European Stars and Stripes (Newspaper) - April 2, 2007, Darmstadt, Hesse                                Monday april 2 2007 stars and stripes Page 7 March go deaths nearly twice that of i military by Steven r Hurst the associate press Baghdad the us Mili tary death toll in March the first full month of the Security crack Down was nearly twice that of the iraqi army which american and iraqi officials say is taking the leading role in the latest at tempt to curb violence in the Cap ital surrounding cities and Anbar province according to Fig ures compiled on saturday the associated press count of us military deaths for the month was 81 including a sol Dier who died from noncombat causes Friday figures compiled from officials in the iraqi ministries of de sense health and Interior showed the iraqi military toll was 44 the iraqi figures showed that 165 iraqi police were killed in March Many of the police serve in paramilitary units according to the a count 3246 us service members have died in Iraq since the War began in March 2003 at least 83 american forces died in january and 80 in february according to the a Tabula Tion the iraqi figures were Gath ered from officials who released them on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to give out the numbers additionally the iraqi minis try figures listed 1872 iraqi civil Ian deaths for the month about 300 More than the a Tabula Tion which is mainly gathered from daily police reports nation wide the civilian death toll for the month was Down significantly from 2172 in december the highest month casualty figure since the a began keeping records of civilian deaths in april 2005 however the number of civil ians killed in March was in the same Range As for the first two months of this year 1604 in Jan uary and 1552 in february according to the a count nearly a third of the iraqi civil Ian deaths More than 500 peo ple where killed in three big bomb attacks in the last week of the month and revenge killings of sunni men in Tal afar the night after a shiite Market was bomb in the Northwest iraqi City hotel Forthaus by Garmisch jmy153 break get 5thnight free free breakfast family apartments hot tub Sauna dogs Welcome american owned Tel o88249120 fax o882491214 Emai  Samir iraqi soldiers stand guard in Baghdad on saturday iraqi vice president asks that sunnis shiites work together by Kim Gamel the associated press Baghdad a bomb struck a popular Market in Tuz Khon nato 130 Miles North of Baghdad kill ing three people and wounding four it was the Sec Ond attack in the City in As Many Days after two iraqis seeking work were killed in a car bombing on saturday also sunday the us military reported six sol Diers killed in two Roadside bombings in Iraq there were no More details available meanwhile vice president Tariq a Hashimi called on sunnis and shiites to abandon acts of re Venge and live together in peace in a televised speech marking the Prophet muhammads birthday a Hashimi a sunni Muslim called for reviewing the status of detainees so that those who Are innocent be released thousands of suspected insurgents and militia members Are being held in detention centers run by iraqi and foreign forces also sunday two top sunni officials escaped an assassination attempt in one Baghdad most restive neighbourhoods Omar Abdelsattar of the National accordance front the biggest sunni parliamentary Block with 44 seats and Omar Aljubouri an aide to a Hashemi were targeted by a Roadside bomb when their Convoy was passing through yarn Ouk in Western Baghdad police said nobody was killed in the attack but it came amid a recent Rise in violence by suspected sunni insurgents against members of their minority islamic sect who Are affiliated with the political process us and iraqi troops detained two suspected Mili Tants in a raid in Baghdad main shiite District the military said sunday ground forces met resistance during the raid in Sadr City but the enemy fire was suppressed by air strikes which 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