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To: jttmab who wrote (20160)	10/31/2005 12:02:32 PM
From: Bucky Katt	Respond to of 20773

Deadly Month Ends With 6 More U.S. Deaths in Iraq BAGHDAD, Iraq, Oct. 31 - American forces this month suffered the bloodiest month in Iraq since January, with 91 troops killed, mostly by homemade bombs. The military announced the deaths today of six more American soldiers, sharply increasing the total death toll on the last day of the month. October's toll has been surpassed only three times since the start of the war here in the spring of 2003: In January of this year, when violence surged ahead of national elections here, and in November and April of 2004, when Americans fought major battles against rebels in Falluja, west of Baghdad, and in Najaf, a Shiite city in the south. Last week, the total for American military deaths in Iraq since the start of the war surpassed 2,000. In one attack today, four soldiers were killed when their vehicle hit a homemade bomb in Yusifiya, a volatile city south of Baghdad populated mostly by Sunni Arab tribes loyal to Saddam Hussein. The other attack, also a homemade bomb, was staged near an American base, called Anaconda, north of Baghdad. Two soldiers died in that attack. The attacks came a day after gunmen assassinated an adviser to the cabinet of Prime Minister Ibrahim al-Jaafari and wounded the country's deputy trade minister in a spate of attacks around Baghdad that left at least 11 people dead, the authorities said. The American military said Sunday that a marine was killed Saturday when a concealed bomb exploded next to his vehicle during combat operations in Anbar Province, a stronghold of the Sunni Arab-led insurgency. At least nine Americans have died in the past four days. The cabinet adviser, Ghalib Abdul Mahdi, who is also the brother of Vice President Adel Abdul Mahdi, a Shiite, was killed along with his driver on their way to work in the capital on Sunday morning, government officials reported. A midafternoon shooting in the upscale Mansour neighborhood of Baghdad wounded Iraq's deputy trade minister, Qais Dawood al-Hassan, and killed two of his bodyguards, an official at the Interior Ministry reported. Six other bodyguards were wounded, the official said. In an effort to destabilize the Shiite-dominated government, insurgents regularly attack civil servants and elected officials, often ambushing them in daylight on the capital's streets. Earlier in the day, two employees of the International Baghdad Airport were killed by gunmen in the Hay Al Risala district of the city, the ministry official said. At least four other people, including a member of the militia loyal to the Shiite cleric Moktada al-Sadr, were killed in three other attacks, and at least three others were wounded, the official said. Iraqi and American soldiers killed six suspected insurgents and wounded and detained five others in a ground-and-air assault on Saturday near Taji, northwest of Baghdad, the military authorities announced Sunday. The target was a location that insurgents had repeatedly used to stage attacks. The military operation included AH-64 Apache attack helicopters and an airstrike by an F-15E that dropped a 500-pound precision-guided bomb, the military said. By SABRINA TAVERNISE and KIRK SEMPLE