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Tuesday August 5th, 2003

The US Army has sent a team of specialists to discover what is causing a number of serious cases of pneumonia among its troops serving in Iraq. Officials say more than 100 soldiers have caught pneumonia since the beginning of March.

The missing weapons of mass destruction in Iraq have embarrassed the Bush administration, which had assured the world they would be about as hard to find as moisture in Seattle. But the controversy has had one clear benefit to the president: distracting the American people from an even bigger fraud.

US military casualties from the occupation of Iraq have been more than twice the number most Americans have been led to believe because of an extraordinarily high number of accidents, suicides and other non-combat deaths in the ranks that have gone largely unreported in the media.

Reports say U.S. troops in Iraq sustained new attacks today, with casualties reported in Baghdad.

WARDAK, Afghanistan - Two months after a gun attack, the bullet holes in the Datsun sedan have been patched and it runs beautifully. But water engineer Asil Kahn walks with a limp and he still has two bullets in his body, one of them half an inch from his spine.

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