Summary
YESTERDAY was a bad day for British casualties in Iraq, with two soldiers killed in Basra and two journalists blown up in Baghdad.
The death toll of British service personnel in Iraq this month has now reached nine. This is the second-highest monthly casualty figure since the overthrow of Saddam Hussein, only being surpassed by the ten soldiers and airmen killed when an RAF Hercules was shot down in January 2005. Some 113 British personnel have now died in Iraq since the end of hostilities.See the full content of this document
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Leader: How Many More Will Be Killed?
If the monthly tally of deaths starts to creep up as it has done in May, it will not be long before the electorate grows restive about keeping British soldiers in what is now a sovereign country with an elected government and its own army.
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