Death toll of US troops in Iraq passes September 11

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The Independent:

The number of US troops killed in Iraq is now greater than the number of people who died in the terror attack on New York on 11 September 2001, an event unrelated to Saddam Hussein's regime but which the US and Britain used as justification for the invasion.

The milestone was passed when three members of a patrol were killed in a bomb explosion south of Baghdad on Monday. The military announced the death of four more troops yesterday - three in a bombing and a fourth in a vehicle accident. Combined, the US death toll now stands at 2,978 - five more than the number of people killed in the attacks on the World Trade Centre in 2001.