US Death Rate Down in Iraq Since January Elections
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The rate of U.S. deaths in the Iraq war has fallen sharply since the historic January elections as American military leaders tout progress against the insurgency but warn of a long road ahead.
March is on pace for the lowest monthly U.S. military death toll in 13 months, and the rate of American fatalities has fallen by about 50 percent since the parliamentary elections in which millions of Iraqis defied insurgents to cast ballots.
Inclination to appoint a Sunni minister of defense in Iraq, scores of gunmen killedIraq, Politics, 3/24/2005
Heavy losses were inflicted on gunmen in Iraq as 86 of them were killed in a violent battle to the west of Tikrit city, to the north of Baghdad, and they thereby lost the largest number in their lines in a single day since the Falluja fighting in November 2004.A statement by the American- Iraqi military coordination said that Iraqi special forces supported by American land and air forces killed the gunmen in an attack against a training camp including foreigners in al-Helweh area near al-Tharthar lake.
