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KITTY PILGRIM: Well, insurgents have killed another
one of our troops in Iraq. A soldier was killed by a
roadside bomb in northern Iraq.
2,869 of our troops have been killed in Iraq since
the war began, 21,778 have been wounded. And of
those, 9,977 have been so seriously wounded they
cannot return to duty.
Over 100 Iraqis were killed in violence there today,
and the new report says October was a deadly month
for Iraqis. More than 3,700 civilians were killed.
Michael Ware reports now from Baghdad.
Now, Michael, what's being done to try to bring the
violence under control?
MICHAEL WARE, CNN CORRESPONDENT: Well, Kitty, despite
all the measures being taken, it seems nothing is
able to control this violence. The United Nations has
found that in October more Iraqi men, women and
children died than in any month since the U.S.
invasion in 2003. That puts the total of civilian
deaths here in Iraq, according to the U.N., at more
than 13,500 in just four months.
Now, a lot of these deaths are coming as a result of
the sectarian violence. We also see the American
mission trying to shore up the new minister of
interior and, of course, the prime minister, Nouri
al-Maliki.
But we also see them putting the Iraqi police through
rescreening and retraining as a result of their
infiltration by militias and death squads while there
has been a dip in violence following the insurgent's
holy month of Ramadan offensive. The Battle for
Baghdad, Operation Together Forward, continues as
coalition forces try to reclaim the capital from Shia
militias, death squads and insurgents.
In the meantime, 2,200 more Marines are being sent to
western Anbar Province, where they're battling an al
Qaeda-led insurgency. Nonetheless, more than 50
bodies were found on the streets of Baghdad this
morning, and over 20 of them were blindfolded --
Kitty.
PILGRIM: Michael Ware reporting from Baghdad
tonight.