more insane chaos in Iraq

Saddam Trial Defense Lawyer Shot Dead
Four More American Soldiers Killed on Thursday

BAGHDAD, Iraq (Oct. 21) - A defense lawyer in Saddam Hussein's mass murderm trial has been found dead, his body dumped near a Baghdad mosque with two gunshots to the head, police and a top lawyers union official said Friday.

In other violence, four U.S. service members were killed in two attacks Thursday, the U.S. military said. Three Marines died when a bomb hit their patrol in the village of Nasser wa Salam, 25 miles west of Baghdad, and other American troops clashed with gunmen, killing two insurgents and capturing four, the military said.
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Nineteen Americans have been killed in the past week. The latest deaths brought to 1,992 the number of members of the U.S. military who have died since the beginning of the war in 2003, according to an Associated Press count.

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It never even slows down over there! Are we doing anything there?!