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Thursday August 7th, 2003

As of Tuesday, Aug. 5, 251 U.S. soldiers have died since the beginning of military operations in Iraq, according to the Department of Defense.

Two U.S. soldiers were killed and one was wounded, along with an Iraqi interpreter, in a gunbattle in Baghdad, the U.S. military said on Thursday.

Kurdish leaders have refused a US request to allow 12,000 Turkish troops through northern Iraq for a possible peacekeeping assignment in the city of Falluja, a Kurdish official said on Wednesday.

The U.S. Army, which has a Special-Forces base in the area that also has come under fire in the past week, blames most of these incidents on an old bogey man – a rejuvenated Taliban.

By the time the war against Iraq began, much of the media had been conditioned to believe, almost as an article of faith, that Saddam Hussein's Iraq was bulging with chemical and biological weapons, despite years of United Nations inspections.

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