Record July US troop death toll in Iraq

August 4, 2007
Issue 
720

While the US corporate media trumpeted on the last day of July that US troop fatalities in Iraq were the "lowest for eight months", according to the final Pentagon figure for the month, 80 US soldiers were killed — one less than the number killed in March. The July 2007 death toll was the highest of any July since the war began and was almost double the number killed in July 2006, when 43 US troops died. As of August 1, total US troop fatalities in Iraq since the March 19, 2003, invasion had reached 3659. As of June 30, a total of 54,100 US troops had been wounded since the invasion, with 35,600 of them requiring medical air evacuation out of Iraq.

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