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Military death toll in Iraq and Afghanistan passes Nine-Eleven toll
 
  PENTAGON War casualty numbers from the Pentagon show the number of U-S military deaths in the war on terror have now surpassed the death toll from Nine-Eleven. It happened today.

The latest dead include an as-yet unidentified soldier was killed Thursday after his vehicle was hit by a roadside bomb in eastern Baghdad.

Combined with 278 deaths in Afghanistan, that surpasses the 29-hundred-73 victims in New York, Washington and Pennsylvania.

Almost ten times more Americans have died in Iraq than in Afghanistan.

The Pentagon reports 56 military deaths and one civilian Defense Department death in other parts of the world from Operation Enduring Freedom, the anti-terrorism war distinct from Iraq.

Altogether, three-thousand-31 have died abroad since Nine-Eleven.
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