterday by a roadside bomb in Basra. [...]
Read more via The Independent.
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