A U.S. soldier carries giant scissors during the opening ceremony of a Micro-Power Generation plant in central Baghdad September 4, 2008. REUTERS/Mohammed Ameen (IRAQ) From Yahoo News/AP:
BAGHDAD - A roadside bomb killed two American soldiers patrolling eastern Baghdad on Thursday, the U.S. military said, announcing the first combat deaths in the capital in a week.
With security vastly improved in Baghdad since the U.S. troop buildup last year, the number of American soldiers killed on the streets of the Iraqi capital has declined sharply.
The casualties were the first suffered by the American military in the capital since Aug. 28 when a soldier was killed in a roadside bombing. Another soldier died Tuesday in Baghdad of non-hostile causes, the military said.
The latest deaths brought to at least 4,153 the number of U.S. military members who have died in the Iraq war since it began in March 2003, according to an Associated Press count.
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Update: US Military Deaths In Iraq War At 4,152 -- CBS News
My Comment: In the past I would not even bother with writing a post on the deaths of two brave men, there was just too much death and destruction to even contemplate such a post. But this is now a rarity in Iraq, with peace being the direction that Iraq is now going to. And that's that.
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